archived-code-general

[deep oyster]

hmmm

[languid crane]

the other side inverted, as it should

[normal cedar]

Sometimes, z axis of pos gives me neg value, but I look at the indicator (it's in my camera view) and vice versa:
Code:

var pos = renderer.GetRectTransform().InverseTransformPoint(renderer.camera.WorldToScreenPoint(indicator.transform.position));

What's the problem?

[dusk apex]

That's something you need to tell us. What's happening that shouldn't be happening. What's not happening that should be happening? What're you trying to do? We can read the code fine. We can assume your underlying intentions but that isn't something we're wanting or should be needing to do. Just tell us what the problem is.

[prime rose]

hi, I can xpost this to #📲┃ui-ux but I'm having an issue where a button is staying highlighted after it's clicked because it disables its parent object as a result of the click. Is there a way to "force" its state back to normal?

[dusk apex]

This is the general coding channel. Is it related to code?

[prime rose]

I was hoping to set its state back to normal through code yes

[dusk apex]

Have you implemented this already?

Is it an issue with code? Or with design?

[prime rose]

I wasn't able to find anything in the documentation about setting a button's state

[dusk apex]

Sounds like something you should ask in #📲┃ui-ux or #💻┃unity-talk as you're unaware of what you're needing to do to solve your problem.

[normal cedar]

Well, my problem is gone when I change order of execution. I used for updating indicators to the FixedUpdate and everything is good.

I know that FixedUpdate is for the physics calculations, but it solved the issue.

So!

[dusk apex]

Oh well. Simply going to inform you that you never stated a problem to begin with.

[prime rose]

is it really necessary to be this passive aggressive when people are asking for help?

[thin aurora]

If you need to move your code to FixedUpdate for it to work, you're doing something very wrong

[dusk apex]

Example: "When I press jump my character jumps 10 units. The inspector shows this to be true. Here's some code. What's the problem?"

It isn't very useful.

[normal cedar]

I do update of camera in LateUpdate.

[thin aurora]

That's fine

[normal cedar]

I did update of indicator in Update.

[dusk apex]

I usually get straight to the point to avoid unnecessary probing.

[thin aurora]

Also fine

But this message tells me you moved code to FixedUpdate for it to work

[normal cedar]

But I had this problem.

[thin aurora]

You should only do that for physics calculations

Well I don't know what the problem is, do I?

[normal cedar]

Anyway, it fixed it I dunno this magic.

I use code from the HUD indicator asset.

https://github.com/lincolncpp/hud-Indicator

[thin aurora]

I cringe when people say they used code, I hope you know what it does 🤔

[normal cedar]

I needed fast solution for this.

And it solved the task ideally.

But was that strange behaviour.

[normal cedar]

https://github.com/lincolncpp/hud-Indicator/blob/main/Assets/LincolnCPP/HUD Indicator/Scripts/Components/OnScreen/IndicatorCanvasOnScreen.cs#L63

[normal cedar]

Used code is not the cringe, it's reusability.

[thin aurora]

Yeah that's one way of saying it

Until you run into errors, and you are forced to copy paste your code into FixedUpdate for it to work

But hey, as long as it works right?

[normal cedar]

It works not perfectly.

So.

Compromise at this case.

[thin aurora]

I suppose compromises must be made when you copy paste other people's code and you're not sure how to fix it

[normal cedar]

And this is exactly this scenario in my case.

[daring lake]

i used this function but when the bullet hits the player with the tag, it doesnt destory the bullet

[vestal crest]

are you sure this scope works? you can check by using debug.log or take a look at players health if the took any damage then its working

[dusk apex]

Log the tag of other cs Debug.Log($"{other.name} has a tag of {other.tag}", other.gameObject);before the if statement and possibly with collapsed logs so that the console doesn't spam with repeats.

[daring lake]

i think so

[daring lake]

ill do that in a second

[vestal crest]

be sure of it by logging or looking at players health

[daring lake]

nothing shows up in the consokle

*console

[prime sinew]

https://unity.huh.how/programming/physics-messages

[swift falcon]

if i instantiate a particle prefab when i collide with something, how should i be destroying the particle after its particle cycle has finished

because rn it just kinda sits inside the inspector as an instantiated object

unity wont let me just called Destroy on it

[frosty lark]

Care to share the code?

[swift falcon]

yes one moment

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

public class BulletProjectile : MonoBehaviour
{
    private Rigidbody br;

    [SerializeField]
    private Transform hitBullet;

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

    private void Start()
    {
        float speed = 40f;
        br.velocity = transform.forward * speed;
    }

    private void OnTriggerEnter(Collider other)
    {
        if (other.GetComponent<BulletTarget>() != null)
        {
            Instantiate(hitBullet, transform.position, Quaternion.identity);
            // Destroy(other.gameObject);
        }
        Destroy(gameObject);
    }
}

[hexed pecan]

Theres a setting that lets the particlesystem auto destruct after its done
https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/ParticleSystem.MainModule-stopAction.html

[swift falcon]

alrighty ty

what i also want to know is why its also instantiating 2 prefabs? 🤔

[hexed pecan]

It's probably getting called twice then. If the other object has 2 colliders, OnTriggerEnter will run for each collider

[swift falcon]

ah yes

[hexed pecan]

It would have to happen in the same frame in this case

But its possible

[steady granite]

Modifying Script Execution Order only impacts order for the same functions, right? Meaning if a -1 priority an 0 priority scripts are in a same scene, they will execute Awake() -1 first then 0, and only then, they will execute OnEnable() if enabled? In my case I have a Script triggering OnEnable() before my other script has triggered its Awake()

[swift falcon]

i do have 2 colliders 1 is for a trigger and 1 collider

some reason they were both checked as istrigger

[deep pendant]

guys i'm really struggling with something, i'm making an idle game in the style of cookie clicker but i'm really struggling how to handle the larger number, and how to display them as like "thousand" and "million" without hard coding it and incrementing the number into a new variable each time. anyone know how to do that?

[analog relic]

Not sure if this is the solution your looking for, but try looking at the button’s “selected” color, maybe try setting it to the normal color. Also you could just manually set the color in script (if the only thing that changes is the color, which by default I think it is).

[analog relic]

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/16083666/make-big-and-small-numbers-human-readable

[deep pendant]

thank you

[wintry crescent]

Hi, I'm calling this function in my Update()

private void SaveSamplesToFile()
    {
        if (gestureSamples.Count == 0)
        {
            return;
        }

        string directory = EditorUtility.SaveFilePanelInProject("Select File to Save Data", "NewSample01.json", ".json", "Please enter the file name to which the sample will be saved.", defaultSaveFilePath);
        if (directory.Length == 0)
        {
            // User cancelled the selection, do nothing.
            return;
        }

        string json = JsonUtility.ToJson(gestureSamples);
        File.Create(directory).Dispose();
        File.WriteAllText(directory, json);
        Debug.Log("File saved to " + directory);
    }

unfortunately, I can only close the window that pops up, I can't actually select any file to save. Does anyone know what's happening? The docs are useless here

[wintry crescent]

nevermind, not useless. "json" not ".json", my bad

[signal shoal]

I have a game with a primitive code editor that allows dragging and dropping commands into pre-existing slots in a "program" that users can run.
I'd like to rework this so users can drag commands into an editor area and drop them above or below other blocks (they then snap together).
Right now I'm considering having a "line of code" prefab that's created whenever necessary, with a snapping slot (I've already built) for each line.
However, I really don't think instantiating and destroying prefabs that often would work out well.
All boiled down: What is your suggestion for how a stack of vertical gameobjects can be rearranged, inserted, removed etc. in a way that won't impact performance terribly?

[thin aurora]

Check if your player has the "Player" tag.

Also, where did you put the Debug.Log?

[scarlet nimbus]

Why does my Entities package not include TransformAspect cs? Using 2022.2 and 1.0 dots

[thin aurora]

Pretty sure this won't result in valid JSON. Looks like gestureSamples is an array, and JSONUtility does not like that

[wintry crescent]

It's a list, but good to know
what would you recommend instead?

[thin aurora]

Well JSONUtility is a very shit tool

There should be a NewtonSoft.JSON Unity package

Otherwise you can download the Newtonsoft.JSON DLL manually (Just make sure you take the .NET Standard 2.0 version), and place it in a plugins/ folder.

[wintry crescent]

JsonUtility gives me an empty file, but the newtonsoft version gives me a self referencing loop error for property "normalized" with type Unityengine.Vector3 :/
that's why I tried switching to JsonUtility in the first place

[wintry crescent]

I tried sth like this

string json = JsonConvert.SerializeObject(gestureSamples, Formatting.Indented);

[thin aurora]

Then you should probably map your list into an anonymous object when you serialize it. I'm not sure why that can even happen with a Vector3

var anonObject = gestureSamples.Select(x => return new {
    field1 = x.field1;
    problematicField = new { x = problematicField.x, y = problematicField.y, z = problematicField.z }
});

I didn't expect this would even be required, but here it is

[grave hazel]

Has anyone ever had the system call/load a 3d model from url into Unity at runtime?

so a project that has become apk can call a 3d model from the url (loaded from the internet)

I want to create such a vr presentation by calling the 3d object from url

[tacit nest]

someone help me to make a character jump because in my code when it jumps it doesn't come back down

[desert shard]

if(input.getkeydown(jump))
{
  rb.AddForce(Vector3.up * thrust, ForceMode.Impulse);
}

done

[knotty sun]

you need to look at addressables and asset bundles

[tacit nest]

but I have to create some variable?

[desert shard]

do you?

[trail finch]

I want to convert the game to an apk file, but I'm getting an error like this, how can I solve it?

[knotty sun]

that is a warning not an error. Note Yellow triangle not Red Circle

[trail finch]

does not create the apk file

[knotty sun]

First thing to try is close your project and open it again. Then try to build

[trail finch]

I deleted and reinstalled Unity but I still get the same error.

[knotty sun]

Edit->Preferences->External Tools
Screenshot the window
Also which Unity version?

[steep herald]

Is there a way for a prefab to not serialize one of its fields, but retain the scene's serialized value?

[knotty sun]

no, a prefab can have no connection to a scene

[steep herald]

Yeah that was unclear, apologies, let me try that again

[hallow meteor]

Hello, if i make a thread with a while loop inside, will it take alot of performance?
In trying to make a thread that listen to editor camera's movement and other stuff like check if any object moved in editor mode.
But idk if using a while loop in a thread will take alot of performance or not. If it does, is there anyway else i could reduce the performance?

[trail finch]

Unity version LTS but I have a little job done, I'll post the part you want shortly.

[knotty sun]

which LTS? There are lots of different ones

[steep herald]

If I drag a prefab in the scene at editor time, and I modify one of its fields, I'd be able to hit apply to modify the prefab. What I'm trying to do is mark certain fields to avoid having them be part of the prefab's serialization process. The idea is to be able to do per-scene tweaks without risking overriding the values in other instances scattered across the game.

[knotty sun]

you would need a custom editor for the script but, yes, it is doable

[steep herald]

Okay, thank you

[noble sedge]

Guys, what strategy can I use to change meshs and materials at runtime? My scenario is this: I have a Corruption Index, and each index (0%, 20%, ..., 100%), I need change my mesh and materials to a different. What approach can I use? Any existing feature at Unity can help me or I need build the in entire logic to do that?

[hallow meteor]

@knotty sun sorry for the ping, but do u know any solution about this? If u do, please tell me

Thanks alot =)

[knotty sun]

you need to build the logic

[knotty sun]

Firstly: NEVER ping someone randomly. Just for that I might not answer you!
But..
You do realise that most Unity API's do not work outside of the main thread so multi threading might not work for you at all
Also, no, a while in a thread will not take any more performance than a while in the main thread, you will just not notice the FPS drop as much

[hallow meteor]

Ooh, sorry for the ping! Wouldn't do that again

[steady granite]

Do you guys know a way to know why a GameObject is destroyed? I have OnDestroyed getting called immediately when I start play mode, tried printing StackTrace in OnDestroyed() and OnDisable() but nothing

[prime sinew]

maybe use breakpoint in OnDestroy and check the call stack

[steady granite]

Call stack is empty before ondestroy call :/

[prime sinew]

is this a singleton..?

does it have code in it that destroys itself if there are multiple of it?

[steady granite]

it is a singleton, used to have the destroy if already existing, I removed it but still same result

[prime sinew]

i'd Find All Destroy calls in the project then

[steady granite]

yes, checked it also, no other reference to this object in a destroy call, It looks like it is destroyed from unity itself, like when we change a scene

[prime sinew]

you commented out the Destroy in the singleton part of this?

[steady granite]

yes

[prime sinew]

not sure then

[steady granite]

one weird thing I just realised, when getting through Awake() for the first time, the instance already has a value no my bad it doesnt

Ok, found it, I just didn't add it to my don't destroy onload list 🤦‍♂️

[trail finch]

Unity 2021.3.24f1

[knotty sun]

that looks fine.
Have you checked the Editor Log file for more information?

[keen solstice]

How would you make text run across the screen like this? I managed it in Python before but Unity is different haha

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMeMe_8X-tU

09:56 (Picked a random VN I don't play this game irl)

[potent sleet]

youtube/google Typing effect Unity

usually it's a coroutine looping through char array aka string

[keen solstice]

thanks

[opal cargo]

Hi guys, any idea how I can rotate my character (Kinematic RB) with a rotating/moving platform it's standing on?

Thought about checking if platform has a rigidbody and applying its velocity to my character, but not sure if there is a better way (or this would work at all 😄 )

[severe maple]

Whenever i add anything to do with normals in shader code (o.Normal = IN.worldNormal), my material turns full black. Any idea why?

[potent sleet]

look how the kinematic controller does it

take notes

[opal cargo]

You mean this one? => https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/tools/physics/kinematic-character-controller-99131

[potent sleet]

yea

they got moving platforms

[opal cargo]

Nice, will have a look, thanks!

[viral prairie]

           while (true)
            {
                randPos = new(Random.Range(-rangeX, rangeX), Random.Range(-rangeY, rangeY));
                Collider2D collider = Physics2D.OverlapCircle(randPos, _radius);
                if(collider == null)
                {
                    CreateWell(randPos, _lavaBig, _lavaSmall);
                    break;
                }
            }

Hi, im trying to spread objects randomly on the Area without Collisions, but it always creates them in the Wrong places...
does anyone know a solution?

[potent sleet]

@viral prairie

wops wrong reply soz @opal cargo

[potent sleet]

wdym by "wrong places"

[heady iris]

that is extremely vague

[viral prairie]

inside of other objects with colliders

[primal wind]

You're not accounting for that in your code

[heady iris]

the overlap check seems reasonable

[potent sleet]

ye

[primal wind]

Oh he is

I'm just blind

[potent sleet]

always a good idea to debug these Physics functions to visualize where it actually goes etc.

but in this case if you see it inside other objects then make sure colliders are appropriate sizes ?

I use usually a CheckBox or CheckSphere for these types of things tho

[viral prairie]

even if it is like 3 times to big, it still appears directly inside others

[potent sleet]

much easier to use boolean

[viral prairie]

im bound to 2d....

[heady iris]

show the inspector for one of these obstacles

oh yeah, Physics2D lacks the Check functions

[viral prairie]

its the only one

[potent sleet]

yeah sadly OverlapCircle is the best in 2D

so I'm guessing collider is always null and not finding anything

[heady iris]

are you adding tiles?

https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/class-TilemapCollider2D.html

When you add or remove Tiles on the Tilemap component, the Tilemap Collider 2D updates the Collider shapes during LateUpdate. It batches multiple Tile changes together to ensure minimal impact on performance.

[potent sleet]

oh this is tilemap

you might need the World to Cell

function

physics raycast and tilemap are 2 Different coords

worldpos vs gridpos

[viral prairie]

arent these the same if Cellsize is 1?

[potent sleet]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/GridLayout.WorldToCell.html

[viral prairie]

Sadly, delay fixed the problem...

[potent sleet]

delay ?

[viral prairie]

Yes i create the Tile-Bulshit in awake, putting the distribution intostart didnt help...

[potent sleet]

oh.. I thought you had this in a coroutine

[rugged storm]

I have this if statement that's throwing a null reference exception, what could possible be null here without making one of the !=null false???? wait.. i dont think it could be null... but ill add a test for tilesInMRange to make sure

                if (tInThreatRange != null && tile.Value != null && ally.OccupiedTile != null && tInThreatRange.Contains(tile.Value) && tile.Value != ally.OccupiedTile && !tilesInMRange.Contains(tile.Value))

wait it actually might be that lemme test

[leaden ice]

tile could be null

ally could be null

tilesInMRange could be bull

Lots of options

[potent sleet]

xD that's a big ass if &&

[rugged storm]

I figured it out, in this context ally and tile cant be null due to other stuff it was tilesInMRange

[swift falcon]

ive made an inventory fully from scratch with no tutorial what so ever, can i have some feedback on whats considered "good" and whats considered bad? so i know for in the future

https://gdl.space/doherehaxa.cs

it works in the ui and also works without any error so far

[potent sleet]

if it works why worry

only refactor if you can no longer manage or read it clear

[swift falcon]

im not worrying, its just im new to unity and i dont know whats considered the standard haha

[potent sleet]

the standard are the usual things, try to stick to SOLID etc.

write clean legible code

[swift falcon]

i did this more over to test my skills i cant move on with my game if i have to go to a tutorial on anything i want to implement 😄

[potent sleet]

avoid repeating yourself ```cs

slotHolder.transform.GetChild(i).GetChild(0).GetComponent<Image>().sprite = null;
slotHolder.transform.GetChild(i).GetChild(0).GetComponent<Image>().enabled```

[swift falcon]

i was thinking about doing something for that but i didnt know what i should do for it

any suggestions?

[ashen yoke]

use variables

[swift falcon]

how would i cache that? if you know what i mean

[potent sleet]

var  slotlHolderImage = slotHolder.transform.GetChild(i).GetChild(0).GetComponent<Image>();

[swift falcon]

ah yes

this would make it alot better

in terms of readability

[potent sleet]

slotlHolderImage.sprite
slotlHolderImage .enabled
etc

[potent sleet]

that's mostly what's important

[swift falcon]

yup yup

ive tried to seperate my code using regions

[potent sleet]

ya regions is good

[swift falcon]

so i can know what group the function belongs to

[ashen yoke]

"avoid repeating yourself" was said to Selfrep

[swift falcon]

😂

[ashen yoke]

regions were a mistake

[heady iris]

i never fold my code

[swift falcon]

the naming of the regions?

or just using them in general

[heady iris]

i just ctrl-f to random strings i think are unique in my code

- 3f;

[potent sleet]

i usually hide things like Awake for singleton

or when you got like 10 props

[swift falcon]

ive also been trying not to populate the Update function with alot of code

rather just putting them in seperate functions and calling it from update

[heady iris]

i've done that for one monstrous 2,500 line script

[potent sleet]

I generally avoid Update loop unless i have to

[heady iris]

don't judge me too much

[potent sleet]

i rather use a coroutine as onetime thing

[heady iris]

Senses() calls Sight(), Hearing(), and Touch()

i tried splitting the class into partial classes and it was just a nuisance

[swift falcon]

xDDD

[heady iris]

i'm not sure what i'm gonna do about that

there's ~just~ enough coupling between different systems to make it non-trivial to split up

[swift falcon]

  void RefreshUI()
    {
        // we loop over our slots
        for (int i = 0; i < slots.Count; i++)
        {
            var slotHolderImage = slotHolder.transform
                .GetChild(i)
                .GetChild(0)
                .GetComponent<Image>();
            // set the image
            if (slots[i].GetItem() != null)
            {
                // TODO: Incorperate Item Amount into this
                slotHolderImage.sprite = slots[i].GetItem().ItemIcon;
                slotHolderImage.enabled = true;
            }
            else
            {
                // get slotpanel  -> get image from slot panel
                slotHolderImage.sprite = null;
                slotHolderImage.enabled = false;
            }
        }
    }

[potent sleet]

unpopular : I've yet to find partial classes useful in unity

[swift falcon]

looks alot cleaner now

[heady iris]

maybe it's just OK that my complex enemy AI script is complicated

[ashen yoke]

nothing just use proper nav

there is search by methods, there are hotkeys to jump to the top bar with class/method nav

[swift falcon]

what i normally do is just collapse all of the other regions when im working on a specific region/s

[ashen yoke]

https://github.com/ocornut/imgui/blob/master/imgui.cpp

[heady iris]

i like cmd-shift-o in VSCode

it searches for symbols in the current file

cmd-t is the entire solution, and isn't as fast

of course, what i do in practice is start scrolling to find something

then i keep doing it because of the sunk cost fallacy

[ashen yoke]

you use vs?

[swift falcon]

who doesnt use vs tbf

[ashen yoke]

those who use rider

[swift falcon]

ngl never heard of it

[heady iris]

vscode, not vs

[ashen yoke]

yikes

[hexed pecan]

VSCode gang

[ashen yoke]

im now looking down on you both

[heady iris]

🤓 um actually you need a working debugger

[heady iris]

i simply yell at my computer until it works

[swift falcon]

ignore the sprites 😂 i couldnt find anything quick

[heady iris]

i love grabbing random UI icons

[swift falcon]

😂 i had no onhand sprites to use so i just started searching from the ones i imported a little while ago 😂

more or less the biggest thing i get stuck on isnt the code its self (unless its decently complicated) its the logic behind the script

[potent sleet]

yeah that's the important stuff is logic not the actual code

[tardy mortar]

I don't have a sprite for my main character yet, so for now it is just this cute penguin

[potent sleet]

lol

[swift falcon]

😂

[tardy mortar]

I don't even know where that is from

xD

but there is a family of them here

[potent sleet]

tbh that's why I laugh when someone says they memorize code

[swift falcon]

Memorizing and knowing how it works are 2 totally differnet things haha

just because u can write it doesnt mean u understand it

[potent sleet]

eg GPT

[swift falcon]

i watched a video earlier when i was trying to search up some tutorials on some stuff and it was about how watching tutorials will poisen your learning progress (ironic)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcFYU03ynF4

this one

and it made me realize that what hes saying is actually very true so im trying to shift away from tutorials as much as possible

[tardy mortar]

tbh I agree
I found myself doing so many errors at first because all the tutorials try to make it simple for new people but just makes new people learning bad ways of doing what they want xd

[potent sleet]

depends highly on the person as wel, generally you're just copy and pasting so yeah ppl don't understand what they're copying

but this can lead to further curiosities on how it actually works and do self-researching

[swift falcon]

Yeah for me i partially understood what was being made and tried to derive from it, but most of it i didnt understand

[swift falcon]

yup yup

[potent sleet]

tutorials are very useful if you already know how stuff works(mostly) and you just needed that idea to spark off the How but you can then mutate it to fit your needs

[tardy mortar]

exactly

[swift falcon]

its an eye opener because when i scroll to comments alot of people will just post there errors there ask how to fix which in my eyes means they just copy and pasted it without knowing how it actually works

[potent sleet]

yes and or sometimes bad oversight from tutorial content creator

I hate tutorials that post with errors in code/logic without omitting those
I haven't released a vid unless I know there are no actual syntax errors, or any flaws like that. I just redo the whole video from scratch, not even edit

[swift falcon]

agreed however for me personally i just feel like im copying and pasting, i will watch some tutorials if i really need to but i will just listening to mostly the logic behind it haha

[potent sleet]

watch the tutorial like 3-4 times before jumping into the code itself, it will change how you view the tutorial usually

this is assuming it's a good tutorial

like Seb Lague or alike

[swift falcon]

some tutorials will just tell you what to do without explaining how it works

[potent sleet]

yeah skip those

[heady iris]

i've used very few tutorials

i just kinda worked out how to make stuff happen

[potent sleet]

the older unity ones are lokey hidden gems

[potent sleet]

this dude has good tuts
https://www.youtube.com/c/SebastianLague

[swift falcon]

for me its like i know how to do it sometimes its just idk if im doing it the right way, the way that wont cause bugs but however that is apart of learning ig

think ive watched a few of his videos tbf when browsing YT

does he do ML?

[potent sleet]

he might , haven't checked his stuff in a while

[swift falcon]

he has 1 video on ML in his playlist

[potent sleet]

there a few around that are decent too

most of them are devlogs

cause you know...hard work aint free lol

[glossy wave]

hello! does this ring any bells in how would i implement a functionality like this picture describes? (this is a pretty useless exercise that i am tasked with doing)

[swift falcon]

Yeah haha, tbf it might be worth me documenting my progress with devlogs on my game

Anyways i sleep for now

[leaden ice]

trigger colliders and OnTriggerEnter?

[rugged storm]

This is always returning with a count of 0 not sure why

 
public List<Tile> GetAllTilesInRange(Vector2Int pos, float maxrange, float minrange)
    {

        return tiles.Values.Where(t => Vector2.Distance(t.Pos, pos) <= maxrange-.5 && Vector2Int.Distance(t.Pos, pos) >= minrange+.5).ToList();
    }

[glossy wave]

i tried this with a 3d collider that i "flattened" by putting y=0 and my game crashed

[leaden ice]

you can't flatten 3d colliders

[glossy wave]

ok, i will try this with a 2d collider

[desert shard]

god this video is so painful to watch. the way he drags words at the end of the sentence is infuriating

[mild plume]

My mouse and all input freezes when running this:

using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;

public class CharMovement : MonoBehaviour

{
    public float playerSpeed = 50.0f;
    public float rotateSpeed = 100.0f;
    // Start is called before the first frame update
    void Start(){}
    void mouselock(){

    }
    // Update is called once per frame
    void Update()
    {
        
        if(Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.Escape)){Cursor.lockState=CursorLockMode.None;}
        if(Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.Mouse0)){Cursor.lockState=CursorLockMode.Locked;}
        while(Cursor.lockState==CursorLockMode.Locked){
            float forbac = Input.GetAxis("Vertical") * playerSpeed * Time.deltaTime;
            float lefrig = Input.GetAxis("Horizontal") * playerSpeed * Time.deltaTime;
            float rotation = Input.GetAxis("Mouse X") * rotateSpeed * Time.deltaTime;
            transform.Translate(lefrig, 0, forbac);
            transform.Rotate(0, rotation, 0);
        }
    }
}```

[leaden ice]

you have an obvious infinite loop here

replace while with if

[mild plume]

so i can't use while in the update method?

[leaden ice]

you can use while anywhere you want

you can't use while when the condition will never become false

or you have an infinite loop

such as here

look inside that loop. The entirety of the game engine and all your code will not continue doing anything until your loop finishes executing.

There is nothing inside the loop that can ever change Cursor.lockState. Since it can't change inside the loop - you will be stuck in the loop forver

hence - Unity frozen

[mild plume]

Ah

[leaden ice]

Update runs once per frame. Seems like all you want to do is run that code once per frame while the cursor is locked.

A simple if is sufficient.

[mild plume]

So it also won't work if i put this in the while loop because it never updates to check it? if(Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.Escape)){Cursor.lockState=CursorLockMode.None;}

[leaden ice]

yes input only updates once a frame

when you put a while loop in, the loop runs to completion instantly

the game engine is not going to continue in the meantime

it's waiting for your code to finish

before it can move to the next frame

That's the whole point of Update

it runs from top to bottom once every frame

[mild plume]

And it never will because it can't register the escape input

Thank you

[leaden ice]

it never even gets a chance to check - because you're stuck in the loop

[mild plume]

Yep, thanks

Seems obvious now

[heady iris]

it's a common misconception that stuff happens "at the same time"

there is one main thread, and we all have to share it

(preemptive multitasking would be when mom says it's your turn on the thread, but that doesn't happen here)

[late lion]

Can I have my turn on it soon?

[lime widget]

I made a game using tilemap. When I play the game everything is looking right. When I sent it to my friends to play, they have the right and left side cropped and can't see the walls. Found out it's because they use other resolution than mine (1920x1080). How can I make everything fit in the screen, including the whole tilemap? I know that i can anchor the ui but that doesn't solve the whole tilemap not fitting

[granite nimbus]

is there a more convenient way of making Dictionary appear in inspector than doing an array of [Serializable] structs with 2 fields and then converting to Dictionary in code?

[hard estuary]

You can get the current resolution by using Screen.width and Screen.height, compare those, and then scale camera's orthographicSize accordingly. Also you would probably want something to fill the gaps between tilemap and the screen edges.

[mild plume]

Why does this give an error? I want to reference a static method inside MouseLock class, the object (CodeCube) has the 2 components

MouseLock.cs

using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;

static public class MouseLock
{
    static public void MouseLockMethod()
    {
        // if(Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.Escape)){Cursor.lockState=CursorLockMode.None;}
        if(Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.Mouse0)){Cursor.lockState=CursorLockMode.Locked;}
    }
}

[hard estuary]

You can call methods only inside other methods. You've tried to call it inside a class (line 8).

[lime widget]

The tilemap is atleast 3 times as big as the camera, so that won't be a problem ( i hope ) Thanks!

[mild plume]

using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;


public class Main : MonoBehaviour
{
    
    // Start is called before the first frame update
    void Start()
    {
        CodeCube.GetComponent<MouseLock>();
    }

    // Update is called once per frame
    void Update()
    {
        MouseLock.MouseLockMethod();
    }
}
``` CodeCube does not exist in current context

[hard estuary]

It means you haven't declared what is CodeCube. Computer doesn't know what to do with it if it doesn't know what it is.

[mild plume]

How can i declare CodeCube? It's an 3d cube object with the 2 C# components

[heady iris]

the name of any objects in your scene is irrelevant: that type does not exist

are you trying to find a game object named CodeCube?

[mild plume]

Can i reference other C# scripts without it being a component of an object

[heady iris]

sure, declare a field of type MouseLock on Main

e.g. public MouseLock mouseLock;

drag the "CodeCube" object into that field

you'll get a reference to its MouseLock component

you can't just type the name of a game object in C# and wind up with the object

[gilded bramble]

I need help. So I have scene changer and it should work but it doesn't. Here is the script :
using UnityEngine;
using UnityEngine.SceneManagement;
using Photon.Pun;

public class SceneSwitcher : MonoBehaviour
{
public string sceneName;

private void OnTriggerEnter(Collider other)
{
    if (other.CompareTag("HandTag"))
    {
        SceneManager.LoadScene(sceneName);

        if (PhotonNetwork.InRoom)
            PhotonNetwork.LeaveRoom();
    }
}

}

Yes I have added my scene to Build Settings and it is still not working. Can somebody help me?

[mild plume]

What is mouselock? the name of the variable on which the MouseLock type is attached?

[heady iris]

you declared a MouseLock class

mouseLock is the name of the variable. it can be anything.

[mild plume]

in the MouseLock.cs ?

[heady iris]

yes

presumably

since you have a component called "Mouse Lock"

[mild plume]

using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;

static public class MouseLock
{
    static public void MouseLockMethod()
    {
        // if(Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.Escape)){Cursor.lockState=CursorLockMode.None;}
        if(Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.Mouse0)){Cursor.lockState=CursorLockMode.Locked;}
    }
}

[heady iris]

did you create a C# script and then edit it afterwards?

[mild plume]

So with mouselock i can use the method

[heady iris]

this used to be a component

[mild plume]

yeah

[heady iris]

which is also what this code is trying to do

CodeCube.GetComponent<MouseLock>();

well, MouseLock is now a static class, and doesn't derive from MonoBehaviour

so it is no longer a valid component

if you want MouseLock to be a static class, then this will be fine, I guess. You can write MouseLock.MouseLockMethod() to call the method.

[meager sky]

Anyone know a good way to display AudioSource.time as an actual time value?
Building a small audio-player in my game and want to display the actual timestamp values for a songs progress, but running into this issue.

Should display 0:71 as 1:11 instead.

[heady iris]

you will have to remove the component from the cube in your scene, because it's no longer a valid component

[mild plume]

Shouldn't it be mouselock.MouseLockMethod();?

[heady iris]

no, because mouselock is neither the name of a type nor the name of a variable

there is no such thing as mouselock

[mild plume]

?

[heady iris]

that would be mouseLock. it's also irrelevant now that I see that MouseLock is a static class

[prime sinew]

you could just look up how to convert seconds into minutes and seconds

[heady iris]

i thought it was a component, because you showed a screenshot of it being a component

[mild plume]

Yeah i thought it needed to be a component

[heady iris]

if it's just going to be a static class, then you don't need to (and can't) put it in a variable

[mild plume]

That's why i attached it to the CodeCube

[heady iris]

so, just MouseLock.SomeMethod();

[meager sky]

that absolutely works ty

[mild plume]

And if the MouseLock.cs is in a different directory how do i reference it? how does it know where MouseLock class is?

[prime sinew]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEk7mKovpUE

you should start with some Unity basics

check out Unity Learn

and #💻┃code-beginner in the future

[mild plume]

thanks

[heady iris]

yes

[shy spire]

Is there a way to change the opacity/alpha of a colour without having to re-reference the original colour? Something like "color.a = x" instead of having to declare "new Color(r, g, b, a)" again

[heady iris]

you sound very unclear on the basics

!learn

[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/

[prime sinew]

no

[shy spire]

Damn, I was hoping I just missed it all this time, thanks

[heady iris]

what? of course you can

you just can't do it if the color was returned from a method or property

since it's a struct, which means it's a value type

so you'd be changing a copy, which would do nothing

it's why you can't do transform.position.y += 1

you can totally just do

Color x = new Color(1, 0, 0, 1);
x.g = 1;

[twin vector]

Is there any article / youtube clip which I can watch/read that will help me to structure scripts inside the project better? Any help would be great 🍻

[hexed pecan]

Try using Assembly Definitions if you aren't already

[twin vector]

I'll check It, thanks!

[simple egret]

And namespaces! They're nice to separate sections of project

[heady iris]

namespacing your project well sounds like a good way to figure out how you'll do assembly definitions down the road

[verbal oxide]

ive got a 2d isometric grid and i want the camera to be able to rotate around the grid to see it at 4 different angles. with an isometric setup is it easier to change the cameras rotation or do you have to rotate the grid and everything on it, havent had much luck figuring out how to rotate the camera around the grid

[leaden ice]

make an empty object as a child of the grid.
make the camera a child of that empty object
rotate the empty object

[verbal oxide]

cool, that makes sense to me and will attempt that. thanks. i have objects on the grid will those all need to be children of the grid im assuming

[heady iris]

yeah, using empties makes things a lot easier

put the empty at the center of the grid and then spin it around the y axis

hey, that just gave me an idea for a strategy game

the camera rotates 90 degrees every turn, and only visible units can act or be targeted

[rugged storm]

This is always returning with a count of 0 any clues why?

 
public List<Tile> GetAllTilesInRange(Vector2Int pos, float maxrange, float minrange)
    {

        return tiles.Values.Where(t => Vector2.Distance(t.Pos, pos) <= maxrange-.5 && Vector2Int.Distance(t.Pos, pos) >= minrange+.5).ToList();
    }

[verbal oxide]

that is cool

[heady iris]

you have the arguments in the opposite order that I'd expect

are you doing something like GetAllTilesInRange(pos, 3, 5)

i'd expect min, then max

[rugged storm]

Oh

[heady iris]

that would cause you to get no results

[simple egret]

Ez fix for future-proofing

if (max < min)
  (min, max) = (max, min); // swap!

[rugged storm]

Ty chem always coming in to help my inability to properly process < > statements

[heady iris]

the statements themselves were fine

it was just an unintuitive argument order

you shouldn't need to change the implementation

[rugged storm]

👌

[rugged storm]

Funily enough the issue was that i set the max and min values wrong on the objects i was getting them from XD

[heady iris]

maybe throw in an assert

just so that you'll catch it sooner if it happens again :p

[jagged hedge]

When building my game in dev mode and running it, I'm getting this error seemingly every Update tick
Anyone know what could be going on? It's not appearing in normal unity play mode and seems to be from the Debug Handler itself (so it shouldn't really be a problem but it's still clogging my log files)

[leaden ice]

report a bug I suppose?

[jagged hedge]

Sure

[orchid surge]

Does anyone know how to do GUI.RenderTextureWithTexCoords() with the Graphics class like if Graphics.RenderTextureWithTexCoords() existed (which it doesnt). I have a 9slicing function that relies on IMGUI for this, but I want to draw it on a RenderTexture which I don't think IMGUI can do, so I need to figure out how to do this with the Graphics class.

Graphics does have built in 9slicing, but it relies on stretching instead of tiling, so I can't use it.

[placid summit]

I am interested in ECS Vs OOP but seems Unity's own ECS might be a bit new & complicated in its desire for speed. Has anyone used other ECS frameworks?

[hard sparrow]

    {

        HashSet<Cell> area = new();
        Debug.Log($"area first: {area.Count}");
        foreach (Vector3Int relativeNeighborCubicPosition in HexMath.RelativeNeighborCubicPositions)
        {
            Vector3Int neighborPosition = centerCoordinate + relativeNeighborCubicPosition * radius;
            if (GetCell(neighborPosition, out Cell cell)) area.Add(cell);
            for (int r = 1; r < radius; r++)
            {
                neighborPosition += HexMath.RelativeNeighborCubicPositions[(r+3)%6];
                if (GetCell(neighborPosition, out Cell c)) area.Add(c);
            }
        }
        Debug.Log($"area: {area.Count}");
        return area;
    }```
The first debug is being called but not the second debug. No exceptions are being thrown (just, no area is being returned apparently)

how in the world is that possible

[heady iris]

h m m m

unity isn't crashing, right?

[simple egret]

Yep that's not possible. Nothing can exit out of the loop early, except an exception being thrown

[heady iris]

it could happen if you had a try-catch wrapping it

silently discarding the exception

[vale spade]

not sure if this is the right place, but how do i add this third scene to my hierarchy?

[heady iris]

just drag it in from the Project window

that will additively load the scene

i'm fuzzy on how that works after that, though

i really need to learn more about additive scenes

[ashen yoke]

just keeps it loaded until you rightclick > unload

[vale spade]

yes thats it!

thanks!

[heady iris]

does that mean that it'll always be additively loaded in the scene you added it to?

i've only ever done it by accident lmao

[hard sparrow]

So the code works fine (both debugs call) when all the cells are present (GetCell == true), but if any one of the GetCell returns false, then the second debug never calls

[vale spade]

I think they kinda co-exists

[hard sparrow]

but I can keep playing and there ae no exceptions

Which might be because the method is being called as part of an .OnComplete on a Tween

[ashen yoke]

its editor only

[vale spade]

I kinda fucked up my entire project 2 days ago when i tried to put every thing on git for safety but ended up deleting my entire project with git reset --hard

[heady iris]

ah, okay

darn, that'd be kinda cool

[ashen yoke]

scene is added to scene stage/context

it is cool because you can do exactly that on runtime

[heady iris]

right

it'd just be nice to not have difference between "i did it in the editor" and "i did it in the player"

[ashen yoke]

create a scene composition, for example dump all your systems in one scene, then load the content scene additively

even better you can avoid doing all the usual singletons/prefabs in work scenes mumbo-jumbo if you hook the editor to first load the scene with your systems then the scene that was just opened

[simple egret]

Are you sure you've got errors enabled in the console? Same thing for the Collapse option, which makes similar logs stack with a count on the right of the message.
Try with a try/catch in the OnComplete callback

[heady iris]

can you elaborate on that?

not quite following the "hook the editor" part

[hard sparrow]

hmm... still nothing

[simple egret]

No, try/catch inside OnComplete( [[ HERE ]] )

Make that a bodied lambda

.OnComplete(() => { try ... catch })

[ashen yoke]

EditorSceneManager.playModeStartScene
EditorApplication.playModeStateChanged

couple key apis

[heady iris]

hm, I will have to look into that!

looks scary

i've liked the idea of having a "systems" scene

[ashen yoke]

in

PlayModeStateChange.ExitingEditMode

you override the scenes that will be loaded, you grab which one is opened now, then load your systems, and the one that was opened additively

[hard sparrow]

probably the modular is being weird or something

[simple egret]

Ah there we go, so DOTween indeed swallows exceptions, might want to disable its "safe mode" or whatever it's called. If that's even related to exception swallowing

[ashen yoke]

yes there is an option for that i think

[simple egret]

Now that I see the exception, looks like it's thrown in GetCell, which shouldn't be throwing when you pass something out of range, it should return false instead

[ashen yoke]

right its "safe mode"

safe mode swallows, without rethrows or skips

also in options set logging to verbose

[simple egret]

Like other methods that implement this "TryX" pattern, int.TryParse(string, out int), yours should be called TryGetCell

[heady iris]

ah, that would do it

[hard sparrow]

yes, it's this. If there's no such key then it complains

kind of annoying dealing with null cases with structs

[simple egret]

Yeah the first line will throw if the key isn't there

You can just do return _bla.TryGetValue(cubicPosition, out cell)

(yes I was lazy typing the dictionary name)

[hard sparrow]

sigh... XD

[simple egret]

Surely Rider has a bulk-rename feature

[hard sparrow]

Oh, this just works.

how?

it auto assigns cell I guess

But yes, everything works now

[simple egret]

TryGetValue internally does, yes. It's populated before TryGetValue returns, so it's valid code

[ashen yoke]

you cant compile if the parameter marked as out is not assigned

[simple egret]

TryGetValue sets the out param
GetCell sets the out param
TryGetValue returns
GetCell returns
^ Order of execution

[heady iris]

indeed

i did something similar a few days ago

it felt very pleasant

[hard sparrow]

There's actually a ton of return statements I refactor to use that

[loud stratus]

Hey, guys! I have a problem. I want to make in my game the highscore to be saved on restart game and whenever I click a difficulty button. Is it somehow possible to do that?

    {
        SceneManager.LoadScene(SceneManager.GetActiveScene().name);
        Debug.Log("The restart button works");
    }``` 
I have the restart game method right here and that's what I do in that.

I have also this method setdifficulty for the player to interact with the game difficulty 

```void SetDifficulty()
    {
        Debug.Log(gameObject.name + " was clicked");
        gameManager.StartGame(difficulty);

    }```

I am about to work with playerprefs but don't know where to use them

[vale spade]

Theres two things that can help here, You can use Dont destroy on load objects often refered to as DDOL, this will make objects persist over multiple scenes. the other option is that you save stats to files and load them from there, this will save data even when you close the game and re-open it again

dont destroy on load: https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Object.DontDestroyOnLoad.html

i would start with the dont destroy on load. You can make data game object that isnt destroyed on load, and get ur data from there

[loud stratus]

What is the other option you ve suggested?

[vale spade]

https://docs.unity3d.com/2020.1/Documentation/Manual/JSONSerialization.html
store it to files using json serialization

[regal epoch]

hey im having problem with my unity project. i wanted to add ads, and somehow f'ed it up completely. tried restarting unity only to get a compilation error and suggesting to start in safe mode. What are the ads folder names? Ill delete them to get a fresh start

[leaden ice]

wdym folder names? Uninstall the package if you want to delete it

and fix your compile errors if they're in your files.

[regal epoch]

i did that multiple times but somehow it doesn't fix the errors

[leaden ice]

did what?

[regal epoch]

uninstalling the packages

[leaden ice]

how did you do it multiple times?

Does that mean you reinstalled it?

[regal epoch]

yes

[leaden ice]

unisntall it and leave it uninstalled

then go through your compile errors one by one.

[regal epoch]

i'll try that

so right now its trying to resolve the android dependencies. i've had it before but it just gets stuck at 0%

[lapis galleon]

Hello, I could really use some help

Your script should either check if it is null or you should not destroy the object.```

I can see the line where it happens on and I tried to put an if (gameObject != null) block around it, but now the check for gameObject != null is throwing that error

[heady iris]

that would imply that the component itself got destroyed

i forget exactly when that triggers an error

show your code

!code

[tawny elk]

Posting code

📃 Large Code Blocks
Large code blocks should be posted as links to services like:
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https://paste.myst.rs/, https://hastebin.com/

📃 Inline Code
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.
```cs
// Your code here
```
Do not share screenshots of code unless requested.

[lapis galleon]

https://pastebin.com/qft4dsfJ

just to explain what is happening, I have a single common scene and then I am loading and unloading additional scenes additively

with transitions between them

when I go through scenes in order from the beginning when starting the app, everything works perfectly

[leaden ice]

Well the correct check would be if (this) or if (this != null)

but

more likely you want to fix the underlying problem

explaining which line this happens on (and perhaps providing the stack trace) would be helpfulk

[lapis galleon]

yeah I do want to fix the underlying problem but for now I want to try to make things better

[leaden ice]

the script you linked seems not to be the problem

it's in some other script which has a reference to an instance of this one

fixing the underlying problem will make things better

adding a null check will just cause unnecessary waste to go unnoticed

and possibly give you very hard to debug behavior issues in your code.

[lapis galleon]

yes I do need to fix the underlying problem

it's just that I wrote this code over a year ago, and I don't remember everything I did

actually maybe I should share the github link

https://github.com/mjducharme/Cosmic-Microwave-Background-2022

[golden vessel]

Hey, I installed a custom package some time ago and it worked great, but for some reason I now have compilation errors saying I'm missing a namespace. Any idea why that would happen?

I don't have any errors in the editor tho only in MVS

[leaden ice]

regenerate project files from unity external tools menu

[golden vessel]

Perfect thank you 🙂

[lapis galleon]

Thanks very much, this worked

I am going to fix the underlying issue, I know it is with the transition engine

I've created this complicated thing and need to figure out how it works again and it throwing errors is just making things worse by causing other unrelated problems

[golden vessel]

Is there a in built way I can draw a shape, like the LineRenderer but filled?

[leaden ice]

Not entirely clear what you mean by that - maybe you want the SpriteShape package?
https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.2d.spriteshape@10.0/manual/index.html

[golden vessel]

I've drawn a shape with a line renderer, but I can't fill it.

[leaden ice]

FIll it?

[leaden ice]

what kind of end result are you looking for here? A mesh? An image / sprite?

LineRenderer renders lines, that's all it does

[golden vessel]

A sprite I guess, I was wondering if I could draw vectorial icons or something

Like I would in Illustrator

[leaden ice]

WHy not do it in Illustrator?

[golden vessel]

Cos I can animate it :p

Could be cool to have a coroutine adding each points

[leaden ice]

What you're talking about is possible in various ways - but LineRenderer isn't one of them

[golden vessel]

So what are the possibilities?

Shaders is one I guess

I'm quite illiterate in shaders tho

[leaden ice]

well it's kind of unclear to me still what you mean by "fill"- but yes:

• a mesh with vertex shaders
• a mesh actually being modified at runtime
• a SpriteRenderer rendering a texture that you modify

LineRenderer can of course also be animated but it cannot be "filled"

it can only draw lines

[golden vessel]

Makes sense

[leaden ice]

There's of course assets like this too:
https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/tools/particles-effects/shapes-173167

[lapis galleon]

ok so now that I have that check in there for null I think I can tell what the problem is

I don't know yet why it is happening but I know what the problem is

I think I'm going to leave that in there but I'm going to keep my log warning for if it is null what to do

so that way I can tell if this happens

[golden vessel]

The idea was to do a Yin-yang, and draw another in each tiny circle, zoom infinitely, and there wouldn't be default cos the symbol is always the same "definition"

[lapis galleon]

before it was throwing so many errors it was very hard to tell what was happening

now with this check all of the errors are gone, and it behaves better but still not perfect, but I can see my log warning from where it goes wrong

[golden vessel]

I heard about this, sounds pretty cool

Thanks for the info I'll look into it

[grim copper]

this might be silly but this error is so confusing to me

    public Volume postProcessVolume;
    private ChromaticAberration chromaticAberration;
    private Vignette vignette;
    private Grain grain;
    private LensDistortion lensDistortion;```

The type or namespace name 'Volume' could not be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)

i am using URP

[leaden ice]

You're missing a using directive or an assembly reference

[grim copper]

using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;
using TMPro;
using UnityEngine.SceneManagement;
using UnityEngine.UI;
using UnityEngine.Rendering.PostProcessing;```

nevermind

i needed this

using UnityEngine.Rendering;
using UnityEngine.Rendering.Universal;

[leaden ice]

Yes exactly

You were missing a using directive

[grim copper]

alright

i've recently switched over to urp so this is all new to me

although another error when i press play

    {
        transform.position = respawnPoint.position;
        PlayerHealth = startingHealth;
        respawnPoint = transform;
        deathText.enabled = false;
        deathText2.enabled = false;

        // Get post-processing effects from the volume
        postProcessVolume.profile.TryGet(out chromaticAberration);
        postProcessVolume.profile.TryGet(out vignette);
        postProcessVolume.profile.TryGet(out grain);
        postProcessVolume.profile.TryGet(out lensDistortion);
    }```

postProcessVolume.profile.TryGet(out chromaticAberration); is apparently Object reference not set to an instance of an object

that entire thing doesn't seem to work

[heady iris]

well, then profile is null

[grim copper]

oh

how would i go about fixing that?

the script worked before i went to urp

[rain crater]

Hey, I have an issue with my script. It looks like my scripts for generating a mesh along a curve get wrong points (despite them being assigned correctly). It gets fixed when I select either the gameobject with the point or gameobject with the scripts.
This is what I get after I generate the entire mesh.

And this is what I get after I just select the mentioned gameobjects, and regenerate the mesh along that curve (this is correct)

why does this happen?
Here are the scripts that are used for this https://gdl.space/ecoxawusat.cs

The way it works, is Intersection.GenerateIntersection() -> LinePlacement.GenerateAlongPath() -> VerticesCollider.GenerateMesh()
(the last function call is not there, but i've added it after realizing it's gone, so it works, but the issue above remains)

[rain crater]

Apparently it happens in any case, where the PathPoint needs to be inverted (that is, swapped tangent ends). And it looks like just selecting the gameobject with the Path script, or specific points, then regenerating, fixes it

[lapis galleon]

@leaden ice FYI, I solved the underlying problem

the problem was actually in the code that I pasted

I wasn't unregistering the event manager on destroy

so upon reloading a scene that was previously loaded, two copies of the script were being triggered, the one for the open copy and the one for the previously opened copy

I added an ondestroy function to remove it from the event manager when it was destroyed

[fresh heron]

Hello! I have a class that loads and transitions scenes and fire events like such:

public class SceneLoader {
    private static event UnityAction SceneLoadedEvent;
    private static void OnSceneLoadedEvent() => SceneLoadedEvent?.Invoke();
}

I would like to subscribe to the SceneLoadedEvent from other classes without giving public access.
My understanding of C# events is weak, no matter how much documentation I read on it.

Ideally I could subscribe from another class like:

public class UI_LevelLoad {
    private void OnEnable()
    {
        SceneLoader.SceneLoadedEvent_Subscribe(ShowUI, true);
    }

    private void OnDisable(){
        SceneLoader.SceneLoadedEvent_Subscribe(ShowUI, false);
    }

    private void ShowUI(){

    }
}

[analog relic]

Just fyi, other classes can’t invoke the event, even if its public, they can only subscribe.

[fresh heron]

OHH???

Jeez

I was totally overthinking this

[fresh heron]

Thanks!

[regal epoch]

im fighting with my unity app and almost throwing my pc out. its not letting me patch and run to my phone like it did before. the error log tells me the "APK is out of sync". Can't find anything about it online.

a bit further down the error it says "this feature requires ASM7"

nvm i changed the target api and it works again

[swift falcon]

Does anyone at least know more or less how the CharacterController.Move function works?

I don't want to use the built-in CharacterController component, instead opting for my own custom character controller.

[heady iris]

my understanding is that it uses https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Physics.ComputePenetration.html

although, actually, that doesn't work for non-convex mesh colliders

and the docs mention that

One particular example is an implementation of a character controller where a specific reaction to collision with the surrounding physics objects is required

whilst character controllers don't really have a ... specific reaction

feels more like a capsule cast

[swift falcon]

Thanks for responding.

I'm more curious about the movement scheme, not the collision. 🤔

[heady iris]

the movement itself should be pretty trivial

if you don't hit anything, you just...move by the amount specified

the interesting part of a character controller is how it deals with collisions

it must be more than just a capsule cast, given how character controllers can climb up slopes and over ledges

[swift falcon]

Right, but it doesn't seem to use anything like AddForce.

🤔

[heady iris]

right

a character controller is not a rigidbody

it is not affected by physics

[swift falcon]

Maybe it's detecting collision and then performing a direct transform.position manipulation?

[heady iris]

it merely respects collisions

[void basalt]

It's moving like a normal translation update, and then performing collision resolution based on nearby colliders

If it moves into something, all it's going to do is move out of it

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Physics.ComputePenetration.html

If you actually want to understand the underlying collision detection & resolution, then this is probably a good place to start

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperplane_separation_theorem

[swift falcon]

Again, I'm not as interested in the collision... yet.

I was looking more for how it actually moves the player. If it happens to be a direct transform.position change, then I'll likely need to look into the collision schema again.

[void basalt]

I don't have access to unity's source code, but if I had to speculate, it probably isn't performing a real transform update twice

it's just logically updating the collider data and then performing the resolution against that using something like the first link I sent

after the resolution is done, is probably when the actual gameobjects get updated

HST is pretty straightforward. It's just projecting the bounding box onto the normal axes of both potentially colliding objects

if there's a gap of any size between them, they aren't colliding.

but obviously you won't be writing your own HST. Physics.ComputePenetration is more than enough.

[leaden ice]

CharacterController is actually a PhysX class and the open source code is out there. It's likely more or less just doing a capsule cast and moving as far as the hit distance on the cast allows (or as far as you asked if it hit nothing)

[foggy pasture]

would anyone have some advice for how to resolve overlapping shadows like this?

i was thinking about just doing it through a shader on the sprite material but wasn't sure

unsure what'd be most performant given the high number of trees/etc.

[deep willow]

im using navmesh to move agent objects, but they jitter sometimes. it seems to only happen when i instantiate a new agent object and that object's destiantion is set to the same destination as another agent object. How do i stop the jittering?

i guess they're jittering becuase they never reach the destination

[swift falcon]

Ah, so I'd have to look through a PhysX library then?

[winged sphinx]

do I have to worry about injection when using unity's input field?

[leaden ice]

If you're executing the string as code somewhere sure

E.g. plugging it into a SQL query

[swift falcon]

https://gdl.space/okurofeqej.cs
could anyone maybe look through this code and spot anything im doing the wrong way? it all works but i wrote without any help or anything i tried to explain my logic through comments so i didnt get side tracked

i had to rewrite the refresh hotbar a few times thats why its heavily commented

[void basalt]

No. Considering it would be pointless to write your own collision solver when unity it quite literally exposing their own.

[swift falcon]

The point is I want to see how they do it so that I can see how (or how not) to do it for my own controller. See if there's anything for which I'm failing to account.

Or failing to substitute properly.

[void basalt]

what

that is so random dude

[swift falcon]

Unity only provides an extern reference to the move function, meaning it's a function handled externally.

[void basalt]

This does not make any sense

[swift falcon]

I assume this is the PhysX library they use.

[void basalt]

I've already explained to you how controllers work internally

nvidia isn't going to do some 180 backwards shit

[swift falcon]

switch to vscode 👀 imo its better

Capsule cast + move?

[void basalt]

no

depenetration is how character controllers are written

[swift falcon]

This jargon is currently meaningless to me. I'm looking for code, not concepts. I want to see the code behind it so I can see it in practice.

[void basalt]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperplane_separation_theorem

here you go

[swift falcon]

I can't see it in-game currently because the collider generated by the CharacterController is causing all sorts of issues.

Yes, you posted that already.

I was going to look into that next.

[void basalt]

So like

why dont you just write your own controller

using unity's method I showed you earlier

@swift falconLooks like I was half-wrong. Looks like Nvidia does sweeptests and depenetration

[swift falcon]

I might... after I understand how the movement code I acquired is actually supposed to work.

[void basalt]

The native code is going to be in C++

all backend engine code is in C++

[swift falcon]

Remember, I have code I'm borrowing.

[swift falcon]

Oh I don't mind that. 😛

[void basalt]

I don't understand what borrowing code means

[swift falcon]

Someone else wrote the code.

It's code that faithfully recreates "CPMA-style" movement in Unity.

The only thing is that it takes all of that movement calculation and puts it into a single Vector3, which is then passed to the CharacterController.Move function, in that code.

My own controller uses a Rigidbody component and calls AddForce to propel the player.

[void basalt]

You should absolutely not be using rigidbodies and character controllers on the same object.

[swift falcon]

So currently the movement is not working as it should.

[swift falcon]

Right, so I'm not.

But now the numbers are all off.

[void basalt]

is CPMA doom?

[swift falcon]

Because if I'm jumping and moving, I'm gonna be accruing plenty of speed.

[swift falcon]

Actually no, it's Quake 3 Arena.

[void basalt]

Yeah, none of this warrants looking at the backend code

you can do everything you've explained above with a character controller. There's nothing stopping you

[swift falcon]

Not with Unity's, I'd have to make my own somehow.

[void basalt]

but why????

[swift falcon]

The collider it generates interferes with plenty of things.

Especially the projectiles fired from my weapons.

[void basalt]

so then place individual collider triggers on each of its limbs lmfao

you're trying to make this too complicated

tell me what else it interferes with

[swift falcon]

I don't seem to be able to jump.

However I'm not sure if that's due to improperly implemented code or the collider.

[void basalt]

I can assure you the character controller jumps fine

if the correct logic is written on top of it

me and millions of other people have done it

for the character hitbox, just put trigger colliders parented to each of the limbs

it's that easy

you can put your character controller on a separate layer and have your bullets ignore it

[rose token]

I'm making a unity 2D game with ragdoll physics. The game revolves around a stickman which is able to aim weapons, where the weapons rotate towards the mouse position. An example issue I'm facing when aiming a weapon is that if the mouse is quickly moved from the right, then over the player ending in the left side of the screen, the player's rotation will be calculated wrong, resulting in the players arms being bent, no longer following the mouse correctly. How can this issue be resolved?

Attached is a video demonstrating the issue, as my articulate skills are not the best
For more information feel free to ask
Please @rose token

[dusk apex]

Don't cross post #📖┃code-of-conduct #💻┃code-beginner message

[rose token]

whoops, sorry

[normal cedar]

Guys, when I try to set position of the player when I have CharacterController I don't get any changes to the my position.

What's the problem?

[dusk apex]

CC disables the changes made to Transform.

[quartz folio]

For teleporting? https://unity.huh.how/programming/physics/character-controller/teleportation

[normal cedar]

Oh, okay.

Nice.

[quartz folio]

Please no reaction gifs.

[dusk apex]

Call https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Physics.SyncTransforms.html to sync the transform or https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Physics-autoSyncTransforms.html to have it auto sync.

[normal cedar]

;*(

[swift falcon]

i have 2 items of the same class that hold the variable int amount

how would i calculate the combine amount? say for instance i have 2 items in my inventory the items have a max stack of 5
1 item has the amount of 3 and the other item has the amount of 3 how would i add 3 + 3 and get the remainder?

[thin aurora]

Assuming you have the current held items in a class-scoped list called items:

var totalAmount = this.items.Sum(x => x.amount);

Note that this is a Linq function, and required the import of System.Linq namespace.

[swift falcon]

the 2 Slots are seperate and not in a list

[thin aurora]

How does your inventory keep track of the items, then?

[swift falcon]

its hard to explain but what im setting is 2 differnt values of the same list

they are cached as SlotClass

[thin aurora]

You should share your code

[swift falcon]

https://gdl.space/imoboxugal.cs

[thin aurora]

Not much I can do to answer when your setup is different to what I would expect

So they're all a SlotClass?

What is in that?

[swift falcon]

just data thats stored and methods for that specific slot class e.g item, amount and Constructors

ill share the code

https://gdl.space/akotodacoc.cs

[thin aurora]

So if amount is in there, how is my code not a solution?

You just need to allow amount to be accessed outside the class using a property, or by making it public

You actually already have that, with GetAmount

[swift falcon]

the amount is accessible its exposed in SlotClass

yeah

[thin aurora]

var totalAmount = this.items.Sum(x => x.GetAmount());

[swift falcon]

ngl i cant see how it would compare the 2 values

[thin aurora]

You mean there is more to collect?

As in, there are more amounts that should add to the sum?

[swift falcon]

moving_slot is cached when clicked on and nearest slot is cached inside the function when a player clicks on an empty slot

or on a slot thats stackable

[thin aurora]

Well you could add those to the function if you need them

var totalAmount = this.items
  .Concat(new[] { this.moving_slot, this.nearest_slot })
  .Sum(x => x.GetAmount());

Unless I'm not understanding correctly

[swift falcon]

i need to find the difference after the value has been added when it reaches a stack of 5 but theres 6 items i need to be able to set the moving slot to 1 as thats the amount thats left

[thin aurora]

I'm not sure what you mean

[swift falcon]

right so if i pickup an item in a slot that has a stack size of 3

i go to place that item in another slot that has 3 but the max stack size for that item is 5 ill have 1 item left over

thats what im trying to calculate

[lone cape]

Hi, Instead of using singleton, I'm trying to create a subclass of my GameManager using Inheritance. E.g. ConnectionManager : GameManager The only issue i'm having is that now the ConnectionManager serializes all components from the gamemanager in the inspector. I just want it to serialize its own class. How can i go about doing that? or is my architecture that is flawed from the start?

[swift falcon]

you want to serialize GameManager?

[lone cape]

Yes GameManager has properties i want to serialize but i dont want them shown in connection manager since it should use the same properties

I'm starting to think the architecture is flawed and im using inheritence wrong.

[swift falcon]

well If connection manager inherits from GameManager all the serialized variables inside GameManager will show on the inspector anyways on what ever ConnectionManager sits on

[lone cape]

yea the connection manager sits on the gamemanager...i just wanted to split up the code into different classes

I also didnt want to make the variables public...so i was using protected.

[swift falcon]

hmmm

GameManager is a GameObject?

and theres also a class called GameManager?

[lone cape]

yea

[swift falcon]

what do you want to show in the inspector and what do you not want to show in the inspector?

if your wanting to use varibles and methods from GameManager but dont want them to be shown in the inspector id just recommend making gamemanager a singleton rather than inherriting from it

[lone cape]

I want the Variables shown in the GameManager class to show in the inspector for the GameManager class only. Then the ConnectionManager can use the GameManager Variables and change them but will only show Its variables in the inspector

I guess i should probably use singleton yea...but then it makes the GM public and i didn't really want that.

[swift falcon]

whats wrong with it being public?

[lone cape]

idk potential security risks?

[swift falcon]

are you just reading variables from connection manager?

[lone cape]

its for a multiplayer game and i kinda wanted a lockdown

no i think its reading and changing

[swift falcon]

i was going to say use protected readonly field

[lone cape]

Also since I'm using the variables so often its going to be annyoing to put GameManager.Instance.##Variable## every time i use it no?

will look very messy

[swift falcon]

can cache it at the top of your file

GameManager gm = GameManager.Instance;

[lone cape]

still then need to put gm.#Variable## each time aswell

i have like over 100 use cases just in this class...probably alot more in others

[swift falcon]

you can use the [HideInInspector] attribute no?

[lone cape]

but i still want it searilized for GM class

[swift falcon]

anything you dont want showing up inside the inspector you can use https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/HideInInspector.html

[lone cape]

One sec. If im doing ConnectionManager : GameManager when i change values in Connection Manager...will it change the values in the gamemanager?

[swift falcon]

it will show the base serialized data from GameManager if there is any

[lone cape]

right...yea im doing this wrong

[swift falcon]

for instance i have a scriptable object called item

and another that has inheritted from item

it will show the base serialized data from item and the data ive also serialized in the other class

[lone cape]

All i want to do really is break down the GameManager class into submanager classes that can use and alter the base variables in gamemanager.

[swift falcon]

could use a namespace

[lone cape]

was thinking that

[swift falcon]

might be your best option tbf

[lone cape]

namespace + singleton you mean?

[swift falcon]

singletons are only accessible when the script has been instantiated

[rain crater]

What methods are called when I select a game object, and how can I call them myself?

[swift falcon]

select how?

[rain crater]

Like, click on the game object in the hierarchy, or just in the scene view. Anything, so it's selected

[swift falcon]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Selection.html

should be this i think

[rain crater]

Hm, doesn't seem like this is what I need, I guess I have to dig deeper. But thanks nevertheless!

[swift falcon]

nws 👍

[rain crater]

Generally I'm trying to find some way around this issue, and I thought that if selecting an object fixes it, then that might be some idea for where to start

[swift falcon]

ur issue is that the mesh is incorrectly generating or z fighting?

[rain crater]

Incorrectly generating. Although the points given to the script generating it are correct

As you can see, it does well for every other part of the road, but not this one.

[swift falcon]

its most likely a code issue then tbf

infact

if ur editor fixes it when its been selected it cant be

[rain crater]

Ye, that's what I thought

[swift falcon]

hows it look in the game view?

[rain crater]

It seems like, when I select the game object with that script, it does kinda refresh it or something. Or maybe there's some stuff in the OnSceneGUI or OnInspectorGUI (editor for Path script) that I didn't notice.

[rain crater]

I actually didn't think of checking this. I'll get onto my PC when I can and send you a screenshot

[swift falcon]

are you able to replicate this issue on a different version of the unity editor?

[swift falcon]

alrighty 😄

[rain crater]

Again, I'd have to check. I am using beta rn, not LTS, so there might be something to it. But then I cannot really go back to LTS because [long list of reasons]

[swift falcon]

yeah there could be a bug in the that versions render pipeline

i wish my school did game dev :/

[rain crater]

I wish the same, but then I realize how bad are schools in my country at teaching stuff, so it's probably for the better that we don't learn that

[swift falcon]

ah i see, here in the uk well i cant really say anything im 17 and i havent been to school in like 4 years

[rain crater]

Luckily I'm studying at the university already, and here it's better. And we can pick gamedev as specialization later on (probably).

[swift falcon]

ah i see 😄

[rain crater]

Btw, as for zfighting, any idea on how to easily fix it? What I'm doing now, is just raise every next part by 0.0001f on Y axis, and it works. But still there are 3+ overlapping meshes

[swift falcon]

hmm im not really too sure im not really good with this type of stuff my self

https://www.unity3dtips.com/unity-z-fighting-solutions/

there are some ways to fix tho

[rain crater]

Hm... Those are quite basic. I think probably the most optimal way would be to change how mesh is being rendered, but then that is complicated

And since there are other games that do it similarly to how I do it, there's nothing to worry about I think

[swift falcon]

Yeah haha, i dont know much about these kinda things as im just learning myself 😄

[rain crater]

Understandable, I'm learning that stuff too. But all I can say as of now is that procedural mesh generation is a great thing

[rain crater]

Mind if I DM you later with that? It might take quite a while until I can access my PC, and I don't want to reply to some old message when new people with new problems come

[swift falcon]

Yeah sure 😄

[tacit nest]

Hi, I'm making a 1v1 football game and when I move the two characters/objects, they move at the same time. I need someone to help me make a code to control a character with wasd and another with the little arrows.

[potent sleet]

post code in #💻┃code-beginner

[regal epoch]

hey im trying to integrate ads in my mobile game. I'm using admob from google. I added my phone as a test device and a banner on the home screen as test. on my pc when i run it i see the banner, but i dont see it on my phone. Anyone an idea?

[cosmic rain]

Check the logs in logcat or something. See if there are any errors or other info related to the ads.

[regal epoch]

Im checking right now but it's not giving me any errors. what should i look for in the logs?

[cosmic rain]

Depending on the verbosity level of the ads library, it should output info like, "requesting ad", "displaying ad" and such.

If it doesn't, see if you can elevate the verbosity level and rebuild your app.

[regal epoch]

i have it on the highest right now, but cannot see anything about ads

what i do see tho thta it's trying to resize something when i press the ad button

(it should display a banner when i press the ad button)

[main token]

Are there any github engineers able to help me with my github setup? I'm using git lfs, and for some reason I keep getting files which appear seemingly randomly, then refuse to get discarded. The only way to get rid of these files is to run a series of git commands, only for them to later reappear. thanks in advance

[cosmic rain]

It should at least have some logs on the ads initialization. If it doesn't, then you don't have the required components in the scene.

Or you're filtering out the relevant logs

[regal epoch]

i dont think i have any filters on, haven't added them

And when i search for "ads" nothing shows up

[cosmic rain]

It might not use that word exactly. You should be able to see some logs in the editor and look for similar logs in the logcat.

Also, you said the verbosity is set to high, but what other options are there?

[regal epoch]

there is
verbose(show all)
Debug
info(default)
warning
error
fatal(highest priority)

[cosmic rain]

And what is it set to?

[regal epoch]

verbose (Show all)

[cosmic rain]

Okay. Then you should be able to see at least some logs, if your setup is correct.

[regal epoch]

well the weird thing is, no i don't see anything that has to do with ads

[cosmic rain]

Are there any logs when you play in the editor?

[cosmic rain]

Do the "Initialization complete" logs appear in the logcat?

[regal epoch]

nope

[cosmic rain]

Maybe look into the ads manager script and add some logs of your own to see what's going on. Or even connect a debugger and step through the code.

[regal epoch]

i'll add some logs in the start function, and in the function of the banner. I'll see whay i can ind

[granite nimbus]

I don't understand how you can throw NullReferenceException and point to the line where I check if thing is null
if (myClassInstance != null)
how in the world this line can throw an exception🤷‍♀️

[regal epoch]

for some reason the debugs are not showing up either...

tried in multiple scripts but none are showing

[cosmic rain]

Are you sure the correct scene is included in the build?

[regal epoch]

I added a debug on the scene change, and even that did not show

[cosmic rain]

It shouldn't. That's probably not the correct line. Or you're omitting something important in your quote.

[granite nimbus]

I triple checked, it points to line 22, and this is the line 22

I don't get how an if null check can throw NRE

[cosmic rain]

Welp, either, none of the changes are included in the build, or there's something with the logcat or how you use it.

[cosmic rain]

Is that how the line actually looks in your code?

[regal epoch]

i'll download a new one, see if that might help

[cosmic rain]

It wouldn't.

[cosmic rain]

I don't think the version is the problem. More likely the way you use it.

[granite nimbus]

no. it's
if (piecesManager.draggedPiece != null)
draggedPiece is a MonoBehaviour

[cosmic rain]

Now that's better. That CAN throw an NRE

please don't simplify your code when asking a question

Here, piecesManager is probably null

[granite nimbus]

no

[cosmic rain]

yes

[simple egret]

Errors says otherwise

[cosmic rain]

Otherwise there wouldn't be an error

[simple egret]

It was null at the time this line ran

[granite nimbus]

I'm not simplifying, I'm generalizing. many times code doesn't make sense to anybody other than me

[cosmic rain]

That's not a generalization. Accessing another class instance field vs accessing a field on this is an important difference.

[granite nimbus]

who said that myClassInstance is on this?

[simple egret]

wat

[cosmic rain]

Because that's how it would be if it was an actual code..?

[tropic quartz]

[simple egret]

Ah, yeah this is never null, hence the difference

[cosmic rain]

That question doesn't really make sense. It's like arguing that 2+2 is not 4...

[granite nimbus]

no, it's like assuming 2+2 is 4 without knowing underlying math

[cosmic rain]

There's no underlying math here.
Anyways, if you don't need any more help, there's no point in dragging this on.

[tropic quartz]

My head hurts.
Anyway, check for git conflicts if you are using it, had a guy yesterday with an error that made no sense. Was a conflict with git.

I can't really think of what would cause that normally.

Or perhaps the thing you are pulling .draggedPiece from is null. That is, piecesManager.

[simple egret]

Nothing, it's just that they generalised and got rid of what could throw such exception when posting here

Yeah, the manager was null here

a != null can't throw, a.b != null can (assuming a is a field)

[granite nimbus]

ok apparently it was an issue with static fields because of disabled domain reload

[cosmic rain]

Which was making it null.

[heady iris]

i can assure you that removing context will not help me understand your code

[gray mural]

how do I fix it?
sorry not screenshot, that's better I guess

[simple egret]

Looks like this isn't a UnityEvent, but a regular C# event. There's no AddListener on that, you need to subscribe the C# way:

diff.onClick += () => { /* ... */ }

(note that using a lambda, you will not be able to unsubscribe from it)

[steady moat]

Read the error and apply the solution in it.

[gray mural]

thanks, no errors, I guess it should work now

[sour zealot]

so I cam to the conclusion that i dont even need a while loop because what Im trying to do does not correspond to any loop. so would this script work: https://hatebin.com/hmpqqlhcqb

[cosmic rain]

It would definitely compile, but it probably wouldn't work the way you intend it to(depending on what you intend though).

[sour zealot]

its a teleporter

[gray mural]

never mind, now it throws:

InvalidCastException: Specified cast is not valid.
SpawnManager.Start () (at Assets/#Scripts/SpawnManager.cs:37)

private void Start()
    {
        scoreManager = GetComponent<ScoreManager>();

        foreach (Button diff in difficultiesGm.transform)
        {
            diff.clicked += () =>
            {
                Debug.Log("nice");
            };
        }
    }

[sour zealot]

so it teleports the player to the targetTeleporter

[cosmic rain]

That much I figured

[sour zealot]

and after you teleport, the teleporter goes on a cooldown on both ends

[cosmic rain]

Well, the cooldown part is probably not gonna work

[sour zealot]

oh i know that

i need to do that

I need it so if the just teleported is true, it will ignore all collisions

[simple egret]

It's your foreach loop. Iterating over transform doesn't output Button, it outputs Transform values. You need to do foreach (Transform t in difficultiesGm.transform) and then call t.GetComponent<Button>() on it to get the button

[cosmic rain]

And why did you move to this channel. Please don't crosspost. #💻┃code-beginner is the right place.

[sour zealot]

oh

okay

il tag u in code begin

[gray mural]

yes, have done it already, throws two more errors

[simple egret]

NullReferenceException?

[gray mural]

what a pity, no

oh, do not mention Destroy error

private void Start()
{
    scoreManager = GetComponent<ScoreManager>();

    foreach (Transform diff in difficultiesGm.transform)
    {
        diff.GetComponent<Button>().clicked += () =>
        {
            Debug.Log("nice");
        };
    }
}

[simple egret]

Oh, so that Button you pass in there isn't what you think it is. Do you have your own class named that?

[gray mural]

no, I don't

[simple egret]

Hover over it in your code editor, what appears in the tooltip? It should mention the full namespace of that Button type

[gray mural]

thank you, it works now

private void Start()
{
    foreach (Transform diff in difficultiesGm.transform)
    {
        diff.GetComponent<UnityEngine.UI.Button>().onClick.AddListener(() =>
        {
            Debug.Log("nice");
        });
    }
}

[simple egret]

Yeah it was picking up another Button class, if this works

[heady iris]

you might have a class called Button

[gray mural]

yeah, it was picking UnityEngine.UIElements.Button

[gray mural]

nop

[simple egret]

Ah that'll do it

[heady iris]

ahh

yeah

[simple egret]

Also consider using Text Mesh Pro, the UnityEngine.UI stuff is old now

[gray mural]

diff.GetComponent<UnityEngine.UIElements.Button>().clicked += () =>
{
    Debug.Log("nice");
};

[heady iris]

Button still comes from UnityEngine.UI

there is no special text mesh pro button component

[simple egret]

Ah, uhh so it's Dropdown that has its own TMP right?

[heady iris]

the "text mesh pro" version in the GameObject menu just uses a TMP text component instead of the legacy one

[gray mural]

I have used Button - TextMeshPro 🙄

[heady iris]

yeah, there's a special TMP_Dropdown

[simple egret]

Yeah that'll work, as TMP buttons are just normal buttons but with a TMP Text to render the text you need to show

[gray mural]

yes, they are
and TMP is better, so Buttons that use TMP are also better

[simple egret]

TMP > all

[gray mural]

that's not question, but may I ask you how have you done time zone in you bio?

[heady iris]

google "discord timestamp"

i should add that

[simple egret]

Oh it uses discord's markdown to render a timestamp hang on

12:00 PM for me is <t:1641034800:t> for you

[gray mural]

thank you

[heady iris]

oh right, you can just use that directly

[simple egret]

Basically, first <t: is for MD to recognize it. Then the number is the Unix timestamp of some date, any date as long as it's on 12pm, then the second t is the format specifier for "short time"

[heady iris]

specifically, any time that's 12 PM in your timezone

so you'll see 12 PM

[steady granite]

What can make a component's OnEnable() trigger before another component on the same object Awake(), I thought it should be all Awakes in scene, then OnEnable() if component is enabled