🖼️┃2d-tools

[olive mesa]

And use a vector3 instead of a quaternion

[nova bear]

ty

[olive mesa]

Np

[nova bear]

sometimes my gameobject's spriterenderer counts color by 255f and sometimes by 1f. What determines this?

[olive mesa]

Idk tbh

We've got Color and Color32

Afaik they are both the same except Color32 uses 255 while Color uses 1

[nova bear]

ohh

i just use new Vector4 when setting render.color

[olive mesa]

I've never seen that done before

[nova bear]

really?

[olive mesa]

Yeah

Just use new Color(r, g, b, a);

[nova bear]

ok

[olive mesa]

Interesting

[winged marlin]

Please never post code in an image it’s a pain to read. Please put it in a Pastebin / hastebin

[nova bear]

ok

[olive mesa]

I've never found it a pain to read

Also, is this source code or something?

I've never seen code written this way for a game

Oh wait

It's like a custom transform

[nova bear]

oh

basically I make functions for every common task that are easy to use, like basic commands

which makes the main code easier to read

[olive mesa]

That's cool

It's like combining the Transform and the SpriteRenderer into one component

I might try that tomorrow

[nova bear]

nice

[olive mesa]

Anyway, gtg

Cya

[nova bear]

cya

What are the elements in Color data types respectively?

i used to come across a problem where a data type for colors was ordered b g r a instead of r g b a

and my sprite turned the wrong color

i searched it up and its correctly ordered

[desert cargo]

um... red, green, blue and alpha.

It's standard RGBA color representation.

What do you mean by "ordered"? You shouldn't really need to know the memory order unless you're working in unsafe mode for some reason.

[dusky wagon]

Thanks, just one question what does the Force!pde2D.Impulse dp?

[olive mesa]

It just tells the rigidbody how to apply the force

Using impulse makes it start fast and then slow down

[dusky wagon]

Ah okay

[olive mesa]

Using force just adds to the velocity, nothing cool about that one

[dusky wagon]

And if I make the bounciness of an object high, will that affect things that collider with it if the object itself cant move?

[olive mesa]

Any object that has the physics material should be affected as long as it's rigidbody is not set to kinematic or static

[dusky wagon]

Alright thanks I will try both of these ways out

[olive mesa]

Np, hope they work

[dusky wagon]

But I think I will stick with the second one, as in my experience its not good to purely rely on unity’s physics

[olive mesa]

Yeah

I don't trust Unity's physics lmao

I usually find it to be inconsistent and somewhat glitchy

[dusky wagon]

Yep I tried making things that entirely use unity physics a couple of times, but always ended up writing a script to do it

[craggy briar]

I've run into issues myself... especially handling corners

[olive mesa]

Aghh corners

I've tried to make platformers so many times, but the player gets stuck every other block I pass

Cuz of the collision

[craggy briar]

Me: "I'll make a simple arkanoid clone using physics! Should be really straight forward!"
Unity: "Hahahaha. No."

[olive mesa]

I recently discovered that the composite collider 2d is a good fix

[olive mesa]

So true

3D physics is fine

2D though...

That's not very fine

[odd comet]

Hi, I have a problem with changing scenes, when my player sprite doesn´t show in game. Layers order should be ok, because in the main scene its alright. Where could be problem?

[dusky wagon]

Whats the Z position of the player in the second scene?

[odd comet]

zero

Changed it but nothing happened

[forest cave]

And the camera?

[odd comet]

z=-1,4659

[dusky wagon]

that is probably what it didnt catch it, because the camera was behind the player

I would set both to 0

[odd comet]

ok, for some reason now, when i change z to 0 on player, he appears, but I am only able to change the z position in game mode, bcs the player is teleported to the second scene. Is there a way to set it properly?

[dusky wagon]

How do you teleport it into the second scene?

[odd comet]

via empty object with 2d collider and script

[dusky wagon]

So you are setting the transform of the player to match the transform of another object?

[dusky wagon]

And is the player already in that scene?

[odd comet]

no

[dusky wagon]

Then how do you teleport it into the scene?

[odd comet]

ehm i dont know

ok, I fixxed it (changed cameras position values in second scene to match with the camera in first scene)
thank you for help

but I have another issue
When I teleport, it duplicates my player, so in that scene, there are two players (both move the same)

now it even duplicated it several times

[frail halo]

So how do i move a Rigidbody2d without interfering with the vertical velocity? Everything i tried either pinned it in place or made it fall slower

[compact knoll]

if you're modifying the velocity directly, you can do rb2d.velocity = new Vector2(velocityChangeX, rb2d.velocity.y). Or you can use AddForce and just not add any force on the y axis

[worthy stump]

Hey folks, I have a question regarding 2D cameras and pixel/sprite art.

I've been working with the above for some time, and understand the issues regarding the rotation of sprites, how (and why) they alias, and also issues with sub-pixel rendering and how that can create "doubling" of individual pixels when a sprite is not clamped to the pixel grid.

I have managed to alleviate these issues to an "acceptable" level, however I would like to make further improvements. Specifically, I noticed that the Editor viewport camera does not suffer from any of the above issues. I am able to zoom/scale, rotate, translate my sprites by more or less any factor (no matter how large or small) and the result in the viewport will be a (near) perfectly positioned/rotated view of my original sprite. (Although the view in the game will never be as high-quality)

Howeverm I have not been able to find out why the editor camera is able to do this, so I was wondering if anyone had the answer? And also, would be possible to replicate that same behavior with a game view camera? If it were possible, it would be a huge benefit to my game!

Thanks 🙂

[nova bear]

when a projectile is launched, I made it so that it only depletes hp from an enemy. However, when it passes through obstacles it jumps over them or below them as though the obstacle should affect the projectile's single y position attack.

I thought while writing this that the projectile's rigidbody is affected by the obstacle's collider. If this is true, how can I prevent it?

[nova bear]

shouldn't this question be posted in the art channels?

[worthy stump]

Dont think so, its a camera issue not an art asset issue

Well, may be related to the sampling/import settings of an art asset but it falls under the programming spectrum more than asset creation

[nova bear]

i mean they might know more about rendering stuff, which will help getting reached out to sooner

[worthy stump]

Oh I see what you mean

Well, if nobody is able to answer it here I'll post it over there. Im in no hurry at the moment, at my day-job anyway haha

[nova bear]

yes

[winter bridge]

Hi! I'm trying to make it so it loads a new scene when it collides with a certain object. I have made it known in build settings and applied the script to the box + I have turned off mesh rendering and on for is trigger. Hope yall can help!

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

public class SceneSwitch1 : MonoBehaviour
{
    private void OnTriggerEnter(Collider other)
    {
        SceneManager.LoadScene(0);
    }
}

[turbid heart]

what's wrong with it? you havent mentioned what's wrong

[winter bridge]

aahh! sorry, im just going right through it

[sly palm]

did you build the scene?

[winter bridge]

how would one do that?

ahh, just seen it, trying now

still doesnt seem to be working

[winter bridge]

I managed to work it out, i didnt do ontriggerenter2d!

thanks for your help!

[nova bear]

how can I make every element of a List<bool> true without iterating?

actually I change my mind

how do I check the length of a List?

[worthy stump]

Normally there will be a property that is either size, length, count, num etc

[compact knoll]

list.Count

[nova bear]

List<bool>

so List<bool>.Count?

[worthy stump]

list<bool> mylist
mylist.count

[compact knoll]

^ that but capital C and L

[nova bear]

yeah

also i realized in my code there was a way to do it without count

but thx still

[stoic moon]

I have an enemy ai script here:https://pastebin.com/0ZPTrg2H that moves the enemy towards the player only on the x axis. How would i make it so that the enemy rotates either 0 or 180 degrees depending on where the player is?

E.g if the player is to it's right face right

[compact knoll]

an extremely simple implementation of that would be something like:
if player.transform.position.x < enemy.transform.position.x: rotate enemy to the left
if player.transform.position.x > enemy.transform.position.x: rotate enemy to the right

[stoic moon]

thanks i'll implement that

should be able to go from there pretty easily

[compact knoll]

Tilemap colliders exist

It's a component you attach to a tilemap object like any other collider

It will give everything on that tilemap a collider. So if you only want collision with certain tiles, move those tiles to a new tilemap and put the collider on that

[snow willow]

you can give any sprite a custom physics shape in the sprite editor

TileMap collider will respect that

Anything that's part of a tilemap is a sprite

yep - go edit the various sprite(s) custom physics shape in the sprite editor

or do that

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

AFAIK there's only one sprite

the tile palette thing is not a sprite

it's a tile

I think it probably just edits the same sprite?

¯_(ツ)_/¯ LMK - I didn't realize the Tile had a sprite editor button on it

check his position

maybe he's just behind the tiles

[compact knoll]

Is it on a tilemap layer that has a tilemap collider on it?

Do you see the colliders for the tiles? Select the grid in the hierarchy and you should be able to see the collider outlines

Alright, you should probably make a new tilemap that all the collision tiles will be on. Also do you have your player and the tilemap on separate collision layers? Because your player should be forced out of the collider if they are able to collide

It's the right drop down menu under the object name. You can also change what layers collide in Project Settings > Physics 2D

Layer: Default

The drop down menu on the right directly under the box to enter the object's name

Well they should be colliding then. Is the player able to move at all with how you have it set up now?

Oh wait, does your player have a RigidBody2D on it?

You can turn gravity scale to 0

Give it a RigidBody2D, set its gravity scale to 0, then press play and let me know if the player flies away

Did you turn off collision for the default layer for itself? Check in Project Settings > Physics 2D. Scroll all the way down until you see the matrix with all the checkboxes. Make sure the one that is on the Default row and column is checked.

Can you screenshot the inspector with the player selected to show the collider and rigidbody settings

Yes, that's what I suggested earlier.

For collisions to work as expected because I just realized you are probably changing the transform to move your player which entirely ignores physics/collisions

Yeah you should be using the rigidbody to move the player instead of the transform. You can use rb2d.MovePosition(), or set the rb2d.velocity for easy movement

[limpid drift]

could someone explain this to me

private IEnumerator AutoFire()
    {
        while (true)
        {
            FireBullet();
            yield return new WaitForSeconds(FireRate);
        }
       
    }
``` why cant i add a "while (false)" inside of this?

because right now i have inside my ontriggerenter2D StartCoroutine

but i want on exittrigger2D to StopCoroutine and wait a set amount of seconds

so how can i make it wait

because right now this happends

[compact knoll]

You can use while loops that aren't only while(true).

https://www.w3schools.com/cs/cs_while_loop.php

[limpid drift]

https://gyazo.com/696b57649a862fc8e31a342e03c3837b

everytime i reenter the trigger it starts up again but i want it to suppend 3 seconds or so after ontriggerexit

[compact knoll]

Well if they expected to interact with physics then they are doing it wrong

[wide lagoon]

Anyone have an idea how I can check the tile depth of a tilemap inside a shader?

I can check x and y coordinates using the vertex position, but it seems all layers are at z=0

[limpid drift]

wont it loop when i put StopCoroutine inside ontriggerexit?

[elder minnow]

No

[snow willow]

wdym

[elder minnow]

Physics objects interact with colliders but projects with only colliders dont use physics

You need to elaborate a little

[snow willow]

You can use physics with only colliders. Colliders interact with all Physics queries like Raycasts, OverlapXXX, CheckXXX, etc..

but simulating newtonian physics with colliders? You need a rigidbody.

If you want your character to collide with those colliders, the easiest way by far to achieve that is with a Rigidbody

[elder minnow]

You don't need a rigidbody, but if you want to detect collisions you need to either use raycasts, overlaps or implement your own collision system

[snow willow]

that's what it's made for

but yes there are other ways - querying the colliders via raycasts etc..

It's also a good idea in general to used a fixed timestep for your character movement to ensure it behaves the same regardless of framerate

If it's a platformer kinda game

that will ensure the player always gets the same jump heights etc.

[elder minnow]

I use my own collision system, it's just a bunch of overlap checks

and then resolve the position based on extents

You need a composite collider

It will merge colliders together

That is because you gave a rigidbody to your collider

Only your player really needs one, yeah

Then it is part of the composite (I don't really remember), if you remove it, you might be able to remove your rb

Ah yeah, if you mark it as static or kinematic you will solve that

If you mark your tilemap rb as static it will solve it

yes

Just try it

No, the rigidbody in your tilemap

it has an option called body type

Did you make sure the composite is working?

Does it merge your colliders into big chunks?

I think you need to mark the colliders with "used by effector"

in your walls

Not the composite collider, but the actual colliders

Not that I am aware of

You probably could with editor scripts but that is a bit advanced for this topic

If you wanna see if they are single or in chunk you can just turn off the 2d grid

It should

You might not be checking the "used by effector" box on the actual colliders

Oh it's used by composite not effector, I'm sorry

Yes

[nova bear]

how do I delete all the children objects of a parent gameobject?

[turbid heart]

https://answers.unity.com/questions/611850/destroy-all-children-of-object.html

Googleable

[nova bear]

thx

can I do it without using loops?

loops scare me

[elder minnow]

physics material 2d @still tendon

[nova bear]

loops froze unity once

[elder minnow]

it's not a loop @nova bear

you will use a foreach statement

[nova bear]

what does foreach do?

it sees each object in something?

it gets each transform that the current transform contains?

i like that

[elder minnow]

in this case, each transform would be the children

[nova bear]

yeah\

also I have a List<GameObject> of all the objects

can I iterate through that instead?

[elder minnow]

it's easier if you name 'em like this:

foreach(Transform child in parent)
{
    Destroy(child.gameObject);
}

[nova bear]

thank you for your help

[elder minnow]

No idea, I haven't used physics material in awhile

[nova bear]

pprojectiles is my List<GameObject>

[elder minnow]

that works too if you want to delete each object of the list and not its child

[nova bear]

each object in the list is the child

[elder minnow]

Then that works

[nova bear]

works like a charm

next I have to get rid of lag in my attack

[elder minnow]

By lag do you mean it freezes when you shoot? It could be that you are instantiating new objects every time you do it, which can be resource intensive

If that is the case, look into object pooling, it will be a big performance boost

[nova bear]

actually, i built an fps tracker and discovered something

my fps is amazing, and the real issue is that my movement scripts are highly-dependent on frames

they change at tiny amounts, so if I lose about 30 frames, it looks like I'm getting severe lag

I create objects on level start and destroy them on level over

I'll try to use timers instead of changing a set value per frame

[ancient path]

can i suggest using FixedUpdate for physics or thing not frame dependant
and Update() for inputs

[nova bear]

whats fixedupdate

oh like fixed fps?

[ancient path]

nope

Update

but with physics

call

[nova bear]

confused

i'll just use time

but thank you for the option

i'll look into it later

[ancient path]

sure np, actually fixedupdate lets you not use Time.deltaTime

because you are already using time

and with Time.scale =0 it pauses fixedupdate

[nova bear]

I have updated all of my movement scripts and made them time-oriented

everything moves at a set speed 🙂

i made it 210fps based

so if the game is running at 210fps it's going to move at the amount that the script says

[snow willow]

you should make it so that objects move the same no matter what the framerate is.

[nova bear]

thats what i did

[snow willow]

so what do you mean by "210fps based"

[nova bear]

i meant by the 210fps based that

lol

that if its running lower than 210fps it's gonna look a bit chunkier but it's going to move at the same speed

so if its running at 200fps its going to be a tiny difference of chunkiness

[snow willow]

Most people don't have monitors that can even draw more frequently than 144 or 60 times per second

[nova bear]

or 60fps is gonna suck a bit

oh

but my game runs at around 200-300fps

so it renders about every 3 frames?

[snow willow]

on your hardware it might, but your monitor can most likely not even draw that many frames

[nova bear]

yeah that

well it's still smooth

[snow willow]

I don't doubt it

[nova bear]

i guess it's because I use small numbers

idk

even if I made it 60fps based it would render the same

well i guess its nice if the game runs faster than 60fps

[snow willow]

I don't even understand what you mean by that

¯_(ツ)_/¯

[meager mural]

210fps based, 60fps based? What does that mean

[nova bear]

basically if the game runs at 210fps exactly the amount my object would move per frame would be exactly the amount I put it to, the same amount that is multiplied by Time.deltaTime

example:

oh i meant the amount divided by 210

so 31.5f / 210 * (speed / 75f) is how much the y position would change here per frame if it was running at 210fps constantly

if it runs at, say, 30fps the movement would be a lot chunkier but would move the same speed

basically 210fps-based is a term meaning I have to change up the numbers in every movement script I make so that it fits that level of smoothness

i can always make a script that goes on 100fps but that depends on me

[snow willow]

Why don't you just make it something sensible like "N meters per second"

Then you just do speed * Time.deltaTime

[nova bear]

yeah

[snow willow]

and no magic numbers required

[nova bear]

what are magic numbers

[snow willow]

31.5 and 75 in your screenshot

[nova bear]

oh those

i cant make a new variable because right next to this are other ones that go by 10.5f * (speed / 75f) and stuff

also (speed / 75f) is used because my speed will either be 75f or 25f in this game

if its 25f I want this movement script to catch it and move 3x slower

and I use the same speed variable so I don't have to make new variables like velocity = (1/3) to represent 3x slower

[frigid minnow]

Heeey, so I have a Box Collider 2D component set to trigger, but it doesn't actually seem to detect anything at all

Anyone have any ideas?

Intersecting object has a rigidbody, and is on the same layer

Woops, figured it out.

Was supposed to be OnTriggerEnter2D rather than OnTriggerEnter

😌

[nova bear]

He made a prefab, which is an object that's easy to make copies of and quickly alter. Or if it's an animation, he made a .anim file, which can easily be done by dragging a bunch of images to hierarchy

which can also be easily be used as a variable

[meager mural]

you make things in the scene

and to save that thing, you prefab it

Yes

Well one way. theres probably more. like generating prefabs via editor scripts

But thats more advanced. the way he did it is the normal way

What do you mean

instantiate them as a child

[nova bear]

i'd just make a bomb gameobject, add a public Sprite[] array, add them in the inspector window's script component, and iterate through them in the script

[meager mural]

i don't know what you're actually doing. Childed objects inherit the transform animations of the parent

[frigid minnow]

@still tendon Are you having trouble doing what he's doing?

Basically what he's doing is making the explosion a different prefab

That way he can have the bomb create the explosion

This is helpful for a few reasons

First: you don't have to tell the bomb how the explosion actually works

And second: you can have the explosion spawned by other things, like explosive barrels or something

I have to watch the video to understand exactly

What do you want the bombs to do?

Like, what is the animation?

Is that in the video?

Oh okay

You can animate the bomb, you just need to have an animator component and everything

On the prefab

Yeah

Let me know if you need help, animator can be tricky if you don't know what you're working with

:]

[frigid minnow]

A question for ya guys

How would you generally do hurtboxes?

Do you turn the trigger collider on and off?

Or do you do something else?

I have a collider I'm trying to use as a hurtbox by turning it off and on at will, but it only detects OnTriggerEnter the first time it's enabled

If the thing is enabled, then disabled, then enabled again, it only calls OnTriggerEnter once

[nova bear]

does the colliding object leave the hurtbox after the first time, and re-enter it?

[frigid minnow]

Nope!

So the problem would be that you can't really hit a stationary object

Which is annoying

[nova bear]

if you also call OnTriggerStay, it will run more

until it leaves

and if it leaves, you can also can OnTriggerExit

also, if you turn off the Trigger option, you can also use the functions:
OnCollisionEnter
OnCollisionStay
OnCollisionExit

[snow willow]

I guess you realized your mistake eh? 🦆

[frigid minnow]

Actually no

I was gonna move this to #archived-code-general or somethin

Okay did that

:]

[dusky wagon]

If you have a rule tile which generates a gameobject wherever you place it, and you destroy the game object in the middle of the game, does it delete that tile as well?

[compact knoll]

no, but the game object will (obviously) no longer be attached to the tile

[dusky wagon]

Hm okay

[dusky wagon]

How would I destroy the tile that the game object is one? Taking its position and the round it down to the next lower integer and then deleting the tile at that position?

[compact knoll]

a kinda hacky way that i use is to just put the sprites onto the game object and turn off the tilemap renderer for the layer that the rule tiles are one. Then the tiles won't show, but the objects attached to them appear to be the tile. That way if you destroy one, it doesn't look like it is still there even

That does of course mean that those tiles will need to be on a separate tilemap layer for it to work as expected

[dusky wagon]

Hm Im not sure if I want to do that. Its already annoying with two tilemaps as somehow the pallet always manages to draw on the tilemap I dont want to draw on at that point and I imagine it would be even worse with three tilemaps

[dusky wagon]

Would this also work if I want to limit the tilemaps to as few as possible?

[tepid drum]

How can i AddVelocity to object that doesnt care about direction it will just the player to that direction

What is actually happening: it wont launch up it will launch to opposite or other direction

My code: https://gdl.space/imahupeyud.cs

[abstract olive]

If you're not going to look at responses that you get when posting in other channels, then don't post.
#💻┃code-beginner message

[tepid drum]

did it not working

[abstract olive]

That's so vague to the point I think you're just saying that to claim you tried.

[dusky wagon]

@tepid drum show what you tried, the concept itself will work

[tepid drum]

I tried to remake dani game called balls

[dusky wagon]

Thats not what I mean, I mean what you tried related to this concept

[dusky wagon]

@tepid drum if you want help, you have to provide this information

What does the second line in here work? I am having some problems as it sets the x velocity to a set amount each frame, but I want to change it.

            Vector3 targetVelocity = new Vector2(move * 10f, m_Rigidbody2D.velocity.y);

m_Rigidbody2D.velocity = Vector3.SmoothDamp(m_Rigidbody2D.velocity, targetVelocity, ref m_Velocity, m_MovementSmoothing);

[hot fog]

hi so im currently making a cutscene and i want the material of my scene to change half way through how would i do something like that

[snow willow]

Are you using Timeline or an Animator?

should be able to keyframe that material in either of those I think?

[snow willow]

maybe share your code?

none of this code rotates anything

you said your problem is your character is looking up

so I was looking for code that rotates the character

So sounds like your problem is in your animator I guess

Might be worth asking in #🏃┃animation

[fickle crypt]

hello! im following some different tutorials and im trying to make a simple 2d game and at the player controller part im kinda stuck my character doesnt jump and idk if the grouncheck that i placed is good or not or if the code is badly done

[hot fog]

Im using timeline and that doesn’t work because if i change the material it will change it for the whole timeline and not the one bit

[crisp narwhal]

Hi, i need 2 box colliders on my sprite (one at the feet, and one for the body) but how can i reference these both in the script as GetComponant<BoxCollider2D>() doesnt specify which one

[snow willow]

drag and drop them into two different serialized fields (or an array)

it's also a bit more manageable if you put the colliders on two separate child GameObjects

Or use GetComponents<BoxCollider2D>() which returns an array of all of them

[crisp narwhal]

hm okay

i managed to get it working with an edge collider at the feet and box collider on body so that i cant wall jump when hugging the wall

but now if i clip from the underside of the box collider i cant jump or fall down

[crisp narwhal]

unless if i moved the side points of the edge collider to be like .1 inwards from the sides of the box collider making it an almost impossible occurance of the box collider being collided with from undernearth

but that seems a very cheated way to fix

[nova bear]

I have a boxcollider and it was previously set to a small sprite, but when I changed it to a larger sprite the boxcollider didn't change. I don't even remember changing it to that specific sprite. Is there a way to update my boxcollider?

[grand coral]

there's an edit button on the component in the inspector

[nova bear]

oh i just realized

i made a formula to calculate boxcollider's extents using size

nvm i accidentally accessed boxcollider

[grand coral]

ah i see

well glad you solved the problem

[nova bear]

thank you for replying

i was taking a break but because of you I got back to focus and solved the problem

[nova bear]

im paranoid of c# not doing order of operations

should I just trust that it does

[late viper]

yes

[dapper nova]

You can add 2 params for the last x and y input

[flint lagoon]

Hi, I'm having trouble with scaling with screen sizes (in a 2D game). I would like to have the whole screen (not just the canvas) match the width/height of the screen (whichever is smaller), and the height/width to scale accordingly. I'm hoping this will cause the dimensions to be exact, which is important as it is a puzzle game. Is there any way to program this, or otherwise change a setting? Thank you in advance!

[hollow talon]

idk if this is a stupid question but how do u go about connecting animations like in my case qb throws ball reciever catches it

[opal socket]

I guess it’s a 2d game if posted here… you sort of fake it by making animation of holding a ball. Not sure if you can use IK in 2D

[hollow talon]

so like make seperate animation with him catching then add ball

that feels like how u get ball teleporting

[opal socket]

You just deactivate gameobject (ball) when it’s close enough

I don’t know what game you’re making and if it’s a good a solution for you

But it is a solution

[hollow talon]

its an american football game

thats 2d

[snow willow]

You can use IK in 2D with Unity's 2D animation stuff

[nova bear]

is this what you mean? If not, reply to this message to specify the details of your issue.

If you want camera to display more, you can adjust its orthographicSize variable in inspector or in your code. The orthographicSize of a camera is half its height, and the size of the width depends on your screen display settings as shown above.

[hollow talon]

What is IK anyways

[snow willow]

Inverse kinematics

[lusty belfry]

I can’t create new palette in tilemap. Click create but nothing changes?

[outer wagon]

I've made a post in the forums since my question its a bit large: https://answers.unity.com/questions/1855572/how-do-a-entire-grid-checks-if-one-possition-its-c.html

[abstract olive]

You're all over this discord. This isn't a 2D code question either.

Read the limitations
https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/class-MeshCollider.html

[hot fog]

hi so my code works but it also doesn't because i want my player to walk into the trigger collider to enable the textbox but then when they press space it disappears however if they walk back again i dont want the text box to reappear but i dont know where else to put the if statement other than the update function

[compact knoll]

if the trigger is no longer needed at that point, just disable the component

[hot fog]

how do i do that

[dusky wagon]

I have this code in my player movement script:

            Vector3 targetVelocity = new Vector2(move * 10f, m_Rigidbody2D.velocity.y);

m_Rigidbody2D.velocity = Vector3.SmoothDamp(m_Rigidbody2D.velocity, targetVelocity, ref m_Velocity, m_MovementSmoothing);

And the problem is, that it sets the velocity every time it gets executed to a certain value. I want the player to move with another platforms, if he is standing on it. Since the velocity gets set to a certain value every fixed update, the way I would normally do it, by setting the player to be a child object of the platform, doesnt work. I tried adding the velocity of the platform to the velocity of the player each fixed update, but for some reason that makes the player always have an a lot higher velocity. Does anyone know why?

[hot fog]

@compact knoll

[compact knoll]

just getcomponent then set enabled to false for whichever component you want to disable

[dusky wagon]

This is how you disable a game object.

[compact knoll]

that's for a game object not a component

[dusky wagon]

Oh wait are we talking about a component here? My bad, sorry

[compact knoll]

how are you moving the platform?

[dusky wagon]

With velocity

If I move it with Vector2.MoveTowards, everything works fine

[hot fog]

yeah idk how to do that cause im dumb af

[compact knoll]

I mean if that works, why not use it? or does the platform actually need correct physics for something?

[compact knoll]

https://lmgtfy.app/?q=disable+component+unity

[compact knoll]

or if you meant using movetowards for player movement in which case ignore that

[dusky wagon]

It does need physics, as I want the player to be pushed of if the platform goes under a wall, and that looks relatively with setting the position

[compact knoll]

your platform doesn't needs physics for the player to be pushed off, just the player needs physics for that

[dusky wagon]

Hm but the player seems to always be pushed into the ground a bit since the platform directly sets the position and then the physics push it out again

[compact knoll]

I think we may be on different pages here, but i did find this simple solution
https://www.monkeykidgc.com/2021/03/unity-moving-platform.html

[dusky wagon]

Does it say anything about the player movement code anywere, or do I just go to the point called "the hard way"?

[hot fog]

yeah i still cant get it to work

[compact knoll]

use the "hard way" method, it's probably better than the first. but it does show you how it moves the character too

[compact knoll]

you're going to need to be specific

[dusky wagon]

Hm looking at it, the first code block shown under that point is exactly what I tried to resolve my error, but it resulted into the error of the player always having a higher velocity than the platform, even when he isnt moving at all

[dusky wagon]

boxCollider is a game object, not a component

[hot fog]

soooooo

[compact knoll]

if you are attempting to disable a Box Collider component, then your boxCollider needs to be of type BoxCollider2D not GameObject

[hot fog]

im very new to c# so idk what u mean

[compact knoll]

did you make sure to give your platform friction?

[hot fog]

dw i got it

i think

ayyyyy

thanks guys

[dusky wagon]

Oh, I dont think I did, why is this necessary? I thought you could do either one of the two things. And will it also work if the player has a friction of 0?

[compact knoll]

prevents the player object from sliding too much. whoever wrote the guide i linked said a friction value of 7 did the trick for them

i haven't actually tested it myself though so i can't confirm

[dusky wagon]

Yeah I guess I have to try that. I just thought that it wouldnt slide if it has the same velocity as the platform

[hot fog]

wait also how would i make a public string be able to use more than one line in unity

[abstract olive]

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

[hot fog]

ok nice that works thanks

no how would i disable a whole script

wait no

how would i disable one script in another script

[abstract olive]

Get a reference to the script, and set it as enabled = false;

Though, scripts should rarely have the authority to control other scripts in that manner.

[drifting dock]

hi anyone knows how to make this? i want to make a top down player that follows mouse , with something like Vector2.MoveTowards , the problem is i want it to be smooth like lets say if there is a wall on top of the player and the mouse clicking on the topside as well i want it to check the collision on top and if there is a wall there , then just ignore the Y input of the mouse and only do the X input , so it should not get stuck on the wall

i tried ray casting but it somehow doesn't work with this type of movement and get stuck on the wall

[hot fog]

how do i get a referance

[abstract olive]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymq2AUckws0

[ancient path]

Have you tried pathfinding?

I mean it’s what you tried

But A* project

Can work

[drifting dock]

not pathfinding but i already wrote the code

(ignore that i forgot to change the last 4 playerX to playerY)

the only problem is i don't know how to write this function called place_free to find if the position is free (no collision)

[hot fog]

hi so im using brackeys topdown movement and animation system and when a text box appears i dont want to be able to move so i disable the movement script but when that happens my guy will carry on doing the running animation

[turbid heart]

stop the running animation in OnDisable()
https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/MonoBehaviour.OnDisable.html

[hot fog]

yeah that dont work

[hot fog]

i still need help

[turbid heart]

show some code, you're in a code channel @hot fog We cant help if we dont know what you're doing

[hot fog]

bear in mind that the animator is on a different gameobject to the script

[abstract olive]

Do you not see the red errors in your script?

[hot fog]

Yeah

Doesnt mean ik how to fix them

[abstract olive]

Just curious why your initial question wasn't regarding them. When something doesn't work, it usually means you have bad code, so that's usually what you ask about.

First off, you need to provide a type to your variable. Notice how all your variables have three parts but your animator one only has two.

[dusky wagon]

Sorry for taking so long, Ive been gone for a while, but I tested a lot of things and the reason for it not working, seems to be that the rigidbody shows that the player has a velocity even when he doesnt, which makes the adding the velocity of the platform to the velocity of the player have a higher velocity as far as I can tell.

[dusky wagon]

I got this error while trying out stuff, what does it mean?

[nova bear]

can I change the layer of a gameobject during runtime?

[snow willow]

yes

[nova bear]

amazing

i was getting nervous

[snow willow]

why lol

[nova bear]

there are some times I want an object to collide with it, and sometimes I want it to pass through

[snow willow]

You can always look at the documentation for this kind of question btw:
https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/GameObject.html

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/GameObject-layer.html

[nova bear]

tyvm!

does this work?

[flat imp]

im just trying to have something move

i justw ant to move the objectt

why is this so hard

i tried using sprite
BoxCollider2D

none of them have a way to actually move their position i dont understand

this doesnt work either

[snow willow]

No you have to do theObject.layer = newLayer;

[snow willow]

Perhaps look at the error message and think about why it's giving you the error

[snow willow]

You should really do some basic tutorials because you're way off the mark here

[flat imp]

ive done them before
im just doing it thhe same way i was taught

[snow willow]

There's a lot wrong with your script. Better to follow a tutorial

[flat imp]

i feel like crying

[snow willow]

• Can't have public variables inside a method
• BoxCollider2Ds don't have velocity
• Even if they did you need a reference to an actual instance to use its methods/properties

[flat imp]

ive done tutorials before i dont know what is happening

[snow willow]

go back

do more

you didn't learn

try to understand what's happening in the tutorials as you do them

don't just blindly copy

[flat imp]

I HAVE BEEN TRYING TO UNDERSTAND

slow down

what is the object that the script is attatched to CALLED

i want to change its position

thats all im trying to do

i called the object goomba

but that doesnt seem to work either

[snow willow]

it doesn't matter what the name of the obejct is

[flat imp]

what is the thing that has a position for me to change

[snow willow]

you can access the GameObject that your script is attached to simply with gameObject

or its Transform simply with transform

[snow willow]

the thing with the position is the Transform

[flat imp]

gameobject doesnt have a transform

it doesnt have anything useful

[late viper]

small t

[snow willow]

Just transform

no GameObject.

No capital T

and if you want to change the position you need to do transform.position = something;

[late viper]

(gameObject should work, but its redundant)

[snow willow]

because the Transform keeps track of position, rotation, and scale and other things too

[hot fog]

Sorry ive been at work and yeah no i had it as public Animator animator; and it still didnt work

[flat imp]

its not helping

nothign is HERE

[snow willow]

that's correct, but it seems like you have other errors too

calm down a bit

go through the errors one by one

[flat imp]

the errors only help if i know what im doing

which i dont

which is why im asking for help

because the tutorials didnt teach me anything

[snow willow]

you're a bit scattershot is all

go through errors one by one

if you don't understand them

feel free to ask

[flat imp]

its not teling me what options i have within transform.position

do i need to ()

or .

[snow willow]

no

just cs transform.position = transform.position + Vector3.right * Time.deltaTime; for example

or transform.position = new Vector3(1, 2, 3);

¯_(ツ)_/¯

you can assign it to anything you want

[flat imp]

im not allowed to access movespeed from update but it freaks out when i make the float public

[nova bear]

would this work?

[snow willow]

it will work, it's pretty weird though

[nova bear]

ok

i dont like making too many big variables like gameobject variables

or variables i wont use that much

[snow willow]

Find is super expensive

just fyi

[nova bear]

MoveSpeed only exists in Start(), making it practically useless. You can still make it private float MoveSpeed, outside of the start and update functions

[nova bear]

i guess i'll have to make a new gameobject variable ig

[snow willow]

you have to declare MoveSpeed outside of Start()

[nova bear]

or is there a way to go from script to parent of script?

[flat imp]

dont you initialize variables when the object is created though? why cant you do it in start??

[snow willow]

you can't declare public variables in any method

[nova bear]

you don't

start is just stuff you do before the game runs fr

[snow willow]

you can initialize it in start if you want. but you have to declare it outside of start

[flat imp]

well what do i do if i want it to be set once and not set again unless i change it

[snow willow]

public float MoveSpeed;

void Start() {
  MoveSpeed = 0.3f;
}```

for example

[flat imp]

OH

okie

[nova bear]

the object whose layer I'm changing is the one with the script changing it. Can I access the parent gameobject from the script without doing something like GameObject.Find();

[flat imp]

see where im from
if you set a variable that doesnt exist, that is declaring it

[snow willow]

yes. Just gameObject.layer = whatever; for the object with the script

or transform.parent.gameObject.layer = whatever; for the parent

[snow willow]

C# isn't like that

you have to declare your variables

[flat imp]

god if moving is going to be this complicated id hate to think how much harder this is going to get

[nova bear]

I have an object called object1, object1 has a script called script1
script1 tries to change object1's layer but has to access it using GameObject.Find();
script1 wants a cleaner, more lightweight way to access its parent object. How can script1 do this?

[abstract olive]

Movement is probably one of the hardest aspects of a game, to get it to feel good and work well with your design.

[abstract olive]

So if you can nail that down, you're in a good spot.

[nova bear]

one of my many scripts

[flat imp]

GOOD mevement is hard

having movement that exists at all shouldnt be

[snow willow]

It's hard only because you aren't familiar with Unity or the programming language yet

Once you are familiar, it's a breeze

[nova bear]

^

once you get the basics down, you'll be able to tackle more complicated concepts in unity

and make your game richer

[flat imp]

alright it works

but i want to add this stuff to the position rather than setting it

but "+=" isnt allowed

[nova bear]

can I go from a script to its parent gameobject without finding the gameobject

[snow willow]

I just said

you're replying to the code of how to do that

[snow willow]

+= is allowed

[late viper]

you can't add a vector2 to a vector3

[flat imp]

it doesnt let me

[snow willow]

what happens

[snow willow]

Oh it's because you're iusing Vector2.right instead of Vector3.right

[snow willow]

yeah use Vector3.right

[flat imp]

well its a 2d game

[snow willow]

doens't matter

[flat imp]

why doesnt it matter

[snow willow]

everything in Unity is 3d

[flat imp]

this is important

[snow willow]

there are no 2d games in Unity

[nova bear]

wait

[snow willow]

only 3d games with an orthographic camera and a side-on camera angle

[flat imp]

is vector 3 is required, why does vectore 2 EXIST

[snow willow]

transform.position is a Vector3

[nova bear]

aren't transform and layer on the same level?

[snow willow]

there are other, uglier ways of doing it where you can keep Vector2

[nova bear]

gameObject.transform and gameObject.layer

[snow willow]

if you really want to use those

[late viper]

vector3 isn't required, there just are various uses for Vector2/Vector3

[snow willow]

but I wouldn't

[nova bear]

vector2 is a datatype that contains two floats

I like using it to get my boxcollider's x and y extents

or for seeing how far a gameobject is from the other

[snow willow]

the reason you're getting an error is because your code is essentially adding a Vector2 and a Vector3 and it doesn't know if it should convert the Vector3 to a Vector2 and then add, or if it should convert the Vector2 to a Vector3 and then add them

it's not about Vector2 "not being allowed"

so it's easier to just resolve the confusion by only using Vector3 in this case

[flat imp]

and why is this information made clear

[snow willow]

?

[late viper]

its clear if you are familiar with types

[nova bear]

does vector1 exist

lmao

[snow willow]

C#'s compiler error messages assume you are familiar with the workings of C#

[snow willow]

float

[nova bear]

ik

[snow willow]

in fact vector1 does exist in many languages, especially shader languages

[nova bear]

fr

weird

[flat imp]

C# isnt really the hard part for me
the issue i have is unitys functions themselves

i never know what to use

[snow willow]

That's what the scripting reference is for

but the error you were just struggling with is a C# thing not a Unity thing

[flat imp]

i fixed it by this point

and the "scripting reference" doesnt help me find what im looking for
i need to know what im looking for in order to search for it

[snow willow]

that's what google is for 😛

and - you know - time and experience

[flint lagoon]

Ah, sorry for being unclear.
What I would like is for all screen sizes to show all four sides of the white border (16:10 and Free Aspect do this correctly) but the others do not. Is there a way to make sure that instead of matching the height every time, it matches the width if the width is smaller?

[late viper]

and tutorials

[snow willow]

you're not going to just know everything right away

[flat imp]

googling isnt always as magical as people say

[snow willow]

your code needs to check if the aspect ratio is > 1 or < 1

[flint lagoon]

Oh, that should work! So the way I would do that is

aspectRatio = screen.width / screen.height;

correct?

[snow willow]

yeah

[flint lagoon]

Alright, thank you!

[snow willow]

or just check if Screen.width > screen.height

[late viper]

googling is a skill in of itself, as you get more experienced you learn what terms to google

[snow willow]

you might have to cast one of them to (float) or you'll get integer division too

[frigid minnow]

If I have two trigger colliders, how can I define which trigger collider is which when calling something like OnTriggerEnter2D ?

[turbid heart]

Check tags

[frigid minnow]

Huh?

I mean if I have two trigger colliders on the same object

One for detecting vertical and one for detecting horizontal

How can I tell the script "if the horizontal trigger collider is triggered..."

[late viper]

you put one of the colliders on a child object

[snow willow]

For this reason It's best practice to put each collider on its own separate GameObject

[frigid minnow]

That's what I'm doing but it seems like it's just pulling info from the other trigger collider anyways

Maybe I'm screwing something up

[snow willow]

you need to put each collider on a separate object, and have OnTriggerXXX scripts on each separate collider object

if you want to detect the individual triggers

[frigid minnow]

Yeah that's what I'm doing

Hmmmmm

[snow willow]

if there's a script on the parent object, it will detect collider events from any child colliders

they should be siblings

[frigid minnow]

Right so I have a parent with two children both with their own trigger colliders and scripts

Oh well, guess I'll just keep looking for what the bug is

Haha

I thought it might've been that the script is pulling info from the wrong collider

For some reason I can't get the walls above or below to register collision

Something weird is happening

OH wait duh

I recoded this and forgot to take out a condition

Disregard

[prime swift]

I'm trying to make it so that when I enter a house trigger the roof tiles become transparent

I know that you can set individual tile's colors through their position, but how could I identify where all of the roof tiles are to mark them all transparent?

[flat imp]

i am already burnt out and ive been working for 3 hours
but if i dont do this again i'll forget everything

[silver gust]

any pointers on how to go about making a replay system that captures how the player dies and then save it to disk where if needed it can be viewed from the main menu?

[candid bronze]

Hello, I have tilemap and I want to simulate item drop "bounce" effect (like in stardew valley when you drop items and they bounce a bit). But the issues is how should object bounce of tilemap, it just falls right thru it... Any ideas?

[nova bear]

I have a script, it's attached to a gameobject and I want to modify that gameobject's layer without using a GameObject variable or calling GameObject.Find().gameObject.layer

How can I do this?

[snow willow]

gameObject.layer```

[nova bear]

wait

can I call gameObject.layer inside the same script that's attached?

[snow willow]

yes

[nova bear]

I can call gameObject?

wow

[snow willow]

that's the only place you can

[nova bear]

tysm!

[snow willow]

otherwise you need a reference

[nova bear]

my life is 100x easier now

if I have a OnCollisionEnter2D function, can I call it inside the script?

[snow willow]

you can call it but it wouldn't make sense to

Unity calls it for you when a collision happens

[nova bear]

i would call it if an object moves too much due to its velocity and skips over an object

i set it to be on top of the object, but it might not call until next frame so I'd just call it to get it over with

how do I determine the collision

like what should I put for the parameters

i'll just copy and paste the action

[snow willow]

you wouldn't

it doesn't make sense to do this.

[nova bear]

ik i just like exploring possibilities

[nova bear]

I'm calling Random.Range(0, 1) but it never gives me 1. Why is that?

seriously, I even called it 6 times

doing a second test run on that

like six times at a time

wait actually the six times got called 26 times

[snow willow]

Random.Range is exclusive on the upper bound

well documented too

0, 1 will only give you 0

[nova bear]

rip

(1, 2) - 1 would work though

[snow willow]

you have to do Random.Range(0, 2) if you want 0 or 1

[nova bear]

oh

ohhhh

exclusive

ty!

so (1, 21) would give numbers 1-20?

[drifting escarp]

but when using Random.Range with floats it is inclusive

[nova bear]

does HSV go by 0f-100f or 0f-1f?

[snow willow]

Documented... in the docs: https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Color.HSVToRGB.html

[nova bear]

oh ok thx

i was in the same docs

forgot to check parameters

it works! ty

[elfin notch]

Hello, I'm trying to implement a system where the player can illuminate the "closest" block to the light source, but then that block will cast shadows on ones behind it. Does anyone know how I could go about implementing this in a shader? It'd be nice to be able to pull the light level from the base, and then project it upwards.

[hot fog]

Ok so im using brackeys 2d topdown movement tutorial but the thing is if i press D to move right when i let go it will return to idle front instead of idle right

How do i change this

[crisp narwhal]

This is for a flat golf game (Top down i think theyre called)

how can i add friction within this code (Changing the velocity every frame)

[chilly thorn]

hey! so I am using a 2d mouse parallax script for some ui

it seems to work on scene view but it doesnt load on the game

[abstract olive]

What a weird thing to print to your console.

[chilly thorn]

O_O you didnt see that

[abstract olive]

Right.

Well first off, you're applying a new position to the gameobject twice, not sure why.

Secondly, what's the position of your camera?

[crisp narwhal]

o_o

[chilly thorn]

1 sec recompiling >_>

i just noticed tho that when i hover the bottom left colour it does appear massive on the right side

camera is at 0 1 0

[abstract olive]

You're setting the canvas to z:0 as well, which is exactly on the same plane as the camera.

Either move the camera back, or put the canvas forward a bit.

Or rather, use the z-value the canvas has in the editor you currently have it set to.

Since that seems to be the distance you want it to be, anyway.

[chilly thorn]

i tried setting it to the canvas (90) and it is the same thing

im trying the game object that they are currently in

[abstract olive]

It's whatever object your ParallaxUI script is on.

[chilly thorn]

it goes to -900 something

when played

[abstract olive]

Remove your gameObject.transform.position line all together, it's not doing anything useful.

Then add pz.z to the third parameter to your Vector3.

This won't fix it, but at the very least it'll clean up your code a bit.

In your above screenshot, where is your camera?

[chilly thorn]

third parameter intead of 0 correct

apologies if these are simple answers, im just a lowly artist haha

[hot fog]

guys im using brackeys top down 2d system but whenever i stop running it will go to idle down instead of idle the way i was running how do i change this

[abstract olive]

Let's move this to #📲┃ui-ux. But if you disable your parallax script, and then manually move the canvas around, can you get it to appear?

[chilly thorn]

oki

[frigid minnow]

Can a coroutine start a coroutine?

[abstract olive]

Yep

You can even yield to other coroutines to wait for them to finish before the code inside the previous coroutine continues.

Useful if you need to queue things sequentially, such as in a turn based game.

[frigid minnow]

Okie doke, cool

Trying to figure out why a coroutine is being called in Unity but not in the build

Okay the coroutine is being called

But the result is different

In Build:

In Unity:

[snow willow]

could be you have code that is framerate-dependent. In other words your game behaves differently depending on the current framerate

builds tend to have higher framerates because they don't have the overhead of the Unity editor itself

[frigid minnow]

Ooooh interesting, that makes sense

The code that raises and lowers the sprite happens on every frame

That's probably exactly what's going on

[snow willow]

yep

sounds like it

You can generally multiply things by Time.deltaTime to convert things that are "per frame" to be "per second" instead

which is the typical way to achieve framerate independence

[frigid minnow]

Yep that fixed it. :]

Also, how come I can't use Cursor.visible?

Was it changed?

[snow willow]

wdym?

what happens when you try to use it

[late viper]

did you name something else Cursor?

[frigid minnow]

... ye

Haha

Crap

Alright well figured it out 😌

Literally the most helpful community I've ever come across, good stuff guys

[formal smelt]

Getting this error

[snow willow]

seems like you're trying to access something called IsGrounded on an Animator.

Animator doesn't have a member called IsGrounded

so naturally it doesn't work

this is kind of like asking someone to show you the wheels on their surfboard

[formal smelt]

So I need to create an IsGrounded boolean inside of my code?

And wow you type fast, what wpm if I may ask?

[snow willow]

I didn't say that.

It depends on what you're actually trying to do

Maybe you're just trying to get IsGrounded from the wrong variable or something

[formal smelt]

I'm running this to set it to either true or false

I'm not really sure tbh

[snow willow]

What is your script called?

[formal smelt]

Player Script

[snow willow]

also can you show line 37 of your script?

that's the one that has the error

[formal smelt]

o yea that was the one I sent

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/763500535554375750/877736833478447184/unknown.png

I didn't get the number in the shot

[snow willow]

doesn't seem like it would cause the error you're seeing

[formal smelt]

weird

[snow willow]

would you mind showing some more context

maybe just the whole script

also make 100% sure you've saved any changes you've made to your script

[formal smelt]

yea

I've been ctrl + s a lot

[snow willow]

#854851968446365696 has some tips for how to share your code here

if you don't follow it the bot will delete your code

[formal smelt]

ohk thanks

https://gdl.space/raw/qoqovemibu

[snow willow]

the code looks fine to me

do me a favor - select your script in the project window and look at the text preview that it shows in the inspector. Does the code look like it matches what you've sent me here? @formal smelt

[formal smelt]

hmm

i think its the same

U mean like vscode?

ok

this is the preivew

[snow willow]

no this looks very different

[formal smelt]

wuts going on

[snow willow]

see wheerr it says anim.IsGrounded

[formal smelt]

yea

[snow willow]

that's what the error is about

and it's not in the code you sent earlier

[formal smelt]

oh

how come

[snow willow]

Double click this script in the project window and see what opens up

I would guess you have multiple duplicate scripts by accident or something

idk

[formal smelt]

is this that?

[snow willow]

Press this Open button

[formal smelt]

ok

[snow willow]

and what does that open?

[formal smelt]

same code as the link

[snow willow]

can you show your console window? DO you have any other errors besides the one you shared?

FOr some reason Unity doesn't seem to be getting the up to date code from your file.

Also you can try restarting Unity.

[snow willow]

press clear

what's left after you clear?

[formal smelt]

o

only this one after clear

[snow willow]

try restarting Unity 🤔

[formal smelt]

i did right before i sent u that

[snow willow]

also triple check that the file was saved in Visual Studio

Make sure there's no asterisk like this next to the filename

I've had bugs where ctrl+s in VS doesn't actually save the file for whatever reason

[formal smelt]

i did have that bug apparently

I just manually saved

now I can run the game but i get this error

[snow willow]

you haven't assigned one of your variables in the inspector then

[formal smelt]

o

in the inspector?

[snow willow]

yeah

click on your player object

in the hierarchy window

the look at the inspector

you should see your script there, attached to the player

there are slots on it

you didn't drag the animator into its slot

[formal smelt]

hierarchy window?

[snow willow]

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

[formal smelt]

oo

[snow willow]

& inspector: https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/UsingTheInspector.html

[snow willow]

not that

scroll up

to your script

[formal smelt]

OOHHH

[snow willow]

see how those all say none

also you have multiple copies of your Player Script on the player object

you should get rid of all but one of them

[formal smelt]

Ok i just did that now everything works

thank you very much kind person

[potent lake]

i have 3 objects in my game all with the same script getting sprites from a sprite atlas stored in a singleton "GameAssetManager"

Debug.Log(GameAssetManager.instance);
_sprites[0] = GameAssetManager.instance.entityAtlas.GetSprite("entities_" + spriteID);

2 of these objects find their sprites perfectly fine, but one cant seem to find the asset manager
even if I duplicate one of the working ones it cant find it
can someone please tell me what went wrong?

ok now i restarted unity none of them work rip

[snow willow]

which line is 25

[potent lake]

sprites[0] = GameAssetManager.instance.entityAtlas.GetSprite("entities" + spriteID);

[snow willow]

Sorry it's obvious

ok so

Can you show the GameAssetManager script?

[snow willow]

Oh I know the problem

dont need to show the script

you are running this code in Awake right?

[potent lake]

yep

[snow willow]

and in GameAssetMaanger, you're assigning instance = this in Awake()

[potent lake]

yep

[snow willow]

if one of your Animator scripts runs its Awake before GameAssetManager runs its Awake

instance isn't ready yet

[potent lake]

makes sense

[snow willow]

try moving this code to Start()

[potent lake]

ok

thank you so much lmao

[wooden night]

I am adding speed to my character with this line of code, but my character gets stuck on a flat tilemap randomly

        rigidbody2D.velocity = new Vector2(Input.GetAxis("Horizontal") * speed, rigidbody2D.velocity.y);

[wooden night]

also whole physics just stopped

is that normal?

[dusky wagon]

Can you show a screenshot of what you mean with the tilemap?

[dusky wagon]

Im trying to modify these two lines of code:

            Vector3 targetVelocity = new Vector2(move * 10f, m_Rigidbody2D.velocity.y);

m_Rigidbody2D.velocity = Vector3.SmoothDamp(m_Rigidbody2D.velocity, targetVelocity, ref m_Velocity, m_MovementSmoothing);

And make it so that it doesnt take the entire x velocity of the player and changes it, but only the velocity that was added through this line.

[craggy kite]

not sure what you mean. Can you explain a bit more?

[dusky wagon]

Currently when I add any velocity to the object it instantly gets damped down, but I only want this to damp the velocity that was added through this movement script

[dusky wagon]

Is that understandable?

[craggy kite]

You are overwriting the velocity right now. You should add it instead, I guess, if I understand correctly

[wild pivot]

Anyone have and idea on how I could find the position of the players mouse in 2d?

[compact knoll]

Camera.ScreenToWorldPoint(Input.mousePosition)

[craggy kite]

mouse position is always 2D, so Input.mousePosition tells you the screen position

there you go

[wild pivot]

Thanks

[dusky wagon]

I only want to overwrite a a specific part

I only want to overwrite the part of the velocity that is added by this script. tried storing the velocity in a variable, but it works until I walk against a wall, since then the velocity gets reduced

[craggy kite]

Okay, so right now your velocity is overwritten, what "part" do you want to overwrite instead of the whole velocity?

[dusky wagon]

The whole velocity I do here, show be a different "part".
So instead of damping the whole velocity it damps the velocity that was added in here

Vector3 targetVelocity = new Vector2(move * 10f, m_Rigidbody2D.velocity.y);

            m_tempVelocity = Vector3.SmoothDamp(new Vector2(lastVelocityX, m_Rigidbody2D.velocity.y), targetVelocity, ref m_Velocity, m_MovementSmoothing);
            m_Rigidbody2D.velocity = new Vector2 (m_Rigidbody2D.velocity.x - lastVelocityX + m_tempVelocity.x , m_Rigidbody2D.velocity.y);
            lastVelocityX = m_tempVelocity.x;

This is what I tried. I made a variable called lastVelocityX which always stores the velocity added by the script last time and takes that as the current velocity to damp from. It works until the player encounters anything that changes its velocity e.g.:
slopes, walls or custom abilities

@craggy kite do you have any idea? Ive been stuck on this for a while and I have no idea how I could do it

[craggy kite]

I am a bit sick and not in the state to udnerstand fully what you want, sorry 😄 so you are trying to damp down the velocity change instead of the velocity

[dusky wagon]

Oh okay, of course you dont have to answer, especially when you are sick. But yes Im trying to only damp the velocity that is responsible for the movement and was added there, and not any velocity that was added through and other objects or scripts

[craggy kite]

so did you try to just add it to the last velocity of your rigidbody? Can you maybe break it down into steps what you want? 1) get the velocity of the player, 2) add velocity to it through whatever force 3) damp that added force 4) attach it to the original velocity of the player?

[dusky wagon]

1. Determine what part of the velocity was added through the movement script and not any other script.

2. SmoothDamp the velocity determined in step 1.

3. Overwrite the velocity from step 1 with the velocity of step 2 while leaving the rest of the velocity intact

@craggy kite

[craggy kite]

Please dont mention me all the time 😉 I come here when I got time. So what two vectors do you want to smoothdamp? The lastAdded to the new added Velocity?

[hot fog]

whenever my character moves left or right when it stops moving it will return to player idle down instead of player idle the way it was running. how do i fix this

[abstract olive]

You only have one player idle animation which the movement returns to.

[craggy kite]

Where is playeridledown?

[hot fog]

yeah ik but idk how to add my others in

[craggy kite]

drag drop them in the animator window

[hot fog]

ok now what

[craggy kite]

Im not an interactive tutorial 😄

[hot fog]

do i need to make a blend tree for them like my movement

[abstract olive]

Blend trees aren't really ideal for 2D animations.

[craggy kite]

You better check the tutorials on animator on youtube, there are dozens

[hot fog]

i have its literally a straight copy of brackeys 2d topdown movement but he leaves it like that

[craggy kite]

at least for sprite animations, bones is another story

[abstract olive]

Right, 2D sprite animations. *