archived-code-general

[lean sail]

i seriously doubt it, considering the issues you're asking about are like week 1 beginner level. stop wasting your time, get your IDE configured. Then you can see the errors properly

[swift falcon]

😭

Ok ok i will

just forget it

Ill take help somehwere else

I was in a rush rn

SO i thought id get some help

[knotty sun]

you have had the best help you could get. Configure IDE, Learn C#

[swift falcon]

[lean sail]

🤷‍♂️ how much of a rush could you be in, that you cant take 10 minutes to setup something that'll point out every error for you. This isnt a rush, you're just being impatient

[swift falcon]

no

i gtg

in

[lean sail]

Anyways you were warned above by mods, so please stop spamming

[swift falcon]

2 mins

actually nvm

30 seconds

@lean sail@lean sail@lean sail

I did it

now quick, what do i do

[lean sail]

use your java skills and now solve the errors that the IDE is highlighting.

[swift falcon]

Ahh wait, now i know whats wrong

Honestly the issue isnt with programming knowlegde, i just dont know where to correctly find or how to search the unity methods and function through the docs

[dusk apex]

If your IDE is configured, you ought to get auto suggestions as you type the code that would prevent you ever using invalid or inappropriate statements/keywords

[knotty sun]

!learn

[tawny elk]

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[swift falcon]

No

[dusk apex]

You need to have a properly configured IDE to get help on the server

[swift falcon]

not this again, i have seen this lots of times

i just need documentation

honestly godot docs are better

[knotty sun]

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

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

[swift falcon]

Will this work

[knotty sun]

only if Flower is set in the inspector

[swift falcon]

what now 😭

[swift falcon]

what do u mean by this and how do i do this

[knotty sun]

post your !code properly and I shall explain

[tawny elk]

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[swift falcon]

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

public class NewBehaviourScript : MonoBehaviour
{
    public Vector3 CameraPosition;
    public GameObject Flower;

    private PlayerMovement PlayerPos;

    // Start is called before the first frame update
    void Start()
    {
        // Initialize PlayerPos in the Start method
        PlayerPos = Flower.GetComponent<PlayerMovement>();

        if (PlayerPos == null)
        {
            Debug.LogError("PlayerMovement component not found on Flower GameObject.");
        }
    }

    // Update is called once per frame
    void Update()
    {
        if (PlayerPos != null)
        {
            CameraPosition.x = PlayerPos.PlayerX - 0.111f;
            CameraPosition.y = PlayerPos.PlayerY + 4.5f;
            CameraPosition.z = PlayerPos.PlayerZ - 3f;

            // Optionally update the camera's actual position
            transform.position = CameraPosition;
        }
    }
}

using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;

public class PlayerMovement : MonoBehaviour
{
    public float speed = 1f;
    public float smoothTime = 0.1f;
    private Vector3 velocity = Vector3.zero;


    public float PlayerX;
    public float PlayerY;
    public float PlayerZ;


    void Update()
    {
        // Get input from the player
        float moveHorizontal = Input.GetAxis("Horizontal");
        float moveVertical = Input.GetAxis("Vertical");

        // Create a movement vector based on input
        Vector3 movement = new Vector3(moveHorizontal, 0.0f, moveVertical);

        // Apply smooth movement
        Vector3 targetPosition = transform.position + movement * speed * Time.deltaTime;
        transform.position = Vector3.SmoothDamp(transform.position, targetPosition, ref velocity, smoothTime);
    
    
        position();
    
    }


    void position()
    {

        Vector3 position = transform.position;


        PlayerX = position.x;
        PlayerY = position.y;
        PlayerZ = position.z;


    }



}

[knotty sun]

this

PlayerPos = Flower.GetComponent<PlayerMovement>();

uses the Flower game object which is declared as

public GameObject Flower;

which by default is null. So trying to access a null object will throw a Null Ref Exception.
But.. because Flower is public it will be exposed in the Inspector of the script so a reference can be assigned.
You do this by Adding the script to a Game Object and then drag/drop the Flower game object into it's inspector.
This is ALL very basic knowledge if you would spend 1 hour learning

[swift falcon]

ok ok

YESSS

IT WOKRK

I AM A PROGRAMMER

Thanks, cya i gtg now

[dusky pelican]

Hello, how can i pass T to action like Action<T>

[lean sail]

what do you mean pass T? You simply declare what you want like Action<float> varName

[raven yoke]

Hello, I'm trying to export animations (.anim files) with the UnityGLTF Plugin but the exported files only contain file info but no animation data. Could anyone help me?

IDK if Export context is missing some parameters or if I'm missing a step or something else is wrong

[dusky pelican]

Actually i want make like this but cant pass T

[fleet tide]

My question is more general but i would like have you opinion about it

I use Atavism (Its an MMORPG maker) , its very usefull for some part of an MMORPG cause many thing is already done (Server, guild, PNG,...) but somes things is useless for me and i need to add many specifics thing (Like armor creation).
The real problem is Atavism is so complex and have so many thing that i'm lost for add some thing

Do you think use Atavism for my projet is usefull or useless ?
I use it mainly for the server aspect. I dont have any experience about it and so many people say its very difficult.

[leaden ice]

From the second screenshot that looks like you are dealing with some specific enum type. So what is the T supposed to represent?

[lean sail]

Why does the action need to be of type T? Looks like you want int there

[dusky pelican]

I want to create a system like this:
When a player produces a gun in a machine, the machine will invoke OnExpGained (classic gun names like usp). Then, in GetExpCount<T>(T expType), it will take the parameter and access usp.GunCategory, which will give me the category of the gun.
With the category of the gun, I can access the public Dictionary<GunCategory, int> GunExpPoints => gunExpPoints; to get the amount of gained experience.

The reason for using <T> is that I need to use the same system in the Quest System. When a player completes a quest, I will invoke an action again like OnExpGained (an upgraded quest).

I might be thinking incorrectly, sorry for the poor explanation, I am not good at it.

[lean sail]

This method seems like it should be replaced by some interface, so gun, quest or whatever else can implement a GetXp method

Using a generic static action is definitely questionable, I wasnt even aware you could have one because well not sure where you would provide the type

Getting the xp itself as well doesnt seem too related to the action. I would expect this action is invoked after you gain a certain amount of xp. In which case itd make sense to have it be Action<int> and you could possibly include a paramter for the interface, so you also pass in what gave the xp

[dusky pelican]

I will try, thank you so much for your help 🙂

[gray mural]

I have no experience in using Atavism, so I cannot answer this question

[fleet tide]

Do you know about networking ? Cause maybe you can honestly tell me if its this is feasible for me (fairly beginner)

[mossy snow]

come on dude, you know in your heart the answer to this. "fairly beginner" + mmorpg is always a dumpster fire. Start with something much smaller in scope and single player

[latent latch]

flabby birb first, mmo later

[fleet tide]

I have already do other game, here only server side is really new for me

And I'm not here for create a game in 1 week or month , but with my friend we want create it even if it's take many years , we just like it

[gray mural]

No, no idea

[fleet tide]

Okay np thanks you 👌

[cosmic rain]

Try creating a single player rpg first. You'll see that it's already very hard if you want it to be somewhat complex.
Online(especially mmo) would add a few more levels of difficulty to it.

[timber sierra]

Hi @lofty siren
I'm a developer of UModeler. This issue can be resolved by hot reloading your project. We will also address this issue to ensure it doesn't occur in the future.

[cosmic rain]

And avoid complex assets that hide a lot of implementation from you. At least as a beginner. You need to understand how this kind of systems are implemented first and have some experience with them yourself.

[fleet tide]

We use atavism only for server side, otherwise, we create everything cause ours idea is too complexe to use atavism system

My question was more, is it possible to group of friend to create a server side and networking or its too complex and only for big studio

[knotty sun]

It's absolutely possible for even 1 person to do server side, if that person has sufficient knowledge and experience which is what, I believe, the others are telling you

[cosmic rain]

Anything is possible given enough effort and time. It's gonna take a long time and possibly result in a pretty bad quality product if you do it unprepared though.

As for the asset, I'd avoid it for something as critical as server side logic.

Btw, you seem to misunderstand something, but MMORPG implies that most of the game logic is on the server side.

The client only renders the game and sends the input to the server.

[fleet tide]

I can't create a rpg and after transform it into mmo ? That's what I wanted to do if we create everything

[cosmic rain]

Not really. You'll basically need to rewrite it all.

You could reuse some system maybe. If you create them extendable enough

[fleet tide]

In fact , I know its difficult and more for us who don't have many experiences into mmo but I don't think it's a bad idea to just go and start the project and learn even if we need to work during 5 years

The only thing it was just about basic question before start

So if I follow you all , we can but it will be very difficult and long to have something correct ?

[nimble cloud]

so @steady moat as per the conversation in the other channel, i should use the scriptable objects to store data like what resources the items in my game can break down into, and just create game objects and inventory system without using scriptable objects so the game can be saved in a jason format?

[steady moat]

Yes, ScriptableObject can be a good way to define what a given object can break into.

[nimble cloud]

cool been trying to figure out how to store the date for my crafting system i wanna try to make so this should help.

[cosmic rain]

The biggest problem is that your project is likely gonna get messed up to the point where you'd want to throw it away.

[cosmic rain]

Imagine implementing half of your game just to find out that you need to rewrite most of it for it to work as you expect. And then that would happen several times throughout development.

[fleet tide]

it's same for every game ^^'

i have already have this thing in my old game

[gusty aurora]

How do I search all VFX graphs in my project ?

[heady iris]

in the project window, you can search like this

t:TheTypeYouWant

i forget the exact name of a vfx graph asset

ah, there it is

t:visualeffectasset

You can do the same kind of search in the Hierarchy to look for components (not with a Visual Effect Asset, of course, because those aren't components!)

[gusty aurora]

Thanks !

How did you find that name ?

[heady iris]

When you click on an asset, the type name appears in parentheses in the inspector

It can get a little more complicated for importers.

In this case, the inspector is configuring a DataImporter. The resulting main asset is an AttributeMetadata

the SVGImporter is producing a Texture2D

(you can only search for the actual asset, not the importer that happened to produce it)

[gusty aurora]

I think I got it, thanks !

Basically the think inside the first parentheses, without spaces

[heady iris]

yeah, and it's usually just the only thing in parens

[gleaming brook]

man its fun to code 😂 unity is kool

[lunar kestrel]

I want to make a game with different scenes and it would be good that I can keep Player and different stuff between scenes such as game manager and cinemachine camera, should I make all of these GameObjects singletons and add them to don't destroy on load or what? Also in each scene for testing purposes there should be player and all of the other stuff but when I play test from the main menu scene, they should be removed and the original ones would be kept.
Is it good approach to this problem or not?

[spring creek]

You do not have to make then singletons for them to be in DDOL.
Also, there is additive scene loading too, which is basically what DDOL is, but you can have more than just that one extra scene.

You could also save the DATA from the player between scenes (in ddol or additive, likely in a singelton for this one), and rebuild the player and stuff in the next scene from that.

Those are the two common methods

[tough obsidian]

i am creating a quiz game using resources.load to change the sprite of questions it is working in the editor but it is not working in the build any suggestions why it is happening? i have tried using asset.database too but same behavior was showing

[rigid island]

!code

[tawny elk]

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[stoic ledge]

Are there any out-of-the-box solutions for handling soft keyboard obstructing an input field on mobile?

[lunar kestrel]

How do I prevent duplication when outside of playtest?

[spring creek]

Just don't add it multiple times.

Have the player added by one scene that you don't return to, then pushed into ddol
Or have it reside in an additive scene only

[lunar kestrel]

i want to have player in play test

[spring creek]

Not sure how that is relevant.
It doesn't change anything about what I said

[lunar kestrel]

okay I will try do that

[lunar kestrel]

Can I have script in every scene that checks if there is scene with managers loaded and if not it would load it additively?

[crisp minnow]

If I have a bottom bar of a few scenes that I switch between them what's the recommended way to open the other async and close the current once its loaded, setting the next one as active?

[spring creek]

Yes of course. You can do anything. but there is no good reason to do that

[knotty sun]

yes
https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/SceneManagement.SceneManager-sceneCount.html
https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/SceneManagement.SceneManager.GetSceneAt.html

[lunar kestrel]

So I can playtest with player already and don't worry about 2 players existing at the same time when I play test from the main menu

[stoic ledge]

or at least get soft keyboard height reliably across android devices

[smoky moss]

Hey peeps, I'm having a problem with my animator not doing the SetTrigger command, even though the animator is set up properly and everything. I have the same code working in other scripts of my game, but for some reason this animator just doesn't seem to want to trigger. I have confirmed that my animations are working, when clicking inside the Animator window on Unity, so I'm a little stumped as to what is going on here. Help?

[heady iris]

have you checked that your code is running at all?

a Debug.Log statement immediately before you set the trigger would be appropriate

[smoky moss]

I have confirmed that the code is running, and that Debug.Log does infact print something out to the console

[heady iris]

a log statement immediately before the SetTrigger, right?

[smoky moss]

Right

[heady iris]

show me your code, plus the animator's parameter list

[smoky moss]

There are no errors when running the code.

It is tied to a gameobject in the scene

[heady iris]

Is it targeting the correct Animator component?

[smoky moss]

There are no other animator components on this object, but it does reference SpriteSwitcher, which as its own private Animator tied to it.

Can this interfere somehow?

I have tried changing the naming on the animator tied to SpriteController, to no avail.

[heady iris]

animator = GetComponent<Animator>();

As long as there is only one animator component on the same object, this will find that component.

(and I think you're only allowed to have one per object anyway)

[smoky moss]

The object in question does have two scripts attached to it, both of which has a private animator.

[heady iris]

also, one more sanity check

wait, there's no GetTrigger

bah

just to rule out any weirdness with the wrong animator, you can do this

Debug.Log("my animator: " + animator, animator);

The second argument is the context for the log entry

clicking once on the log entry will take you to the context object

(so it'll highlight the object the animator is on)

[smoky moss]

Alright will try that out!

It creates a clone of the prefab, which should in theory be fine right?

[heady iris]

Yes, since SpriteController's Awake method runs immediately after instantiation

so it will find the animator on the newly created object

[smoky moss]

Perhaps it's because the clone is not spawned as a child of the object, and puts it somewhere else?

[heady iris]

what is "the object" here?

[smoky moss]

The object is basically just an image, I'm trying to write my own visual novel.

Upon further inspection I can see that the alpha of the canvas group does change when moved to a child of George, but it does not change the appearance in the scene.

The George Clone spawns in with an alpha of 2, which is odd, but it still doesn't change the fact that nothing seems to be happening in the scene.

[nova glen]

Good morning, I am looking for a programmer to create a project together

[lean sail]

!collab

[tawny elk]

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[smoky moss]

I figured it out, thanks so much for helping my stupidity overcome itself!

[heady iris]

what was it?

[smoky moss]

The canvas and triggers did turn out to function normally, but the picture was spawned in way of screen so you'd have no way of knowing it was there. I looked at the scene editor while running the game and found him by zooming out. Adjusting the x values did the trick. I feel immensely stupid.

[ember sandal]

why is 2022.3 so slow 😭

[heady iris]

did you seriously change your username and profile to "unity is slow"

this is not a code question, and it's also barely a question

[shell scarab]

Its not for me. Also its not about code which this channel is for discussing.

[ember sandal]

oh sorry my fault, I'm importing 😅

[naive swallow]

I am trying to making a Bounds object that encapsulates several colliders, but collider.bounds seems to be returning the bounds as if the collider were at zero rotation. How can I encapsulate the bounds of a collider at their current world orientation? If there's a tall thin collider that is laying on its side, I want the resulting bounds to be wide instead of tall.

[gleaming brook]

good point

[heady iris]

That doesn't sound right: collider.bounds is a world-space axis-aligned bounding box

I'd expect it to work correctly for a 90 degree rotation, at least

there's no collider.localBounds like there is for Renderer, which would behave like that

I wonder if you're doing this:

• Instantiate object
• Update its transform
• Grab the bounds of its colliders

If so, you need to do a Physics.SyncTransforms() first

I've seen that problem a few times. The physics system does not notice the changed transform until the next physics update.

[naive swallow]

That's a possibility, let me make a quick toy case to try to test it and see if that's what's happening

Okay, you might be right. I just ran a test with some manually rotated colliders and it is properly including them all, even at non-axis'd rotations

Lemme try the sync transforms

Okay, the colliders are now properly encapsulated. Bad news: A lot of my math was based on the un-sync'd positions so they're hella offset. Going to have to fix all that

[heady iris]

woops

You could map between the "old" and "new" positions by calculating a Matrix4x4 to go between them, but I guess it'd be wiser to just update the math :p

!collab

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[golden zealot]

K ty

[pulsar holly]

For some reason whenever my gameObject touches another gameObject where the layer = 2, nothing happens. Here's the code: https://pastecode.io/s/ia3tksdw

[rigid island]

have you tried debugging layer of object you hit

also this code is painful lol

[gray mural]

No way 😭

if (other.gameObject.layer == 4)
{
    pieceRotate = false;
    pieceFall = false;
}

if (other.gameObject.layer == 5)
{
    pieceRotate = false;
    pieceFall = false;
}

if (other.gameObject.layer == 6)
{
    pieceRotate = false;
    pieceFall = false;
}

[lean sail]

You guys havent seen their other script. This is actually better than I expected

[gray mural]

Where is the other one?

[pulsar holly]

Yes

[spring creek]

You'd have to search for it. It was this script, but we all took turns rewriting and suggesting refactors for it.
It was wild at first.
Things like
if(something){line};if(something){line}
Just all crammed in so tight

[lean sail]

If you search from user, it's about a month ago. There was this script and another I vaguely remember

[rigid island]

and what is the number that shows ?

they should at least be else if

[pulsar holly]

The tag says that the tag is "Not Falling" instead of "Other Falling".

[rigid island]

all of the != at the bottom will override the values anyway

since guaranteed at least one isnt something

[spring creek]

But what layer?

[pulsar holly]

The layer of the other gameObject isn't supposed to change, the tag is.

[pulsar holly]

The layer of the other gameObject isn't supposed to change, the tag is.

[hard briar]

hello

[pulsar holly]

Also sorry for sending the message twice, I forgot to ping.

[spring creek]

That is what you were told to debug.
Debug as much as you possibly can. You did the tag, now do the layer. Do the gameobject name for the hell of it

[pulsar holly]

I checked and the layer is still 2 for the other gameObject

[lean sail]

Are you debugging or are you checking as in looking in inspector. You should be using at least Debug.Log, dont look in inspector and assume you're even looking at the right object

[pulsar holly]

I was looking in inspector...

[spring creek]

That is not debugging

Add the values to a debug log. (Or learn how to use the debugger)

The inspector is less than useless for this process

[pulsar holly]

I need to run some tests

Appearantley it's not detecting the collison hitbox.

[vapid imp]

how to I add a layer to the generated terrain that is created?

like a MeshLayer named whatIsGround I have my attempt in the code but it does not work

[onyx saddle]

Does anyone what steps I should take to make a randomly generated force directed planar graph?

[sterile reef]

hello chat
i have a large grid of hexagon that is going act like a map, the goal is to have data assigned to each hexagon.
problem, there are going to be a lot of hexagons (around 100k eventually, maybe more)
how would i approach this, my first thought was to have a single class in the game manager that stores a property class for each tile. this way i dont have 100k+ mono's.

anyone care to think with me

[heady iris]

that's a tall order

[leaden ice]

Definitely not GameObjects

You'll want a chunk loading system aka world streaming

[sterile reef]

hmm, would that work in a grand strategy like game

[heady iris]

why do you need so many tiles?

that sounds impossible to deal with as a player

maybe you need to have a smaller number of "major" tiles that contain "minor" tiles

[sterile reef]

multiple tiles will be assinged to areas.

and areas to provinces

and provines to owners[]

its for the detail

[heady iris]

i just have to wonder if you need 100,000 distinct hex tiles to make the game work

surely the player is not going to go around and inspect all of them!

[leaden ice]

Yes, theoretically all 100k will not be active at all times

[sterile reef]

correct

also, the tiles will probalbly not contain any data themselves

[heady iris]

If the tiles are mostly for units to move around on, and the player only interacts with larger regions, then you'd have something like this

[sterile reef]

i wonder if something exists thats essentially an object that i can detect with mouse input but isnt as heavy as an gameobject

[heady iris]

That would be pretty easy.

in fact, Grid can do that for you

you can turn a world position into a grid cell

go from screen-space to world-space to grid-space

[sterile reef]

also, in my generator i create the faces of the hexagon which is used when creating the gameobject itself

if this info is any useful

[heady iris]

You could then store a huge dictionary of positions to cell data

[sterile reef]

yeah thats my initial plan. the generation of the tiles is my current issue

cause generating a 50x50 already takes a few seconds (4)

[leaden ice]

Yes Grid and Plane.Raycast

That's the easy part

[heady iris]

If you are doing a big complex hex-grid system, you might want to look at...

https://catlikecoding.com/unity/tutorials/hex-map/

this is mostly for the actual model generation

it might help you there

[sterile reef]

thanks!

i will look into it

[glass chasm]

I uploaded a minecraft model from blender to unity and it doesnt want to show me the first layer of the skin and i dont understand it

i mean anything i press it either becomes translucent or one color

[latent latch]

Not a coding question. Use #💻┃unity-talk for import questions, but the issue you may be having is material incompatibility or maybe not importing correctly.

Better to expand out your question in the right channel with perhaps a screenshot

[glass chasm]

thank you

and sry

[dull barn]

im using a 3d movement package from the asset store and it hides whatever youre holding when you get too close to a wall to avoid your item clipping through it. Problem is that the script detects the player as a wall if you jump backwards and it will hide and show the item constantly, like making it flash almost. How can i fix this?

this is the code that hies the weapon

if(WallDistance != Physics.Raycast(GetComponentInChildren<Camera>().transform.position, transform.TransformDirection(Vector3.forward), out ObjectCheck, HideDistance, LayerMaskInt) && CanHideDistanceWall)
{
WallDistance = Physics.Raycast(GetComponentInChildren<Camera>().transform.position, transform.TransformDirection(Vector3.forward), out ObjectCheck, HideDistance, LayerMaskInt);
Items.ani.SetBool("Hide", WallDistance);
Items.DefiniteHide = WallDistance;
}

[knotty sun]

that is code from a paid asset?

[heady iris]

sounds like you need to configure LayerMaskInt

[knotty sun]

if that is any example of the code quality, Id say, find another asset

[heady iris]

the repeated GetComponentInChildren calls are certainly a design decision

[knotty sun]

not to mention the completely unnecessay repeated Raycast

[lean sail]

A bunch of paid assets are complete garbage. Worst part is you cant really even know without paying, and once you download the code theres no going back.
If you have to edit it for something like this, I'd go as far as just making your own version. Without looking through every single aspect of it, you wont know what other garbage its doing. Once had an AI asset that allocated like a new array of 1000 elements every frame

[sterile reef]

public void GenerateGrid()
 {
     for (int y = 0; y < gridSize.y; y++)
     {
         for (int x  = 0; x < gridSize.x; x++)
         {
             GameObject tile = new GameObject($"Hex {x},{y}", typeof(HexRenderer));
             tile.transform.position = GetPositionForHexFromCoordinte(new Vector2Int(x, y));

             HexRenderer hexRenderer = tile.GetComponent<HexRenderer>();
             hexRenderer.innerSize = innerSize;
             hexRenderer.outerSize = outerSize;
             hexRenderer.height = height;
             hexRenderer.isFlatTop = isFlatTop;

             hexRenderer.GetComponent<Renderer>().material = material;
             hexRenderer.DrawMesh();

             tile.transform.SetParent(parent, true);

         }
     }
 }

this is the code for generating the grid. any remark on this? i feel like the 2 get components are causing most of my issues

ok i see

rework time

[sterile reef]

alright, i think i did it,

GameObject tile = GameObject.CreatePrimitive(PrimitiveType.Sphere);
tile.GetComponent<MeshFilter>().mesh = meshRef;
tile.name = $"Hex_{x}_{y}";
tile.transform.position = GetPositionForHexFromCoordinte(new Vector2Int(x, y));

tile.transform.SetParent(parent, true);

i made a private far that stores a single mesh (meshRef)
then i spawn in a sphere and change its mesh

i can generate a 500x500 (250.000 total) tiles within like 4 seconds

i think those are decent times

if im going to use grid (component) as selection, then i can probably spawn an empty and add a mesh to it right?

although

that would be a lot of add/get

ohoh

it crashed loo

[devout nimbus]

When the animator is active the pathfinding on a unit will not work for some reason. The animation contains no keyframes that change positon or rotation. The animator component also does not have root motion enabled. I even got rid of the animation entirely and it still doesnt work. The pathfinding/movement works as soon as I disable the animator tho.

[fallen lotus]

Does anyone know why the position isn't being set?

I have a C# event in PlayerMovement.cs

public static event Action<ulong, Transform> OnPlayerSpawned;

public override void OnNetworkSpawn()
{
    Debug.Log($"Player #{OwnerClientId} has spawned in.");

    if(IsLocalPlayer) {
        OnPlayerSpawned?.Invoke(OwnerClientId, transform);
    }
}

then inside of DevelopmentPlayerSpawner.cs:

public Transform[] playerSpawnPositions;

void Start()
{
    Debug.Log("Test");
    PlayerMovement.OnPlayerSpawned += SpawnPlayer;
}

private void SpawnPlayer(ulong playerNum, Transform player) {
    Debug.Log("Test 2");
    player.position = playerSpawnPositions[playerNum].position;
}

The console is correctly logging "Test" and "Test 2" but the position of the player isn't changing. It is also not logging any errors?

[dawn nebula]

Anyone got experience with DoTween? Is there any way to tween to a moving position?

[plucky inlet]

When do you update the spawnposition array? Debug Log that entry and I guess its just 0,0,0

[fallen lotus]

I set the spawn positions in the inspector. There are like 4 game objects that's positions i drag in

[naive swallow]

player wouldn't happen to have a CharacterController on it?

[fallen lotus]

oh yes it does 😨

[plucky inlet]

Ah my bad, thought you were missing to update them from network or something

[fallen lotus]

i am redoing my playercontroller to use character controller instead of rigidbody

[naive swallow]

CharacterControllers don't like being teleported, they'll snap back to where they were. You can either disable the CC and re-enable it after the teleport, or you can call Physics.SyncTransforms() after the teleport which'll cause every collider to recheck its position and fix itself

[fallen lotus]

Which do you reccomend?

[naive swallow]

Probably SyncTransforms unless it gives you noticeable lag

[fallen lotus]

yay that worked

thank you i apprecite you!

[earnest pawn]

> public class EnemyMovement : MonoBehaviour
> {
>     [Header("References")]
>     [SerializeField] private Rigidbody2D rb;
> 
>     [Header("Attributes")]
>     [SerializeField] private float moveSpeed = 2f;
> 
>     //The point we want to move to
>     private Transform target;
>     private int pathIndex = 0;
> 
>     private void Start()
>     {
>         //On start make sure our target point is the first point in the array
>         target = LevelManager.main.path[pathIndex];
>     }
> 
>     private void Update()
>     {
>         //If we have reached the current target (within a margin), advance the index to the next target
>         if(Vector2.Distance(target.position, transform.position) <= 0.1f)
>         {
>             transform.position = target.position;
>             rb.velocity.Set(0f, 0f);
>             pathIndex++;
>             
> 
> 
>             //If we have reached the end of the path, destroy self
>             if (pathIndex == LevelManager.main.path.Length)
>             {
>                 Destroy(gameObject);
>                 return;
>             }
>             else
>             {
>                 target = LevelManager.main.path[pathIndex];
>             }
>         }
> 
>     }
> 
>     private void FixedUpdate()
>     {
> 
>         Vector2 direction = (target.position - transform.position);
>         direction.Normalize();
>         
>         rb.velocity = direction * moveSpeed;
> 
> 
>     }
> 
> }
> ```

I have this code for a tower defense enemy moving between points on the map, but for some reason on the x direction it moves in an arc but not on the y. Any ideas on why?

[plucky inlet]

!code

[tawny elk]

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[earnest pawn]

thank you

[torpid depot]

guys ı need resources for learn quest system

anyone have any advice?

my englısh not very well so ı need a clean resources

[earnest pawn]

I have tried setting the x direction to the appropriate whole number (for example if it's going in a -0.985 direction set that to -1) and each of the points it's moving towards are perfectly on the grid. I've also tried adding intermediate points as well but that just makes it arc smaller between them

[plucky inlet]

you could try to draw a debug line to show your direction and also the velocity to be sure, they fit your desired values

[earnest pawn]

Is there an overload of the Debug.DrawLine for 2D?

[split junco]

How do I a specific object when I am dynamically creating a bunch of gameObjects from a prefab. Here's an example:

I have a prefab that consists of Slider and Buttons. A UIManager instantiates bunch of gameObjects at runtime. I need a way for buttons to get the information of Slider Value. Usually, I'd use something like, transform.find() but that only searches for child gameObjects which is not the case here. I can't do GameObject.Find() because similar objects (and name) for each of the dynamically created objects. Any suggestions?

[plucky inlet]

I think you can use it on both. Just set false to depth test

[solemn raven]

hey,
I wanna ask about that concept that I'm not sure if it's correct.
is it true that all fps games doesnt really shoot from the weapon but the raycast is fired from the camera ?

[vagrant blade]

You can't claim all, but most do, yes.

The player expects the bullet to go where they're pointing. Unless you're making some realism shooter, I suppose, where hip firing is a thing.

[earnest pawn]

Here is my attempt but this doesn't draw anything as far as I can tell
https://gdl.space/jijowatuge.cs

[serene stag]

No it's not true there are plenty of ways of shooting.

[solemn raven]

but i how do u shoot lasers or show bullets flying from the gun toward the crosshair at any distance from the camera point of view?

[vagrant blade]

Most bullets aren't actually bullets. They're just muzzle flashes with some impact particles wherever the ray hits.

Again, unless you're making a realism shooter and have to use ballistics and firing from the gun.

You have to define what game you're making first to really know what approach you should be taking.

[solemn raven]

ohh, thanks a lot ❤️

[foggy garnet]

I don't know if this is the right place for this but here goes , i came here to ask for help , i would need someone who could help me to extract the 3d file and the texture of pokemon duel i would need it to print a chess game for a friend , sorry if my english is not perfect i don't master it at 100%.

[somber nacelle]

discussion of asset extraction is against server rules. #📖┃code-of-conduct

[foggy garnet]

🥲 I'm sorry, I didn't know we weren't allowed to do that.

[earnest pawn]

here is a video of this code's behavior, perfectly straight moving up and down but left and right has a little arc

[serene stag]

Because it's a sphere you are using so it is looking like an arc.

[heady iris]

that doesn't make any sense

a sphere can still move in a straight line

It's probably moving in an arc because you have gravity enabled on the rigidbody

so it's getting pulled downwards

[heady iris]

Gravity is applied in the physics update, which is after FixedUpdate

Turn off gravity on your rigidbody

[heady iris]

the further down it dips, and the closer it gets to the goal, the more it tries to move up

hence the arc

[heady iris]

and, notably, you can't guarantee the bullet goes where the player wants it to if the bullet comes from the gun

I've done this before -- you can make the gun point at whatever you're aiming at, but this can cause problems for the player

[earnest pawn]

I don't see an on/off, can I just set gravity scale to 0?

[heady iris]

Yeah.

The 3D Rigidbody just has a checkbox; 2D gets a scale!

[heady iris]

if you mean to shoot something up close, but your cursor is just a tiny bit off, you wind up aiming at infinity and shooting well past the enemy

[earnest pawn]

thank you so much that worked

[heady iris]

You could also make the rigidbody kinematic

That would be appropriate if you're just setting its velocity every frame

[serene stag]

I know that 😀

[heady iris]

A kinematic rigidbody isn't really affected by physics. You just tell it how to move.

[tacit copper]

Should I be using events anywhere I can? Are there any drawbacks to doing this? I'm making a mobile puzzle game if that helps

[heady iris]

Subscribing or unsubscribing creates garbage

so you should be careful with, say, subscribing and unsubscribing many times per frame

Otherwise, events are very helpful for decoupling your code

But they can make it harder to understand what's going on

you no longer have explicit function calls connecting point A and point B

[tacit copper]

I'm not firing them every frame, just if something changes on screen or the player presses a button, stuff like that

[heady iris]

Not invoking! That's different.

I'm talking about subscribing and unsubscribing

[tacit copper]

invoking, yes

ah

yeah only on enable and disable

nowhere else

I'm using a singleton event manager that holds a bunch of public methods that invoke my events

not sure if that's best practice but it makes it fairly simple for a relatively small game

[plucky inlet]

Just using delegates and events for updating states is totally fine. Especially if things persist and you just need to update them

[soft shard]

You could store a reference to the objects you create then pass that info to them with a script on those objects, for example, you could have a public Init function on your objects, and pass the slider as the param, or when adding to your buttons onClick events, you could pass the slider then

[twin widget]

guys, i suddenly have some weird bug. the scene manager only works if i load my game from a specific scene, wtf?

[vivid halo]

How do you guys handle player movement sticking temporarily to a wall when you just want the player to fall, but frictionless materials aren't working? My player is being moved with Rigidbody.Move()

[leaden ice]

It's due to how you're moving

Your code is telling it exactly where to move

Also MovePosition goes through walls

[vivid halo]

Hm, I thought it was different from Transform.Translate

in that MovePosition was supposed to check for collisions

[leaden ice]

Not really.

Move with velocity or forces

[leaden ice]

No it just respects interpolation and will knock things out of the way

[vivid halo]

I tried using velocity initially but found it to be unresponsive. Do you think it's the ideal approach?

As in, changing direction from forward to backward or left to right felt choppy and not snappy, and increasing velocity / reducing drag and other factors seemed ineffective in addressing this. Any tips for succeeding in this?

[waxen blade]

There's an issue associated with using an equal comparison for transform.position, sometimes even when the transform.position matches the target position, it still says it's not a match. Therefore, to work around this I am using a less tradition methodlogy to move my gameobjects to specific locations:

    public IEnumerator PopUp(NumPadSlotData numPadSlot)
    {
        Vector3 targetPosition;
        GameObject platform;
        float speed;
        float diff;

        platform = numPadSlot.Platform;
        targetPosition = numPadSlot.HighestPlatformPosition;

        speed = Difficulty.MovementSpeed;

        diff = Mathf.Abs(platform.transform.position.sqrMagnitude - targetPosition.sqrMagnitude);

        while (diff > .001)
        {
            // Move one step toward the target at our given speed.
            platform.transform.position = Vector3.MoveTowards(
                      platform.transform.position,
                      targetPosition,
                      speed * Time.deltaTime
                 );
            // Wait one frame then resume the loop.
            diff = Mathf.Abs(platform.transform.position.sqrMagnitude - targetPosition.sqrMagnitude);
        }
        Debug.LogWarning("Platform " + numPadSlot.Digit + " reached destination. platform.transform.position = " + platform.transform.position.ToString() + "TARGET POSITION IS " + targetPosition.ToString() + "DIFF is " + diff);
        yield return null;
    }

This hasn't failed me before when I've used it in another methods. But for some reason, it appears the calculation on Mathf.Abs is failing me. Even though Y is 1f away from my game object, diff claims to be larger than .001 so it's breaking out of the while loop. But according to my logs, it should not be breaking out of the while loop. In the screenshot, platform 8 failed but platform 4 worked with the same method. It's not always platform 8 though.

The position of platform 8 has a negative Y value, and the target position has a positive Y value.

I need help figuring out why it's breaking out of the while loop even though it hasn't reached the targetPosition yet.

[leaden ice]

It breaks off out of the loop when it's smaller than 0.001 which it is

[waxen blade]

I still have another 1.26 units before reaching the target position though. If I try to fine tune the comparison any further by adding in another 0, it ends up getting stuck in an infinite loop because I'm guessing due to floating point rounding issues it's sometimes unreachable.

[candid pasture]

How can I get the world coordinates of these corners?

[waxen blade]

I have to get going, this will be a problem I'll deal with later. Thanks PraetorBlue.

[dawn nebula]

Is there a way to get TextMeshPro to work with a Sprite Mask?

[latent latch]

No clue, but you can look into Render Objects and stencils if you can't figure that out

[dawn nebula]

found something here actually
#archived-shaders message

[dull barn]

yeah the quality isnt great, but its free and it looks good

[dull barn]

its actually necessary, I already tried to remove it but the code does nothing when I do 🤷‍♂️

[lean sail]

most definitely isnt necessary. They werent saying to remove the line and do nothing else, they were saying to cache it so its not checking the same thing twice

[dull barn]

okay, but I managed to fix it 👍

[maiden fractal]

Is that an orthographic camera?

[maiden fractal]

Well, if that's the position at the far plane, I'd probably just use Camera.ViewportToWorldPoint at positions (0, 0), (0, 1), (1, 0) and (1, 1) with Z position of Camera.farClipPlane. That should work with both Orthographic and Perspective projection modes

[green wharf]

unity game kit's animation doesn't work in my project how can i fix this

i can't change the animation type

[cosmic rain]

Did you check the import messages as the error suggests?

[green wharf]

i didn't understand

[cosmic rain]

None of these seem to be errors. Is there nothing more?

[green wharf]

no

thats all

[cosmic rain]

And it still says that errors found?

[green wharf]

yes

[cosmic rain]

By unity game's kit, are you referring to this?
https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/templates/tutorials/unity-learn-3d-game-kit-115747

[green wharf]

yes the ellen character

[cosmic rain]

And you're using it with the included rig?

[green wharf]

no

xbot

imported from mixamo

[cosmic rain]

Is it the Character avatar?

Is that the xbot avatar?

[green wharf]

yes its

[cosmic rain]

Well, then that's not how it works.

[cosmic rain]

The animation needs to use the avatar that has the same rig that the animation was created for

If it's a humanoid avatar, you can also use the same animation with different avatars. But the avatar in the import settings needs to be from the original rig.

[green wharf]

but i can't find animation suitable for my game 😭

[cosmic rain]

Is this animation not suitable?

I think you're misunderstanding my message. Try reading it again

[green wharf]

yes but its not suitable with other animations i downloaded from mixamo

[cosmic rain]

What?

You want to use this animation, right?

[green wharf]

i think i didn't understand

i do

[cosmic rain]

Then set it up properly.

In fact it was probably set up properly from the start.

It needs to either create avatar from the animation rig, or reuse an avatar generated from the same rig.

[tawdry tulip]

Hey guys, anyone could help me on this problem i can't figure it out ...
Why is my ball not bouncing ? she has a physics 2D with 0 friction and 2 bounciness, and the wall have a friction set to 0

[knotty sun]

you are going to need to post your !code

[tawny elk]

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[tawdry tulip]

the only code i have is this one which give the ball a random upward direction

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


public class ball : MonoBehaviour
{
    private Rigidbody2D rb;
    

    void Start()
    {
        rb = GetComponent<Rigidbody2D>();

        
        float speed = Random.Range(1f, 2f);

        
        float angle = Random.Range(-45f, 45f);

        
        float radians = angle * Mathf.Deg2Rad;
        Vector2 direction = new Vector2(Mathf.Sin(radians), Mathf.Cos(radians)).normalized;

        
        rb.velocity = direction * speed;
    }

    
}

it looks like the ball roll on the wall and when it leaves it the bounce appear

[knotty sun]

I would suggest you debug your direction to make sure it contains what you think it does

you might alos consider https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Rigidbody2D.AddTorque.html

[serene stag]

are you trying to make a parabolic curve?.

[tawdry tulip]

No I just wanted it to bonuce normally, but i fixed the issued. changed the velocity threshold to 0.01 and that did the trick !*

[serene stag]

i think there is no collider on the red and just for bounce there are predefined materials for bounce. did nobody told you.

predefined in unity standard assets.

[green wharf]

@cosmic rain copy from another avatar gives error

should i edit the names?

[cosmic rain]

Is that the original avatar that was assgined?

[green wharf]

yes

xbot's avatar

not ellen

[cosmic rain]

Is that an animation from mixamo?

[green wharf]

yes its

[cosmic rain]

Okay

Does it work if you create the avatar from the animation rig?

[green wharf]

no already tried

[serene stag]

what are you trying to do.

[cosmic rain]

What does it say if you try?

[green wharf]

i want to use the animation in the unity game kit in my own game

[green wharf]

@cosmic rain

but the animations don't work

[cosmic rain]

Is this when you select "Create from this model"?

[green wharf]

yes

[cosmic rain]

Can you take a screenshot of the whole thing?

Of the whole inspector, with the error.

[cosmic rain]

Ok. So the import is not failing

So it should be working.
Also, I just noticed, but this is the coding channel and your issue is unrelated to it.

[green wharf]

#🏃┃animation ?

[cosmic rain]

Yes.

[green wharf]

its not working

[green wharf]

ok

[cosmic rain]

You'll need to provide a better explanation than that. But you should do it in the #🏃┃animation channel.

[green wharf]

thanks

[serene stag]

are you trying to import mixamo animation on your own rig.

[green wharf]

yes

[serene stag]

it will not work then.

[cosmic rain]

It will work if both of the rigs are humanoid. That's what animation retargeting is for.

But this is not a topic for this channel

[cunning thunder]

Question: when does canvas update it's position exactly if it is set to screen space - camera?

Is it before / after some specifc unity even function?

[cosmic rain]

I'm not sure it updates it's position at all. It's screen space, so it's not moving anywhere.

[cunning thunder]

just by moving the character around

clearly the rect transform (of canvas) changed

[cosmic rain]

I think it's more of a visual cue for debugging purposes. It probably is just using the transformation matrix relative to camera during it's rendering.

[cunning thunder]

ok

[leaden ice]

Not according to your logs. You're 0.0006 away

[swift falcon]

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

public class CameraController : MonoBehaviour
{

    public Transform Player;
    public Vector3 OffSet;
    public float t=1f;
    Vector3 velocity;
    

    void FixedUpdate()
    {

        Vector3 target = Player.position + OffSet;
        Vector3 lerpedPosition = Vector3.SmoothDamp(transform.position, target, ref velocity, t);
        transform.position = lerpedPosition;
        transform.LookAt(Player.transform.position);

    }
}

is there anyone knows why my character glitching in the air when im jumping? Here is the code for my Camera Follow.

[knotty sun]

because you are setting transforms in FixedUpdate

[swift falcon]

all right but when I'm changing to LateUpdate still my screen is shaking a little bit

[knotty sun]

should be in Update

[swift falcon]

but it's for camera follow. Shouldn't be in LateUpdate or FixedUpdate?

Yeah same result for Update too

[knotty sun]

nah

not even sure what you are expecting the lerp to do

[swift falcon]

I used SmoothDamp, i used lerp first. So don't mind the parameter name

[knotty sun]

Did you read the docs when changing?

[serene stag]

ok steve but luna did you tried this.

float newPosition = Mathf.SmoothDamp(transform.position.y, target.position.y, ref yVelocity, smoothTime);
transform.position = new Vector3(transform.position.x, newPosition, transform.position.z);

[swift falcon]

let me try it

should I try it in LateUpdate?

[serene stag]

yea try it and see.

[swift falcon]

it's work really good but i when move middle of air, still screen shaking a little bit

LateUpdate

i tried but it didnt work so ill see what can I do. Maybe there is another problem at somewhere else

[cosmic rain]

It looks like there might be several issues, both with the camera and your character movement.

That's why fixing one thing doesn't fix the whole issue.

[swift falcon]

rigidbody

[leaden ice]

Did you forget to turn on interpolation

[swift falcon]

using System.Collections.Generic;
using Unity.VisualScripting;
using UnityEngine;

[RequireComponent(typeof(PlayerController))]
public class Player : MonoBehaviour
{

    PlayerController _playerController;
    Vector3 normalized;


    void Start()
    {
        _playerController = GetComponent<PlayerController>();

    }

    void Update()
    {
        Vector3 input = new Vector3(Input.GetAxisRaw("Horizontal"), 0, Input.GetAxisRaw("Vertical"));
        normalized = input.normalized;

        if(normalized.magnitude > 0.05f)
            _playerController.LookAt(normalized);

        if (Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.Space))
        {
            _playerController.Jump();
        }
        _playerController.Move(normalized);
       


    }

   
}

[swift falcon]

I did

[leaden ice]

This is not a Rigidbody

[swift falcon]

using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using Unity.VisualScripting;
using UnityEngine;

[RequireComponent(typeof(Rigidbody))]
public class PlayerController : MonoBehaviour
{
     Rigidbody _rb;
    public float Speed = 8f;
    public float force = 10f;
    public float RotationSmoothValue = .1f;
    private void Start()
    {
        _rb = GetComponent<Rigidbody>();
    }

    public void Move(Vector3 position)
    {

        _rb.MovePosition(_rb.position + position * Time.deltaTime * Speed);

    }

    public void LookAt(Vector3 input)
    {
        float angle = Mathf.Atan2(input.x, input.z) * Mathf.Rad2Deg;
        float lerpedAngle = Mathf.LerpAngle(transform.rotation.eulerAngles.y, angle, RotationSmoothValue);
        transform.rotation = Quaternion.Euler(0, lerpedAngle, 0);

    }

    public void Jump()
    {
        _rb.AddForce(Vector3.up * force * Time.deltaTime,ForceMode.Impulse);
    }
}

[leaden ice]

Wait what

There's so much going on here

[swift falcon]

two script connected each other basically

[cosmic rain]

Are you mixing up CC and RB movement?

[swift falcon]

first one handles the input, second one handles the movement

[leaden ice]

Ok you're doing a lot of things wrong here

All Rigidbody movement needs to be in FixedUpdate

Interpolation needs to be on

And the camera should move in Late update

[swift falcon]

So should I call the methods in FixedUpdate?

or directly write in there?

[leaden ice]

And deltaTime does not belong in AddForce calls

[swift falcon]

what u mean by CC?

[cosmic rain]

Oh, it's PlayerController, not a CharacterController(CC)😅

[swift falcon]

so let me write movement functions in FixedUpdate and ill see if it's fix the problem

[cosmic rain]

Setting transform.rotation would break interpolation too, so you'll need to rewrite that.

[gleaming brook]

why is it all pink

[gleaming brook]

also its more likeley that ur camera is glitching in the air, not the player

[safe dirge]

Has anyone encountered an issue with [SerializedField] where you go to change it and unity does something for like 2minutes and sticks like 5gb of stuff into memory before letting you edit it? and when you deslect the game object it will go for another 2minutes and remove all that memory

[leaden ice]

No but did you add it to a field that exists on a script that is attached to a large number of objects?

What was the change you made

[safe dirge]

It's a fairly simple script, it's on a single object all I did was add an an additional field for a float, and there's only like 10 others on the script, all either floats or Vector2s

Think I found the issue, it had something to do with other private variables I had on the script, they weren't serialized, but when I added [NonSerialized] to them the issue stopped. so goddamn weird, still wish I knew why

[leaden ice]

Do you have your inspector in Debug mode?

[safe dirge]

yup

[leaden ice]

When the inspector is in debug mode it serializes private variables

So that would explain things

[safe dirge]

thanks! I'll keep that in mind

[heady iris]

I've encountered that before

It was particularly insidious with the new input system. I wound up with an input action that wasn't null, but was also completely bogus

[icy schooner]

I'm trying to use the OntriggerEnter in my code but it only triggers when the Character controller is inside something but not when the box collider which is trigger enabled collides with something.

[knotty sun]

show inspectors of both objects and your !code

[tawny elk]

Posting code

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[icy schooner]

Both colliders are on same object.

 private void OnTriggerEnter(Collider other)
 {
     Debug.Log("Trigger enter " + other.name);
     if (other.TryGetComponent(out IInteractable interactable))
     {
         Debug.Log("IInteractable");
         if (lastHoveredObject != interactable)
         {
             // Call Unhover on the last hovered object if it's different from the current
             lastHoveredObject?.ExitHover();
             lastHoveredObject = interactable;
         }

         interactable.Hover();
         Debug.Log("Hover");
         //actionText.text = interactable.InteractionPrompt;


         if(input.Player.Interact.WasPerformedThisFrame())
         {
             Debug.Log("Interact Player");
             interactable.Interact(this);

         }

     }
 }

 private void OnTriggerExit(Collider other)
 {
     if (lastHoveredObject != null)
     {
         Debug.Log("lasthovered exit hover " + lastHoveredObject);
         lastHoveredObject.ExitHover();
         lastHoveredObject = null;
     }
 }

[knotty sun]

' when the box collider which is trigger enabled collides with something.'
Then what is the 'something' in this sentence?

[icy schooner]

Anything with a script that has the IInteractable interface

[rigid island]

dont use triggers

[knotty sun]

then that is the other of the 2 objects I'd like to see the inspector of

[rigid island]

use physic queries and you exclude the player layer from it

using triggers for interactions is mid

[icy schooner]

Ait. Never used it before so I'll try

[icy schooner]

haha okay thanks

[rigid island]

Raycast, Spherecat, Boxcast etc

[icy schooner]

I have used raycast but I wanted to have a less accurate on so I went for collider

[heady iris]

This is a very messy object. I would suggest breaking your character up into several objects.

[rigid island]

boxcast etc. is like your trigger but similiar to raycast, but "bigger" so you get more room to work with

[icy schooner]

Well I'm not going to have the extra collider anymore so that will clean it up at least

[heady iris]

• Character <-- CharacterController, third person controller, input component
  • Visual <-- Animator
  • Interaction Trigger <-- just a trigger collider and a comopnent that looks for triggers

Parenting the visual to the character makes it easy to adjust the visual's position (or to animate it, even)

[icy schooner]

Yeah sounds like it will fit more

[rigid island]

yeah just easier to deal with once you get used to how they work

no rigidbodies invovled etc

[icy schooner]

it seems like it will be better so thank you

[heady iris]

Using a physics query is nice beacuse you can do it whenever you want

instead of having to wait for a collision or trigger in a physics update

[lunar kestrel]

Is there a way to have multiple scenes opened at the time by default?
When I work with stuff I need to switch between them and each time I need to drag player scene again,
is there way to have them opened from some like scene set or something?

[serene stag]

Spherecat you mean cat in a sphere.

[arctic seal]

"When I work with stuff I need to switch between them and each time I need to drag player scene again,"

• Why do you need to drag the player scene again?

[heady iris]

you have to manually open multiple scenes at once in unity

What you can do is just unload one scene and load another one

[versed pagoda]

Does anyone know a good way of handling moving platforms on a 2D platformer game? I'm currently using OnCollisionEnter2D/OnCollisionExit2D to parent my player to the platform, it works, however when my player is on a platform that is moving down and he jumps, he starts to bounce

Also by using this parent method, whenever i get from the left platform to the right platform by walking my player is no longer parented to any platform at all and just falls

[gray mural]

This is because of the player exiting the collision with the platform when it starts moving down

OnCollisionEnter2D and OnCollisionExit2D are usually the best way to do it. I suppose, you might want to temporary avoid the collision with the platform using the Physics.IgnoreCollision method

[versed pagoda]

But the thing is, why i'm not getting a call to the OnCollisionEnter2D whenever the player bounces off the platform, given that he bounced because he collided with this platform and due to that he should be parented?

Whenever he bounces off like in the video the OnCollisionEnter2D doesn't gets called as it should

[knotty sun]

should that not be OnColliderExit2D ?

[gray mural]

What does "parented" mean? Do you make the player the platform's child?

[versed pagoda]

yes

[versed pagoda]

No, why?

[knotty sun]

well when you leave a collider that is what is called

[versed pagoda]

When my platform is moving down and i jump, whenever my player hits the platform again and cause it to bounce like in the video i should be getting a OnCollisionEnter2D call

I'm not

[gray mural]

Does your player have any additional behavior, which might cause the bounce? If the player is parented corretly, the colliders are moved simultaniously, the way neither enter nor exit methods are called

[knotty sun]

but are you getting an OnColliderExit2D ?

[versed pagoda]

Nope

[gray mural]

You should be getting both methods if the colliders are set up correctly

[knotty sun]

then he has not left the collider, so no OnColliderEnter2D

[versed pagoda]

He left the collider when he jumped

[gray mural]

Please, show both colliders in a screenshot

[knotty sun]

you do not know that, you are assuming

[versed pagoda]

lol, i know, it's basically how my code works

[gray mural]

Then it's either wrong, or the methods are called, and you're wrong about them not being called

[knotty sun]

ok, tell me if he left the collider why no Exit event ?

[versed pagoda]

The methods are not getting called whenever this bounce happens, it gets called when he enters/exit the platform but not on those weird bounces, i've put a Debug.Log to assure that

The colliders

[versed pagoda]

You're not understanding it properly, i get the call to the oncollisionenter2d/exit2d events whenever i enter the platform, but when the platform is going down and my player jumps, he gets those bounces that doesn't register either of them

[gray mural]

This is because of the parenting. It's impossible for the child to exit the parent's Collider, as the parent's Collider include the child's one

This way, anything colliding with the child's Collider will also call the collision method for the parent

So you either manage this by unparenting the player from the platform, or parenting and then unparenting it once the player hits your ground, which means there is no collision with the platform anymore

[versed pagoda]

I can't unparent only when he hits the ground, this way he wouldn't be able to jump when standing on the platforms, given that the parent transformations affects the childs and my platform is going down

[gray mural]

What is that supposed to mean?

Why cannot you unparent it?

[versed pagoda]

You said that i should only unparent the player after he hits the ground

[gray mural]

Right

Or the 1st variant

[versed pagoda]

That makes no sense, if i let my player parented on the platform while he is jumping in the air he would get the velocity of the platform as it's her parent, and due to that he wouldn't be able to jump

[gray mural]

No?

Can you jump while being in a lift?

[lament island]

Hello, I've been working on a VR spaceflight game for the past 7 months and have made considerable progress but I'm about to try and tackle the biggest bear in the whole project. AI navigation. This scares me for a number of reasons because 3D navigation is a very complicated field with a lot of possible solutions. I've been looking into RVO thus far and it seems quite complicated. I considered also taking an even simpler approach by using something like boids and using the obstacles as static boids. These are all plausible approaches. I've also considered doing A* in an SVO but I'm not sure how to use the rigidbody physics to follow the path. Where would you recommend me going in terms of research? I'm rather overwhelmed trying to find a reasonable solution and I just need to know where to start more than anything

[exotic tartan]

Hello, I am working on a simulation where each room in a building needs to be detailed and that comes with some lag. I plan to use triggers to load and unload objects in each room. It would likely take around 100 triggers and many of them would overlap with one or two others. Would this cause any significant issues or lag?

[late lion]

What do your environments look like?

[leaden ice]

This is way too open ended of a question for anyone to answer with a yes or no

try it and see

[lament island]

Sparse environments, not too much complexity, mostly open space with some slightly more complicated areas but nothing too wild

Octree is probably overkill thinking about it

[heady iris]

If it's mostly empty space, boids sounds plenty good

or some really basic obstacle avoidance where you just steer away from stuff in your face

with complex spaces, your life gets a lot harder :p

https://www.gdcvault.com/play/1022016/Getting-off-the-NavMesh-Navigating

[lament island]

I've seen the Warframe talk, that's why I originally started on A* in an SVO but the optimization would be a nightmare for a small team

I've only had a few years in C# but I've successfully implemented an SVO already but my main worry is dealing with velocity for the paths

The greedy method based on voxel size and other optimizations are cool AF tho ngl

[exotic tartan]

Maybe you haven't had experience using a bunch of triggers, but I am sure someone else has. If you didn't understand the question I am asking if around 100 triggers that the player moves through would cause much lag.

[haughty ember]

For inventory systems with a hotbar (think an inventory basically the same as minecraft's) do people usually use 2 lists, one for hotbar and one for an inventory? Or do they use one list that holds both, maybe with a slot data structure to mark whether a slot is a hotbar slot or an inventory slot? I know inventory systems in general are difficult, so I'm just curious to see what people think before I start implementing one system and then it turns out the other may have been better

[lament island]

I have not really implemented an inventory system so take my response with a grain of salt but making the slot a struct seems like a valid system of stuff needs to change, but you could just hard code the indices if they'll never change from inventory to inventory. Having 2 separate inventories seems a bit clunky but you could probably make it work

[haughty ember]

Yeah I was thinking this too, I did start working on it with the 2 separate lists but it got kinda clunky pretty quick so I figured maybe not the best idea. Specifically switching items between the 2 lists seemed to lead to a lot of if statements when moving stuff around (inventory to hotbar, hotbar to inventory, hotbar to hotbar, etc.). Just not sure if the struct approach is gonna have some issues too but I guess I'll just have to try it

[exotic tartan]

This guy did a slot data structure, it looks like they just used the one list.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IPjFSWeyrg

[haughty ember]

This sounds like exactly what I was looking for thanks I'll check it out

[lunar kestrel]

because i need to seperate stuff like managers and players to another scene so I can keep them when changing scenes

and switching scenes in editor removes the second one when I'm coming back

[snow yarrow]

what are the format options? i searched for a documentation but did not find any

i would like to display a timer/countdown for a project for university and somehow i cant display time going down from 01:00 to 00:59

provided screenshots are how it looks right now
format type right now is 0:00

[simple egret]

Divide the number by 60 to get the minutes.
Mod the number with 60 to get the seconds.
You now have two variables, format both, concatenate them and output them onto your text.

It's not possible to convert a number of seconds in a single variable to formatted mm:ss text in one step.

[snow yarrow]

mod the number?

[simple egret]

Yes modulo operation which gets the remainder of a division

65 % 60 = 5

65 / 60 = 1
Which gives 1 minute and 5 seconds

[heady iris]

nitpick time

it's actually the remainder operator!

it's equivalent to the modulo operator for positive numbers, but not for negative numbers

-1 mod 5 is 4
-1 rem 5 is -1

(this is annoying when you're trying to, say, wrap around a list)

index -= 1; // suppose index was 0, so now it's -1
index %= list.Count; // wrong! index is still -1

it'll work just fine here, though!

[snow yarrow]

so like this basically in the first steps, now i only need to fix the time being shown as 1:60 for the split sec

[snow yarrow]

this is my approach

[simple egret]

I'd convert the values to integers if I were you, before doing all of these operations

That's probably why you get the incorrect "1:60" for a split second

[snow yarrow]

how,i dont see any nodes doing so

[simple egret]

Good question, this channel is usually for the C# version

Search the documentation

[snow yarrow]

oh my bad, but thanks for your help you gave me great help tho

[simple egret]

Search for any node that can round a value down (works properly in your case as long as your number isn't negative), cast it to an integer, or truncate the number

[snow yarrow]

this worked round down was an amazing call FYI

[opaque forge]

anyone know how to fix the rendering bug happening here?

[grave thorn]

Hi, so I instantiate this bullet in the "Gun" script when I fire the gun. there is a float variable called speed on the 'Bullet' script, which sits on the bullet, how do I modify that variable, right after instantiating the bullet.

This is the instanition code:

Instantiate(bulletPrefab, firePoint.transform.position, firePoint.transform.rotation);

[leaden ice]

Instantiate returns a reference to the newly created object

Change it there

[grave thorn]

oo nice could u link a example?

[leaden ice]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Object.Instantiate.html
The docs of course

Scroll down and look at the examples

[grave thorn]

Oh great i didnt know this.. IT WORKS

omg tysm 🙏

i was at this for far too long

[shell scarab]

At runtime is changing a prefab reference undefined behavior (as in adding a component to the prefab)? Also I assume that changing a prefab at runtime will change it for everything that references it?

[lean sail]

Anything referencing it are all pointing to the same object, so yes changes will show for everything. Changes made to values on prefabs will be used in instantiated copies

[shell scarab]

Is that permanently for the lifetime of that game instance? Like is that prefab re-loaded from a file or something upon entering a new scene?

[lean sail]

I haven't tested in a build tbh, but I highly doubt it. In editor is a different story

It's not really something you should be doing anyways

[shell scarab]

ok. Is there a way to sort of create a prefab at runtime? Like a game object reference that's not instantiated?

[latent latch]

just make a gameobject?

[shell scarab]

that's what I'm doing right now but I have to keep it inactive and every time it's instantiated we need to remember to activate it so its a bit annoying. A "virtual" object would be more convenient.

[latent latch]

ah, right you want it living off the scene like a normal prefab

not too sure exactly. I know you can do stuff with asset bundles, but the stuff that is loaded into mem is already precreated

Usually you want your prefabs to have some assignment methods too which is where I do my enable logic

[remote shard]

this code gives me this error BUT the debug code shows the right ID? (slightly cut in the screenshot)

Why is that?

[plucky inlet]

You can create an instance of any class without it being a component inheriting from monobehaviour

[shell scarab]

if I do new GameObject() it instantiates an object in the scene

[plucky inlet]

yes, because you are creating a gameobject. you can also have a class and use new Class().

GameObject is just a unity thing. If you create a new object of type gameobejct, Unity knows to create a hierarchy object But if you create a new instance of a class for example, it can live at runtime without being in hierarchy

[leaden ice]

Your error has nothing to do with the ID or the Dictionary. The chestData obejct you have a reference to has been destroyed and now you're trying to access it.

[remote shard]

so how do i fix that? I have to leave an re-enter the scene multiple times in my game, so how can i make this code work then?

[shell scarab]

I understand that, but for what I'm doing that won't work. What I'm doing is trying to avoid an instantiate + an unknowable amount of AddComponent calls.

so Instead when the extra behaviors are added, they're added to the object that's already instantiated that is then instantiated again to spawn the objects that will be used. This may be pointless because maybe unity just calls add component when it instantiates the object, no idea.

[remote shard]

this is how I load the game. (the unity action is called when the file is loaded)

[leaden ice]

That's a vague question with a lot of possible answers. It depends what you're trying to do with this code

[plucky inlet]

So you just add a component to the gameobejct you want to add it to?

[remote shard]

i have chests in a world that i want to load the contents of when the world is loaded

[leaden ice]

How does UniqueID work?

sounds loike what you want is to just save the ID and get the instance of the chest with that ID that's in the current scene

with something like an ID component like that, you should probably have a way to look up an object in the scene by the ID

[shell scarab]

I call add component to the object I want to be a "virtual gameobject" which is then instantiated again. Like I said above, may be pointless. I don't know how unity adds components to a gameobject when it instantiates it.

[remote shard]

it creates a unique ID for items like chests that need to be loaded. So that multiple chests can exist, for example.

[leaden ice]

you need to add a function here to look up an object by the id

then use that in your other code to find the current instance with that id

[remote shard]

right, is there an optimized way you'd recommend I do it?

[leaden ice]

I mean isn't that pretty much the whole point of the dictionary

to look things up by ID

[plucky inlet]

You cant have components on nothing.

[leaden ice]

just use the dictionary you already have...

[latent latch]

Can probably just make a factory type class that you feed component types and it makes a blueprint for that object

[remote shard]

oh, i thought you meant in the scene'

[leaden ice]

this dictionary only contains items in the scene

since OnDestroy removes them

[plucky inlet]

If you need to use them like components, Id say, create a singleton script on an empty gameobejct and add them there as needed

[remote shard]

so on which script do I have to add this code? That's what's confusing me

[shell scarab]

thats sorta what I have. The whole thing is about adding upgrades that have special behaviors to the projectiles fired from guns. So what I have now is an SO with a serialized read-only property that is assigned a projectile prefab in the inspector (and other weapon stats. Also it's not actually read-only, it's {get; privateset;}). Upgrades are not tied to the weapon, so whenever the weapon changes a new projectile is loaded in the "weapon container" class from that SO into the weapon container via instantiation and then adds all the behaviours in the "active behavior" list to that object. When a new behaviour is added it does a similar thing.

[leaden ice]

both of them

As i said, you need to add a function to UniqueId to look objects up.
And you need to use that function in the other script

[remote shard]

the script with LoadInventory(), right?

[leaden ice]

That is one of the scripts, yes.

I said you need to change both

[remote shard]

yeah, so uniqueids and that one

[plucky inlet]

Dont know about your setup to actually know, what all your behavior list etc. is.

[shell scarab]

im not exactly following your logic twentacle

[forest vigil]

Why is my npcPos in the right position but my rotation is not? I tried printing both npcRot and gameCamera.transform.rotation and it gives two different values

 public Vector3 npcPos;
 public Quaternion npcRot;

            gameCamera.transform.position = npcPos;
            gameCamera.transform.rotation = npcRot;
            Debug.Log(npcRot + "" + gameCamera.transform.rotation);

[shell scarab]

also, any given rotation has two possible quaternion representations

[leaden ice]

show more code? It's unclear what the context of this is

[forest vigil]

What does this mean?

[forest vigil]

This is all I have, nothing manipulates npcRot

[leaden ice]

I really doubt it has anythong to do with that

[shell scarab]

transform.rotation returns a quaternion

[leaden ice]

What components are on gameCamera?

[forest vigil]

I'll try to provide context hold on

[leaden ice]

Show what this setup is

[shell scarab]

ah then probably nothing to do with that like praetor blue said

[plucky inlet]

Same goes to your logic 😄 Its just confusing when you explain your setup with param names noone knows except you. Maybe try to abstract if you have any issue left besides the empty gameobject thing

[forest vigil]

To keep things simple this isn't the full code but it should include everything needed. I attached the values.

public Vector3 camera2Pos; // CAMERA2: The position where our second cutscene shot takes place. This will serve as the PLAYER camera position.
public Quaternion camera2Rot; // CAMERA2: The position where our second cutscene shot takes place. Serves as PLAYER camera position.
public Vector3 npcPos;
public Quaternion npcRot;

    public void Update()
    {
        Debug.Log(shotTimer);
        Application.targetFrameRate = 60; // Avoiding any cracking for stronger PCs
        if (mainCanvas.transform.position.x < menuEnd && shotTimer < 75)
        {
            StopCoroutine(MenuTimer());
            StartCoroutine(Camera1());
        }
        if (shotTimer > 79 && 130 > shotTimer) // 80 is the magic number. 99 is to save the amount of variables used.
        {
            gameCamera.transform.position = camera2Pos;
            gameCamera.transform.rotation = camera2Rot;
            shotTimer += 1;
        }
        if (shotTimer > 129 && shotTimer < 220) //  Shot 3
        {
            gameCamera.transform.position = npcPos;
            gameCamera.transform.rotation = npcRot;
            Debug.Log(npcRot + "" + gameCamera.transform.rotation);
            shotTimer += 1;
        }

[latent latch]

Ya really should take a look into unity's timeline tool if you're doing cinematic work

[forest vigil]

camera2Rot and transform rotation don't perfectly work either, by the way

[leaden ice]

this feels massively overcomplicated. Have you looked into Timeline?

[remote shard]

smth like this? (on the UniqueID script)

[forest vigil]

Yeah I found out about it 30 minutes ago but i need to fix rotations before I can get to optimizing

[leaden ice]

what? No, just a simple lookup function

this... is not necessary at all

and already handled by the other code in the script

And this doesn't solve your problem

#archived-code-general message

[forest vigil]

And for context this is what the Debug for Debug.Log(camera2Rot + "" + gameCamera.transform.rotation); looks like

[remote shard]

oh... so more like this

[leaden ice]

Well I mean you could just use TryGetValue but sure.

[dense sparrow]

Does anyone know how to find a point on the edge of a Bounds object?

[remote shard]

but isn't that not what I already do here?

like, didn't you say the problem is that it's not finding the "ChestInventory" script, because the instance was removed when i unloaded and reloaded the scene?

[leaden ice]

no that's a totally separate thing

chestDictionary

what is that

that's a bad idea basically

you shouldn't be holding a reference to the actual chest object in your save data

you should just have the ID

[leaden ice]

Yeah I know

[forest vigil]

Is there something I don't understand or is Unity cooked what's an alternate way to do this

[leaden ice]

that's a terrible idea

[leaden ice]

wait wait

ok

you're looking at the wrong thing here entirely

Look at your error

Your ChestInventory reference itself was wrong

You need to show the full stack trace of this error

[leaden ice]

so SaveLoad.Load line 63

you've got some reference to a ChestInventory instance

that reference is referring to a destroyed object

[remote shard]

yeah, that's what's loading the inventory

so it's just not finding the object in the scene

[remote shard]

simply because OnDestroy removes them

which is why i thought I had to find the bojects in the scene with IDs to add them back

[leaden ice]

Looks like you're subscribing to OnLoadGame but you never unsubscribe

[leaden ice]

that happens already in Awake for the UniqueId script

[remote shard]

so i should do that OnDissable?

[leaden ice]

The counterpart to Awake would be OnDestroy

[remote shard]

oh sorry yeah, was looking at wrong code

[remote shard]

damn, it's always that 1 fucking line of code, isn't it 😅🤣🤣🤣

thank you for your patience with me (a total noob)

This fixed it

Second quick problem though, when i join the game now, no errors, but the chest inventory doesn't load until i manually do it in update

Note that this code runs after the default time and after the uniqueid (which runs on default)

it seems like the TryLoadData(); doesn't run at the right time

[leaden ice]

time to pull out Debug.Log

see what's happening and when

[remote shard]

i've been using print(); to debug, is there any difference (other than the namespace it's using)

[leaden ice]

Here's the code for the print method:
https://github.com/Unity-Technologies/UnityCsReference/blob/1d7b2b49b93ea5773aa4e8dfa504e3c1533ce282/Runtime/Export/Scripting/MonoBehaviour.bindings.cs#L163

[plucky inlet]

How do you know its not running at the right time? If you dont use any async methods, it iwll just run one after other. So if for example Load() is some kind of task, it might complete after the rest has been executed

[remote shard]

So i added debug to 2 pieces of code that are subscribed to OnLoad but for some reason, only one of them loaded.

[leaden ice]

show your full console window

[plucky inlet]

You are calling the same thing twice in your start, not sure wheres the error there

TryLoadData() on both lines

[remote shard]

no problem is that the LoadInventory that should print "chestinv" isn't being run

[plucky inlet]

Where is LoadInventory?

[remote shard]

here

[plucky inlet]

are you sure its subscribed and the object is active?

[remote shard]

oh

i just found the reason

that second script is on another scene that is loaded additively

on start

I guess, can I load a scene on awake?

[plucky inlet]

You can load a scene whenever you like from script

[remote shard]

fixed

omg lol. 1h20min of debugging for 1 line of code and 1 word change HAHAHHAHAH. coding lifestyle is real

thanks bro

appreciate it A LOT

[plucky inlet]

Does not sound like a save way of loading your stuff tho, if you have general values/save games etc and when loaded subscribed events are sitting in another scene

[remote shard]

I know, but if it works, that's all I care about. I'll fix my code when i get player complaints that the game crashes and runs at 5fps 😂🤣

[plucky inlet]

So thats how the devs behind early access and big first day patches think to rely on the user to bugfix their code 😄 best of luck to you with that 😉

[true crater]

Is it possible to sample the actual depth from _MainLightShadowmapTexture?

(this is in URP)

[mortal flame]

how many if statements is too much?

[cosmic rain]

Depends.

[twilit ruin]

I was looking to get some help with minor gameplay mechanics and gameplay tweaks like, sliding, air control, my velocity while jumping, and things like that. If anyone would be either available to do a live chat with me or just give some help in general that would be greatly appreciated
this is my code: https://pastecode.io/s/v4cz0iu4

[lean sail]

Any numeric answer to this would be BS. If you have a concern that you might be doing something in a bad/inefficient way then you should ask that instead.

[mortal flame]

ohh okay thanks

[lean sail]

Is there something specific you need help with? I'm unsure what the question is

[twilit ruin]

well I am finishing up the basic movement and I needed to add/fix those things (sliding, air control, my velocity while jumping)

[swift falcon]

Write your code in a way that makes sense to you. Later on, efficient ways of writing code will make more sense. There's many ways to write the same thing, dw about this while you're learning.

@mortal flame

[mortal flame]

gotcha

[lean sail]

Maybe try to specify what parts you actually need to add or fix. Not many people are really gonna read through all that code and try to understand what you need. Also using classes as states instead of enum can be helpful to split up code and logic

[marble osprey]

My playerAttack dont call the axe attack ienumerator

public class PlayerAttack : MonoBehaviour
{
    [SerializeField] private PlayerAxe axe;
    void Start()
    {
        
    }

    void Update()
    {
        if(Input.GetMouseButtonDown(0))
        {
            Debug.Log("HYAH");
            axe.Attack();
        }
    }
}

so I got this player attack placeholder script that calls the axe attack

public class WeaponFramework : MonoBehaviour
{
    protected float damage;
    protected float attackWait;
    protected float attackCooldown;
    public bool canAttack;
    protected LayerMask[] targets;

    public virtual IEnumerator Attack()
    {
        //to copy and paste mostly
        if(!canAttack)
        {
            yield return null;
        }

        yield return new WaitForSeconds(attackWait);
        canAttack = false;

        //attack

        yield return new WaitForSeconds(attackCooldown);
        canAttack = true;

        yield return null;
    }
}

this was the weapon framework
and the axe script

public class PlayerAxe : WeaponFramework
{
    ...

    public override IEnumerator Attack()
    {
        Debug.Log("axe attack");
        if (!canAttack)
        {
            yield return null;
        }

        yield return new WaitForSeconds(attackWait);
        canAttack = false;

        //AOE
        Collider[] hit = Physics.OverlapBox(_damageZoneOrigin, _damageZoneScale / 2);
        foreach (Collider elements in hit)
        {
            foreach(LayerMask layer in targets)
            {
                if(layer == layer << elements.gameObject.layer)
                {
                    elements.gameObject.TryGetComponent<Health>(out Health target);
                    target?.SetHealth(target.GetHealth() - damage);
                }
            }
        }

        yield return new WaitForSeconds(attackCooldown);
        canAttack = true;

        yield return null;
    }

[lean sail]

dont crosspost #854851968446365696

[marble osprey]

yea srr

[lean sail]

coroutines should be started using StartCoroutine

[marble osprey]

yea I fixed that

that was really stupid of me

[coral mesa]

Hi there! Can someone help me out with this code?
https://github.com/CatchFireDev/CARTBOARD/blob/7ac821103b9e5367b9b65bb54c50867130d51b3e/PickUpObject.cs
I've written this to pick up and throw objects. But I want to make it so that only when i 'TAP' the E button the object is being picked up (inside the transform hand), and when I am tapping the e button once again (1time), it just drops like normal, but if I HOLD the E button the throw starts charging and when I release it then it gets THROWN.

[cosmic rain]

What debugging steps did you take?

[simple egret]

On key down: start timer.
On key up: stop timer. if the timer is lower than some threshold, drop the item. Else, calculate a force based on the value of the timer and throw towards it. Reset timer to 0.

[coral mesa]

I will try this solution.

[coral mesa]

I think I'm almost there. What settings should I use here for it to work perfectly?

[simple egret]

That's it, just the threshold exposed. You also need another float in which you add Time.deltaTime in Update for as long as the key is down

(that's your timer variable)

[coral mesa]

Great I think I understand. I will try this now.

I don't get it haha I tought I got it 😄 Could you write me the line of code just to compare? And tell me where exactly i need to put that? I'm kinda confused 😄

[simple egret]

In Update:

if (key down)
    timer += Time.deltaTime;

if (key up)
{
    if (timer < threshold)
        // drop
    else
        // throw

    timer = 0
}

Pseudo code, real implementation is an exercise left to you

[coral mesa]

Aah yes I think I see it now! Big t

thanks!

for the help

[swift falcon]

Trouble wiht code

anyone can assist 🙋 ?

[rough crescent]

post ur question lmoa

[swift falcon]

nvm too late

i am busy

kinda

[rough crescent]

workign on procedural flower gen, my gizmos aren't clearing on frame end? is this normal behaviour ?

[somber nacelle]

where are you drawing the gizmos

[rough crescent]

forgot to post that part xd

nvm i figured it out

first time doing c# for some time shit works differently from what i'm used to

[lethal lagoon]

can anyone explain why my bullet doesn't speed up when i change the bulletSpeed variable

[somber nacelle]

where do you change it? because in the code you've shown the only place it changes is Start which happens before any Update calls so it won't "speed up" so much as "start at that speed and remain at that speed"

[lethal lagoon]

I change it in this script

[somber nacelle]

and you are certain that you are changing this on the instance in the scene and not the prefab?

[lethal lagoon]

it only changes the prefab but no the one in the scene

[somber nacelle]

so then you need to modify the objects in the scene not the prefab

[spring creek]

Then it will not affect an instance that has already been instantiated

[lethal lagoon]

how do I do that

[tame shoal]

hey, i'm getting these two errors on line 306, just can't figure out what's wrong there shouldn't be any reason for the error right?

[spring creek]

Instantiate returns a reference to the things instantiated

var instance = Instantiate(prefab)

[somber nacelle]

well that's certainly odd. can you show what the position on the prefab's root object shows?

[gray mural]

Prefab's position seems to be infinite in all the axes

[tame shoal]

it should be all zero

[gray mural]

Is that a prefab?

[tame shoal]

yes

[gray mural]

The pathInfo.carPrefab?

[tame shoal]

its the root gameobject, it shouldn't be moved from 0, 0, 0 even at runtime

yeah

and when i tried setting the prefabs position to something different it also showed the error, the same when the commented out part of the instantiate call was there

[spring creek]

Is it a prefab, or an INSTANCE of a prefab?

If it is in the scene, it is not a prefab

[tame shoal]

the screenshot is from the prefab

[gray mural]

This is not a prefab

This is an instance

Click on your prefab in the assets

And then show the screenshot

[somber nacelle]

can you show the full stack trace for that error you are receiving?

[spring creek]

Looks like a prefab to me

They have it in the prefab view

[gray mural]

My bad

[tame shoal]

shouldn't that be the same?

[gray mural]

I forgot that the prefab is opened without the "prefab asset" message above

[gray mural]

When spawning the object, print

pathInfo.carPrefab.transform.position

[tame shoal]

like this?

[gray mural]

Yes

[somber nacelle]

can you show the full stack trace for the error

[tame shoal]

the error also started by itself, i was changing quality settings, there hasn't been anything changed on the prefab or the script and it was working before

[gray mural]

Use multiline code instead.

[tame shoal]

UnityEngine.Object:Instantiate<UnityEngine.GameObject> (UnityEngine.GameObject)
PathManager:SpawnCars () (at Assets/Scripts/PathManager.cs:307)
LevelManager:Awake () (at Assets/Scripts/LevelManager.cs:26)```

yeah sorry

[gray mural]

I feel like this is a bug

[rigid island]

doubt

[gray mural]

Does reloading Unity fix the issue?

[tame shoal]

i tried restarting it, reimporting all and invalidating the GI cache

[somber nacelle]

and line 307 of PathManager is the Instantiate line you showed before?

[tame shoal]

yeah it moved one line cause i added the debug.log()

[gray mural]

What happens if you pass in the Vector3.zero as the 2nd parameter of Instantiate?

[rigid island]

are you passing quaternion from the mathematics class 🤔

[gray mural]

It's commented though

[rigid island]

yeah but why was that it before that lol

[gray mural]

Typo probably

[rigid island]

is the error showing up when those are commented out?

[tame shoal]

just tried:
Instantiate(pathInfo.carPrefab, Vector2.zero, quaternion.identity) - same error
Instantiate(pathInfo.carPrefab, Vector3.zero, quaternion.identity) - same error
Instantiate(pathInfo.carPrefab, Vector3.zero, Quaternion.identity) -same error
Instantiate(pathInfo.carPrefab) - same error

[somber nacelle]

reset the transform component and see what happens

[spring creek]

I feel like the code isn't compiling between changes then. The first two should have given you new errors

Have you tried hitting ctrl+r in unity?

[tame shoal]

still the same

[somber nacelle]

nah, Unity.Mathematics.quaternion has an implicity cast to UnityEngine.Quaternion, same with Vector2 to Vector3

[gray mural]

// public partial struct quaternion

public static implicit operator Quaternion(quaternion q)

[spring creek]

Gotcha

[gray mural]

What if you change the position to Vector3.one e.g.

[somber nacelle]

are you perhaps doing any positioning in Awake or OnEnable on that object?

[spring creek]

And I guess the debug showing up proves it is compiling. Missed that part

[tame shoal]

whenever i change the code and go back to unity it shows the dialog with the loading bar, so it should be compiling, also ctrl+r doesnt change anything

[tame shoal]

there is SplineAnimate from the unity splines package, but it's on a child of the prefab, so that shouldn't be a problem i think

[somber nacelle]

verify that by disabling it

[tame shoal]

still the same

[somber nacelle]

in that case i'm out of ideas. try creating a different prefab with the same components on it and see what happens 🤷‍♂️

[glacial halo]

!ide

[tawny elk]

💡 IDE Configuration

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or underlining errors, please configure it.

Select one:

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[tame shoal]

well now i got somewhere

disabling the splineanimate didn't do nothing, but changing the reference to the splinecontainer to "None" gets rid of the error for some reason

[somber nacelle]

is it referring to a spline container on a separate prefab?

[tame shoal]

no the containter is on the parent

the reason for this is i think because when the splineanimate was on the same gameobject as the container, by moving itself it also moved the containter which works in local space, not world space. Basically it would move all over the place

[civic igloo]

What time is Time.deltaTime exactly measuring? I mean like is it between Updates, LateUpdates, or between Update and LateUpdate? Is it recalculated every time its called?

[somber nacelle]

The time between the start of this frame and the (start of) last frame. it is calculated at the start of the frame, the only time it will change during a frame is when you access it from within the physics step it will return fixedDeltaTime inside a physics step

[gray mural]

This is the time passed from the last call of Update, where the sum of all the returned values within a second always gives 1, regardless of how many frames per second you have.

3 fps = Update called 3 times per second
+ .(3)
+ .(3)
= .(3)
= 1

4 fps = Update called 4 times per second
+ .25
+ .25
+ .25
+ .25
= 1

[tame shoal]

well i guess i fixed it, i removed the reference to the spline container, and it is now set at runtime. Don't really know why it was set to play on awake, because the spline in the container in the prefab was only a placeholder, and it was changed after spawning the car (wrote it a few weeks ago lol). But i started up a version of the project from a few hours ago, and it worked there🤷‍♂️

[somber nacelle]

check what changes you have made in whatever version control you are using. (i am going to give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you are using version control and not just copy/pasting your project to keep backups of it)

[tame shoal]

lol don't worry

all the changes are about URP because the simple project was getting like 15 fps on my not so bad phone. There were also some package updates but i'm 99% sure it didn't throw the error while i was doing the optimizations. What pisses me off the most is that i was almost ready to make the commit when the error started lol.

[cursive halo]

i'm having some trouble because Update() isn't being called from this monobehaviour.
the object is enabled, the behaviour is enabled, and i am certain it isn't being called because i've tried sending things to console in Update() and that hasn't worked either. no other object currently has an update function afaik
any ideas would be much appreciated

[spring creek]

Console writeline should not be used in unity

[knotty sun]

hmm, Console.Writeline does not work in Unity

[spring creek]

Debug.Log

[cursive halo]

ok i'll try that

ok so it is being called ig
now i just need to sort out the rest, thank you :)

ah i figured it out, i'm multiplying by the health but the health isn't a fraction so it is just scaling the image up to like 100 times rather than scaling it down
i didn't notice because of the mask :p

[somber nacelle]

for a healthbar, instead of modifying the sizeDelta, i'd recommend using an Image component with the Filled Image type. then you can just modify its fill amount. it will also look a lot nicer that way

[heady iris]

You can also set its anchor points, if you can't do a filled image for some reason

maybe you want to use a 9-sliced sprite instead

in that case you just adjust the max anchor between [1,1] (full) and [0,1] (empty)

[latent latch]

Let's say I want to make some utility methods like ClosestTransformSqrMagnitude & ClosestTransformDistance, but I want to feed these methods with different list/array types like Colliders. Would it be suggested just to make duplicate methods but for these different types? Not too sure how I can accomplish this with something like generics otherwise.

[knotty sun]

depends on the data you want to use. If its just the transform property then

void Method<T>(T[] array) where T : Component

should do the job

[fervent furnace]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Component.html
component has transform property

[latent latch]

I guess also a follow up to the questions is casting these data containers to another type and the difference in performance

considering these operations are in update loops and constantly being evaluated

as in list to array and vice versa

I'd expect I should just make two methods in that case?

[knotty sun]

list to array is not a cast it's a copy so better to have overrides for both array and List

[chilly surge]

Could also do IEnumerable<T>.

[knotty sun]

good point, better

[chilly surge]

Well, unless you need indexed access.

[somber nacelle]

use IList in that case

[latent latch]

public static Transform FindClosestTransformSqr<T>(Vector3 referencePoint, IEnumerable<T> components) where T : Component
{
    Transform closestTransform = null;
    float closestDistanceSqr = Mathf.Infinity;

    foreach (T component in components)
    {
        Transform targetTransform = component.transform; 
        Vector3 displacement = targetTransform.position - referencePoint;
        float distanceSqr = displacement.sqrMagnitude;

        if (distanceSqr < closestDistanceSqr)
        {
            closestDistanceSqr = distanceSqr;
            closestTransform = targetTransform;
        }
    }

    return closestTransform;
}

I guess something like that? Pretty odd how I can't just use Transform as the constraint

[knotty sun]

because then everything you passed would have to inherit from Transform. you are ony using a property

[latent latch]

Ah, yeah that's true

[knotty sun]

remember to check for null when the method returns

you might also consider an out parameter to contain the distance found

[gaunt nexus]

guys im making a dash attack but i don't know how
i want to dash through enemies and hit them on collision but to be able to dash through enemies i disabled the layermatrix between them but how am i gonna damage them now

[somber nacelle]

instead of modifying the layer matrix, you could instead change your collider to a trigger so you still at least get OnTrigger messages

[knotty sun]

dont disable the layer, switch the collider to trigger

[leaden ice]

I would use a CapsuleCast for this rather than relying on physics collision callbacks

[gaunt nexus]

wouldnt that also make me be able to dash into the wall?

[somber nacelle]

well that depends entirely on your setup

just go with the physics query option

[gaunt nexus]

uhhh what is that?

[somber nacelle]

#archived-code-general message

[gaunt nexus]

so what's the solution then

[somber nacelle]

#archived-code-general message

[gaunt nexus]

what is CapsuleCast

[spring creek]

Did you google the docs for it?

[leaden ice]

like a raycast but capsule shaped

[gaunt nexus]

i never used raycast before cuz it sounds scary

and complex

but is it?

[leaden ice]

you will need to learn raycast

if you want to make games

it's really not that bad

Imagine shining a laser pointer into your scene from a specified place and seeing what it hits

that's all it is

[spring creek]

There are a ton of good guides on it. There are some complexities, but that is par for the course in game dev. Compared to most things you will have to deal with, it is dead simple

[gaunt nexus]

wait i have an idea

whta if i keep my disable layer matrix but i test if the distance between the enemy and the player is very small then the enemy takes damage

[somber nacelle]

you would need to already have a reference to the enemy to do that. the cast will be better that way you don't need a reference to every single enemy in the level to check the distance, you just use the cast to determine whether the player will hit an enemy

[pure ore]

Can someone help me here? I'm trying to clamp my x and y axis but its not working as expected

    public Quaternion ClampXAxis(Quaternion quaternion, float minimum, float maximum)
    {
        quaternion.x /= quaternion.w;
        quaternion.y /= quaternion.w;
        quaternion.z /= quaternion.w;
        quaternion.w = 1f;
        float value = Mathf.Atan(quaternion.x);
        value = Mathf.Clamp(value, minimum, maximum);
        quaternion.x = 115.5916f * Mathf.Tan(Mathf.PI / 360f * value);
        return quaternion;
    }

    public Quaternion ClampYAxis(Quaternion quaternion, float minimum, float maximum)
    {
        quaternion.x /= quaternion.w;
        quaternion.y /= quaternion.w;
        quaternion.z /= quaternion.w;
        quaternion.w = 1f;
        float value = Mathf.Atan(quaternion.y);
        value = Mathf.Clamp(value, minimum, maximum);
        quaternion.y = 115.5916f * Mathf.Tan(Mathf.PI / 360f * value);
        return quaternion;
    }
}

[charred imp]

is anyone good with using the Destructible 2D plugin?

[latent latch]

must have missed the big large text that says don't modify quaternions directly

[pure ore]

wdym

[latent latch]

https://i.imgur.com/2u40xnz.png

[pure ore]

What is another way of clamping then?

[leaden solstice]

What are we doing here, do you know quaternion math or are you assuming it is euler angle?

[latent latch]

angleaxis probably the most defined way of doing quaternion rotations so that's a good starting point

[pure ore]

A long time ago I looked through a game's code and saw this

I forgot it but I'm tyring to remember it

[pure ore]

Moreso trying to remember the exact code that was used

[knotty sun]

I've seen this code before, stack overflow iirc, guess what, it doesn't work

[pure ore]

It did in that game I looked at

How do I do that?

[knotty sun]

maybe for very specific circumstances, I tested it to destruction some time ago and it sure did distruct

[pure ore]

what does that even mean

[knotty sun]

it means it went bang, very frequently