🖼️┃2d-tools

[snow willow]

Then how are you expecting it to run?

[fast siren]

i put the file in my empty object with a box collider

it worked for the other scenes but i dont know whats wrong with this one

[snow willow]

There's special function names you have to use

For example
https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/MonoBehaviour.OnCollisionEnter2D.html

It's not going to call some random function on your script

[fast siren]

got it

so

[rain ingot]

if i spawn multiple instances of a prefab how do i remove them

[snow willow]

use Destroy(something.gameObject);

[agile atlas]

does anyone know how to do transform.position but with a Sprite.transform.position?

[rain ingot]

Destroying assets is not permitted to avoid data loss.
If you really want to remove an asset use DestroyImmediate (theObject, true);
UnityEngine.Object:Destroy (UnityEngine.Object)
SpawnerScript:remove () (at Assets/SpawnerScript.cs:22)
UnityEngine.EventSystems.EventSystem:Update ()

[rain ingot]

?

[snow willow]

don't destroy the prefab

destroy the instance you instantiated

[rain ingot]

how

[snow willow]

var instance = Instantiate(prefab);
Destroy(instance.gameObject);```

[rain ingot]

var?

[snow willow]

I used var because I don't know what type your preffab is

most likely GameObject

but it oculd be any component type

¯_(ツ)_/¯

var will always work here

[rain ingot]

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

public class SpawnerScript : MonoBehaviour {
    public GameObject NPC;
    public GameObject Canvas;
    public int howMany;

    void Start() {
        spawn();
    }

    public void spawn() {
        int Timer = 0;
        for(Timer = 0; Timer < howMany; Timer++) {
            Instantiate(NPC, Canvas.transform);
        }
    }

    public void remove() {
        Destroy(NPC.gameObject);
    }

}

[snow willow]

but it makes your code less readable

GameObject newNPC = Instantiate(NPC, Canvas.transform);

If you want to destroy all of them you either need to add them to a list or go through the children of the Canvas to destroy them all

[rain ingot]

how do i do the list thing

[snow willow]

e.g.

foreach (var child in Canvas.transform) {
  Destroy(child.gameObject);
}```

or

make a variable: cs List<GameObject> npcs = new List<GameObject>();

then

var newNpc = Instantiate(NPC, Canvas.transform);
npcs.Add(newNpc);```

Then:

public void remove() {
  foreach (var npc in npcs) {
    Destroy(npc);
  }

  npcs.Clear();
}```

[rain ingot]

Assets\SpawnerScript.cs(24,25): error CS0103: The name 'npcs' does not exist in the current context

[snow willow]

with using System.Collections.Generic; at the top of your file

[rain ingot]

lok

[snow willow]

where did you make the variable?

it needs to be at the top of the class with your other class variables

[rain ingot]

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

public class SpawnerScript : MonoBehaviour {
    public GameObject NPC;
    public GameObject Canvas;
    public int howMany;

    void Start() {
        spawn();
    }

    public void spawn() {
        int Timer = 0;
        for(Timer = 0; Timer < howMany; Timer++) {
        List<GameObject> npcs = new List<GameObject>();
        var newNpc = Instantiate(NPC, Canvas.transform);
        npcs.Add(newNpc);
        }
    }

        public void remove() {
    foreach (var npc in npcs) {
        Destroy(npc);
    }

    npcs.Clear();
}
}

[snow willow]

no

put it up with public int howMany

etc

[rain ingot]

ok

[snow willow]

If you put it inside spawn() it only exists inside spawn()

[rain ingot]

witch one is easyer

and more eficient

[snow willow]

they're about the same in my opinion

[rain ingot]

the other is shorter

[snow willow]

but if you know that the canvas will only have NPCs as children

then yeah you don't need the extra variable etc

[rain ingot]

where do i put it

destroy?

Assets\SpawnerScript.cs(22,27): error CS1061: 'object' does not contain a definition for 'gameObject' and no accessible extension method 'gameObject' accepting a first argument of type 'object' could be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)

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

public class SpawnerScript : MonoBehaviour {
    public GameObject NPC;
    public GameObject Canvas;
    public int howMany;

    void Start() {
        spawn();
    }

    public void spawn() {
        int Timer = 0;
        for(Timer = 0; Timer < howMany; Timer++) {
        }
    }

    public void remove() {
        foreach (var child in Canvas.transform) {
            Destroy(child.gameObject);
        }
    }

}

[snow willow]

foreach (Transform child in Canvas.transform) {

try that

that should work

[rain ingot]

no error

[snow willow]

you did take out all your spawning code though 🤔

[rain ingot]

no

YES

[snow willow]

just need to add this back in the loop: var newNpc = Instantiate(NPC, Canvas.transform);

and since you're not using the list way you can just simplify it again: Instantiate(NPC, Canvas.transform);

[rain ingot]

public void spawn() {
        int Timer = 0;
        for(Timer = 0; Timer < howMany; Timer++) {
                Instantiate(NPC, Canvas.transform);
            }
        }

Assets\SpawnerScript.cs(22,17): error CS0116: A namespace cannot directly contain members such as fields or methods

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

public class SpawnerScript : MonoBehaviour {
    public GameObject NPC;
    public GameObject Canvas;
    public int howMany;

    void Start() {
        spawn();
    }

    public void spawn() {
        int Timer = 0;
        for(Timer = 0; Timer < howMany; Timer++) {
                Instantiate(NPC, Canvas.transform);
            }
        }
    }

    public void remove() {
        foreach (var child in Canvas.transform) {
            Destroy(child.gameObject);
        }
    }

[snow willow]

too many closing brackets here:

    public void spawn() {
        int Timer = 0;
        for(Timer = 0; Timer < howMany; Timer++) {
                Instantiate(NPC, Canvas.transform);
            }
        }
    }

see you have two opening ones and 3 closing ones

[rain ingot]

Assets\SpawnerScript.cs(23,27): error CS1061: 'object' does not contain a definition for 'gameObject' and no accessible extension method 'gameObject' accepting a first argument of type 'object' could be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)

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

public class SpawnerScript : MonoBehaviour {
    public GameObject NPC;
    public GameObject Canvas;
    public int howMany;

    void Start() {
        spawn();
    }

    public void spawn() {
        int Timer = 0;
        for(Timer = 0; Timer < howMany; Timer++) {
                Instantiate(NPC, Canvas.transform);
            }
        }
        
        public void remove() {
        foreach (var child in Canvas.transform) {
            Destroy(child.gameObject);
        }
    }
}

[snow willow]

again, replace foreach (var child in Canvas.transform) { with foreach (Transform child in Canvas.transform) {

[rain ingot]

now it deletes my target object

[snow willow]

Well like i said

this way with the canvas children only works if you're sure that you only have NPCs as children of the canvas

[rain ingot]

can i make a it a prefab so i can spawn it

[snow willow]

If that's not the case, either make the NPCs children of a different object, or use the List way

[rain ingot]

fixed

i put a empty inside the canvas

and put the npcs in it

[rain ingot]

how do i change the text of a textmeshpro

[snow willow]

It has a .text property

[rain ingot]

ok

[chrome anchor]

using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;

public class MoveObject : MonoBehaviour
{
    private Vector2 mousePosition;
    private float offsetX, offsetY;

    public static bool mouseReleased;

    //when mouse is pressed down
    private void OnMouseDown()
    {
        mouseReleased = false;
        offsetX = Camera.main.ScreenToWorldPoint(Input.mousePosition).x - transform.position.x;
        offsetY = Camera.main.ScreenToWorldPoint(Input.mousePosition).y - transform.position.y;
    }

    //when mouse is no longer pressed down
    private void OnMouseUp()
    {
        mouseReleased = true;
    }

    //when the mouse moves
    private void OnMouseMove()
    {
        mousePosition = Camera.main.ScreenToWorldPoint(Input.mousePosition);
        transform.position = new Vector2(mousePosition.x - offsetX, mousePosition.y - offsetY);
    }

    private void OnTriggerStay2D(Collider2D collision)
    {
        string gameObjectName;
        string collideObjectName;

        gameObjectName = gameObjectName.name.Substring(0, nameof.IndexOf("_"));
        collideObjectName = collision.gameObject.name.Substring(0, nameof.IndexOf("_"));

        if(mouseReleased && gameObjectName == "Acorn" && gameObjectName == collideObjectName)
        {
            Instantiate(Resources.Load("Tree_Object"), transform.position, Quaternion.identity);
            mouseReleased = false;
            Destroy(collision.gameObject);
            Destroy(gameObject);
        }
    }
}

"'string' does not contain a definition for 'name' and no accessible extension method 'name' accepting a first argument of type 'string' could be found"

[snow willow]

The variable type will be TMPro_Text I believe

@chrome anchor
string gameObjectName;
gameObjectName.name

??

what are you trying to do there

[chrome anchor]

i'm following this video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-ok9Cn3d90

[snow willow]

copy their code

[chrome anchor]

i found the error, i accidently put "gameObjectName.name" instead of "gameObject.name"

[snow willow]

mhmm

[chrome anchor]

thanks for your assistance

then my code does nothing...

oh, one of the functions was named wrong

there we go

[chrome anchor]

I can merge the same object just fine but when I try a different object it doesn't work

ex. acorn and acorn work, mana and mana work but acorn and mana don't work

[storm coral]

edit: fixed problem

it never logs "DETECTED"

[snow willow]

I think your direction vector is pointing directly away from the target

[storm coral]

no, i put that - there because it was facing away in the first place... taking it out was one of the first things i tried

[snow willow]

Vector A - Vector B gives a direction vector from B to A

So you have a vector from your target to the turret

Which is exactly the wrong way

[devout field]

Hello, im trying to resize a Texture 2D to match an specific size so that my neural network can read it, but i´m stuck with the resizing part, I don´t quite get the difference between scaling and resizing, so, which is best? and what would be the difference for my neural network, couse I need the specific format of a texture with 438 of height and 310 of width?

[storm coral]

i removed the bit where it asks for the player tag, and it spams (meaning yes it works) but idk how else to authenticate that its the player

ok i figured it out- the tag was not a legitimate argument or something, so i switched it over to name

how do i stop the raycast from going through my walls?

[fast siren]

whenever i hit the object that this script is used by, it never reloads the scene . Am I doing something wrong? ```using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;
using UnityEngine.SceneManagement;
public class collisionlvl2 : MonoBehaviour
{

void OnTriggerEnter2D(Collider2D other){
    if(other.CompareTag("Player")){
        SceneManager.LoadScene("lvl2");
    }
}

}```

[sonic silo]

Hey anyone here know of any good tutorials/ways of handling 2D enemy movement?

Pls ping me if so

[sonic silo]

Are the names completely accurate eg in the inspector is the tag called "Player" and is the scene called "lvl2" instead of say "player" or "LVL2"? Check if the collision is occurring with a Debug.Log maybe?

[tall current]

Both objects need colliders (one of them being a trigger), and at least one needs a rigidbody.

[copper zealot]

I'm curious, how would I script to make an animation reverse

[sonic silo]

Wdym? Do you want to play the animation from the last frame to the first frame, or do you simply want to flip the sprite?

[copper zealot]

Ah I found a solution using the direction property but I originally wanted to start from the last and play to the first frame

[unique turret]

Alright time to figure out how to code it so players turn into the object they click on

[marsh flint]

trying to generate a list of random x,y points based on seed

        Random.InitState(Seed);
        
        Vector2[] points = new Vector2[PointCount];
        
        for (int i = 0; i < PointCount; i++)
        {
            points[i].x = Random.Range(0, SizeX);
            points[i].y = Random.Range(0, SizeY);
        }

they are different each run of the project.

[still tendon]

when my enemy switches directions all that happens is his sprite switches not his colliders or anything else

pls help

and also

when he shoots

if hes facing left he shoots left

if hes facing right he looks at left for a split second to shoot and goes back to right

[rain ingot]

Assets\ScoreScript.cs(7,17): error CS0102: The type 'ScoreScript' already contains a definition for 'Score'

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

public class ScoreScript : MonoBehaviour {
    public int Score;
    public void Score() {
        Score = Score + 1;
    }

}

[hard crag]

@rain ingot The variable Score and method Score can't have the same name, I assume.

[rain ingot]

oh

[gusty lichen]

thought I'd try my luck in this channel, since it is 2d collider related.

i have a pie chart/spinner mechanic in my game that i'm hoping to implement. So far, I've generated the pie chart using gameObjects with image components. The images have 'radial 360 fill' and then 'fill amount' changes to represent the percentage of the pie chart. i've now got a spinner arrow that rotates around the outside with a box collider on the tip. I was hoping to do an easy 'the only way i know how' collider trigger zone, but not sure how to set the trigger zone for the portion of the 'fill amount' of the circle, if you get me.

any ideas for how to set the polygon collider for the fraction of the pie chart image object automatically? Like the way the 'outline' function works?

I notice that colliders are added to sprites automatically, which i guess would solve my issue if i changed to sprites. However, i don't know how to have the same 'radial 360 fill amount' effect to calculate the size of the pie chart using sprites 😦

[spring adder]

One alternate option is to blit triangles to texture with a circular mask. You can then determine spinner category by correlating spinner end position with triangle area.

Or just predetermine spinner category and animate it accordingly

[gusty lichen]

sorry, what do you mean by 'blit triangles to texture'?

may have to just do the 'predetermined' thing for now and choose the value in code >.< it's annoying how with a sprite I can get the amended polygon collider 2D easy but because its a PNG image component it's practically impossible for my skill level!!

that, or i'll just need to figure out how to do the 'radial fill' thing with sprites and shaders which sounds 10 times more difficult

one person suggested the alpha hit test minimum threshold. Could I use that to resolve my above issue? if so, how do I use this code? https://docs.unity3d.com/2019.1/Documentation/ScriptReference/UI.Image-alphaHitTestMinimumThreshold.html

[lusty root]

hey guys any one can help with that error

Object reference not set to an instance of an object

i get error here

[spring adder]

i'm not sure how this hit test would work exactly... maybe the person was suggesting casting a ray through the end point of your spinner with the alpha threshold to only return hits for non-transparent parts of your pie chart. this would presumably return a hit only for the correct part of the pie chart. if it's not that, then i'm not sure what they intended

[devout falcon]

hey i cant add tiles into unity

when i click assets store it it opens web page

i cant import it

[dreamy egret]

i think you can just go to Package Manager and look for '2D Tilemap Editor', without going through asset store.
Since it's in the unity registry it should be available already

[devout falcon]

i there is none of tiles i added in package manager

[dreamy egret]

should look like this:
https://i.imgur.com/nolNi1i.png

which version unity are you using?

[devout falcon]

2020.2.7f1

but how do i add other tiles?

[dreamy egret]

oh, if you have the tile palette open (new tab that looks like a grid, with some brushes above it),
just drag a sprite into it, and it will prompt you to save it as a ".asset".
and that should add it to your palette

then you select the tile, select brush tool, and start painting a bunch of them on your scene

[devout falcon]

can you explain i cant understand you

im new in unity i started to make games today

@dreamy egret ?

[dreamy egret]

nevermind

so you already have the tile editor working

and just want tiles from the asset store?

[devout falcon]

yes

[dreamy egret]

ok, well basically, you go to the asset store, and it takes you to a web page. this is correct.
then you get the assets you want, add them to your account.
Once they're associated with your account, then you'll be able to access them inside unity's package manager

just filter by "My assets" instead of "unity registry" in the screenshot i sent above

this will work as long as you're using the same account in the unity hub to launch unity, and on the webpage

[devout falcon]

yeaa it works

thanks man

[rain ingot]

how do i check if game objects are colliding

[spring adder]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Collider2D.html

[sinful stag]

via:
https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/MonoBehaviour.OnCollisionEnter2D.html

[rain ingot]

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

public class NCPscript : MonoBehaviour
{
    int Color = 0;
    public Sprite[] image;
    public GameObject Target;

    void Start(){
        Color = Random.Range(0, 3);
        Debug.Log(Color);
        GetComponent<Image>().sprite = image[Color];
        Vector2 newPos;
        newPos.x = Random.Range(-180, 180);
        newPos.y = Random.Range(-80, 80);
        Target.transform.position = newPos; 
        if (collition.gameObject.name == "NPC" && collition.gameObject.name) {
            Vector2 newPos;
            newPos.x = Random.Range(-180, 180);
            newPos.y = Random.Range(-80, 80);
            Target.transform.position = newPos; 
            }
        }
    }

Assets\NCPscript.cs(20,13): error CS0103: The name 'collition' does not exist in the current context

[abstract olive]

You have nothing declared as collition.

[rain ingot]

ok

how do i

[abstract olive]

Also, it looks like you're trying to do collision detection. You want to use the built in OnCollisionEnter functions.

[rain ingot]

declare box colider as colider

[rain ingot]

uhh how

[abstract olive]

At the top of your script, you can put public BoxCollider2D myBoxCollider and assign it in your inspector.

[rain ingot]

 if (myBoxCollider.gameObject.name == "NPC") {
            newPos.x = Random.Range(-180, 180);
            newPos.y = Random.Range(-80, 80);
            Target.transform.position = newPos; 
            }

?

[distant pecan]

void OnCollisionEnter2D(Collider2D col)
{
  if(col.gameObject.name == "NPC")
  {
    //your code
  }
}

void OnTriggerEnter2D(Collider2D col)
{
  if(col.gameObject.name == "NPC")
  {
    //your code
  }
}

use any of those methods

btw it's better to check for tags instead of gameobject name

[rain ingot]

ok

how

[distant pecan]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Component.CompareTag.html

there's a example on this page

the only thing you would change is having 2D at the end of the function name

OnTriggerEnter > OnTriggerEnter2D

[rain ingot]

ok

how do i addthe tag

[rain ingot]

void OnTriggerEnter2D(Collider2D col) {
        if(col.gameObject.CompareTag("Collition")) {
            Vector2 newPos;
            newPos.x = Random.Range(-180, 180);
            newPos.y = Random.Range(-80, 80);
            Target.transform.position = newPos;
            Debug.Log("Collition");
    }

why doesnt this work

[hardy heart]

Hey guys, i want to make a custom move where when u click script will find closest point on the road and move character there, do u have ideas?

[mellow owl]

@hardy heart im a noob but try comparing the distance between the dots?

Theres Vector2/3.Distance which return the Distance between 2 vector, which you can get from the dots position

[red tundra]

Hello guys,

I've got a big animation problem that I can't solve

[radiant root]

Hello

[red tundra]

Someone can help me out ?

[radiant root]

Nope

[red tundra]

Sad 😦

[radiant root]

☹️

[mellow owl]

I think you should ask in #🏃┃animation ?

[radiant root]

Me too

[red tundra]

Oh yeah ty wrong channel tho

[rain ingot]

void OnTriggerEnter2D(Collider2D col) {
        if(col.gameObject.CompareTag("Collition")) {
            Vector2 newPos;
            newPos.x = Random.Range(-180, 180);
            newPos.y = Random.Range(-80, 80);
            Target.transform.position = newPos;
            Debug.Log("Collition");
    }

why doesnt this work

[mellow owl]

Try to Debug outside of the if so see if the OnTriggerEnter2D work or not first

[left lotus]

Is "Collition" intentional? It's mispelled FYI

It doesn't really matter as long as it's also spelled "Collition" on your objects

[mellow owl]

yeah im thinking that too xD

[rain ingot]

yes

its right my tag

but i mispelled

[left lotus]

Ok, just double checking. Pham's suggestion of using a debug log outside of your if block is the way to go then

[rain ingot]

im doing it

my things still overlap

[mellow owl]

does the console return the debug?

[rain ingot]

no

[hardy heart]

private void OnTriggerEnter2D(Collider2D other) {

} 

try this

[rain ingot]

phat shoud dat chage

[hardy heart]

cause u overdrive func, but u use another argument name

[rain ingot]

The name 'col' does not exist in the current context [Assembly-CSharp]

fixel

[hardy heart]

U should rename some vars

[rain ingot]

my things are still overlaping

and no debug

[hardy heart]

do u have rigidbody on of the pbject?

[rain ingot]

no

i have box colider 2d

[hardy heart]

that' sthe problem

just add it

[mellow owl]

It should overlap tho? cuz when u enable isTrigger, the collider wont work

[rain ingot]

they move to another location

if they overlap

[rain ingot]

how do i make my code use ir

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

public class NCPscript : MonoBehaviour
{
    public BoxCollider2D myBoxCollider;
    int Color = 0;
    public Sprite[] image;
    public GameObject Target;

    void Start(){
        Color = Random.Range(0, 3);
        GetComponent<Image>().sprite = image[Color];
        Vector2 newPos;
        newPos.x = Random.Range(-180, 180);
        newPos.y = Random.Range(-80, 80);
        Target.transform.position = newPos; 
        }
    void DebugCollition() {
        Debug.Log("Works");
    }
    void OnTriggerEnter2D(Collider2D other) {
        if(other.gameObject.CompareTag("Collision")) {
            Vector2 newPos;
            newPos.x = Random.Range(-180, 180);
            newPos.y = Random.Range(-80, 80);
            Target.transform.position = newPos;
            Debug.Log("Collition");
            DebugCollition();
    }
}
}

[hardy heart]

add rigidbody2d in inspector

watch some unity tutorials man

[rain ingot]

i did

[mellow owl]

then it should work, you dont need to access it with your code

[rain ingot]

huh

[hardy heart]

Do the object have Collision tag

[rain ingot]

yes

[hardy heart]

idk then

do u marked trigger in boxcoliider?

[rain ingot]

yes

is it

Collision2D

not Collider2D

[hardy heart]

idk

google it

[rain ingot]

nope its not

[left lotus]

You never placed the debug log outside of your if, it's still inside the if statement

Place a debug inside your OnTriggerEnter2D function, but not within the if statement checking for the tag

This way you can confirm if the OnTriggerEnter2D function is ever being called

[mellow owl]

@left lotus hey do you happen to know how to multiply a force to a direction vector without letting the direction vector affect the outcome? Cuz im using my mouse position to create the direction vector and it is affecting the velocity with its length, like the higher my cursor is, the higher the force, I am using normalize but it doesn't seems to work. Thanks!

[snow willow]

Normalize will fix it show your code

You normalize the direction Vector and then multiply by whatever magnitude you want

[mellow owl]

Okay, thanks for the reply
heres how I calculate my jumpForce:

holdTime += Time.deltaTime;
jumpForce = holdTime * jumpMultiplier

then I pass it into Jump method using

void Jump(float x)
    {
       
        float finaljumpforce = Mathf.Min(x, maxJumpForce);
        rb.velocity = lookDir.normalized * finaljumpforce;
      
        
        Debug.LogWarning("Jumped with" + finaljumpforce + "force");
        Debug.Log(rb.velocity);
        _jump = false;

[snow willow]

looks fine

that's not working?

[mellow owl]

yeah, if I have my cursor near my object, it jump to where my cursor it, despite me holding it for a long time

and vice versa if I hold it higher and hold it, the jump is massive

[snow willow]

what other movement code do you have

That Debug.Log should at least look similar with the cursor near or far from the object. Is that working right?

[mellow owl]

yeah

its low if the cursor is close to my object and high if its far away

[snow willow]

what is x

in your Jump function

[mellow owl]

its just a float for me to pass in my jumpForce

if(_jump && onPlatform)
        {
            Jump(jumpForce);
        }

the force debug is always the same, but somehow the velocity is different

I actually have lookDir.normalize render on my screen and the y component range from 0 to 0.7

that explains the different in velocity, but I have no idea how to fix it xD

[fast siren]

is there a way to make an object keep respawning from one point? not a player object just a normal sprite

[snow willow]

You can spawn things wherever you want. Just pass that position into Instantiate

[snow willow]

Oh... Well normalize normalizes both x and y

E.g the total length of the vector will become 1

Not just y

Is your object constrained on the x axis or something

[fast siren]

i just started unity lol im kinda new

[mellow owl]

no its only constrained on z

@fast siren file:///C:/Program%20Files/Unity/Hub/Editor/2019.4.19f1/Editor/Data/Documentation/en/ScriptReference/Object.Instantiate.html

[snow willow]

does lookDir include a z component?

[mellow owl]

oh wait xD

[snow willow]

Can you print out lookDir?

[mellow owl]

it does actually

wait

is that why

[snow willow]

that's ok it works the same for beginners and experts 😄

[snow willow]

yeah any Z component will be wasted

[fast siren]

what do i do with this do i just put it in my searchbar?

[snow willow]

So maybe do this @mellow owl :

Vector3 withoutZ = lookDir;
withoutZ.z = 0;
withoutZ.Normalize();
rb.velocity = withoutZ * finalJumpForce;

[snow willow]

no

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Object.Instantiate.html

he meant this

[fast siren]

oh ok

[mellow owl]

yeah that^, I was opening the local file xD

[snow willow]

@fast siren use one of these that takes a position

[fast siren]

ty

so quantern rotation is just like making the rotation freeze right? or just not rotate

[mellow owl]

@snow willow THANK YOUUUU

OMG

ive been struggling for days

I actually used this tho Vector2 lookDir2D = new Vector2(lookDir.x, lookDir.y);

[left lotus]

@fast siren The option with Quarternion rotation is in case you want to provide a starting rotation for the object

In Unity (and most 3d games), Rotations are described with objects called Quarternions

[snow willow]

that works too

[fast siren]

oh okay

[mellow owl]

thank youu

[fast siren]

what's a prefab?

[left lotus]

You may want to look at some of the tutorials or documentation on Unity
https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/Prefabs.html
https://learn.unity.com/tutorial/prefabs-e

[fast siren]

o alr

[gentle parrot]

Anyone knows how to improve quality of generated 2d collider, so that it wouldn't create such a huge empty area:

What I expect is :

it's using Sprite with alpha for generating

[snow willow]

not sure what I'm looking at here. Which part is the collider

[gentle parrot]

@snow willow the bottom part, it's the collider generation that's different depending on the hole size

basically if it's too small it won't generate a dip and remains flat

Here is what I want to see:

[snow willow]

Is this a PolygonCollider2d?

If so you can manually edit the collider, if that's a feasible option for you

[gentle parrot]

It's Tilemap collider2d and composite:

I am generating this at run-time

from user input

[fierce cradle]

Hello, I need little help. Im working on collectible coin feature where player can get point for each coin they collide with. After succeed implement it (1 coin = 1 value), I copy paste the object to create 10 coins. However, when I collect them, some has 1 or 2 value. The total sometime 13-15. So strange.

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

public class Coin : MonoBehaviour
{
    public int coinValue = 1;

    private void OnTriggerEnter2D(Collider2D other)
    {
        if (other.gameObject.CompareTag("Player"))
        {
            ScoreManager.instance.ChangeScore(coinValue);

            FindObjectOfType<AudioManager>().Play("Coin");
        }
    }
}

[weary ridge]

Whats the code to find the x and y of an asset

what am i getting wrong here

[left lotus]

You're typing C# code into a .json file

[left lotus]

When do your coins get destroyed? If they are never destroyed, with the code as-is, the player can walk into a coin more than once to collect it over and over again

[fierce cradle]

it destroyed when the player collide. here's the code from player

    private void OnTriggerEnter2D(Collider2D other)
    {
        if (other.gameObject.CompareTag("Coin"))
        {

            Destroy(other.gameObject);
        }
    }```

[left lotus]

hm yeah, first glance looks good then

[fierce cradle]

That's why Im confused lol. The strange part is the value randomize between 1 to 2.

[valid gull]

Can anyone help me? Im making a fnaf fan game and trying to make a camera up and down system and a clock system! Can anyone please help me? You can send me a dm about this just don't spam.

[left lotus]

Just some quick guesses:
If you instead move the destroy call into the Coin's OnTriggerEnter2D, (so Destroy(gameObject); at the very end), does it fix it?
Does your player perhaps have multiple colliders?

Actually, I'm a little surprised it never added a zero value. In theory if the Player OnTriggerEnter2D is called first, it could destroy the coin before the OnTriggerEnter2D for the coin gets to fire

[fierce cradle]

that's most likely the problem. my player has 2 colliders. I think you are right sir

[left lotus]

Aha!

I think moving the destroy from the Player function to the coin function would be the easiest resolution

That way it's always destroyed after adding points

If that wouldn't work for some reason, you could add a private bool collidedYet = false; and use that to check if collision has already fired

[fierce cradle]

oh you mean the destroy command better come from the coin instead of player sir ?

[fierce cradle]

this is for the coin right ??

[left lotus]

Yeah

If it's true, just return from your trigger function. Otherwise if it's false the rest of your code will run, then remember to set it = true

And only set it to true if the CompareTag is true, so inside that if

[granite sky]

How can i make the layer sorting change when i player is above and below it? example: when my player is below a tree it is above it, when it is above the tree it is below it

is there a way to do this with the tilemaps?

[stray meteor]

I don't think so, you must use script

What I do personnally is this :

• I use 2D extras to allow for a custom tile brush, that allows to draw prefabs as if they are tiles
• I make my tree a prefab and add a script on it basically saying

if (tree.transform.y < player.transform.y) 
{
    spriteRenderer.sortingLayerName = "theOneOnTopOfThePlayer"
} else {
    spriteRenderer.sortingLayerName = "theOneBelowThePlayer"
}

• I make my custom prefab brush with my tree
• I draw trees everyyyyyyywheeeeerreeeee

[still tendon]

I want an event to fire whenever something touchs that orange thing but I also want things to be able to go through it, help

[stray meteor]

check the "is Trigger" paramater of your box collider

you'll be able to pass through it and to fire a script with it

[still tendon]

I did, I can pass through it, but it doesn't fire.

[stray meteor]

both of your elements need a collider

and at least one needs a Rigidbody

maybe that's why it doesn't work

[still tendon]

my player has both a collider and a rigidbody

and the thing has a collider

[stray meteor]

well 🤔

what happens if you Debug.Log outside of the if?

[still tendon]

it will fire whenever something collides

if its outside

[fiery cloak]

You should use OnTriggerEnter(), not OnCollisionEnter() if colliding with triggers

[stray meteor]

so there's something wrong with your condition

[still tendon]

Hmm, let me try that.

[stray meteor]

did you check the accuracy of your tags?

(im guessing you did 😄 )

[still tendon]

Yes, the tags are correct

[still tendon]

Okay, I tried that and it worked, thanks.

[light elk]

hey was wondering if i can maek top down levels iwht spriteshape

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4l6P4cLfXO0

example

is there any reason to use tilemaps?

unless ur game is like turnbased grid game?

or its something to do with memory?

m trying to go for a more organic hand painted look instead of same old squares

it seems making spriteshape levels are faster too

feels more natural not blocky

[gusty lichen]

Won’t I need a collider in order for the raycast to register though? Or can I still raycast down/z axis from the spinner needle to detect the portion of the image underneath it?

[stray meteor]

I agree

But it depends on the game you want to make i guess 🤷‍♂️

[light elk]

if i were to make tiles for that

too much time consumed to connect ends artwise

which i already did for a game jam

really disliked making tiles

[spring adder]

The idea would be to raycast “into” the screen. Yeah you’d need a collider.

[light elk]

go make some tile-sets its pain 😄

[spring adder]

Doing a tiled game rn... it’s convenient on the programming side... I haven’t tried sprite shape though

[stray meteor]

Is it not possible to just work with Sprites ?

[gusty lichen]

But the issue I’m having is that I can’t make a dynamic polygon collider from the pie chart image based on the fill amount 😫

[stray meteor]

And use tilemap for repetitive things such as the ground, etc..

Or just make the ground a big ass sprite?

[spring adder]

What about individual images for each fill color, with everything not filled being transparent

[gusty lichen]

I do have an individual png image for the green/red portions of the spinning wheel. The rest is technically transparent if it’s not filled (talking radial 360 fill amount here). I think I’ve read somewhere about raycasting from the spinning wheel needle with pixel colour, I’ll have to try that when I get home.

[limber idol]

So, I'm having a mental dilemma, one that may not actually be a problem, but one I'm considering while preparing to start implementing combat in my game. When handling platformer controls in games, rather you're using Physics and applying forces to counter-act sliding / increase speed up inclines, or using a Character Controller and just simply raycasting to the ground and "sticking" to it. (These are common implementations) I started to wonder, what happens when you want to introduce something like knockbacks?

If the character is always glueing itself into position either through forces or position manipulation, when it gets hit by a monster, or another player that should send it flying, wouldn't it just adjust the forces needed (or adjust your position) and keep you on that slope, no matter how hard you're "hit"?

This is my first 2D project and I've been stuck thinking instead of implementing.

I assume this would be less of a problem with forces, as you'd know how much to apply to cancel out the slope, but knockback would just overpower it.

[snow willow]

Not really a problem with the physics engine yeah

[hallow ore]

is there an easy workaround for objects clipping through colliders if they are moving too quickly

[snow willow]

try setting collision detection to continuous on the fast moving object

[hallow ore]

thank you

[snow willow]

other options include:

• Decreasing fixed timestep
• making colliders larger

• Custom raycast logic

• Making objects slower

[hallow ore]

do I need to set the colliders of my tile map to continuous as well or will it work fine with only my player object being continuous?

[snow willow]

just the moving object

[raven forge]

Hi, everybody somebody knows why this happens?

The player is stuck, and it cannot jump anymore

[knotty barn]

@limber idol Yea you would likely build external forces to your character controller or disable it during effects like knockback

[snow willow]

Gotta be a bug in your Player script

[raven forge]

This my falling function

it runs every update.

[left lotus]

Looks pretty fine, what about your jumping code?

On closer inspection of the video, is your character supposed to have their feet go that far into the ground on that bottom layer?

[snow willow]

SHow the whole script if possible. But specifically interested in the jumping code and eligibility to jump

[left lotus]

Looks like they may have fallen through the terrain

[snow willow]

Ooh good point @left lotus

[left lotus]

Yeah didn't see that my first few times. Was trying to watch the animator state machine and noticed it

[raven forge]

This is the whole script

[raven forge]

Don't know why that happens because when the player jumps and falls, the character doesn't go through the terrain. Only it does when it falls

[left lotus]

Can you try changing your Player's Rigidbody's "Collision Detection" value to "Continuous" in your inspector?

[raven forge]

Dude.. OMG it works!!

Thank you so much!!

[left lotus]

Cool, so the issue was with the collision and your player's falling speed probably

There are other ways you can adjust this too, changing the physics timestep and other physics settings

"Continuous" works very well though, but it is not fast to run

So don't enable Continuous on all your physics objects by default, just ones with these sorts of issues

[raven forge]

Thank you! I will keep that in mind.

[left lotus]

If these issues start to pop up everywhere, then its probably time to dive into the physics settings

No problem, good luck

[raven forge]

Thanks everybody who help!

[dapper otter]

helloo I got a quick question. I'm following this video on how to make a 2d bullet. pm.isFacingRight tests which side the player is facing. When he instantiate the bullet prefab, why does he rotate the bullet around the Z-axis instead of the Y-axis to turn the bullet around? I thought rotating in the Z axis wouldn't do anything in 2d space.

[brisk badge]

You can imagine the z-axis as coming towards the screen, so, considering said line coming out of the top of your object, you would be rotating it on the z-axis - kind of like spinning the object about that axis

Idk if that makes any sense tho... :p

[gusty lichen]

So I tried this GraphicRaycaster.Raycast example script as a test: https://docs.unity3d.com/2017.3/Documentation/ScriptReference/UI.GraphicRaycaster.Raycast.html. Even with the alpha threshold set, when I click on the transparent/unfilled parts of my pie chart, it still registers a hit 😭

[brisk badge]

Also, you could use a Coroutine for bullet timings.```cs
bool canShoot = true;

if (Input.GetMouseButtonDown(0) && canShoot)
{
Shoot();
StartCoroutine(ShootDelay());
}

IEnumerator ShootDelay()
{
canShoot = false;
yield return new WaitForSeconds(fireRate);
canShoot = true;
}

[gusty lichen]

So I thought I’d revisit my predicament to see if you guys had any ideas, and attached a gif to hopefully make things a little clearer.

I have a spinner while with success/fail options. The success portion is determined by fill amount on an image component (typical radial 360 fill amount setup for health bars, etc.). the rest of the pie chart is just a red circle as the background. Both are PNGs.

I have the needle which spins around the chart. This is also an image component/png. There is a box collider on the needle ready to go.

Goal: I want to be able to trigger the needle landing in the green zone in code

Problem: I can’t add a collider to the green success portion of the pie chart, only the entire chart. I also can’t graphic raycast the collision as the raycast still detects the FULL image and not only the success portion.

Possible solutions: Recreate pie chart effect with sprites? Determine random percentage behind scenes and have needle move to predetermined location? PLEASE HELP! 😭

[summer spindle]

hey guys so I just tried an attempt at making somewhat of a boid flocking system so that I could make it so my enemies don't collide each other when going towards the player which I have fixed but when I kill one enemy all of the other spawned enemy's avoidance code stops working Im not sure where this problem goes in so I put it here since its a 2D game.

I put the enemies in a List and run the avoidance behaviour but I destroy the enemy in a different script

[tall current]

Question

When I use circlecast, what hit point is prioritized?
If I circlecast and find an object that covers the entire object, is the hit point in the middle of the circlecast or random???

[inland jacinth]

@tall current At least in 3D, a spherecast ignores colliders that start inside the sphere.

Might be the same in 2D

[spring adder]

Sorry, I’m just not sure. I was just guessing based on what you said earlier.

[still tendon]

Again wrong chnnel sorry

[dapper otter]

This makes perfect sense, it's what I thought too, so rotating around the Y axis would achieve the same result tho right I would imagine. For a bullet.

[brisk badge]

No, rotating around the y-axis would cause some behavior, affecting the width of the bullet rather than it's rotation. Go into 3D view and try it out for yourself, that should make it a little clearer

Although, if you're doing a top-down 3D project it would work though

[low wave]

Do 3D moving codes work the same for 2D modules/sprites?

[warm pebble]

I know that you probably want to use vector2's instead of vector3's

[low wave]

okay, thank you!

[warm pebble]

for movement, I use Input.getaxisRaw

for horizontal and vertical

[low wave]

alright

[dapper otter]

okok thank you

also what does the IEnumerator do

[dusk nebula]

I seem to be hitting the tilemap tile edges

[bold bone]

Try using a composite collider 2d for your tilemap :)

https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/class-CompositeCollider2D.html

[crystal geode]

I'm having a really rough time implementing hitboxes and hurtboxes in my game, and I was wondering if I could have some advice

so I've got two characters in my scene, each with an empty gameobject attached to them

one has a BoxCollider2D and a Rigidbody and is tagged as "hitbox"

the other just has a BoxCollider2D and is tagged as "hurtbox"

both of them are set as triggers

and this is the script I've attached to the hitbox gameobject

it seems like OnTriggerEnter2D isn't even being called, and I don't know what's causing it

the only thing I can think of is that since I'm moving and resizing the hitbox within a single frame to get it where it needs to be, that it's not triggering the function, but I dunno

[snow willow]

https://help.vertx.xyz/?page=Programming/Physics Messages

Go through this

it may help you figure out what's missing

[crystal geode]

thank you

[light elk]

this looks really cool

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kbt2bZoqHII&ab_channel=JANUSLABS

i think soon spriteshape going to kick tiles out of picture 😄

let the new gen of making things take over

its time for you to rest grandpa tile sets 😄

[chrome anchor]

the colliding object keeps changing to the other game object

it should be mana, not acorn

also the name keeps changing from "Acorn" to "Acor" or "Acorn_Obj", i just want it to say "Acorn" which is what the sprite is called

[distant pecan]

its two different styles

one doesn't make the other one deprecated / less useful

its the same as saying "soon 3d will take over and 2d won't exist anymore"

there are things you can do with tile map you can't do with sprite shape, and vice-versa

[terse thorn]

ok, i have this problem, i have 2 time alterers, the pause and a powerup that makes the time slower, before they wer 2 diferent scripts but they were acting over eachother so i joined them and all seems to work, the only problem is that the game do'nt pause when i press the space bar i used a debug.log showing the TimeScale and not even that changes, please help me with this

public class TimeManager : MonoBehaviour
{
  int TimeScale;
  public Text pauseIndicator;
  public Text continueText;
  public Text quitText;


  float time;
  public float startTime;

  public AudioSource slowMotionStart;
  public Animator witheScreenAnim;



  void Start(){
    TimeScale = 2;
    time = startTime;

    TimeScale = 2;
  }

    void Update()
    {

      if(Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.G)){

        Debug.Log(TimeScale + " " + time);
      }

      if(TimeScale == 0){

        Time.timeScale = 0;

        continueText.text = "press the Space Bar to un-pause";
        pauseIndicator.text = "PAUSED";
        quitText.text = "press Escape to quit the game";

      } else if(TimeScale == 1){

        Time.timeScale = 0.6f;
        time -= Time.deltaTime;

      } else if(TimeScale == 2){

        Time.timeScale = 1;

        continueText.text = "";
        pauseIndicator.text = "";
        quitText.text = "";
      }


    if(Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.Space) && TimeScale == 2){

        TimeScale = 0;

      }
      if(Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.Space) && TimeScale == 0){

      TimeScale = 2;
    }



    if(time <= 0){

      TimeScale = 2;
      time = startTime;
    }
  }

  void OnTriggerEnter2D(Collider2D collision)
  {
    if(collision.transform.tag == "slowMo"){

      TimeScale = 1;
      slowMotionStart.Play();
      witheScreenAnim.SetTrigger("slowMotion");
    }
  }
}```

[slate parrot]

My character can't get to the enemy because the enemy is a bunch of parts (body, left leg, right leg, left hand, right hand, etc). Those parts are children of a GameObject, which you can see I have highlighted in the image. Anyway, where I'm going with this is the GameObject is blocking me from moving forward towards him. How do I fix this? I've tried adding a 2D box collider that's set to isTrigger true, in hopes of it letting me pass through, but with no luck

[rich bridge]

any way i can toggle player intangibility with certain objects?

but still collide with the ground

[slate parrot]

I maybe able to help. What do you mean?

Like, make it so certain objects aren't affected by your movement or something?

[rich bridge]

basically as an ability i want the player to be able to not collide with certain objects for 10 seconds

is there a way i could toggle what a boxcollider collides with?

phase right through them basically

[snow willow]

Use the collision layer matrix

[slate parrot]

Ohh, I see. Yeah, so that's actually quite easy believe it or not. What you want to do is make an IEnumerator (For counting down the 10 seconds) and call it when that ability is in use. After the 10 seconds, make the ability false (assuming you have a bool for it, like hasPower or something). Anyway, when that 10 seconds is happening, you need to just set your player collider to false (off)

[snow willow]

Put your player into a separate layer during the power up that still collides with the ground but not the other items

[slate parrot]

Yeah

[rich bridge]

ohhhh i get it

[slate parrot]

Like

 if (collider.gameObject.tag != "Ground")
{
     // code here
}

[snow willow]

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

[slate parrot]

That's just an example using a tag. That's what I personally use a lot, is tags

[rich bridge]

would it work if the player was parented to an empty object that collides with only the ground, and the toggle turns off the players boxcolider

then they become intangable and that p much what im after

[slate parrot]

How would you make it only interact with the ground? Code?

[rich bridge]

the physics2D menu

layers

[slate parrot]

huh

If you're using layers, that's beyond me.

I was just saying what I would do

[rich bridge]

oh ok

wait so how can i use code to change the players layer

can i do that?

would it just be gameobject.layer

[snow willow]

Yes

[rich bridge]

cool

[terse thorn]

could someone help me? 👉 👈

[rich bridge]

ive got it 🙂

[snow willow]

Nice!

Also your sound effects scared my cat!

[rich bridge]

lmao

i take big interest in sounds n stuff

[terse thorn]

[snow willow]

confused about what you're trying to accomplish and what your problem is

[slate parrot]

In the image, you saw I had highlighted the GameObject. You could tell by the X and Y arrows. I could not move past it for some reason. I didn't change anything, but now I'm able to get past it like intended. Weird

[snow willow]

It has Colliders

You were just colliding with those Colliders, no?

[fast siren]

so i use ontriggerenter2d on my script

        if(other.CompareTag("Player")){
            SceneManager.LoadScene("lvl2");
        }
    }``` both of the objects have rigidbody2d (player and the object this script is going to be in)

and it wont make me respawn to the scene, i think its because they both have rigidbodies because it worked for other objects that didnt have rigidbody

okay so i know why it is not working i need 1 at least have a rigid body but i have 2 but i want those 2 to have gravity

[sand plaza]

so im currently trying to make a chess game. i have the basic moves set up, but im not sure on how to make the pawns move two spaces when they start the game. any ideas on how i could add this? ill send my code if you need it

[slate parrot]

If I have a player and a 2D rag doll, and I want to apply force to the direction the player is facing to the rag doll , how would I do that? Example: I'm left of the rag doll, and I apply force to him when I collide with him using OnCollisionEnter2D, I want to apply that force to the right (Because I pushed him in that direction). If I was to the right of the rag doll, and I walked into him and pushed him, I'd want the rag doll to be forced to the left, again, because that's the direction I pushed him in. How do I do that?

[slate parrot]

In the Start() in your code, make the pawns move two 'spaces' in the direction you want them to, probably using transform.Translate()

[brazen halo]

Well, you kind of answered yourself. Get the vector from your player to the ragdoll. It's simple - (enemy.Position - player.Position).normalized();
this is the vector you want to apply force to/move in that direction.

[slate parrot]

Oh

[strange echo]

What the heck, that literally scared my cat too...

[still tendon]

holy fuck i was not prepared for that

[worldly patrol]

if you called new GameObject() does it get instantiated in the same frame or the next frame?

[boreal knoll]

Sorry I wanna to ask some question about Scrolling background

i want to make my background active like this video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zit45k6CUMk&ab_channel=Brackeys

but i can't , i dont know why

I'm trying to record it, but the file is too big for discord

wait a min

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8wTMsxRsAI&ab_channel=月巴宅

My code should be the same as the one in the Youtube video

[abstract olive]

Use streamable or YouTube to share videos.

[boreal knoll]

OK I'm sorry

there it is

it seems that the video doesn't contain the codes..

[still tendon]

Hey Guys :) I'm currently making a 2d platformer (2d jump n run) When my player dies it just gets "teleported" to the biginning of the Level. I want to make a gameover-screen so it doesn't look that broing. I have designed my own gameover-screen but i need help coding it. I have watched a couple tutorials how to make a gameover-screen but none of them worked in my case. I would be very thankful if someone could help me (direct message would be great) I would also paypal that person a couple bucks, if the gameover-screen works. I am a beginner with unity and C#

[abstract olive]

Have you changed the ParallaxEffect value for the two layers? They need to be different.

[timid kettle]

would you guys recommend using the animator through scripting or just the animator from the editor ?

[abstract olive]

You have to use both.

You set up your animator in the inspector, and you call the parameters in code.

[timid kettle]

Yea but I can write all the conditions between states in my script instead

I wonder if that's a better approach

[abstract olive]

Go with whatever is easier for you. But if you need to handle blending and blendtrees etc., it's probably easier to set it up in the Animator.

But there are code driven solutions on the Asset Store:
https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/tools/animation/animancer-pro-116514

[timid kettle]

I'm doing a 2D project, so my animations aren't that complex

[boreal knoll]

My background is composed of only 1 image, I just want to test if it will work just like the video. My "back" ,"back(1)" and "back(2)" use the same ParallaxEffect value.

[zinc grotto]

sorry

grong chat

[boreal knoll]

@abstract olive BUT... I DONT KNOW WHY, I put the script "Parallax" into "back". And remove the script "Parallax" in back(1) and back(2). Thank you for telling me to check they......Although I DONT KNOW THE REASON HOW IT IS HAPPENED...

[abstract olive]

Yeah, seems like it would be conflicting otherwise. Anyway, glad you figured that out.

[boreal knoll]

THANK YOU SO MUCH...This thing had stucked me for 3 hours...to search Solution🤦‍♂️

[gentle parrot]

Seems to me like polygon collider generation directly depends on the texture size: 128x128, 256x256, 512x512

Is it possible to improve accuracy of polygon collider generation for lower texture size ?

so that blocks on the left will get the same generation results as the sprite texture on the right ?

[dense flame]

Maybe scale them down

Like it is a big texture and then you scale down the GameObject

[gentle parrot]

That's one way to do this, I am thinking, unfortunately these are generated at run-time

so I am not sure how fast it's going to be

I am thinking of doing something else, scaling them up, but physics generation is messed up:

I've changed Pixels per unit 100 -> 25, 100 -> 50, 100 -> 100

Removing then adding collider back, fixes it but basically results are the same:

[left lotus]

Are they always the same shape like that? You could pre-create one polygon collider and apply it to all the sizes

Guessing they're more dynamic though

[gentle parrot]

nope, they are generated in run-time based on user input, basically destructible terrain

example

[left lotus]

nice

[gentle parrot]

it kinda works, but accuracy is poor

I am going to try and modify texture (128x128) then upscale it to (512x512) generate collider and try to apply the mesh back to the 128x128 sprite, in theory it may work

[weary ridge]

can anyone figure out if this code is right? if so then can you tell me why it wont work with my sprite

[light elk]

@boreal knoll its easy

@gentle parrot use spriteshape for organic looking levels

u going to love it

[gentle parrot]

@light elk I tried but i need to modify it's shape in run time up-to complete removal from the scene

[crystal geode]

is there a way for me to activate a function in a different object's script through a OnTriggerEnter2D function?

because OnTriggerEnter2D can get the boxcollider, but can I then somehow use that to access the script on the object that boxcollider is attached to?

[knotty barn]

If you have a component of a gameobject, you also have the gameobject

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

[crystal geode]

hmm, okay, so I would use like

otherCollider.gameObject.GetComponent<?>(?)

in order to access the script

[knotty barn]

Yea you can also use GetComponent directly on the component

[crystal geode]

oh really, didn't realize I would be able to find the function that way

that's convenient

thank you very much, works perfectly!

[crystal geode]

If I have a game with 2 player characters, what's a good way for them to identify each other during Start()?

right now while I'm just testing stuff, I'm setting it manually for the sake of convenience, but in the final thing, I'm not going to know which 2 characters have been chosen

[crystal geode]

ah nevermind, I think I found a solution with FindObjectsWithTag()

[dapper otter]

hello, I made a quick dashing or teleporting to the right code but it seems to only work sometime and sometimes it doesn't work

I'm wondering if you guys know what's wrong with the code

[abstract olive]

Use Update, not FixedUpdate.

And you probably want to add a check that !isDashing whenever you do input too, to prevent the ability to spam it.

[solemn latch]

@light elk it looks like what they have is already better than spriteshape in many ways. Certainly for what they're doing.

@gentle parrot You could write your own collider generation instead of using unity's and pass that into the collider?

Have you seen http://timeshapers.com/2014/05/09/pixel-perfect-collision-in-unity-2d/ perhaps?

Obviously it isn't perfect for a game heavily using built in physics, but might give some ideas?

[lusty root]

hey i need some help in 2d

i have a prob and really i cant find prob

[solemn latch]

@lusty root Well, without you saying what your problem is, nobody else will be able to either

[lusty root]

ok alright

when Player enter collider i get that prob
1 - i cant set hotZone active
2- collider is trigger and is like he cant get player tag and make him like a target

error here

and here in hotZone

[slate parrot]

How can I make an IEnumerator call every every x seconds?

    public IEnumerator moveObstacle()
    {
        obstacle.transform.Translate(new Vector3(0, 10, 0));
        yield return new WaitForSeconds(3);
        obstacle.transform.Translate(new Vector3(0, -10, 0));
    }

This makes the obstacle move up, and after 3 seconds, move down. You can put it in Start or Awake, but that only calls once. Update calls every frame, so that's quite useless. What do I do?

[vocal condor]

Wrap the code inside a loop

    //Instance member field:
    [SerializedField] bool running;
    public IEnumerator moveObstacle()
    {
        running = true;
        while(running)
        {
            obstacle.transform.Translate(new Vector3(0, 10, 0));
            yield return new WaitForSeconds(3);
            obstacle.transform.Translate(new Vector3(0, -10, 0));
        }
    }

Example

[slate parrot]

Ohh, I see

A loop didn't occur to me

[vocal condor]

Loops can be scary but this is a coroutine that will return control on yield return new ....

[slate parrot]

Yeah, I tried looking at for loops a long while back and gave up in a few minutes

[vocal condor]

So no issues here as long as there is a return of control sometime during the iteration of an infinite loop.

[slate parrot]

Yeah. Well, thanks, man

[slate parrot]

So, I run it and it crashes. I mean, I know why, it's an infinite loop. But, like you said, I need to control it. I've been trying and just thinking but not hard enough I guess, I can't figure out how

[sand light]

I have a code that says : when the distance of the x is bigger than y > move along the x and if the y is bigger move along the y

it works fine when its moving on the x but when it moves up both of the x and y values change and he start moving diagonally

I want only the y value to change not the x

any idea on how to fix this :c

I find the absolute value of the difference between transform.position and player.position then I have my if statements

[slate parrot]

Found a solution not using any loops (Yay) I found a guide on what I was looking for, and it was as simple as making a bool, and if the gameObject's (the obstacle's) transform.position.y > x toggle the bool, making it move down, if its transform.position.y < x, toggle it again, making it move up

[sand light]

Can u show me the code ? It may help my case >~<

[slate parrot]

Sure!

Sorry, didn't see this until now

    void Update()
    {
        if (obstacleY.transform.position.y > 20f)
        {
            moveUp = false;
        }

        if (obstacleY.transform.position.y <= 4f)
        {
            moveUp = true;
        }

        if (moveUp)
        {
            obstacleY.transform.position = new Vector2(transform.position.x, transform.position.y + moveSpeed * Time.deltaTime);
        }
        else
        {
            obstacleY.transform.position = new Vector2(transform.position.x, transform.position.y - moveSpeed * Time.deltaTime);
        }

@sand light

[sand light]

Thank you so much

[slate parrot]

Of course! I'm glad I could help

[dapper otter]

I tried it on both and neither work consistantly

[golden lance]

How to start scripting with C# in Unity

How to set the .NET framework thing

[still tendon]

i got this code for some simple procedural generated terrain but if i want to add a 2d collider to the spawed terrain how do i do that

[dense flame]

So that’s just spawning objects, the objects should have colliders in them

Like a box collider 2d

[still tendon]

ye

but how do i get the colliders in em

[dense flame]

Are the objects prefabs?

[still tendon]

i have prefabs in my assets that i bound to the script

[dense flame]

Then just open the prefab and click Add Component, choose Box Collider 2D

[still tendon]

like this

oh ye that works

thanks

[topaz crater]

does anyone have any clue how I could recreate a movement system similar to Barotrauma (video)

especially the animation, I've managed to get a similar movement but I'm really not sure how they made the animations because it looks like it's a ragdoll

[snow willow]

Probably a skeletal system

Also using IK like with https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.2d.ik@1.1/manual/index.html

[topaz crater]

alright thanks I'll check it out

[abstract olive]

Give a GameObject a SpriteRenderer component and drag/drop a sprite asset into it.

[drowsy vine]

im currently making a project where the player launches in the direction of the spinning arrow whenever they press the jump key

but the angles the Z rotation reads is very hard to transform as it doesnt follow the like, trigonometry angles

so ive been trying to think of a way to get the player to launch in that direction without the use of Mathf.Sin and Mathf.Cos, but to no avail

is there any way to easily get the player to when they "launch" for the addforce to be in the direction of the Z rotation of this arrow

[snow willow]

should just be able to use one of the local directions of that transform

e.g. arrow.transform.up or arrow.transform.right

depending on how you set up the sprite

[drowsy vine]

is there a way I should set it up?

[snow willow]

usually "transform.right" is considered "forward" for 2D sprites

but it's just a convention

you can do it however you want

[drowsy vine]

i see

ill give that a try, the way i was doing it seemed overly complex anyways

[analog sundial]

why is my code not working

can someone say what is the problem

[snow willow]

First problem is you haven't saved your changes to the file

[drowsy vine]

@snow willow thanks that solves the issue much simpler than i was doing it

[analog sundial]

@snow willow where do i need ot save

[snow willow]

wdym

hit ctrl s

in your code editor

or file -> save

[analog sundial]

i did

[snow willow]

ok

that's one problem down

now what errors are you running into

[analog sundial]

the same

[snow willow]

there's one from your screenshot

[analog sundial]

yes

[snow willow]

DId you read the error message>?

You are calling Collider.Raycast

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Collider.Raycast.html

[analog sundial]

yes that raycast is taking 4 arguments

[snow willow]

it only takes 3 arguments

you are providing 4

[analog sundial]

but if i do 3 there is more erros

[snow willow]

Are you sure you want Collider.Raycast?

what are you trying to do

[analog sundial]

i want ot make a square planet with gravity

[snow willow]

are you trying to see if a ray intersects that exact Collider?

[analog sundial]

i just copy the code

and paste it

https://answers.unity.com/questions/1261685/gravity-on-a-cube-planet.html

im doing gravity 3 days

and all of my previous scripts didint worked

its need to be 2D

[slate parrot]

What does SerializeField do? I know it makes it appear in the hierarchy, but why not just make it public?

[analog sundial]

they almost the same but with serializefield its looking more code that with out it

[slate parrot]

I don't understand

[analog sundial]

SerializeField makes a field display in the Inspector and causes it to be saved. public makes a field display in the Inspector and causes it to be saved, as well as letting the field be publicly accessed by other scripts.

[slate parrot]

Ohh

So, is there a way to access, say a variable, that's inside one script from a different script without making it static? I'm using a UI Slider, so making it static would just remove it from the inspector, and without it being there, it's not in the game.

[analog sundial]

Google

[slate parrot]

I could just make a Slider in the other script and set it to the UI Slider, but I want to know if there's another way

[slate parrot]

I'm here because Google doesn't always help

[analog sundial]

but the answer is there

[slate parrot]

Sometimes I can't phrase something right into google, but I can say it to another person and they know what I'm talking about

Anyway, if you're not going to help, I don't need your replies. Thanks

[analog sundial]

your welcome

[novel harbor]

if anyone can help me with these, it would be much appreciated.
Original console text was: Failed to Instantiate prefab: DefaultMale. Client should be in a room. Current connectionStateDetailed:PeerCreated

Debug.LogError("Failed to Instantiate prefab: " + prefabName + ". Client should be in a room. Current connectionStateDetailed: " + PhotonNetwork.connectionStateDetailed);
return null;

return Instantiate(prefabName, position, rotation, group, null);

PhotonNetwork.Instantiate(PlayerPrefab.name, new Vector2(this.transform.position.x * randomValue, this.transform.position.y), Quaternion.identity, 0);

If anything else is required lmk, feel free to dm me as well. Please and Thank you

[sand plaza]

if i wanted to make a button that changes the camera's background color, how might i go about that?

[sand light]

yo I have a problem

transform.Translate(Vector3.up * Time.deltaTime, Space.World);

this code

transform.position = Vector2.MoveTowards (transform.position, new Vector2(transform.position.x, player.position.y), moveSpeed * Time.deltaTime);

and this code

both make the enemy move diagonally when he goes up

I only want him to go straight up not diagonally so I need a way to disable his movement on the x when he moves up

:<

any idea?

[novel harbor]

remove transform.position.x would be my best bet

[sand light]

I tried putting 0 there it still moves diagonally both x and y

and I tried transform.position += transform.up * Time.deltaTime;

also same problem

[novel harbor]

then i would go to hierarchy and enemy and freeze x axis

[sand light]

with a rigidbody right ?

[tidal onyx]

Hello everyone, I need some help with the AddForce() function, trying to use it on a 2D Rigidbody and having some trouble

Essentially, the second line here is doing nothing. The first line works fine, isKinematic is set to false for the intended rigidbody, however nothing is happening with the second line. Thanks for any help

[sand light]

same problem ;-;

I used RigidbodyConstraints2D.FreezePositionX;

damn it

[slate parrot]

You need to input a forcemode. Not only that, but AddForce is a vector2, and transform.forward is Vector3

collider.gameObject.GetComponent<Rigidbody2D>().AddForce(new Vector2(0, 0), ForceMode2D.Impulse);

Change that how you need, but that's the basis

[tidal onyx]

Awesome! That works. Thanks a lot. Also, how would I adjust the parameters if I wanted the force to be applied in the opposite direction?

[slate parrot]

Great! No problem, I'm glad I could help. If you wanted it to be applied in the opposite direction, just put a negative on the axis you want to turn opposite. Example:

// Here, I just put some random numbers in there

collider.gameObject.GetComponent<Rigidbody2D>().AddForce(new Vector2(5, 3), ForceMode2D.Impulse);

  |
  |
  |

// Here, say you wanted to change the x-axis to be opposite of the first example, just change the 5 to -5

collider.gameObject.GetComponent<Rigidbody2D>().AddForce(new Vector2(-5, 3), ForceMode2D.Impulse);

@tidal onyx

[tidal onyx]

👍 Works great, thanks

[slate parrot]

Awesome, no problem at all

[slate parrot]

It's not letting me get or change the constraints on my player's RigidBody2D through code

[ruby karma]

how are you doing it

[slate parrot]

player.GetComponent<Rigidbody2D>().constraints and I'm not sure what to do after that. There's nothing else after constraints

Shouldn't there be maybe .constraints.x, constraints.y, etc?

[ruby karma]

its an enum

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/RigidbodyConstraints2D.html

[slate parrot]

That doesn't really help or tell me anything

[ruby karma]

You want to toggle these right?

[slate parrot]

Yeah

                player.GetComponent<Rigidbody2D>().constraints.FreezePositionX;

[ruby karma]

GetComponent<RigidBody2D>().constraints = RigidbodyConstraints2D.FreezePositionX;

[slate parrot]

Ohh

Thanks!

[gentle parrot]

Thanks yeah I've seen it, and considered. It's just I want to write as little custom code as possible and rely on unity physics. But I will figure out something eventually..

[mellow sleet]

hey idk if this is the right chat but i need some help. I make a android game and im working on a title screen right now. but im new to unity. And i dont know how to add a image as a scene (as an objekt). Can someone help me?

[snow willow]

Images can be added as either UI images or game world sprites

[mellow sleet]

u mean that?

[mellow sleet]

just drag and drop in there?

[snow willow]

That is a UI image yes

[mellow sleet]

but i cant drop it in there

[snow willow]

You need to make sure you set your image as a Sprite in the import settings

On your image

[mellow sleet]

or are png image blcoked?

[snow willow]

Go to the import settings

Change image type to sprite

Or texture type it might be

[mellow sleet]

where is the import setting? sry im new to unity

[snow willow]

On the image itself

Select your image in project window

You will see import settings in the inspector

[mellow sleet]

it worked thanks a lot!

[still tendon]

so, im working on a 2d sidescroller and i was wondering, whats the correct way of making a shotgun, and how would i make the bullet spread

[abstract olive]

The same way you would make a regular gun, except it shoots more than one bullet at more than just a straight angle.

[still tendon]

yes i know, but im not sure how I would fire multiple bullets, do i just instantiate multiple or?

[abstract olive]

Yes, however you spawn in a bullet for a single shot pistol, you would do the same multiple times with a shotgun.

[plush thorn]

anyone have a good resource for explaining how to do geometry wars style movement

currently have a somewhat working astroids implmentation using a rigid body but it feels klunky

[earnest wind]

How can i transform the direction of an object to the position of a certain character?

[boreal knoll]

maybe you should set a value which is called Direction to know the direction?

[visual marsh]

The lookat function works just in 3d I think

[boreal knoll]

if all of your sprite face right , then you can :

objectDirection = !characterDirection

then add some function to know the distance?

if the distance is lesser than zero, then change the direction again?

there is a value called transform.Rotate(a,b,c)

if you change the value b to 180f, then it will flip

just like : transform.Rotate(0f,180f,0f);

[earnest wind]

Yep i got it

thanks

also, i want that yellow thing to dash everytime it makes visual contact with the character and then stop for like 2 seconds and dash again, how could i do that?

[distant pecan]

check for range or use raycast, then use a coroutine or make a timer on update

[still tendon]

the player has a shotgun that rotates towards the mouse, but when the player is facing left it kind of mirrors the mouse position(hard to explain)

help

[edgy plover]

Does anyone know why when he is running and jumps the animation happens later?

but if you jump without running if it works

[still tendon]

you might have exit time

check the animator

[edgy plover]

I have it disabled in the two transitions

maybe i need a transition in jump and run?

[snow willow]

play the game with the animator selected and the animation window open on the side

you can watch the state machine go brr while you play

should give you some better insight as to what's going wrong

but yeah maybe it's having to transition through idle to get to run?

or it can't

because there's no transition

[edgy plover]

i fix it

whit a transition in run to jump

whit the condition

[sullen wadi]

help guys

double animation

[abstract olive]

Don't cross-post please.

[sullen wadi]

I need help

[abstract olive]

Yes, and you've posted in #🏃┃animation, so wait for help there. Don't cross-post between channels.

[alpine steeple]

Im trying to figure out a way to make collisions in a isometric scene, with the player being able to jump up onto higher elevations, but cant walk into them. should i try incorporate 3d physics or is there another way to do it?

[still tendon]

ok so theres a serious physics problem in my game. When my player jumps up a block and he barely gets over he gets launched into the air because theres no friction, how do i fix this?

[mellow sleet]

hey how can i move the edges?

like that

[alpine steeple]

pretty sure thats not code, but at the top you should be able to change between size, pos, rotation etc and its on there

[mellow sleet]

ah ok thx

i didnt know where to write

[still tendon]

for some reason i cant add an audio source to a prefab, how do i fix it?

[mellow sleet]

my code isnt working someone know why?

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

public class MenuController : MonoBehaviour

    public string mainMenuScene;
    public GameObject pauseMenu;
    public bool isPaused;
{
    // Start is called before the first frame update
    void Start()
    {

    }

    // Update is called once per frame
    void Update()
    {
        if(Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.Escape))
        {
            if (isPaused) 
            {

                ResumeGame();
            
            } else
            {
                isPaused = true;
                pauseMenu.SetActive(true);
                Time.timeScale = 0f;
            }
        }
    }

    public void ResumeGame()
    {
        isPaused = false;
        pauseMenu.SetActive(false);
        Time.timeScale = 1f;
    }

    public void ReturnToMain()
    {
        Time.timeScale = 1f;
        SceneManager.LoadScene(mainMenuScene);
    }
}

no visual studio errors but these unity errors

[snow willow]

If VS isn't showing you errors, it's not configured properly

Make sure you configure it https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/gamedev/unity/get-started/getting-started-with-visual-studio-tools-for-unity#configure-unity-to-use-visual-studio

and yes those are all real errors. Your { is a bit misplaced near the start of the class definition

All the variables need to be inside the brackets

you can't start declaring variables before the {

[drowsy vine]

Can someone help me a bit more personally with an issue im having?

Essentially I am producing a "stickWall" that when the player comes into contact to they will stick

The solution I came to was turning Y and X velocity to 0

then turning gravity off

This works like 50% of the time, but the other 50% ill hit the wall, and just immediately begin sliding down slowly rather than staying in place

I think the issue is that the player is bouncy, and they bounce off the wall before they stick, but thats just speculation and I dont really know why its so inconsistent

    {
        if(col.transform.tag == "stickyPlatform")
        {
            rb.gravityScale = 1;
        }
        if(col.transform.tag == "movingPlatform")
        {
            transform.parent = null;
        }
        
    }

    private void OnCollisionEnter2D(Collision2D col)
    {
        if(col.transform.tag == "stickyPlatform")
        {
            rb.gravityScale = 0;
            rb.velocity = new Vector3(0f, 0f, 0f);
            
        }
        float volumeLevel = Mathf.Abs(rb.velocity.y) + 0.1f;
        source.volume = volumeLevel;
        source.Play();
    }``` these are the two functions I am using for the stickPlatform

is there a better solution for this than what I came up with

[vocal halo]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Physics2D.CircleCast.html

Maybe.

This perhaps too.

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Physics2D.OverlapCircle.html

[snow willow]

You could make it kinematic and teleport it back to the contact point. Or you could stick the object to the wall with a FixedJoint

[drowsy vine]

ill try a fixed joint first as that sounds easier

although how would i get a fixed joint to allow you to leave

bc i feel that having a break force would impact movement

i tried to have it set the stickyJoint's breakForce to 0 whenever you let up on the spacebar, but that causes issues in scenaries where the joint doesnt exist

is there an easier way to break the joint without forcing it to have some precise breakForce

the solution I came to was not letting a new joint be made until you leave collision

otherwise itd keep infinitely connecting you

[errant cloud]

i made this thing trigger code but it doesnt work for some reason

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

public class DeactivateOrActivateSomething : MonoBehaviour
{
    public bool Deactivate;
    public GameObject GameObject;

    private void OnTriggerEnter2D(Collider2D collision)
    {
        if(collision.tag == "Player")
        {
            if (Deactivate)
            {
                GameObject.SetActive(false);
                this.GameObject.SetActive(false);
            }

            else
            {
                GameObject.SetActive(true);
                this.GameObject.SetActive(false);
            }
        }
    }
}

[severe flint]

Have you trying to see if its called?

[errant cloud]

by debug log?

[severe flint]

yep

[errant cloud]

lemme try it real fast

[severe flint]

Also if the GameObject is not Active Unity don't call its API so OnTriggerEnter2D don't work

[errant cloud]

it gets detected

but it doesnt run theese lines

GameObject.SetActive(false);
this.GameObject.SetActive(false);

[severe flint]

Because when object is Deactivated for Unity dons't exists anymore

[errant cloud]

yeah ik that

but before deactivating it it should activate/deactivate the other objects

[severe flint]

if you want to hide it without deactivating you need to set is alpha channel of the sprite to 100% so its invisible

[errant cloud]

the trigger is already invisible

do u mean the gameobject im trying to make invisible

[severe flint]

yep, sorry

[errant cloud]

i can do that but it wont work if i wanna disable a platform

[severe flint]

you can disable collider or you can remove it

[errant cloud]

the game object has SetActive false

it should activate when i touch the trigger

it doesnt work

i have no idea why

the trigger also doesnt UnActive itself

Debug.Log("Deactivated");
GameObject.SetActive(false);
this.GameObject.SetActive(false);
``` the debug log works

but the others dont

for some reason

[severe flint]

What you mean?

Debug.Log("Deactivated"); this is executed right?

[errant cloud]

yes

[severe flint]

Wait you are deactivating 2 time the same gameobject

[errant cloud]

nope

GameObgject is another one

this.GameObject is the trigger

[severe flint]

This.GameObject and GameObject is the same

form the c# compiler prospective i mean

[errant cloud]

so i should change the name of the Gameobject?

[severe flint]

nope use only setActive(false); for the second one if you want to disable the gameobject of the trigger

[errant cloud]

ok

SetActive(false)

thats it

[severe flint]

on both area the if and else

[errant cloud]

like this?

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

public class DeactivateOrActivateSomething : MonoBehaviour
{
    public bool Deactivate;
    public GameObject GameObject;

    private void OnTriggerEnter2D(Collider2D collision)
    {
        Debug.Log("Collision Detected");
        if(collision.tag == "Player")
        {
            if (Deactivate)
            {
                Debug.Log("Deactivated");
                GameObject.SetActive(false);
                SetActive(false);
            }

            else if (!Deactivate)
            {
                Debug.Log("Activated");
                GameObject.SetActive(true);
                SetActive(false);
            }
        }
    }
}

[severe flint]

yep

[errant cloud]

sad sound effect here

[severe flint]

else if(!Deactivated) can be only else

[errant cloud]

for Setactive i gotta put what is gonna get deactivated/activated before

[severe flint]

this.gameObject.SetActive sorry

remember c# is CaseSenitive so gameObject and GameObject is different

[errant cloud]

oh

i forgot that

tysm

btw

that was the error

[still tendon]

how to detect if players transform position x went down by 3 or increased by 3

whats previusX ?

use what?

@severe flint

[brazen halo]

Hominus got muted it seems kekw

[still tendon]

oof

[brazen halo]

well, depends on how exactly you want it written, if you want to check for change on every frame, or only if moved from initial position enough, etc

[elfin matrix]

https://paste.myst.rs/gwc99lm8 need to chang spacebare for jump into w and up key pls tell me how to

pls pin me as i need to go now i will come backe in 5 to10 min

[severe flint]

Change the configuration into your input-system

[warped viper]

Could anyone tell me how to make my script display 1k coins instead of 1000 coins once it reaches that amount?

Im struggling with that

[hybrid yoke]

You will have to switch the display to a string at that point if it's not already

[warped viper]

It's a double right now

[hybrid yoke]

but the display is a string correct?

[warped viper]

lemme check lol

I have no string

I have Data displayed

[hybrid yoke]

Okay so, if you are wanting to include "K" it will have to be a string

as the final output at least

[warped viper]

Yea I have no clue lol

I just started learning C#

[hybrid yoke]

but as far as logic goes if it's greater than 999, you'll want to divide by 1000 and round down

[candid plover]

Its greater then 9000

[warped viper]

This is kind of what I added, but it's giving me a method error

[hybrid yoke]

lets see it

[warped viper]

Probably cause I'm not using a string

[hybrid yoke]

you'll only want it to be a string right before displaying it

not while you're doing logic

[warped viper]

private void Update()
{
if (data.gold > 1000) goldText.text = "Gold Coins : " (data.gold / 1000) + "K";
else goldText.text = "Gold Coins : " + data.gold;
}

I don't know how to use a string yet that's the thing lol

[hybrid yoke]

goldText.text is a string

[warped viper]

oh it is?

Well that's my display

[hybrid yoke]

I mean I am making an assumption but yes

so

I would do this

[warped viper]

using UnityEngine;
using TMPro;

public class Controller : MonoBehaviour
{
public Data data;
public TMP_Text goldText;

private void Start()
{
    data = new Data();
}

public void Update()
{
    if (data.gold > 1000) goldText.text = "Gold Coins : " (data.gold / 1000) + "K";
    else goldText.text = "Gold Coins : " + data.gold;
}

public void GenerateGold()
{
    data.gold += 1;
}

}

This is all there is now

And then there's one for the data.gold

[hybrid yoke]

if (data.gold > 1000){

ignore that give me a second

so you are saying gold is a decimal?

[warped viper]

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

public class Data
{
public double gold;

public Data()
{
    gold = 0;
}

}

[hybrid yoke]

do you ever want to display decimals?

[warped viper]

Umh, not for gold coins

which is Gold

[hybrid yoke]

so use integer

[warped viper]

so public int gold instead of double?

[hybrid yoke]

yes

[warped viper]

is that all I need to change?

[hybrid yoke]

no

[warped viper]

.nostring something?

[hybrid yoke]

if (data.gold > 999){
data.gold = data.gold / 1000
goldText.text = "Gold Coins: " + data.gold + "K"
}

[warped viper]

This is not right

[hybrid yoke]

public void Update(){

if (data.gold > 999){
data.gold = data.gold / 1000
goldText.text = "Gold Coins: " + data.gold + "K"
}

}

public void update(){

if (data.gold > 999){
data.gold = data.gold / 1000
goldText.text = "Gold Coins: " + data.gold + "K"
}else{
}
}

then put your regular bit in the else

also don't forget ;

on the end of those lines

[abstract olive]

Just a heads up, but you can format your code with backticks:
#💻┃code-beginner message

[warped viper]

Now it just divides my amount instead of only the display

it divides the amount of gold instead of just the amount of what it's displaying

[hybrid yoke]

so then make a new variable in the update()

set it to the gold amount

int displayGold = data.gold / 1000

then use the display gold in your display

good?

[warped viper]

Cant I just divide it here

goldText.text = "Gold Coins: " + data.gold + "K";

like

goldText.text = "Gold Coins: " + data.gold / 1000 + "K";

[hybrid yoke]

you can

[distant pecan]

goldText.text = $"Gold Coins: {data.gold}K";

a lot cleaner

[hybrid yoke]

nah he needs to divide