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[still tendon]

When I press a button, there is a kind of delay, like a little lag, it's because of the EventSystem, right?

[keen schooner]

yall talking enchantment table

[azure meteor]

So to clarify I have two objects player and interactionObject.
Player has rigid body 2D, Collider2D and script with Debug.Log on triggerEnter2D.
InteractionObject has Collider2D set as trigger, and script with Debug.Log on triggerEnter2D.
Now for some reason only Player's script responds can anyone help me with that? I can show two codes as well if needed.

[zealous topaz]

Hello, I'm at a loss here. This is my tree:

and this is the code that is run (I checked it was):

                rend.sprite = Sprite.Create(tex, new Rect(0, 0, tex.width, tex.height), new Vector2(0.5f, 0.5f), GraphicData.CharacterPortraitPixelPerUnit);
                rend.sortingOrder = 11;
                rend.transform.position = cam.ViewportToWorldPoint(new Vector3(0.5f, 0.5f, 0f));

where rend is a SpriteRenderer attached to a child of CharacterBar, and tex is a Texture2D

the camera attached to MainCamera has a Z value of -5

and no matter what, the sprite is never drawn

I'm a beginner but I'm not new to programming. I believe all the structures/classes I've been using are basic so far.

I've been pondering this over and over and I can't figure out why the sprite doesn't show up

Never mind. The Z value was switched during runtime.

[violet timber]

I tried to add a title card in with my warp/fade in/out scripts, but whenever I hit a warp point the game freezes, can I get some help?

nevermind

[rapid wagon]

Whenever I play an animation on GetButtonUp, it only plays for a split second. How do I have it play for longer than that (like, still less than a second but a bit longer than what it is now)?

[worn narwhal]

Okay. So I have built out a procedural generation object that has a script that handles generating the very basic vertical 2d map to walk down, and the player who is instantiated with the basic ui and camera attached. i have a second script that instantiates another object which needs to be able to follow the player along the y axis but not move along the x axis. I had created a follow the leader function in this object but im not sure how to connect the two when the objects are instantiated through procedural generation anyone have any ideas? i normally would make the player the leader through a serializedfield on the other object.

[violet timber]

https://pastebin.com/7jtEWpqg

I'm trying to code in attacks, but some times it's not picking up the spacebar input

[sage gorge]

Okay, i am struggeling for 4 hours with this now ... maybe you can help me. I found nearly every solution, but now i need to Add my WeightedRandomTile to my AutoTiling ... is this possible ?

i hope this is the right channel for this :/

[violet timber]

@sage gorge maybe try in #💻┃unity-talk

[sage gorge]

yeah i figured that out and asked there aswell soon after. Just joined the server and didnt had a complete overview where to ask for what

[violet timber]

@sage gorge good luck!!

[sage gorge]

Thank you! I hope there is someone who can help me out with that!

[red parrot]

hi, so im working on a 2d side scroller and im trying to implement falling objects into my game. i understand collision but confused on how to make it make the falling object loop where after it collides with a platform, it restarts back to its original positioning

any help 😄

[raven forge]

Hello 👋

A question I'm making a 2D enemy, I'm put the rigidbody of the enemy as dynamic, but is falling through the world.

Is it a good implemenation make a enemy with dynamic physics. I want the enemy feel the gravity that's why I put the dynamic ridigbody

[gray brook]

Easiest thing is probably to have your script store it's starting position/ orientation and then on collision you can set the current position/orientation back to those defaults.

[red parrot]

is that the best way of tackling it, i originally added a rigidbody2d comp to it and have it fall onto the platform and is there no way for me to create a script where when it collides with the platform to go back to its original orientation?

[gray brook]

What you have is fine, but you still need something to track it's original position and some method that resets it's current position to the original.

You could do that in an external script, but it is easier to just handle that with a script on the actual object.

[red parrot]

hm alright thats sounds feasible thanks for the answer!

[raven forge]

Yes, I agree with @gray brook is easier with a script

@gray brook can you help me with my question?

[gray brook]

Haven't messed with dynamic physics, but if you use rigidbody2d you can have it obey gravity with just that.
You will also need some kind of collider on the floor so that the rigidbody2d has something to interact with.

[raven forge]

Yes, it has the terrain collider where he can land. But somehow when I put the ridigbody as dynamic it doesn't interact with it.

[gray brook]

🤷 sorry, haven't messed with dynamic yet

Do you need it to be dynamic?

[raven forge]

Yes, because when the enemy falls the platform. It continues to walk, in mid air. 😆

[gray brook]

It shouldn't need dynamic for that.
If it has gravity enabled and there is no collider beneath it, it should fall.

[red parrot]

ok I'm back and my problem now is that I've created the script but when i make contact with the platform, it doesnt reset position

[raven forge]

@red parrot send a picture of the script

[red parrot]

it falls but when it makes contact with the platform that has a box collider on it, it jus falls through it

[raven forge]

Aren't you doing a 2D game. Why the vector3?

[red parrot]

kinda unsure i was using an online source and it suggested this but yeah i realized it should just be a Vector2 lol

nvm i realized that i had to reattach a 2d rigidbody to it

[raven forge]

Lol, all right.

[solemn latch]

Does anyone have any suggestions for keeping a 2dIK limb from flipping seemingly at random?

[still tendon]

I can't stop my character from moving when I click on the Quit button?

[sullen wadi]

hi all

Where can I find the name of such mechanics?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qqh_BrSItFQ&ab_channel=BugC-GameDev

[sleek sleet]

can someone help me in creating this logic

[sullen wadi]

How to implement such a mechanic? where should I google and read

[violet timber]

https://pastebin.com/e4TQ97pX
https://pastebin.com/j46kPgrX
https://pastebin.com/XDNrhkkp

My HP Sliders aren't tracking HP when it instantiates

They're just flimsy and moveable

[crisp thorn]

I'm trying to find the distance between the player and enemy with the code
' Vector2 distance = ((Vector2)player.position -(Vector2)rb.position);
Debug.Log(distance);'
But I keep getting the error 'NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object defaultEnemyController.TakeDamage (System.Int32 damage) (at Assets/defaultEnemyController.cs:35)' Why????

[knotty barn]

Because the reference you tried to access wasn't set to point to anything (null).

[crisp thorn]

How would I fix this?

[knotty barn]

Make sure the reference has been assigned to something before accessing it

[violet timber]

@knotty barn can you help any with my hp slider issue?

[crisp thorn]

Let me give that a try, thanks!

[knotty barn]

First you need to figure out which reference is null, which can easily be done by adding a breakpoint and hovering over all values

[violet timber]

It seemed like the script was working for a second, but idk what happened

[violet timber]

It's treating my player object like the enemy object, and the enemy object like there are no values

[still tendon]

Hi! I am pretty new to Unity and i am currenty working on a top down 2d shooter. I want the maps to be randomly generated and i have a spritesheet. I already did a bit of research into it and found that using perlin noise was the best method. The problem is i dont think it works for an top down game. Are there any good alternatives to it?

[gray brook]

Perlin noise just creates a grid with smoothly changing random values, you should be able to use it for whatever you want.

[still tendon]

Okay. Thanks for your advice ^^

[rare lake]

If I wanted to do something during a certain frame of an animation or after an animation is done what would the code look like?

[gleaming moss]

Hello :)
In my game, I want the player to be able to rotate but not be able to roll over.
Is that possible with a simple code?
I use Rigidbody 2D, so I can easy unfreeze the Z Rotation, so that the player rotates on an ramp, but then the player can roll over...

I also tried something like:
If z-rotation > 20: set z rotation to 20
but it did not work

[sullen wadi]

How can you release wall painting in the game?

[winter heart]

Animation events. You can put triggers in specific frames in the animation it self

[rare lake]

Sweet

Thanks

[fickle prairie]

You can clamp the angular velocity in Update()

[gleaming moss]

Hey @fickle prairie, thanks for the tipp!
But can you give me an example, how to set the angular velocity?
I did not find one in the internet :(
Thanks!

[fickle prairie]

It's on rigidbody

[gleaming moss]

You see there, what the player should do. And in the end you see, what the player should not do...

So I want, that the player can only Rotate on the Z-Rotation from -20° to 20° but not more

So that the player dont roll over

[vocal condor]

You could just clamp the Euler Z value of rotation to a value between -20 and 20.

[zealous topaz]

hello

how do you access the RectTransform component of an object with a TextMeshProUGUI component?

I want to change the width and height but

        RectTransform rt = objj.GetComponent<RectTransform>();
        rt.rect = new Rect(0f, 0f, 200f, 50f);

triggers the error:

Assets/CharacterBarBehaviourScript.cs(36,3): error CS0200: Property or indexer 'RectTransform.rect' cannot be assigned to -- it is read only

[vocal condor]

The calculated rectangle in the local space of the Transform.
Unity automatically attaches these to UI elements. Manipulate aspects of the rectangle in the Inspector such as the position, dimensions, rotation, and scale. This is read-only in a script.

Modify the size with https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/RectTransform-sizeDelta.html rather than the calculated size that is a read only variable.

[zealous topaz]

ok thanks

[gleaming moss]

Yeah thats what I try, but how?

[vocal condor]

Maybe something like: ```cs
float z = transform.eulerAngles.z;
z = z < 180f ? z : z - 360f;
transform.rotation = Quaternion.Euler(0f,0f,Mathf.Clamp(z, min, max));

[gleaming moss]

@vocal condor thanks for you help!!! I try that tomorrow in my game!

[snow herald]

Hi, I am learning 2D game development with Unity (YouTube courses) and I have a problem with the checkpoint.

When I pass the map / scene, it starts from the place of the previous checkpoint and not from the starting point of that map / scene.

[snow willow]

You're going to have to provide a little more context such as what video/tutorial you're following and maybe the code you are using

[snow herald]

Look what happens when I change the scene

and this is the checkpoint

[umbral cape]

How hard would it be to procedurally fracture a 2d object?

[rotund burrow]

how do i set the color of an object to a color variable in a script. I tried this code but for some reason it doesnt work idk why

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

public class CollisionManager : MonoBehaviour
{
    public SpriteRenderer sr;
    public Color onDamageColor;

    private void OnCollisionEnter2D(Collision2D collision)
    {
        if (collision.transform.CompareTag("Hazard"))
        {
            sr.color = new Color(onDamageColor);
        }
    }
}

nvm i fixed it

[desert warren]

Benkey that fall on the face thing is funny.

[errant cloud]

    private Rigidbody2D rb;
    public float speed;
    public Vector2 minusMousePosition;

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

    void Update()
    {
        minusMousePosition = new Vector2(speed * -1 * Input.mousePosition.x, Input.mousePosition.y);

        if (Input.GetMouseButtonDown(0))
        {
            rb.velocity = minusMousePosition;
        }
    }

this is for a recoil gun i made for a platformer. It works fine if i dont count that it Launches the player miles away. how can i make it launch player not that high?

[misty vine]

You're turning screen space coordinates into a velocity. That's never going produce reliable results. If you had the mouse at 0,0 the player wouldn't move at all.

[errant cloud]

OH

how can i fix it then?

[misty vine]

Depends what you're trying to achieve. If you just want to knock the player back a bit, add a bit of force in the opposite direction to which they're firing
https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Rigidbody2D.AddForce.html

[errant cloud]

i want to make like a rocket launcher

well a bit different

you get pushed from where the mouse is looking

so i need to find where the cursor is looking for player

[misty vine]

Is your player already looking there to fire though?

[errant cloud]

the cursor indicates where the player is looking

[misty vine]

Yeah so you don't need to find the mouse position again, as you're already facing that way. So just add a bit of force in the opposite direction. transform.forward should give the direction they're facing, so add force in the opposite direction

[errant cloud]

if the mouse is away from the player it should launch him more if its closer it should launcher less

[errant cloud]

wait the player doesnt look at the cursor sorry. i was meant to type this code to do that and launch it opposite of where he was looking

@misty vine

[misty vine]

OK so I think what you want to do is get the position of the mouse and the position of the player. Calculate the difference between them to get a new vector that should be the direction from the player to the mouse.
Then use https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Vector2.Distance.html to get the distance between the 2 points.
Then you can add some force in the opposite direction to what you just calculated, and scale it based on the distance.

[errant cloud]

MousePosition = Vector2.Distance(Input.mousePosition.x, Input.mousePosition.y);
``` so this?

[misty vine]

No...

You need to pass in 2x Vector2 variables

You've passed in 2x float variables

[errant cloud]

Oh

one for player one for mouse right?

[misty vine]

Yes

[errant cloud]

how can i detect for Player?

[misty vine]

transform.position on the Player GameObject

[errant cloud]

MousePosition = new Vector2(Input.mousePosition.x, Input.mousePosition.y);
        VectorDistance = Vector2.Distance(gameObject.transform.position, MousePosition);

[misty vine]

That should give you the distance between the 2 positions. Now you need to do the first part to get the direction.

[errant cloud]

İt gives an error

Float cant be transformed Into vector2

[misty vine]

Well you should be using the mouse position and player position which are both Vector2, no floats involved

[errant cloud]

then why does it give that error

[misty vine]

Because you're using the wrong variables

[errant cloud]

what should i use?

[misty vine]

I literally told you before you said it gave an error!

[still tendon]

how do i make it if player losses one health it plays 1 out 4 sound effect

[errant cloud]

Playsound

[humble forge]

What would be the best way to rotate a top-down character to face where it's going? I'm currently just lerping its up vector to face the movement direction vector, but that gives some unwanted results

I've concidered quaternion.slerp already but don't know how to use it in this situation

if i just quaternion.euler() the vectors and try to slerp it works good but snaps to 0 on negative values

[misty vine]

Put the 4 sound effects into an array. Generate a random number between 0 and 3. Play the sound at that array position

[still tendon]

thank you

[royal goblet]

i am trying to instantiate bullet but every time i press spacebar it just creates too many clones

[copper minnow]

that's the problem

GetKey returns true as long as you keep pressing the key

what you might want to do is use Input.GetKeyDown(); instead

that only returns true for the first frame the key is being helf

[royal goblet]

ohh i totally forgot that . Thank you so much

[hearty anvil]

#🖼️┃2d-tools message

I'm still hoping for a solution on this. If I need to provide any other information that can help, I can

[mossy grotto]

@royal goblet Is this topdown or platformer?

[hearty anvil]

I can't get instBulletEmitter to be recognised as a GameObject by the emitter's script so the emitters will not move but the bullets they emit act fine

[hearty anvil]

I don't really want to rush anything but this is the 4th or 5th time I've posted this here and I'm no closer to figuring out how to move forward

When I create the emitter object in the boss script (both the emitter script and boss script inherit from the same script which has the private GameObject instBulletEmitter), I want it to be able to move and rotate but it doesn't because the emitter still has instBulletEmitter as null. It creates bullets so it is receiving all the other values here successfully but the object does not seem to exist? I'm just confused as to why this is and what I'm doing wrong.

[mossy grotto]

@hearty anvil Make prefabEmitter a prefab

[hearty anvil]

You mean by dragging and dropping it in the inspector?

[mossy grotto]

Ye

[hearty anvil]

That's already done

[mossy grotto]

I can't help you by just looking at the code u sent

[hearty anvil]

Should I share my Boss and Emitter scripts?

[mossy grotto]

Show video of what's happening

[hearty anvil]

The bullet emitters are the things firing the green bullets but they're doing it at the boss's position instead of moving with the emitter because the emitter game object instance does not exist.

I clicked on the boss (Cherry) and in the inspector it does have a value for the instBulletEmitter but when I click on the Emitter clone it does not

[still tendon]

Is there anyway to make this code smoother its going to be used on a camera but sadly it can be quite jittery

[earnest wind]

How could i make it so that when an enemy dies it instiatiates an object randomly?

when i mean randomly i mean with a chance of 50%

[snow willow]

bool doTheThing = Random.value > .5f;
if (doTheThing) {
  // do something
}```

this will work because Random.value returns a random number between 0 and 1

so checking if it's greater than .5 gives you a 50% chance

[earnest wind]

Nice thanks 👍

[pearl acorn]

Hi, I'm using playmaker in Unity2d and I can't get my "Character" to jump. My get key down is functioning and linked to the Add Force 2d but still it just won't jump.

Example:

[snow willow]

Try ForceMode.Impulse

Or VelocityChange

[pearl acorn]

How would I change the velocity @snow willow? (Also the impulse thing didn't work, I've tried a bunch and tried again and nope)

[snow willow]

I'm saying ForceMode.VelocityChange

[pearl acorn]

OH, okay

Like change it in visual studio, right?

[earnest wind]

It works 👍

[snow willow]

no in playmaker

[pearl acorn]

It's not an option for me, my only options are force and impulse

[snow willow]

Oh y eah sorry

that's only in 3D

[pearl acorn]

Hecc.

[snow willow]

2D only has Force and Impulse

Impulse should be fine

[pearl acorn]

Could set velocity 2d work?
And impulse doesn't work either, I do not understand why this damn cube won't leave the floor.

[snow willow]

Can you set your button press to print something to the console?

Make sure that it's actually working?

I'm not super familiar with playmaker so not 100% how to best debug it

[pearl acorn]

Could you tell me how to do that, sorry, I really don't know unity the best.

Like how would I get the console to show it

[snow willow]

I don't know playmaker >_>

[pearl acorn]

Frick

[snow willow]

but is there a Debug.Log function you can call with it

[pearl acorn]

I despise this cube. And I know it's sending out the signal, both things glow up when I click space. I'm doing everything right and still this cube does not move.

[ancient willow]

    public GameObject Player;

    public float MoveDist = 0.1f;
    public float DesiredX;
    public float DesiredY;

    void Start()
    {
        DesiredX = Player.transform.position.x;
        DesiredY = Player.transform.position.y;
    }

    void Update()
    {
        Player.transform.position = Vector2.Lerp(Player.transform.position, new Vector2(DesiredX, DesiredY), Time.deltaTime);
    }

    public void MoveLeft()
    {
        Debug.Log(DesiredX -= MoveDist);
        DesiredX -= MoveDist;
    } ```
Hello I have a question about this script, the player starts at 0,0 and when moving left they move to -50 which is not the move distance
What I want to happen is the player moves by 0.1, but the Debug.Log results in -50 and I am just really confused. Apologies if i'm missing something obvious.

[snow willow]

No idea what values you're passing into there

Or how you're calling MoveLeft

But

[ancient willow]

im calling it via a button

[snow willow]

Debug.Log(DesiredX -= MoveDist); this log call is actually also decrementing DesiredX by MoveDist

you're doing it twice

that's a problem but maybe not your main problem

What is MoveDist set to in the inspector @ancient willow

[ancient willow]

ah

it is 50

[snow willow]

well there ya go

Anyway you should fix this too:

    public void MoveLeft()
    {
        Debug.Log(DesiredX -= MoveDist);
        DesiredX -= MoveDist;
    } ```

[ancient willow]

Apologies if i'm missing something obvious.

lmao

thanks

[snow willow]

It should be:

    public void MoveLeft()
    {
        DesiredX -= MoveDist;
        Debug.Log(DesiredX);
    }```

[ancient willow]

I dont remember changing the values in the inspector though, and do they overwrite what is in the script?

[snow willow]

they will overwrite the values in the field initializer, yes

[sullen wadi]

hi guys

How do I shrink the grid and make it isometric?

Grid system

[abstract shore]

how do I make the damage animation loop while the enemy is touching the thorn?

[rare lake]

So how much would it help me if I learn C# before going into Unity scripting

[mossy grotto]

Unity is c# wdym?

[snow willow]

quite a lot

[rare lake]

Learning the actual code before going into scripting in Unity. Because I have no coding experience 😂

[snow willow]

learn C# first

or you will be utterly lost

and hopelessly copying scripts and praying

but IDK, a lot of people try to get by that way so

¯_(ツ)_/¯

[rare lake]

I’d rather be able to bust out my own code whenever I want would make things faster instead of being a script kitty

[hidden fossil]

http://pastie.org/p/4Nwjn37A3PybaahugeIoDC

why is the gun not following my mouse?

i changed the position of the gun follow code to Fixed update but it still didn't work

anyone :/

[turbid heart]

Is the script attached to the gun? Also.. you named your script Destroy. I’m not sure if that’ll cause problems down the road

[hidden fossil]

yes it is

and ik i was testing things out for fun

[turbid heart]

Look at line 83 and debug log everything in there that could be null

And in the future, start your question with the error message. It’s much more helpful than posting the entire code

[hidden fossil]

alr 1 sec

it was Debug.Log(); right?

[turbid heart]

Yes

[hidden fossil]

Why is Log displaying in red tho?

[turbid heart]

Because you haven’t put anything in as a parameter?

[hidden fossil]

What do i put inside?

We made it here maybe?

[turbid heart]

You’re trying to figure out what is null on that line

So put in your variables, one debug log each, and see which one is null

Put it before the line with the error

[hidden fossil]

oh

the erorr comes after moving

and the moving appears to be fine

so i think fixing that error wont be a big deal

[turbid heart]

Null reference exceptions are usually game breaking. It means you’re trying to use something that you haven’t assigned

[hidden fossil]

alright

still what do i put inside the log text?

the variable i want to debug ?

[turbid heart]

Yes

[hidden fossil]

alright do i put them between " ?

[turbid heart]

Show me line 83

[hidden fossil]

i dont think so

alright 1 sec

[turbid heart]

You don’t need quotation marks. You’re not printing a string, you’re printing the value of the variables

[hidden fossil]

ok

i added rotZ and offSet

does the debug text have to be after the line i wanna debug?>

[turbid heart]

Before

[hidden fossil]

rotZ is a variable, but when i added it before the line 83 it became red

am i doing something stupid here?

[turbid heart]

Idk, check difference, or some other variable. Check which one is null. I need to go

Good luck

[hidden fossil]

its all good i know u got frustrated lol

bye

[naive apex]

Hi guys, I have a question.
I'm trying to change my tile with SetTile,
but the new tile is drawn along with the old tile.
Sometimes the new tile stack on top, sometimes behind.
What did i do wrong?

[vocal condor]

You cannot use the local variable rotZ before you declare it.

[hidden fossil]

isn't it already declared in line 86?

[vocal condor]

Aren't you using it before said line though?

[vocal condor]

Which I addressed.

[hidden fossil]

days line?

[vocal condor]

rotZ does not know what it is until it's declared.

[hidden fossil]

do i go up and make a variable for it ?

btw i got that chunk of code from thornprod

[naive apex]

When i use SetTile, the old tile is not removed.
Why?

[coral walrus]

I'm working on a mobile game, and I'm interested in being able to draw directly to the screen -- basically having a canvas size equal to the screen resolution of whatever device the app is on at the moment. It looks like most of the code is geared to automatically resizing, etc... but I figure there must be a way to do this -- I've looked around, and been unable to find it though. If anyone can point me in the right direction, that'd be much appreciated 🙂

[snow willow]

Assuming you are using a Screen Space canvas (Overlay or Camera), this is pretty much the default behavior

just make sure your Canvas Scaler is in Constant Pixel Size and I think you're good to go

[coral walrus]

hmm -- I've used Screen Space - Overlay -- and Screen Space - Camera -- maybe I didn't use Constant Pixel Size though -- does it matter if I use Overlay or Camera?

[snow willow]

no

[coral walrus]

nm you addressed that

[snow willow]

not for this anyway

[coral walrus]

I guess I must've perhaps changed it to scale with screen size or something wrong when I did it before -- thanks much for the help, I'll give this a shot 🙂

[snow willow]

np

Also Scale Factor should be 1 on the Canvas Scaler

You could optionally just remove the Canvas Scaler as well

[golden bloom]

this is the code im writing for my game which is a 2d endless runner where you swap between different characters i got the code to work for swapping characters but im trying to figure out how make different movement speeds for each character

[turbid heart]

Would help if you posted the code instead of taking a picture

[turbid heart]

Look at #💻┃code-beginner pinned messages to see how to post code here

[viral finch]

There's something weird that ive been experiencing for awhile

So i basically have a bullet ball, in which if you shoot at it i'll instantiate multiple bullets around it

But for some odd reason it can randomly spawns those multiplie bullets on the origin point (0,0,0) which is basically near the player

And instantly killing the player in process

    {
        if (collision.collider.CompareTag("Bullet") && this != null)
        {
            gm.addedScore += pointsIfShot;
            SpawnSpikes(spikesAmount);
        }
        else if (collision.collider.CompareTag("Player") && this != null)
        {
            gm.Death();
            SpawnSpikes(spikesAmount);
        }

        else if (collision.collider.CompareTag("Ground") && this != null)
        {
            SpawnSpikes(spikesAmount);
        }
    }

    void SpawnSpikes(int numberOfSpikes)
    {
        float angleStep = 360f / numberOfSpikes;
        float angle = 0f;

        for (int i = 0; i <= numberOfSpikes - 1; i++)
        {
            float spikeDirXPos = spikeBallPos.x + Mathf.Sin((angle * Mathf.PI) / 180) * radius;
            float spikeDirYPos = spikeBallPos.y + Mathf.Cos((angle * Mathf.PI) / 180) * radius;

            Vector2 spikeVector = new Vector2(spikeDirXPos, spikeDirYPos);
            Vector2 spikeMoveDirection = (spikeVector - spikeBallPos).normalized * spikeSpeed;
            Vector2 tempPos = spikeVector - spikeBallPos;
            float spikeLookDirection = Mathf.Atan2(tempPos.y, tempPos.x) * Mathf.Rad2Deg - 90f;

            var spikes = Instantiate(Spikes, spikeBallPos, Quaternion.Euler(0,0,spikeLookDirection));
            spikes.GetComponent<Rigidbody2D>().velocity = new Vector2(spikeMoveDirection.x, spikeMoveDirection.y);

            angle += angleStep;
        }

        Destroy(gameObject);
        Instantiate(exploxion, spikeBallPos, Quaternion.identity);
    }```

This is the code i use to spawn the bullets

    {
        int randomValue = Random.Range(0, ObjList.Count);
        GameObject spawnObject = ObjList[randomValue];

        Vector2 spawnPos = new Vector3(Random.Range(-screenWidth + spawningOffset, screenWidth - spawningOffset), screenHeight, -2);
        GameObject objt = Instantiate(spawnObject, spawnPos, Quaternion.identity);
    }```

And this is the code i use to spawn the bullet ball

@turbid heart

It's literally the first msg here xp

[turbid heart]

Your name is different. Are you lotsofshitz?

[viral finch]

I changed my name from LotsOfShitz

yeahhh

You could see we have the same pfp tho

[turbid heart]

That would be why

[viral finch]

Sry

[turbid heart]

I’m not here to compare pictures

[shrewd token]

Also Minimalist mode on discord doesn't show pics

[viral finch]

Ahh no wonder

[turbid heart]

Where is spikeBallPos assigned?

Oops. Nevermind

Hard to read the huge chunk of code

[viral finch]

It was originally a spike ball, but i changed it to bullet ball soon after

its good

[bright dome]

debug to print it out?

the spikeBallPos

[viral finch]

I dont think i have a Debug.Log to print out the spikeBallPos

[turbid heart]

Do you set the spikeBallPos to 0,0 after they’re destroyed or something? Because i notice the spikes use the y pos of the ball

[viral finch]

Nope

And yeah position of the spikes is instantiate according to the x and y pos of the spikeBall

But for some reason in random instances the spikes just spawns directly at 0,0

[turbid heart]

Can you post your code in one of these so it’s easier to read?

Large code blocks should be posted as links to services like:

• https://hatebin.com/
• https://paste.myst.rs/
• http://pastie.org/

[viral finch]

Alright

https://hatebin.com/qodctnrres

There you go

[turbid heart]

This is a toss up, but try instantiating your exploxion before calling Destroy

Your last 2 lines. Switch them around

[viral finch]

Alright

The problem is still there

[bright dome]

just print spikeBallPos to check it value

inside your loop

[turbid heart]

Yes try that. Not sure if it’s because the pos keeps updating in Update and there’s some time before it gets destroyed

[viral finch]

Alright

Huhhh, i would expect the last spikeBallPos being printed out to be 0,0,0

But it's not?

NVM

[turbid heart]

Nice

[viral finch]

I placed the Debug.Log in the update function instead of fixed update

[turbid heart]

Okay, where’s the code where you spawn the balls that drop

I like your game concept btw

[viral finch]

https://hatebin.com/oejeejysua

There's going to be more objects dropping soon, so i made a List instead

[viral finch]

Thanks

[turbid heart]

okay, that's kinda weird. Doesnt look like anything out of the ordinary, but try Debug Log spawnPos before you instantiate in SpawnObjects()

[viral finch]

Alrighty

Weird

sometimes an error msg pops up

[turbid heart]

that's good, on which line?

[viral finch]

It directed me to this line

I...

dont think it has anything to do with the bullets problem tho?

[turbid heart]

is the gm null sometimes?

a null ref is pretty game breaking most of the time. It's an error, not a warning

[viral finch]

I dont think so

But let me check using a debug.log

just in case

Okay.. this is really weird

Now the bug doesn't seem to pop up anymore

which isn't a bad thing

Also ive checked and no, the gm isnt null sometimes

[turbid heart]

weird 🤷

[viral finch]

Crei

Instead i got a new bug with the NullRefrenceException

Dammit

[turbid heart]

are you 100% sure it's on that line? 😅

i only ask for gm because the other 2 are floats, and I dont think floats can be null

[viral finch]

I double clicked the error msg and it instantly brought me to that line

[turbid heart]

okay cool

[viral finch]

Im kinda confident its that line, but at the same time abit hesitant

[turbid heart]

because in the hatebin, line 43 takes me to the opening curly brace before that line

but if it takes you to that line, it should be the case

[viral finch]

I added a Debug.Log somewhere in the code and the hatebin code doesnt have one, so probably that's why it took you to the curly braces

and yeahhh

[viral finch]

On 2nd thought it's the opposite, the hatebin code has the debug.log and my current code doesnt have one

anyways im stumped

[eternal kraken]

Can I try to help?

[viral finch]

Definitely

[eternal kraken]

alright

What is your problem?

whoah thats sounds bad

you know what i meant

[viral finch]

You could scroll up there

[eternal kraken]

ok

is the spike ball the thing you shoot?

[viral finch]

The spike ball is the falling object that once shot, will spawn multiple bullets around the spike ball

[eternal kraken]

oh ok

[viral finch]

It was going to be a spike ball, but a bullet ball would be more valid

[eternal kraken]

ok

what is spikeBallPos?

[turbid heart]

https://hatebin.com/oejeejysua
https://hatebin.com/qodctnrres

You'll need these 2 scripts

[viral finch]

spikeBallPos is the bullet ball's position that is falling

[eternal kraken]

ok

the one you set in the Update function

[viral finch]

yeah

[eternal kraken]

ok just saying, im pretty dumb and i dont know math

so im going to guess this is correct

is spikeVector the new spike's position?

[viral finch]

Nope, the spike/bullet's position is directly at the spikeBallPos

You could see it from this code

[eternal kraken]

when you take numberOfSpikes here, you always put in the same amount - spikesAmount. So instead of using numberOfSpikes inside the function, just use spikesAmount.

[viral finch]

Ahh

aigg

[turbid heart]

i think it's fine to leave it as is though

[eternal kraken]

yeah

[viral finch]

Im assuming it has the same affect doe

[turbid heart]

it allows for them to use SpawnSpikes with changeable number next time

yes, it's not a problem. In fact, it's probably better this way

[viral finch]

I see

[eternal kraken]

also here you dont have to update it every FixedUpdate, instead, just use Start and set the gravity scale to 0 in the Rigidbody2D component in the inspector

So you don't have to use FixedUpdate

[eternal kraken]

I disagree.

[viral finch]

Oo alrighty

[eternal kraken]

The only place @viral finch is calling the function is within the class it is initialized in.

Plus, the function is private

[turbid heart]

Yes, but if they want to call SpawnSpikes with a different paramter value in the future, that might help. They have different items planned later on too.

[eternal kraken]

Yeah it doesn't really matter

But I'm just saying

[eternal kraken]

It's not better.

[turbid heart]

it doesnt matter.. but it's not better. okay. I'll just step away because it feels like nitpicking at this point.

[eternal kraken]

yeah sry

what are spikeDirXPos and spikeDirYPos?

btw, this will never be equal to null if you are running that if statement

because if this == null you wouldn't be running the script

[viral finch]

I must admit, i just followed a tutorial and i think it has something to do to find the direction of each spikes/bullets

But i dont think it has anything to do with the bug

[eternal kraken]

Not knowing what your code does is not good

Is that still our problem?

[viral finch]

Well not really

It happend awhile back, but suddenly it stopped happening

[turbid heart]

spikeBallPos is 0,0 occasionally. So the problem might be before spikeDirXPos even comes into play

[eternal kraken]

you can do that easily with something i can explain

hold on

[viral finch]

Sure

[viral finch]

I agree

[viral finch]

Now a new problem arose doe, i sometimes get those Error msgs in my console

[viral finch]

These error msgs

[viral finch]

and once i checked which line the error came from, it directed me to this line

So in context it basically increases the score by a certain value after being hit by a bullet

and gm is the script that controls the scoring of the game, among other things

[eternal kraken]

private float[] GetBulletRotations(int nBullets)
        {
            var bulletRotations = new float[nBullets];
            var deltaRotation = 360 / nBullets;
            for (int i = 0; i < bulletRotations.Length; i++)
            {
                var currentRotation = deltaRotation * (i + 1);
                bulletRotations[i] = currentRotation;
            }

            return bulletRotations;
        }```
@viral finch

this is how to get the bullet rotations

I'm pretty sure

I haven't tested it

ohhh

i get what you are trying to do now

[viral finch]

Hohhh, alrighty thanks

[eternal kraken]

you shoot all the bullets at the same time from spikeBallPos right?

[viral finch]

Yes

That's literally it

[eternal kraken]

ok

ok

so you need to rotate them, and "shoot" them in their directions

right?

[viral finch]

Yep

[eternal kraken]

alr

I'll make a SpawnSpikes function and explain it to you after im done

[viral finch]

Appreciate it man

[eternal kraken]

np

actually, here it's supposed to be just i

and not (i + 1)

but that should still work

[viral finch]

so it's (i + i)?

oh nvm

it's just (i) gotcha

[eternal kraken]

No parenthesis though

just i

[viral finch]

Hohh, okie okie

[eternal kraken]

change this to spikePrefab

at the top

because you are instantiating a prefab, you are not instantiating spikes

[viral finch]

Alrighty

[viral finch]

After reading it for awhile i think i understand this code now

[eternal kraken]

btw did you change the gravityScale in the spikes/bullets' Rigidbody2D?

[eternal kraken]

nice

[viral finch]

Yep, to 0

[eternal kraken]

You can try to write here what you understood and I'll tell you if you understood it correctly

woops

that was not supposed to be a reply

[viral finch]

Its good xp

and aighty

[eternal kraken]

here

https://hatebin.com/qsyetnbgwh

[viral finch]

On 2nd thought its kinda hard to explain-

and thanks

[eternal kraken]

np

Do you want to go to dms?

[viral finch]

Sure

[eternal kraken]

I'll try to explain to you

[viral finch]

Oh i also forgot to say

Thanks @turbid heart for the help earlier

I think my problem is fixed for now

[turbid heart]

Np. Was an interesting problem

[brave creek]

http://pastie.org/p/73yztNrDU1OA7DOve953bI heyo, i've been having some trouble involving a very off IEnumerator at line 92 that just kinda decides on what it wants to do, sometimes it just gets stuck never starting the waitforseconds(0.02f), so it just stays forever at the while so i can't move. the IEnumerator gets called at an OnTriggerEnter2D (the ground check hitbox). I've asked here before, but they said the IEnumerator is fine? any ideas?

huh and now it just always never starting things past the waitforseconds(0.02f)???

okay so now i figured out its the waitforseconds indeed being completely broken, yahoo

now just figure out how to fix a regular unity codeline

[scarlet apex]

How do u get a refrence to an instantiated gameObjrct

[snow willow]

not seeing where you're actually starting the landed() coroutine

usually if a coroutine does not resume from a yield, it's because the MonoBehaviour it's associated with was destroyed, disabled, or deactivated

Also not seeing where you ever set the value of StateLanding except at the end of that coroutine @brave creek

so of course it will get stuck in the while look on line 96 unless there's somewhere else it gets changed from

[brave creek]

I stated it at the end of my message with "the IEnumerator gets called at an OnTriggerEnter2D (the ground check hitbox)", currently i'm just getting problems that the StateLanding is refusing to turn off until its the air

[snow willow]

You did say that but I'm not seeing it in the code

and like I said

StateLanding is only set at the end of that very coroutine as far as I can see

so I'm not sure why you would expect anything else, unless there's more code to be had

[turbid heart]

Assign it to a declared variable when instantiating?

[brave creek]

StateLanding is also set to true on the OnTriggerEnter2D and its the only thing changing the StateLanding that isnt on the pastie, the reason i didnt add the code is because of those being the only things that really react to it

currently the waitforseconds is working again after a restart, but the statelanding is just acting off, which im currently trying to fix myself

[snow willow]

By definition you're not sure what's causing the issue, or you wouldn't be here asking for help. Could you include the rest of the code?

[brave creek]

aand it stopped working again after 2 plays

[scarlet apex]

it doesn't become a gameObject tho, im instantiating a new character and i want the camera to follow it so i need a gameObject reference

[brave creek]

http://pastie.org/p/6kJE7ddLJOckArLDCUcPXd this is the only other code i have, it's fairly simple so i dont think it would effect too much

[still zinc]

Anything you’re instantiating can become a variable when you’re instantiating it if you just assign it to one

[snow willow]

When you call instantiate, it returns a reference to the instantiate object

[scarlet apex]

ok thanks

[snow willow]

            player.StateLanding = true;
            StartCoroutine(player.Landed());```
```cs
public IEnumerator landed()
    {
        float lastAirVel = rb.velocity.x;

        while (StateLanding)
        {
            rb.velocity = new Vector2(0, rb.velocity.y);
            ESpeed = 0;
            altSpeed = 0;
            yield return null;
            Debug.Log("landing bus");
        }

I'm confused about how StateLanding is ever supposed to become false here.

(also I'm assuming you changed landed to Landed)

[brave creek]

yeah i did sorry, changed it for some better naming, but i wonder why in that case IEnumerator JumpStartup does work

esp considering it's actually the original IEnumerator, that Landed is based off of

[gentle apex]

Hey, I'm trying to set AI in my game, i have instantiated gameobject - enemy bullet, but i need to set velocity / force and move it towards player. Can anyone help me? It's probably little bug but i don't see it. All green rectangles are enemies bullets.
https://pastebin.com/g2C8Cu3p

[snow willow]

Because you do it in the opposite order for JumpStartup()

            StartCoroutine(JumpStartup(0.06f));
            StateJumpStarting = true;```

you start the coroutine then you set the state to true

[brave creek]

ah thanks, flipping it fixed it, kinda weird to me that it completely breaks it, but eh, code is code and thanks for the help!

[native pelican]

Here's my mobile game. As you can see, everything is a little stretched vertically. How do I fix that? Also, I don't want the app to be in fullscreen, as I want to avoid the space with the phone's round edges and the camera. But I'm not sure how to modify Unity settings in order to achieve that.

[orchid pewter]

i'm trying to make a knockback effect when taking damage

how do i post code? sorry

[plush coyote]

read the second pinned message in #💻┃code-beginner

[orchid pewter]

        // Hurt
        if (Input.GetKey(KeyCode.Q)) {
            if (transform.localScale.x == 1)
            {
                rb.velocity = new Vector2(rb.velocity.x - 10, rb.velocity.y);
            }
            if (transform.localScale.x == -1)
            {
                rb.velocity = new Vector2(rb.velocity.x + 10, rb.velocity.y);
            }
            isHurt = true;
        }
        if (Input.GetKeyUp(KeyCode.Q))
        {
            isHurt = false;
        }

thank you

any tips to improve it please

[plush coyote]

well, most of the improvement would come when you start using it with enemy attacks

since you would need to change the code to push you based on which side the attack hit you on

and you would no longer be using GetKey

[orchid pewter]

yeah using Q key just to test the animation and knockback

[plush coyote]

I would set it up more for enemy attacks by making it a coroutine

not two separate GetKey statements

and I'm not really sure what isHurt does, is that for your effects?

[orchid pewter]

just tells the animator that the player is getting hit

[plush coyote]

then I would make it like this

private IEnumerator KnockbackRoutine()
{
  rb.AddForce(new Vector2(-10f * Mathf.Sign(transform.localScale.x), 0f), ForceMode2D.Impulse);
  isHurt = true;  
  yield return new WaitForSeconds(.1f);
  isHurt = false;
}

[orchid pewter]

oh i should try addforce too

[plush coyote]

then in your update loop you would do something like

if (Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.Q))
  StartCoroutine(KnockbackRoutine());

[orchid pewter]

those are new commands i'll google them

thanks for telling me your approach

[plush coyote]

if you wanted to be super consistent, you would also want to cancel any previous coroutines of this when you make a new one, so probably like

private Coroutine _knockbackRoutine;

if (Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.Q))
{
  if (_knockbackRoutine != null)
    StopCoroutine(_knockbackRoutine);
  _knockbackRoutine = StartCoroutine(KnockbackRoutine());
}

private IEnumerator KnockbackRoutine()
{
  rb.AddForce(new Vector2(-10f * Mathf.Sign(transform.localScale.x), 0f), ForceMode2D.Impulse);
  isHurt = true;  
  yield return new WaitForSeconds(.1f);
  isHurt = false;
  _knockbackRoutine = null;
}

just in case you get damaged in extremely quick succession

you don't want conflicting coroutines trying to modify isHurt

[orchid pewter]

yeah true thanks again

i'll study your code while googling

[sullen wadi]

Because of what can a person fail?

[paper timber]

I'm currently redoing my character controller due to some bugs/architecture I wasn't fond of and sort of struggling to come up with something that feels "clean". Would it be good practice to separate collision detection, input processing and the actual movement logic into their own non-MonoBehavior classes and just manage them from a single MonoBehavior instead?

[solemn latch]

I'm having some trouble with sprite skins not following 2d bones that have bone an animation and rotation applied in LateUpdate(). The bones are updated but the sprite skin isn't. https://i.imgur.com/YZhXRJA.mp4

[violet timber]

So I was following a tutorial that messed up the warp function when it introduced a second BoxCollider2D to the player, and he has a fix, but I'm using a different room warp script than he is, and the player/camera is still zooming way above the map whenever I go into a different room, can I get some help?

https://pastebin.com/WqJuRNxX

line 18 is what i tried as the fix,

[violet timber]

If posing a video of the error would help, I can

[spare urchin]

Hi i am having a question related to Coloring and Painting game. I want to do floodfill with Texture with a lock area. If i am not clear please see this link.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/38301044/filling-pattern-in-stead-of-a-color-using-flood-fill-algroithim-android

How can i achieve this in Unity.

[regal gull]

Hi, Can anybody tell me how to spawn a gameobject at a random x and y as -15?
[using instantiate]
I want to spawn infinite gameObjects also.

[spare urchin]

Use object pooling concept if you want to instantiate infinite gameobjects

[turbid heart]

Do you know how to instantiate?

[spare urchin]

Gameobject obj = Instantiate(urPrefabObject);

obj.transform.position = new Vector3(Random.Range(0, 20), Random.Range(-15,15), Random.Range(0, 10));

u can change the Random.Range values as you want.

[snow willow]

This person is asking how to spawn something at a random position. I think object pooling may be slightly advanced at this stage

[spare urchin]

he mentioned Infinite gameobjects so i thought its better to go with the right method...

[turbid heart]

Yes, and i would probably question what they mean by "infinite" because there's always supposed to be a limit

[spare urchin]

Hey can anybody help me with this.... i am struggling with this.

[snow willow]

Yeah object pooling or no, you ain't gonna get infinite objects

[lost temple]

okay so i was messing around with the vector2.movetowards command and thought maybe one of you guys might know.
So i wanted to make an enemy object move towards to player but wanted it to move in a wave pattern perpendicular to the player. I tried using mathf.sin but it didn't work for me.

to illustrate what i mean i made a bad paint diagram.

[turbid heart]

a sine wave sounds correct.. could you show where you're calling it?

[lost temple]

should i be putting it on the parent objects position in the move towards command?

I would show you but i deleted the movetowards function i had lol, i got too annoyed working at it

[turbid heart]

okay, then what do you have now?

[lost temple]

just a basic move towards function telling it to go towards the player like the black line in the diagram

[turbid heart]

Have you looked at this?
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/37614811/unity3d-how-to-move-objects-in-a-sine-wave-independantly

The sine wave part probably needs to be called in the Update() function, which is what i'm guessing you havent done

[lost temple]

i tried googling it and got loads of results of "following player in waves" zombie games lol. but cheers will check it out

[regal gull]

ooh

[regal gull]

i tried that but we can just see 2 squares spawn

[turbid heart]

I'll break down what you should do for you

1. Find out how to Instantiate objects. Look up the official Unity docs and see how you can use it.
2. Find out how to randomize a number from a range.
3. Figure out how to Instantiate objects and specify their position.

Let me know if you get stuck on a step.
That's a pretty looking game btw.

[regal gull]

um i did these things but maybe can you tell me how can i spawn the rectangles at certain intervals?
What i mean is, can i spawn a rectangle at x=0, then the next rectangle at x=4 then 3rd one at x=8 like that

[turbid heart]

sure. that sounds like you just need to +4 to the x position of the instantiated object

[regal gull]

s

can you send the code for that

[turbid heart]

no

show what you've done so far

[regal gull]

the code?

its grappling game

[turbid heart]

you said you did those 3 things. show me how you're instantiating your objects at the moment

[regal gull]

    {
        spawnX = Random.Range(0, 20);
        distanceJoint2D.enabled = false;
        screenBounds = Camera.main.ScreenToWorldPoint(new Vector3(Screen.width, Screen.height, Camera.main.transform.position.z));
        StartCoroutine(BoxSpawn());

    }
    private void spawnEnemy()
    {
        GameObject a = Instantiate(square) as GameObject;
        a.transform.position = new Vector3(spawnX, -15f, 0);
    }

    private IEnumerator BoxSpawn()
    {
        while (true)
        {
            yield return new WaitForSeconds(respawnTime);
            spawnEnemy();
        }
    }```

check it

[turbid heart]

okay, good that you use a variable for the x value. So, how would you add 4 to a variable?

[regal gull]

this is what i havedone to randomize the spawnX

the adding 4 part i think i should use a for loop

and add 4 to it every loop

[turbid heart]

or, you could add 4 every time you spawn the object

[regal gull]

after calling spawnEnemy function rt?

[turbid heart]

i dont know, it's your game. I think you know, but you're not trying. It's just adding 4 to the spawnX variable before spawning your object.

[regal gull]

ok lemme try

yay it worked! thanks

btw instead of adding 4, i picked a random from a range

    {
        distanceJoint2D.enabled = false;
        screenBounds = Camera.main.ScreenToWorldPoint(new Vector3(Screen.width, Screen.height, Camera.main.transform.position.z));
        StartCoroutine(BoxSpawn());

    }
    private void spawnEnemy()
    {
        GameObject a = Instantiate(square) as GameObject;
        a.transform.position = new Vector3(spawnX, -15f, 0);
    }

    private IEnumerator BoxSpawn()
    {
        while (true)
        {
            spawnX += Random.Range(23, 35);
            yield return new WaitForSeconds(respawnTime);
            spawnEnemy();
        }
    }```

heres the code now

[turbid heart]

if that does what you want, great

[regal gull]

thank you so much i hadn't found this fix in google also

[turbid heart]

if your issue is too specific, you wont find it in google. It helps to break down your problem into steps, then search those up.

[regal gull]

ok

[rocky mirage]

hello, how i can say if im on level <10 i use gravity or if im level >10 i use jump ?

[turbid heart]

do you know how to write an if statement already? you need an if, else if statement

[rocky mirage]

yeah i know that i need if and esle if but, i need to use my currentscene manager for finding my acutal level or?

[turbid heart]

i dont know how your project is set up, so I dont know what your issue is. If you're having trouble accessing the level variable in another script, you can watch this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymq2AUckws0

[rocky mirage]

ok thx

[sullen wadi]

help

[north rampart]

Is there a way to make a sprite mask only mask its children? (trying to do smth and sorting layer for custom range doesn't rlly help)

not sure if this can be asked here or elsewhere- I'll happily move it if it is not here 👀

[pearl acorn]

Anyone know playmaker bs? This cube isn't able to jump and I do not know why.

I've tried like 10 different ways to have it jump. and everything looks right but it's not somehow.

[keen arch]

Hi all, I'm moving a rigidbody via MovePosition(movementThisFrame) where movementThisFrame is calculated like this:
Vector2.MoveTowards(position, target, settings.Speed * Time.deltaTime);

I would like to add some InOut easing to this movement so that it feels a bit smoother. How could I accomplish this? I've tried using DOTween but I'm not sure how to get a single frame movement with it. It asks for a duration and does it over time.

[snow willow]

Try replacing MoveTowards with SmoothDamp

[gray brook]

I imported a png, used the sprite editor to identify all the sprites inside of it and sprite mode is set to Multiple
any idea why I wouldn't be able to assign this as a SpriteAtlas object?

[torn igloo]

Ok, so Im working on a top down 2d game. I want to make the player go behind the objects when colliding with them from top and be in front when its colliding from the bottom

This is the code I got from a guy: http://pastie.org/p/1nOaNTya6bE4JJkuplrZfE

I want to make the player be on front of the obstacles when colliding with them from the bottom and being under them when colliding from the top

Like in any other top down 2d game

[gray brook]

I haven't tested it, but I'd imagine you can just change the sibling index so that the player is either drawn before, or after said object.

[torn igloo]

If you want, I can give you a link to the video of a guy that used this code

Its a devlog not a tutorial but he said that this code is working

Holly shit

I found another solution in that guy's comment section

And its without code and it works better

[wicked wasp]

hey how i can make a pixel art shot ?

https://youtu.be/IAvj5baY5OE?t=49

like this

[dense flame]

I don’t know what you mean but you should google about pixel perfect

[wicked wasp]

watch the video @dense flame

at the minutes

[dense flame]

Yeah y saw it

[wicked wasp]

0:49

[dense flame]

But I don’t understand the “pixel art shot”

[wicked wasp]

the gun

the shot

[dense flame]

Ohh, the particle effect

Yeah that’s pixel perfect

[wicked wasp]

i'm italian and i don't speak english very well

and i'm 12

[wicked wasp]

can you help me?

[dense flame]

Your game is 2D right?

[wicked wasp]

yes

a ww2 war game

[dense flame]

Make an effect with particle system

[wicked wasp]

ok

thank

now i search how to do that

[dense flame]

Then add pixel perfect to your camera

[wicked wasp]

what is pixel prefect?

i'm new in unity

if you won't you can develop the game with me and my classmates

this is the charatter

i need an artis

@dense flame

what is pixel prefect?

hy

[dense flame]

It is a way to make the game look retro

And visual effects look good with pixel art

[dense flame]

Like old games

[dense flame]

Well I’m not an artist, I do make art for my game but I prefer programming

And I don’t understand Italian

Try googling “unity pixel perfect”

[wicked wasp]

But i want my game look modern like kingdom two crowns and like the game in the video

What make pixel prefect?

Literally

@nyancode

@dense flame

[zealous topaz]

hello, what's the best way to do something like the menu in the pic: https://i.ytimg.com/vi/GVBLwrFNMNw/hqdefault.jpg

should I use buttons if it's more like a scrollbar, although without the bar on the right?

the square of the selected item is colored

[still tendon]

Hey could anyone give me a reason on why this might not work. Its supposed to make the character dash in any direction on the x and y axis.

The bit after dashDirectionY is dash force

The is dashing is coming up as true than turning false if current dash time = 0 but nothing is happening

[snow willow]

Are you setting rb.velocity elsewhere in the code?

also you're just multiplyinh dashDirectionX and DashDirectionY together

and multiplying it all to transform.right

I would expect the y part to be contributing to some y axis motion

[still tendon]

would dashing seperately on the x and y work then?

[snow willow]

impossible to tell from the small amount of context you've given

I'm actually expecting that you're just overwriting the velocity completely elsewhere in your code

[still tendon]

Alright ill have a look

Yeah i am but the other place its being used is in vital movement mechanics. Is there a way i could possibly have two rb velocitys

Sadly the code is too long for me to screen shot and it wont let me paste it into discord either

[snow willow]

use a paste site

[snow willow]

Or otherwise follow the server guidelines: #💻┃code-beginner message

sorry fixed that link

[still tendon]

https://hatebin.com/etnrvipadq here

I know there are some pretty obvious issues im just not sure how to fix them

[still tendon]

Also if it’s Just straight up impossible to fix it it would be highly appreciated if you could link a good tutorial because I can’t seem to find anything remotely good

[snow willow]

Whatever you are setting velocity to in Update is irrelevant

Because your FixedUpdate is over riding the velocity every time

[solemn latch]

What you'd want to do is to have each place you alter the velocity into a variable and then at the end combine them as needed for a final result

Either that or apply forces instead of setting the velocity.

[hearty anvil]

In with another problem 😓
I've been following the instructions of this video the best I can in order to make some nice lasers for my bullet hell game:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6eRVwAtfOM
I'm up to around 4 minutes and have completed the shader which I've triple checked has nothing wrong with it. But when I move my material into the slot in the line renderer, the laser does not appear, I can only see the outline indicating it exists but that something is wrong to make it so the laser is entirely invisible. Is there any reason this would happen?

[thorn oracle]

I have a particlesystem prefab that looks how I want it to. When I instantiate it via script, it looks different (Left is how I want it to look, right is how it looks when instantiated) Is there a reason why this happens?

[snow willow]

Looks like it's just rotated differently

[thorn oracle]

okay yeah listen i'm a bit special

[hearty anvil]

Wait no I've almost got it working

My only issue now is no matter what colour I set it to, the output is always entirely black

I'm not an expert but doesn't this come down to lighting stuff?

Okay nvm I got it

[still tendon]

My brain doesn’t compute at this time could you please send an example

[solemn latch]

I'm on my phone so not really.

[still tendon]

so i have a square that uses rigid body

how do i add a grappling hook to that square?

[plain mortar]

I've been struggling with this for a while. I want to lerp 2d movement but do a "smooth start" and "smooth stop" in a single lerp. I can do each of those individually but if I use the smooth start for the 1st half of the duration and the smooth stop for the 2nd half the gameobject "teleports" during the middle of the duration. Is there an equivalent of lerp for this kind of movement? (I'm simulating a jumping frog but the animation already contains top/down movement)

I'm going to try lowering the duration (say 75%) for the smooth stop & smooth start and clamp between 0 and 1. Full duration will still be used overall.

I ended up doing this and it looks kinda ok.
var progress = (movementDurationMax - movementDuration) / movementDurationMax;
if (progress <= 0.5f)
{
//smoothStart2
lerpedPosition = Vector3.Lerp(positionFrom, positionTo, Helper.SmoothStart2(progress * 1.25f));
}
else
{
//smoothStop2
lerpedPosition = Vector3.Lerp(positionFrom, positionTo, Helper.SmoothStop2(progress * 0.75f));
}

[idle sparrow]

Hi guys, So I am a beginner with unity and C# and creating a simple 2d platformer game. I created a tilemap and when I want to test it with a player, when I click Play button, in Game preview that tilemap are invisible (this is an image how it looks like https://prnt.sc/11fxxsb). And this is how should the game look like (https://prnt.sc/11fy28u) Everytime I load a level scene for the first time ground tiles does not load

[limber idol]

Looks like the ground is loading, but your background is rendering infront of it.

Try moving the background farther away from the camera than the tilemap

I like to use my camera at z: -10.
Then keep my ground (map) at z: 0

Then anything with a lower z will render ontop of items with a higher z.

[idle sparrow]

@limber idol oh, okay thanks I will take a look at it

[devout wolf]

general vector maths question:

if I have two points, I can get the direction vector from one point to the other, then project a line out that first point to the other, but what about if I only have one point. I would like to project a line out in the direction that I'm facing.. i have x, y, dx and dy

[fair vessel]

sounds like you'd still have 2 points in that case?

[devout wolf]

but i dont know what the x, y of that second point is (I think this a major aspect of vectors I have yet to grasp).. I just add a vector in the direction that I'm facing?

unit vector * scalar

[fair vessel]

so like you'd have a circle with an eye on the edge? then you'd know the location of the eye in reference to the center of the ball and whatever vector those two points create would be what you are facing/looking at? Don't trust me though, i am learning c# so i have no idea how to code that, but i think my concept is solid

[devout wolf]

so point at center, and point at mouse x,y (the red line currently draws to where ever the mouse is)

instead of 2nd point as mouse x,y, just extend a line out distance 1 (unit vector) in the direction that I'm facing

but the center is some random x,y on the map, not at the origin

1 vector for direction and 1 for postion?

[forest cave]

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

public class GrapplingHook : MonoBehaviour {
    [SerializeField] private Vector3 target;
    [SerializeField] private float grappleSpeed;
    private void Update() {
        transform.position = Vector3.MoveTowards(transform.position,target,grappleSpeed * Time.deltaTime);
        if(Input.GetMouseButtonDown(0)){
            target = Camera.main.ScreenToWorldPoint(new Vector3(Input.mousePosition.x,Input.mousePosition.y, 10.0f));
        }else if(Vector3.Distance(transform.position,target) <= 0){
            target = transform.position;
        }
    }
}```
should work but no visual fx

[fair vessel]

So i recently made a WASD controlled orthographic camera, I'd like for someone to look at my code and tell me what i am doing wrong.... The code works and all and does what i want but i feel like i am doing something inefficient, yaknow? I think i am using IF too much, could someone review my code?
https://pastebin.com/pJB4TJjk
It's really nice and smooth, i am proud of the result but not really proud of the code, wasn't sure if i should post this here or beginner code, sorry in advance.

[turbid heart]

Main thing is dont put GetComponent in Update. You can cache the camera beforehand and use that

[turbid heart]

and this is a personal preference, but even if it's a oneliner in an if statement block, I always put opening and closing braces. It leaves less room for error, and it's more consistent

[fair vessel]

yeah tbh i removed the brackets i had because i thout it looked more "professional" lol, i prefer the extra brackets too

[turbid heart]

There was an incident at my old workplace where a bug was caused by missing braces, so I'm more particular about making sure they're there

[fair vessel]

so how would i use cache? sorry i am super new to c#, i have experience in other programming languages though. lol when doing math i am liberal with parentheses, love em

[turbid heart]

caching is like what you did for linearSpeedLimit. you made a variable, then assigned to it using GetComponent

so, what you can do is declare a variable called cam of type Camera, then assign to it using GetComponent<Camera>().

Then in the rest of your code, you can just use cam instead of GetComponent<Camera> everytime.
I don't exactly know the nitty gritty details, but GetComponent is expensive so you should try to minimize using it when you can

[fair vessel]

oh i see what you are saying

thanks

[forest cave]

using UnityEngine;

[RequireComponent(typeof(Rigidbody2D))]
public class GrapplingHook : MonoBehaviour {
    private Vector3 target;
    [SerializeField] private float grappleSpeed;
    private bool moving;
    
    private Rigidbody2D rb;
    private float oldGravityScale;
    
    private void Start() {
        rb = GetComponent<Rigidbody2D>();
        oldGravityScale = rb.gravityScale;    
    }

    private void Update() {
        if(moving == true){
            rb.gravityScale = 0; 
            transform.position = Vector3.MoveTowards(transform.position,target,grappleSpeed * Time.deltaTime);
        }
        if(Input.GetMouseButtonDown(0)){
            target = Camera.main.ScreenToWorldPoint(new Vector3(Input.mousePosition.x,Input.mousePosition.y, 10.0f));
            if(Vector3.Distance(transform.position,target) > 0){
                moving = true;
            }
        }else if(Vector3.Distance(transform.position,target) <= 0){
            if(moving == true){
                target = transform.position;
                moving = false;
                rb.gravityScale = oldGravityScale;
                oldGravityScale = rb.gravityScale;
            }
        }
        
    }
}```
this'll work better for rigidbody2d

[still tendon]

when i grapple it keeps floating me up

[forest cave]

it grapples to where u click

using UnityEngine;

[RequireComponent(typeof(Rigidbody2D))]
public class GrapplingHook : MonoBehaviour {
    private Vector3 target;
    [SerializeField] private float grappleSpeed;
    private bool moving;
    
    private Rigidbody2D rb;
    private float oldGravityScale;
    
    private void Start() {
        target = transform.position;
        rb = GetComponent<Rigidbody2D>();
        oldGravityScale = rb.gravityScale;    
    }

    private void Update() {
        if(moving == true){
            rb.gravityScale = 0; 
            transform.position = Vector3.MoveTowards(transform.position,target,grappleSpeed * Time.deltaTime);
        }
        if(Input.GetMouseButtonDown(0)){
            target = Camera.main.ScreenToWorldPoint(new Vector3(Input.mousePosition.x,Input.mousePosition.y, 10.0f));
            if(Vector3.Distance(transform.position,target) > 0){
                moving = true;
            }
        }else if(Vector3.Distance(transform.position,target) <= 0){
            if(moving == true){
                target = transform.position;
                moving = false;
                rb.gravityScale = oldGravityScale;
                oldGravityScale = rb.gravityScale;
            }
        }
        
    }
}```
try this actually

@still tendon

[still tendon]

ok so when i am grappling from bottom it only moves my x axis but when i am grappling from top it floats me up like before

[fossil crag]

hello. im just starting making a 2d game. but i cant seem to get movement to work. can anyone help me? (ive tried using some different code from google but none of it works, i think its user error)

[wicked wasp]

hy

vote 4 me

[still tendon]

Hey does anyone have a semi decent dash script because i cant find anything remotely useful

Top down or easily convertible to top down

[wicked wasp]

do you like this?

[fossil crag]

they look rally good

really*

[wicked wasp]

thank

my classmates say these are bad

[fossil crag]

the art style is really nice

better then anything i can do

lmao

[wicked wasp]

they want this but i prefer that

these are orrible

[fossil crag]

i like the first ones you put

but they both would work for different styles of games

[wicked wasp]

yes

i'm 12 and i want to make a game but i have only one person wich help me

[fossil crag]

we could work on something together

teach eachother maybe

[wicked wasp]

i'm learning about unity 2d but i'm italian and videos are only american so i don't understand so much

[fossil crag]

i dont get a lot of the stuff they say. it just doesnt make sense to me but i could try and help

[wicked wasp]

ok

[fossil crag]

does anyone have a very basic, mario like, 2d movement code

[thorn oracle]

What's the fastest way to find something and its position relative to something else? Like I have an NPC that needs to be able to find the player and find whether the player is to the right or left. The player has a Player script on it so I thought I could raycast to both sides and call GetComponent on the hit. For some reason this only works when my player is colliding with the origin of the rays. I did drawray and the rays look fine, but they aren't printing anything unless i go to the origin.

[snow willow]

you have probably done something wrong with your raycast. Or your raycast is hitting the NPC

Maybe your Raycast is hitting your NPC instead?

or another collider

gotta debug it

[thorn oracle]

i did

i print debugged it, it said it was hitting my player

[snow willow]

if it's hitting your player then it's working

right?

[acoustic swift]

maybe offset the position of the grappling hook / hook?

[snow shoal]

why is my mesh not rendering all of the tiles? I am trying to make a mesh render a plane at each gameObject, but it only renders one https://paste.mod.gg/icabihahuq.cs

nvm i figured it out

[strong island]

Guys, would it be possible to save into a file a level from a tilemap and then load it back into another new tilemap?

Basically saving a set of tiles from a tilemap in a file

[thorn oracle]

No like it says it’s hitting my player when it isn’t

Well at least it shouldn’t be

.DrawRaw shows me not touching the rays

[snow willow]

It's possible your DrawRay is not drawn correctly

as in, you didn't pass the right parameters into it

[thorn oracle]

i just copy and pasted in the same thing for the ray

i'll get the code segment if it helps

[sonic silo]

So, I want my enemies in my 2D game to walk from one end of the platform to another and back, how do I tell them when they're on the platforms, and when to stop and turn around? Can anyone help?

[snow willow]

your colider might also be bigger or smaller or not the shape you're expecting for your player

[thorn oracle]

that's not it

[snow willow]

share some screenshots and code

[thorn oracle]

 //movement is the script exclusive to the player
        RaycastHit2D right = Physics2D.Raycast(transform.position, Vector2.right * 3);
        RaycastHit2D left = Physics2D.Raycast(transform.position, Vector2.left * 3);
        Debug.DrawRay(transform.position, Vector2.right * 3);
        Debug.DrawRay(transform.position, Vector2.left * 3);
        if (right && right.transform.GetComponent(typeof(Movement)))
        {
            print(right.transform.name);
        }
        if (left && left.transform.GetComponent(typeof(Movement)))
        {
            print(left.transform.name);
        }

okay i think i edited my code to what's above now the opposite issue occurs

when i'm touching the ray it doesn't print

and before you ask, yes it's the kindergarten kid sprite

[snow willow]

in the image

what's the player

which object has Movement on it

and which object is shooting the ray?

This is not correct btw @thorn oracle :```cs
Physics2D.Raycast(transform.position, Vector2.right * 3);

You need to do

Physics2D.Raycast(transform.position, Vector2.right, 3f);

The second parameter is treated as a direction only. The third parameter is the distance, and by default it is infinity

Finally, when you start a raycast, it will not hit any colliders that the ray starts it path inside of already

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

[thorn oracle]

OH

okay so makes sense

is it different with Debug.DrawRay() though because the second parameter works for direction and distance with that method

[snow willow]

Yeah

DrawRay treats it as both the direction and the distance

kinda stinks that they work differently

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Debug.DrawRay.html

[north pilot]

Hey all, I've been struggling for the past few days trying to get a turret on a 2D spaceship to clamp properly. My setup is a ship game object with a turret game object as a child. The script to control the turret lives on the turret game object.

My base code is:
Vector2 turretPosition = Camera.main.WorldToScreenPoint(transform.position); Vector3 direction = CustomPointer.pointerPosition - turretPosition; float currentMouseAngle = (Mathf.Atan2(direction.y, direction.x) * Mathf.Rad2Deg); Quaternion localRotation = Quaternion.Inverse(transform.parent.transform.rotation) * Quaternion.Euler(new Vector3(0, 0, currentMouseAngle)); float localRotationZClamped = Mathf.Clamp(localRotation.z * Mathf.Rad2Deg, min_angle, max_angle); Quaternion localRotationClamped = Quaternion.Euler(0f, 0f, localRotationZClamped); transform.localRotation = localRotationClamped;

This is the closest I've gotten, but there's oddities that happen as the parent ship rotates and eventually everything breaks as the turret stops following the camera. Any help would be much appreciated. My brain is just about broken on this

[thorn oracle]

ah

Alright

So, yeah, the issue is that the rays are colliding with the NPC.

ty for the help

Code works now

[ruby iron]

@north pilot put the turret object as child of the spaceship and it will stick .. 🙂

or do u want the turret to move?

[north pilot]

It's currently a child and it's sticking properly. I have it moving based on mouse position fine. I'm failing at getting the turret position to clamp based on its local rotation

[ruby iron]

so no 360's?

[north pilot]

correct.

[ruby iron]

but it does clamp? .. and when the ship rotates the clamp breaks or what ?

[north pilot]

Sort of. It does, but things start to get off kilter as the ship moves and eventually it breaks altogether

Here's an example

[north pilot]

no problem. Yes I posted the code snippet above

[ruby iron]

i would

rotate it as animation

so you still work on that 🙂

my idea how to get this thing going is hard to explain .. but imagine a piece of paper with an box on it .. the box will always rotate if u move the paper .. you need a ancher point or somthing for that to not bug out

@north pilot

so u need to concider the movment off the ship in ur clamp

i guess

[north pilot]

hmm I'll play around with translating the ship's angles into the local space of the turret

Thanks for the suggestion

[ruby iron]

sry .. i wish i could do more .. but ya know .. .still learning ..

[slate parrot]

How do I get the GameObject name when I click on it inside an OnMouseDown() function? Example: I click on a GameObject called circle, I want to get that object's name when clicked

[turbid heart]

fire a raycast and then get the name from the hitinfo

[slate parrot]

Thanks

[turbid heart]

or uh..this actually
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/61658245/how-do-i-to-know-on-which-gameobject-i-clicked-on-unity

apparently you can just do this.gameObject.name

[slate parrot]

Oh, cool. I'll definitely look into RayCast, though for now I'm going with the OnMouseDown solution

[turbid heart]

yeah, seems like you can just do gameObject.name

[still tendon]

Or gameObject.tag

[turbid heart]

tag is different

[still tendon]

I know

Just saying you could do it like that

[pseudo bobcat]

how can i make a circular move by dragging ?

like this

[desert cargo]

Simply name will work too

[desert cargo]

When you click and drag, find the vector from the centre to the mouse, then set it's magnitude to the radius of your desired circle. That is the offset from the centre.

[keen arch]

Hey guys, got a weird (to me, at least) problem. I have a moving platform that I moved using Vector2.MoveTowards and feeding it's result into Rigidbody2d.MovePosition like this:

// Calculate single-frame movement towards target
var movementThisFrame = Vector2.MoveTowards(position, target, settings.Speed * Time.deltaTime);
// Move platform by calculated movement
body.MovePosition(movementThisFrame);
// Calculate platform movement velocity (displacement / time delta) so that we can move the the attached actor along with it
Velocity = (movementThisFrame - position) / Time.deltaTime;

But I wanted easing where the platform accelerates up to speed (defined in settings.Speed, let's say 5f) and then keeps that speed for a while and then when it's near the end it slows down and gets to 0f when it reaches the target position.

Someone suggested I use Vector2.SmoothDamp but it's behaving rather strange

// Calculate single-frame movement towards target
var movementThisFrame = Vector2.SmoothDamp(position, target, ref velocity, smoothTime, settings.Speed);
// Move platform by calculated movement
body.MovePosition(movementThisFrame);

This seems to move the platform very... very slowly and then the velocity just becomes 0 and the platform hasn't even reached it's target

What am I doing wrong here?

[split lake]

No triangle sprite

[turbid heart]

and the question is?

[split lake]

no question, just need help to fix a bug

[austere iron]

If there's no question, then there isn't a problem...

[split lake]

ahem??

bug

[sharp lichen]

that's not even code related 🤣🤣

[austere iron]

Then that would be a question for help, yet there is none...

[still tendon]

"triangle sprite"
is that supposed to be a thing but its not?

[austere iron]

Not sure what the problem is here...

[austere iron]

You just wrote a statement, not a question...

[split lake]

Why is there no triangle sprite?

there u have my question

[sharp lichen]

because Unity doesn't include one

[ruby karma]

go to the asset store, and download a 2d asset pack which has it

[obsidian finch]

The same reason there's not a Mega Man sprite. Because Unity didn't add it

[ruby karma]

but yeah, the why bamboozles me too

[obsidian finch]

This was the question you saw fit to go crosspost with?

[split lake]

well ofc because its not a shape

[obsidian finch]

There's no rhombus, trapezoid, or Mandlebrot Set either

Just go into paint and make a triangle

[split lake]

theres 3 common shapes, circle, square and triangle

[turbid heart]

do you really want to die on this hill? you're a 3d artist right? i think you can use paint

[obsidian finch]

This is hardly worth taking up people's time on two channels for

Go make your own damn triangle

it'll be like ten seconds

[still tendon]

similar to how there is no pyramid for 3d

[split lake]

lol true im just lazy

ok will do

[obsidian finch]

You spent ten times longer trying to Karen your way into another channel than it would have taken to just make a fucking triangle

[split lake]

lol

[austere iron]

also... 😏

[turbid heart]

I think, because different versions XD mine doesnt have it

[ruby karma]

package it up random

[split lake]

lol what

bruh

[austere iron]

i'm on 2019.3...

[split lake]

this is updated 2020.3 ...

[turbid heart]

I'm on 2021.1.1f1

[split lake]

this is on the unity manual

lol rigged

[ember isle]

ok

well generly id think you would have the biomes spawn randomly and then do some sort of spread function

yea

and each biome would have differend numbers of spawn each thing

yea

welp you practicly seem to already get it

oh

[austere kindle]

hello there, I have no idea about coding!

some games assign a randomized temperature value and assign biomes depending on the value

so you can have stuff like colder climates in one direction and deserts into another

but again, I have no idea about coding

[ember isle]

yea

[austere kindle]

I remember a....., what was this game called?

it was like a colony sim

sci-fi

rimworld!

well, depends on how expansive your biomes are

if you care about having a frozen wasteland right next to a desert

a T° map might work

[split lake]

um.. i just downgraded to 2019.. still no triangle

[modest marsh]

you're in the wrong menu. Assets->Create->Sprites->Triangle like the manual showed you

[split lake]

ahem i just did that

wait wth

lol i upgraded to 4.23 and now it works

[austere iron]

You were looking in the wrong spot...

[still tendon]

Could anyone help me with why when i use this dash script the player dashes at the exact same speed as the walk

[snow willow]

Mixing AddForce with setting velocity directly is troublesome

But basically that's your issue - you're setting the velocity directly

Which will remove any momentum you had

Also... Are you doing other movement in another script?

This one seems to only do stuff when dashing

[still tendon]

Yes the script is also used for general movement but that does work like normal

[snow willow]

Also you should not multiply Time.fixedDeltaTime into your AddForce. It's making you need to set your dashSpeed variable 50x larger than it should be.

[still tendon]

Thanks for the suggestions they all made the dash function like 10x better

1 more issue sadly. If i use get key you can hold the dash function and infinitely dash but if i use get key down its really inconsistent and you have to get lucky for it to acctualy register. Could it be a problem with being inside fixed update instead of update ?

[snow willow]

Yes GetKeyDown is not consistent in FixedUpdate

You need to read it in Update and consume it in FixedUpdate

The reason is some frames don't have a FixedUpdate call, so you can miss the single frame of GetKeyDown

[still tendon]

Ahh ok

[ember isle]

@still tendon
python code for temp map biomes:```
import random
class biome:
def init(self,name,objectamounts,temprange):
self.objectamounts = objectamounts
self.temprange = temprange
self.name = name
def isInTempatureZone(temp):
if self.temprange[0]<temp<self.temprange[1]:
return True

biomes = []
def createBiome(name,objectamounts,temprange):
biomes.append(biome(name,objectamounts,temprange))

def initBiomes():
createBiome("desert",{"sand":100,"tree":3,"rock":5},(30,50))
createBiome("forest",{"forestFloor":100,"tree":3,"rock":5},(0,10))
createBiome("None",{},(1,-1))

def getBiome(name):
for i in biomes:
if i.name.lower() == name.lower():
return i

def getBiomes(temp):
bs = []
for i in biomes:
if i isInTempatureZone(temp):
bs.append(i)
return bs

class chunk:
def init(self,temp):
self.temp = temp
self.tiles = []
self.biome = getbiome("none")

emptyChunk = chunk(0)

world = []
worldSize = (100,100)

def initWorld():
for x in range(worldSize[0]):
chunks = []
for y in range(worldSize[1]):
chunks.append(emptyChunk)
world.append(chunks)

def getChunkAtPos(x,y):
//this is taking too long

def assignTempatures():
// make a gradient of temp across map, may want to randomize slightly
for x in range(worldSize[0]):
for y in range(worldSize[1]):
getChunkAtPos(x,y).temp = -50+50/worldSize[0]+50/worldSize[1]

def assignBiomes:
for x in range(worldSize[0]):
for y in range(worldSize[1]):
chunk = getChunkAtPos(x,y)
chunk.biome = random.choise(getBiomes(chunk.temp))

def createWorld():
initWorld()
assignTempatures()
assignBiomes()
// then put tiles into biomes

i did it in python because it would have taken way longer if i did it with C#

yea

anyway gtg

[still tendon]

@snow willow thanks for all the help man means alot

[ember isle]

the code probobaly has errors but youl have to reprogram it anyway so shouldent matter

[snow shoal]

how do i make my character stick to my moving platform?

the way i have thought of doing it is: when my player isn't moving, set it's velocity to the moving platform's velocity; but i am not sure that is the best way to do it

[lean pecan]

Hey all, I've been working on trying to figure out a solution to this for many hours, I've done extensive googling, and nothing has been successful so far. Here's my dilemma:

In my puzzle game, both players move at the same time
When the player on the bottom lands on the button, the block that is "hidden" (with the dashed lines) will appear, and the player on the top can walk on it just fine.

My issue is, the player on the top has already started moving when the player on the bottom has hit the button, causing it to not move to the now un-hidden block (I'll send a clip in a second) as there was nothing there when it started moving.

I'd love to hear your thoughts on this; even just saying hello would be nice ;)

here's a clip

[snow willow]

tough problem!

Looks like if there's like an interactive element (a switch or button) on any of the destination squares for the balls, you should resolve that before doing the movement

So I would do something like this:

• Process input, determining player intent
• For each ball, check what the target square for movement is
• If any target squares have a button, activate the button (also deactivate the button on any squares balls are moving from)
• Then process movement

[abstract olive]

Yeah, this is hard because the order of things don't work in reverse (ie, player A goes before player B)

Alternatively to the above suggestion, you could:

1. Pseudo-move your characters to the target tiles (have them "target" that tile)

2. Handle any special tiles (ie, buttons turn on/off tiles in this case)

3. Double check the characters and handle what happens now on their target tile (ie, if the tile is set to invisible, then they reject the move)

But this gets into a weird loop where a tile might not activate due to another tile changing a state on it. 🤔

Of course, you could always just avoid this via level design.

[lean pecan]

thank you both for taking the time to respond! I essentially tried both of these already, having more luck with the second. I think the issue I was having was that it was all happening in the same frame; maybe I'll:

Target the tile (my code can already do that)

Handle Special tiles

Wait a frame so that I know for sure that I finished handling the special tiles

Handle again

Move

[lean pecan]

yeah but I'd like to avoid that if possible ;)

[abstract olive]

You can do it all in the same frame.

You just need to handle it in steps, that frame, before moving them.

[lean pecan]

alright I'll try some stuff out and possibly come back

thank yall for the responses ;)

[still tendon]

https://hatebin.com/jphlmqgygl Can anyone check out this code and see why the player might be dashing for the length of dash cooldown instead of dashlength

Its incredibly strange

[snow willow]

        if (dashLength == 0)
        {
            dashing = false;
        }
        else
        {
            dashLength--;
        }

        if (dashCooldown == 0)
        {
            dashAvailable = true;
        }
        else
        {
            dashCooldown--;
        }```

not sure but this is all very confusing

if (Input.GetKey(KeyCode.Space) && dashAvailable)```

Looks like it's based on dashAvailable which is related to your dash cooldown being 0

[still tendon]

So im 99% sure i know what that section of code is doing but (i agree how it seems related) i have absolutely no idea how that is increasing the length of the dash

[snow willow]

which one is longer