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[craggy kite]

try to find another one tbh, brackeys is outdated and often not very well done in terms of longivity in a project+

[hot fog]

ok

[dusky wagon]

Okay sorry, wont mention you again. So I want to SmoothDamp the last velocity towards targetVelocity

[craggy kite]

so why are you damping the velocity then towards the players velocity?

[dusky wagon]

Where exactly am I doing that?

[craggy kite]

Oh was looking at the older one, sorry. So, do you have the most current version of your script somehow, to start from there?

[dusky wagon]

This is the latest part of the script but it doesnt really work at all

In there I tried to save the x velocity of a player that was added through the script this FixedUpdate in a float and damping the one that was added last one towards the target velocity

And then subtracting the velocity that was added last frame and adding the one added this frame at the end

But as soon as you hit a wall, the system breaks, as I assume it subtracts the velocity that was added last frame, but as you dont have it anymore since the wall is blocking the way it subtracts too much

At least thats what I think

[craggy kite]

But if the wall stops you which is intended, how would you control the velocity then, should it break through the wall or what ?

[dusky wagon]

No it should stop

[craggy kite]

Okay I am confused 😄

Maybe someone else can enlighten this issue here

[dusky wagon]

Actually thinking about it what I says what I think causes the error probably doesnt make much sense

I dont really know why it breaks

I just know that the movement part for this old version here works, but for example a jump pad game object I have, cant add a force to the player, as it is damping down the entire x velocity

[craggy kite]

Why exactly do you want to damp the velocity of the temporary one, still trying to figure out your setup 😄

[dusky wagon]

In the newer try or in the old one?

[craggy kite]

in general, you want to damp the velocity of the player so it does not exceed anything or just damp the force it can get?

[dusky wagon]

I want to damp the force, so the player takes some time to reach his max speed and also to slow down again

So it doesnt feel like a robot

[craggy kite]

so why dont you just lerp the velocity of the player

[dusky wagon]

One second let me look up how that works in the unity scripting api

Okay so if I get it right, minimum would be the current velocity, the maximum the target velocity and tm_SmoothMovement?

[craggy kite]

lerp is going from vector a to b in the given time

[dusky wagon]

Ah

So the higher t the higher it will take?

[craggy kite]

if you use Time.deltaTime for example, and you multiply it by 2, it will go twice as fast, just try it out

[dusky wagon]

And will Time.deltaTime take one second?

[craggy kite]

its the timespan between frames / second, so if you have 60 frames, deltaTime will be 1/60 of a second I think

[surreal panther]

no that would be Time.fixedDeltaTime

delta time workes on an always same amount of frames

[craggy kite]

The interval in seconds from the last frame to the current one (Read Only).

[craggy kite]

you better read that up again, maybe mixing up some things

[dusky wagon]

Yeah but Im still not exactly sure how that works, and since if you subtract something by time.deltaTime each frame, you subtract one every second, I thought it might take one

[surreal panther]

no sorry y actually wrote that up super badly

what y meant is that the fixed delta time works at the same speed on powerful or weak devices while delta time will give faster performances in a powerful device and slow performance on a weak device

[dusky wagon]

delta time is the time since the last frame passed, right?

[compact knoll]

Yes

[surreal panther]

yes

[compact knoll]

fixedDeltaTime is the time between FixedUpdate calls, but using Time.deltaTime in fixed update gives the same result as fixedDeltaTime. If you are doing calculations that need to be framer ate independent, use deltaTime

[surreal panther]

fixed delta time actually uses a fixed amount of time between each frame that's what it means

[compact knoll]

Yes, and if you are using that to attempt framerate independence in Update you are doing it wrong

[craggy kite]

Dont let you get confused 😄 fixedDeltaTime is the time for physics calculation which is on standard set to 50 calls per second I think, if you want to have performance independet stuff, use deltaTime, as it will change according to your renderer/calculated frames per second.

[dusky wagon]

Yeah I got that, but my main question is if it will take one second to get from a to b in a lerp method if t is delta time (or fixed delta time, doesnt matter since it is in fixed update)

[craggy kite]

you dont have to rely on delta time, you can use whatever timespan you want, you just gotta count it up somewhere.

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Vector3.Lerp.html tells you that t is the time or better, the progress between point a and b, if you want to have it in one second, divide some value with your duration and get the progress of 0 to 100 percent (0 to 1.0 in this case)

[compact knoll]

https://gamedevbeginner.com/the-right-way-to-lerp-in-unity-with-examples/
I recommend this for learning how to lerp properly

[craggy kite]

Ah thats good, thanks boxfriend 🙂 yeah, check that out

I just assume you dont want any specific point to start and end, you want to keep it lerping while the game is running, but thats just a thought

[dusky wagon]

Okay so I think I got it, if t is 1, it will go the full way, if its 0.5 only half and so on, right?

Okay, I can find a way to implement that, but does that help in any way with the original problem?

[craggy kite]

We were talking about the damping problem. You still gotta figure out what you wanna damp, but that way you can control the speed or rather the acceleration of the player instead of damping the force added to the player

[dusky wagon]

Okay Im going to work on i plementing that in a second, but I assume this way still wont work. Does anyone have an idea for a different way to make it, so that I only change the part of the velocity that was added by the movement and not anything else?

[compact knoll]

Am I crazy or are you just trying to get it to accelerate to a certain velocity then only increase velocity from this source if it's below your maximum velocity?

[craggy kite]

Not really, he is trying to damp the force added to the velocity, not the velocity itself, somehow

[compact knoll]

Because if that's the case, just use AddForce and stop applying force past your preferred maximum velocity

[dusky wagon]

I want to slowly accelerate the player to a certain speed, but makes it ignore any forces applied from another script

[compact knoll]

Use AddForce instead

[craggy kite]

really? thats all, you could not come up with that sentence an hour ago? 😄

[dusky wagon]

Oh sorry for being unclear

And I also want it to slow decelerate once you stopped moving

I think Addforce wont work on the deceleration, right? Or can should I somehoe add negative force?

[compact knoll]

This is exactly the perfect use of AddForce. Gimme a sec and I'll paste the code. I helped someone else figure this out a few days ago

set up your linear drag and stuff right and it will automatically reduce speed when not attempting to accelerate

[snow willow]

of course it will

deceleration is just acceleration in the opposite direction

[compact knoll]

playerVelocity = new Vector3(horizontal, vertical, 0) * speed;

if (!((playerVelocity.x ^ rb.velocity.x) <= 0) && Mathf.Abs(rb.velocity.x) >= maxVelocityDelta)
{
    playerVelocity.x = 0;
}
if (!((playerVelocity.y ^ rb.velocity.y) <= 0) && Mathf.Abs(rb.velocity.y) >= maxVelocityDelta)
{
    playerVelocity.y = 0;
}

substitute your own variables of course, but this should get you what you want.

oh sorry, i should mention that they used the playerVelocity vector as the force applied

[dusky wagon]

What does the operator ^ do in an if statement?

[compact knoll]

it checks if the force being applied on the axis is opposite the current velocity and that current velocity is not greater than the maximum, if it is it sets the force applied to 0

[craggy kite]

never seen this in any equation, any docs about it? @compact knoll

[dusky wagon]

So I use this and use add force to add playerVelocity to the player velocity?

[craggy kite]

Nevermind, found it, boolean operand, dang, why have I never heard of it. thanks 🙂

[compact knoll]

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/language-reference/operators/boolean-logical-operators#logical-or-operator-

[compact knoll]

yeah, i just added the first line that i had forgotten though. should make it more obvious what is happening there

[dusky wagon]

Okay I would assume that since it is a sidescroller game with gravity, I only need the x part and then an AddForce line, correct?

[craggy kite]

ehm, sidescroller means x and y, not z

[compact knoll]

ah yeah. This was actually initially written for a 3d game and i just swapped the z with y without thinking you wouldn't be applying upward force with vertical input controls

[dusky wagon]

Yes but I dont want the player to move vertically, thats what I use jumping for.

[craggy kite]

the y part is just limiting your player to not get faster than you want while jumping

[compact knoll]

so you could set the y force to 0 and remove that second if statement and it should work as expected

[craggy kite]

lets say you jump and collide with a jumppad, it would add up the force, right?

[compact knoll]

nah, that's not what would be happening here, a sidescroller wouldn't use constant force on the y axis like that, you would just use a forcemode.impulse call for that. this is purely for adding the constant movement forces

it was specifically structured to allow outside forces to further impact velocity while preventing the player input from going over the maximum allotted movement velocity

[dusky wagon]

Looking at this I think that would bring back my original problem of not reducing the x force that was applied by other objects, but I should probably try it out first and see how it works

[dusky wagon]

And yes, thats how my jump pads works

[craggy kite]

the first line, I agree, but the if statement would be needed to limit the adding up of forces depending on the game, as he was talkin about jump pads, or am I getting it wrong? well, I stay silent for now and let him try it out first

[compact knoll]

make sure that you have linear drag on your object otherwise it won't slow down

[dusky wagon]

Okay first I need to get all the variables right.
So I assume:
-maxVelocityDelta should be a positive number that determines the maximum velocity the player can travel at.

-playerVelocity is the force that I add to the player each time the FixedUpdate get played.

-horizontal and vertical are numbers from -1 to 1 that are determined by the input and control the direction

-speed is the speed at which the object accelerates

Are all of these right?

[compact knoll]

looks right to me

[dusky wagon]

I get an error int he line with:
(playerVelocity.x ^ m_Rigidbody2D.velocity.x)
It say:
Operator '^' cannot be applied to operands of type 'float' and 'float'

And as far as I know, I didnt change anything except the name of the rigidbody variable

[compact knoll]

Show the full line just in case

[dusky wagon]

if (!((playerVelocity.x ^ m_Rigidbody2D.velocity.x) <= 0) && Mathf.Abs(m_Rigidbody2D.velocity.x) >= maxVelocityDelta)
            {
                playerVelocity.x = 0;
            }```

[stoic moon]

I have multiple empty gameobjects on an enemy that act as barrels and determine the bullet's direction, this is my current code to fire out of all of them(they're in a list of transforms so i don't need to make seperate gameObjects) private IEnumerator shootProjectile() { foreach (Transform barrel in barrels) { canFire = false; GameObject bullet = Instantiate(bulletObject, barrel.position, barrel.rotation) as GameObject; bullet.GetComponent<Projectile>().doesDespawn = true; yield return new WaitForSeconds(attackspeed); canFire = true; } }
Currently they fire all one at a time, how would i get them to fire all at once?

[compact knoll]

Yeah idk why that's happening. I don't see anything that indicates that is wrong, and I've even seen it work like that

[dusky wagon]

What exactly does the if statement do? I thought I only need to check if the current added velocity is above the maximum velocity

[compact knoll]

Actually I saw a single comment on a stack overflow page saying it doesn't work for floats, so you can just cast them to ints in that section and it should work.
I also just discovered Mathf.Sign() so you could just compare the values from that

That also checks if you are attempting to go in the opposite direction because if you are at or over max velocity in one direction you wouldn't be able to attempt to go the other direction until you get below the maximum again

[dusky wagon]

Okay so I just cast them as ints?

[compact knoll]

Yeah, or you can do Mathf.Sign for each of them and check if the values are equal

[compact knoll]

The way you have it structured now is that it will iterate through the list one at a time, it will fire, wait until after the wait for seconds, then the next one will be able to fire. You will need to move your canFire boolean and yield to outside of the foreach loop

[dusky wagon]

Okay so I played around with the settings and I cant find a good setting for the linear drag so that you dont slide a lot but also dont fall or walk extremely slow, can I also use AddForce for the deceleration?

[compact knoll]

Play with the mass a bit too. It's hard to get it just right but it is definitely doable.

You will also probably want to tweak your speed value a bit too since that will impact how much force is being supplied each frame

But with higher linear drag it will stop quicker, but you need to apply more force per frame to maintain the speed. With more mass you'll need more force to accelerate to your preferred speed

[still tendon]

Hey, so, I added two UI buttons, for left & right movement, and for some reason:
in 60FPS, when I move right, it's all normal and smooth, but when I move left, the character looks like he's stuttering
in 30FPS it looks normal no matter the direction

the way I make him move is if the left button is being held, speed is set to -1.0, and if the right button is held, speed it set to 1.0, if no button is held speed it 0.0 - after the speed is set, I set the velocity to speed * movementSpeed

to make things even more weird is then I test it on PC it's normal no matter the FPS and direction.

[dusky wagon]

I want the player to stop moving almost instantly, but Im afraid that making him have a high drag would make him not be pushed by my jump pad for example which only add a force once

[dusky wagon]

Also what exactly does the linear drag do? I would assume that it slows down objects on the x axis and angular drag slows them down on the y axis, but when I set linear drag higher it also stops faster on the y

[compact knoll]

Angular drag is rotational drag. Linear drag is exactly what it sounds like

[still tendon]

In the end I fixed the issue by making it so when I move left, rather than rotating the entire Player GameObject (which has the Rigidbody component), I'm only rotating the character sprite. 😄

[crisp narwhal]

how can i add friction (decelerate over time)

[vocal condor]

Adding force of negative velocity multiplied by some scalar resistance percentage.

ie velocity * 0.10f would be a ten percent degradation

[pale jasper]

How would i make a code to swap between two character

[crisp narwhal]

Not 100% sure but just an idea using public bools in 2 different scripts and making them true/false (whatever needed) once the thing to swap character occurs and have the movement/everything else in the code check if that character is the one being controlled (using the bool)

private void Update()
{
  if (char1)
  {
    //movement code
    //check for event that makes you change character
      -> make char2 from the other script true and char1 to false
  }
}

smth like this idk

[pale jasper]

So next thing... how can i set up movement for 2 different characters

[crisp narwhal]

again idk if my code example above would work but u would have 2 scripts, and 2 sprites

1 script per sprite

and the othe script would just be the same as the first one (the one above)

[pale jasper]

For example- One can run and crouch the other cant

[crisp narwhal]

but with char2 in the code

----SCRIPT 1 ON SPRITE 1----

public bool char1 = true;

private void Update()
{
  if (char1)
  {
    //movement code
    //check for event that makes you change character
      -> make char2 from the other script true and char1 to false
  }
}


----SCRIPT 2 ON SPRITE 2----

public bool char2 = true;

private void Update()
{
  if (char2)
  {
    //movement code
    //check for event that makes you change character
      -> make char1 from the other script true and char2 to false
  }
}

Again, im not sure if this is the way im just bouncing ideas around thats all

[snow willow]

Eh wouldn't it be easier to just use one script

put it on both objects

and enable/disable them as needed?

then you don't have duplicate code

[fleet knot]

Hello guys, i want to make area skill for my 2d player what should i use?

[civic knot]

Donno. My internet is so slow, I can't load the docs page. What does it say?

I've seen that page. I couldn't load the docs page.

Read what the docs say.

[nova bear]

How do I round a float

[abstract olive]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Mathf.Round.html

[nova bear]

I need help with something
I set my x position to either -6.5f or something over -6.5f, but when it gets set to -6.5f it actually gets set to -6.499999999f or something. Here's the code:
xSet(-6.5f + (Random.Range(0f, 12.5f) * Random.Range(0, 2)));

[abstract olive]

Yes, that's the nature of floats. They're rarely the exact number, and are at best "close enough".

This is why you never do an == comparison between two float values.

[nova bear]

ik

the solution to my code is just (transform.position.x - 0.01f) <= -6.5f

because if its less thats also fine

and its never initially less

yay it works now

[flat imp]

how would you check if something is colliding with a specific type of object?
like lets say you have a coin prefab, how would you check that the player is touching a coin and then delete the coin you are touching?

i know about OnTriggerEnter but it seems to only apply to "other" and not a specific kind of object

i know there is documentation and tutorials but thats where i learned the information i already know and im really struggling to understand it

and on the subject of collision
i found that rigidbodies arent preventing me from going into wall tiles, they just kinda push you out of the walls, making a weird vibrating screen

[compact knoll]

sounds like you probably want to enable continuous detection for the rigidbody, unless you are moving it using the transform in which case don't do that.
As for the collision, most people will generally put a check in their OnCollisionEnter or OnTriggerEnter to determine if the collision is with a certain kind of object. A lot of the time it's a check comparing the tag of the colliding object

[compact knoll]

tagging because i forgot to in the previous message

[flat imp]

other people.. told me to use transform

im sorry if im really struggling with unity... ive been using gamemaker studio for like 8 years and... honestly C# is really easy, its the functions of unity that really trip me up

[compact knoll]

modifying the transform.position ignores physics. move the rigidbody using MovePosition, AddForce, or change the velocity directly (of the 3, AddForce is the best option)

[flat imp]

im struggling to commit these things to long term memory
and also... can i just say how much it sucks to have so much experience but no knowledge to back it up

it makes every success seem so much smaller and every failure so much more dissapointing

[compact knoll]

it just takes time to get things right. it doesn't help when you get bad advice either (like moving the transform if you want physics to work properly). Just try to think of the failures as learning opportunities rather than just failures.
if you wanna post your movement code we could get that worked out to something that works better for your needs

[flat imp]

honestly its really late, hooking up my hard drive requires moving the laptop, and also unity and visual studio take a long time to load things

so... im sorry but i really cant do that right now

maybe tomorrow if i feel like trying

[flat imp]

honestly that guy was the first one here to not make me feel like an idiot

[dense timber]

Hey guys I, I recently started my very first unity game and I’m having one heck of a time getting a damage and health system to work properly. I tried following multiple tutorials but always something wrong with the code. I was wondering where I could find help or someone to walk me through it.

[craggy kite]

You should tell us, what is going wrong in your code and show us the code

[nova bear]

question: How can I add 50 pngs to a script component together? Adding them all manually would be kind of messy.

actually I might still just make a public Sprite[] array

[craggy kite]

You can just lock the inspector and then select 50 pngs and add them

[craggy kite]

that little lock icon

[nova bear]

thank you twentacle!

now it'll take seconds

[late viper]

i wouldn't pollute the inspector like that, you should really do that in code

[nova bear]

how can I get 50 things from asset without dragging them there

also I can just hide it since public arrays are drop-down

[late viper]

Resources.Load

[nova bear]

ah i'll look into it later

but despite that i've decided those images are a waste of my hour

i'm going to use a shader to pixelate my sprite instead

these images came out in poor quality anyway

[abstract grail]

hey! does anyone have any code i can use to allow the player to move up down left and right with no jumping while the camera follows the player?

[compact knoll]

nobody is just going to hand you free code like that. if you aren't sure how to approach the problem, there are quite a few tutorials for how to do that. a popular one is probably brackeys (though I can't say whether it's actually a good one or not). If you have tried but failed to write movement code, then share your code using a paste site and describe the issue and we can help you with that

[turbid heart]

break it down and write it yourself. we don't give out code here.
1)how to detect keypresses
2)how to move object
3)how to move object when key is pressed
4)how to make another object follow another object(you can maybe make the camera a child of the player object, or update its position in code)

[abstract grail]

oh sorry, ill have a look at the tutorials

[fluid vine]

my buttons arent visible and not clickable when i build the game. does anyone know what the problem could be?

[abstract grail]

maybe check if the eye next to the button in the scene view is on, and check if you turned it off in the inspector

[fluid vine]

the problem is that it works just fine in my game preview

but not when i build it

which is weird because why would it do one thing just fine but the other same thing doesnt

[craggy kite]

are they out of view?

[fluid vine]

no they are like right before the background screen

and they are fully functioning in the game preview in unity

but just not in the build

[craggy kite]

so you see everything from your scene besides the UI?

[fluid vine]

yeah

in the build yeah

[craggy kite]

can you share a screen of both?

[fluid vine]

uhhh sure

its a weird game be prepared

[craggy kite]

you got a null error in your scripts

[fluid vine]

and i thought the buttons were out of sight

wait

[craggy kite]

First fix those errors before building

[fluid vine]

yeah that just happened because i tried to fix it

uhhh

no thats from a delete script so it doesnt matter

[craggy kite]

can you put your gameview to a resolution 16:9?

and share that screen?

[fluid vine]

where do i do that

im really new sorry

[craggy kite]

go to game view, than on top left of that view, there is a resolution button

[craggy kite]

And already things are out of sight, right

[fluid vine]

yep

should i put them in the rigth space

[craggy kite]

thats your issue, your canvas is not adapting properly

[fluid vine]

ah

i hope this is gonna work

im gonna adjust the placement

[craggy kite]

you need to align your objects relatively, not absolutely

so instead of putting them 200px from left, you should put them for example 20% from the left, but how to do UI placement should be learned in a tutorial 🙂 not a coding question for now then. Just look up some recent UI tutorials, they will explain it to you 🙂

[fluid vine]

yeah the alignment doesnt have to be perfect, its a joke (as you can see from the screenshots) so the buttons just gotta work

got this rn

so thats better already

im gonna try to build it now

and see if it works

[craggy kite]

Alrighty 🙂

[fluid vine]

:(

still doesnt work

[craggy kite]

can you show the inspector of one button and the canvas component too?

[fluid vine]

from button

[craggy kite]

open up the recttransform component please 😄

[fluid vine]

canvas

button again

[craggy kite]

woah, okay, your z value is off 😄 can you put it to 0

[fluid vine]

that makes it go behind everything

should i put everything on 0 z

[craggy kite]

yeah, even if its a joke, it should be cleared up a bit 😄 put everything to z if possible, yes

[fluid vine]

i cant seem to change the position of the vanvas with the pink button

its all the way behind

[craggy kite]

The canvas is bound to your camera, thats okay. just put the buttons inside it to z 0

btw, you dont need separate canvases for every button

[fluid vine]

oh

does that matter?

or

not

oh and i put eveyrthing on z 0 but

[craggy kite]

it can also mess up the positioning. Just helps to clear things up too

[fluid vine]

now some things are overlapping

like, the background overlaps the floor

[craggy kite]

because you have more than one canvas, unity does not know which canvas is more important. If you just use one, unity will render in the hierarchy of your canvas

[fluid vine]

alright, im gonna try to

get the two buttons on one canvas

[craggy kite]

I know its a joke, but I am sure you want to learn how to use unity anyway, right? Why not start with a project you can mess up a little while trying out 😄

[fluid vine]

yea

i hope this is gonna work

ok i did it

i hope nothing bad happened

i cant see the buttons now tho,

i only see my character and the background

[craggy kite]

Okay, let me guide you

1. select your button, first the left one
2. click on that icon I put in the screenshot
3. hold control and shift and click on the icon of the second screenshot.

if you select the right button, do the same but select the icon 2 to the right of the left one

Those buttons will anchor your buttons to the left and right side of the screen, no matter the width of the resolution

[fluid vine]

is it that one?

i cant find the exact same one

nevermind

forgot ctrl shift click

[craggy kite]

yep 😉

[fluid vine]

ok did it

[stoic moon]

This is my script for instantiating particles, whenever I instantiate one the function runs fine until it gets to destroy, then it destroys both that particle and the bloodparticle object? I don't know where it would be causing that

nevermind my stop action was set to destroy

[spark moth]

Hey, when clicking a second time on a button, I would like to make it go back to its "Normal Color", is it possible through code (or editor), or should I use a toggle ? Thx !

[dusky wagon]

After some experimenting with this, I pretty much got back to my original problem. I want to decelerate two different parts of the velocity at different speeds. I want to decelerate the players movement almost instantly as soon as the movement button isnt pressed anymore, but I want to decelerate other things, for example when the player is being pushed by a jump pad a lot more slowly. Does anyone have any idea how to do this?

[stoic moon]

This code doesn't do anything and spits out a warning that the animator is not animating?

This is my animator, with the bool isopen and the arrows corresponding to that

If I manually set it to true in the code, it works perfectly fine

[rugged kestrel]

Hi guys! I bumped into a small issue with my game. There is an enemy type called Spitter, it shoots acidballs. We control 2 players. Once taunted with the Clown character, the spitter turns left and so does the projectile it shoots. The problem is, that the acidball that already has been shot changes direction once I shoot with the cowboy again! Zombies should turn to the sound of gunfire, but the already shot projectile obviously shouldn't. Gotta attach a clip, hopefully it helps. Any fix on that?

Also the relevant code of the projectile:

https://paste.ofcode.org/dnRU96q66fxEs96QHpRUfw

[worthy stump]

At a guess, by looking at the code its because your shooter has become targeted.

You're querying your game manager via the Update loop, so this happens once per frame. If the .isShooterChased bool changes at any point, this is going to have a knock-on effect on your already created acid ball

[craggy kite]

I guess you parent your shots in your enemy/player. detach them when instantiated

Do you only flip the sprite?

and is the sprite a sheet with your enemy and the shots?

[rugged kestrel]

I'm pertty sure I do.
the enemy and the projectile are seperate sprites if that's what you meant.

[rugged kestrel]

yeah I was thinking about that as well. I'm not sure how to fix it tho...

[worthy stump]

Presuming that you instantiate the acid ball, you could try moving logic for flipping the sprite out of update, and into "Start". This will set its orientation. On update you can then query the .flipx value in order to to your transform.translate

pseudocode:

{
 If targeted
  {
    Set FlipX correctly
  }
}

Update()
{
  If flipx
  {
    Traslate left
  }
Elses
{
  Translate right
}
}```

God that formatting is awful 😛

Doing it that way does mean that the acid ball won't be able to change direction at all, though (Assume thats how you want it)

[rugged kestrel]

yeah, the already shot acid ball shouldn't change it's direction. Thanks a lot! I'll try fixing my code once I have time.

[worthy stump]

No problem 🙂

[stoic moon]

How can I fix this?

[craggy kite]

Well, are there animations in the animator ? @stoic moon

[stoic moon]

yes

[craggy kite]

and they are animating?

[stoic moon]

According to google it has something to do with prefabs as well

it plays the default animation when it loads in, the variables are set

[craggy kite]

well it says your animator is not animating, so you should select the object with the animator in it, open the animator view and check if something is happening

[stoic moon]

Just the default animation that i've set

then nothing happens

[craggy kite]

then it is not animating, so its a tru ewarning, it will still do your stuff, but just warn you, that nothing is happeningm because you are missing a translation to a new animation for example or a loop

[stoic moon]

found it

[wild pivot]

How can I change only the Z position of a game object

[knotty barn]

Copy the whole position, change Z, assign the position

[distant pecan]

transform.position = new Vector3(transform.position.x, transform.position.y, 100f); //change 100f to whathever you like the Z position to be

[dusky wagon]

Does anyone have any suggestions?

[abstract olive]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/MonoBehaviour.OnCollisionExit.html

Do you not want to know when a player leaves a collider?

Maybe try explaining another way.

You want the player to be inside the box, but when they leave, you want the box to turn on? Is that it?

Well, if it has no collider, then you can't know when you're not touching it's collider. One way you could do it is to spawn it on the player with a trigger collider so that the player can move around it. Then use the alternative OnTriggerExit() to know when the player leaves. At that point, you can turn off isTrigger on it to "turn" it's collider back to solid.

Set the collider on the box to be IsTrigger. Do you know what trigger colliders are?

I don't really know what your ultimate goal is.

But if you make a collider a trigger, it will let rigidbodies pass through it. Ie, your player will not be blocked by it.

Then you can use:
https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Collider.OnTriggerExit.html

To detect when the player leaves the trigger. When that happens, you can set the isTrigger property back to false.

Of course, this would mean that you wouldn't be able to go back into it. But your ask is pretty vague so.

And I've explained it twice how to achieve it.

[dapper shard]

I want to collect all the tiles that the cyan lines intersect. I'm using a tilemap, and each large (see bold) square is a tile. How would I go about this in C#?

[abstract olive]

You check if it's the player that's leaving. Usually, you check the tag of the object which is leaving.

It's a built in MonoBehaviour function.

Sorry, I'm not going to do this for you. I've given you the steps to achieve what you want, but you'll have to do some research and learning on how to use those functions.

[vocal condor]

That's not how Unity messages work. I suggest Googling and watching a tutorial about collision/trigger detection. Your original question has already been answered. Your new request of code example wasn't accepted.

[forest halo]

dude youre just being rude

[abstract olive]

No memes

!warn 795025480649932800 Don't use ableist slurs. Don't cry if you're not getting help handed to you on a platter

[barren orbit]

asdfasdfasdadsfsadf#3129 has been warned.

[stoic moon]

I've updated my project to the most recent version, but my tilemap suddenly isnt effected my my global light and is just black? how can I fix this???

nevermind

turns out the sorting layer in my global light was reset

[lean estuary]

May want to turn off/on or recreate the light. Yea, component properties on light sometimes also being reset on some upgrades.

[stoic moon]

I have another issue, for some reason one of the objects i had hidden in the inspector I can't untick as hidden? its only that object other objects work fine

[lean estuary]

Toggle entire group visibility

[stoic moon]

Wierdly leaving the scene and coming back seems to have worked

[frigid minnow]

Just wanted to share what I've been making :]

[snow willow]

#archived-works-in-progress

[frigid minnow]

Good catch!

[still tendon]

how can i get the tile my raycast collides with?

[lean estuary]

@still tendon You can calculate it from the hit position accounting for cell size and converting to int Vector to access it.

(Depending on the tile anchor on tilemap itself might need to correct conversion to an int vector with an offset)

[mellow sleet]

hi i have a animation inside a prefab can someone tell me how i active them?
Animation.play();
didnt worked.
(C#)

[lusty moss]

alright so i dont know anything about coding but i am good at pixel art i want to make a little adventure rpg game to work on when im bored but like i said i dont know anything about coding is there any youtube videos or anything i can use to get started?

[tall current]

yes.

just look up something like "beginner Unity tutorial".

There's sooo many videos showing soo many ways of doing things on YouTube.

[lusty moss]

alright thanks

[dense light]

how can i go about taking a tile from a tilemap and using it as my player?

never done a 2d game before

[rapid wagon]

In Unity 2D, is there any way to check to see if an object is in camera view?

[subtle vessel]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Renderer-isVisible.html

this is an option

with an orthographic camera (which you're probably using in 2D) it is also pretty easy to calculate where the edges of the camera view are

Camera cam;
float camViewHalfHeight = cam.orthographicSize;
float camViewHalfWidth = camViewHalfHeight * cam.aspect;
float xMin = cam.transform.position.x - camViewHalfWidth;
float xMax = cam.transform.position.x + camViewHalfWidth;
float yMin = cam.transform.position.y - camViewHalfHeight;
float yMax = cam.transform.position.y + camViewHalfHeight;

you can compare the object's position to the edges of the camera's view and see if it is inside it

but that can get tricky if you care about the whole object, rather than just the center of the object

[rapid wagon]

Ok, thanks!

[hoary ginkgo]

Tips or link to a guide on saving variables of gameobjects inside of variable, then loading them back

Trying to set up a store, When I open my store, the gamesobjects inside of an array are active if the variable TrueOrFalse =1. If it doesn't = 1, it is set to false.

If you click purchase on an object, it sets the the truefalse variable to 0. I am trying to save that

[dense light]

what's the best way to setup 2d tile colliders?

i tried a tilemap collider but i think it's making my isgrounded behave weirdly

my player floats off the collider and idk y

[subtle vessel]

It depends on how much data you have. The general process of saving data out of your game and loading it back later is called "serialization" and "deserialization."

Here's an article that can help get you started.
https://naplandgames.com/blog/2016/11/27/saving-data-in-unity-3d-serialization-for-beginners/

[hoary ginkgo]

Oh I have started. Been trying to get this to work for about 4 weeks.

Thanks for the link

Havent seen that one

[dense light]

fixed

[rapid wagon]

For some reason, my Unity GameObject is showing up in Scene View but not in Game View. I can't do anything with the camera since it's pretty much fixed so that it'll follow the player, and it won't let me change anything. How do I fix this?

[compact knoll]

gonna need more info on that. Is it a sprite? is it somehow rendering behind another sprite? is your camera culling set up so that it will render that?

[rapid wagon]

It’s a sprite. It’s not rendering behind another sprite, I don’t think. The only thing it could be rendering behind is an empty GameObject that spawns it. I’m not sure how to set up the camera culling like that, but it’s fixed, so I couldn’t really mess with it.

Wait, I fixed the problem

[last elm]

Hey uh- I'm having problems with lighting tilemaps, can't tell if that belongs here

[turbid heart]

If it’s not code related, probably not. Maybe #💻┃unity-talk or #archived-lighting ?

[harsh silo]

can someone help me with a script

[compact knoll]

https://dontasktoask.com/

[harsh silo]

?

[harsh silo]

Can anyone tell me why its just jumping without me pressing anything

nvm i fixed it

[deep granite]

Hi can someone help me out here? I'm trying to get an object to follow the mouse cursor around the screen, and when the cursor leaves the screen, the objects stays within the screen, where the cursor left off

This is my code for getting the object to stay within the screen and when I tried it, the object completely disappears.

[supple junco]

I'm trying to implement 2D Sonic-style physics using Unity's 2D components, and I've run into a bit of a wall. The physics values don't work like they should and the angle stuff is crazy broken: https://github.com/Candescence/Unity2D-Sonic-Physics

I've been using the Sonic physics guide as a reference: http://info.sonicretro.org/Sonic_Physics_Guide

Unfortunately, the math is a bit beyond me, so I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong here.

[deep granite]

any help would be appreciated

[late viper]

Print out the position of the object and see if it's what you expect

[stoic moon]

I'm trying to make a rotating enemy, and it works most of the time, but whenever my player walks into it it's movement breaks and it starts moving in really wierd directions? This function is being called in another script but that shouldn't effect anything

In another script that's attached to the object makes it so that it ignores all collisions with the player?

[dusky wagon]

Does the force added by the AddForce method change depending on the velocity of the object it is used on?

[vocal condor]

It's a value being added so application of velocity does not effect the value added; mass and time does depending on force mode.

Either ways, this is all being added to your velocity. Which is the base whereas the force being added is the offset.

[deep granite]

didn't work, the object just doesn't appear at all, no clue why? even though the script for getting the object to follow the cursor works fine

@late viper wait u mean, writing print(viewPos); at the end of the code right?

how did the object go outside the boundary?

[dusky wagon]

Ah okay thanks, I have a problem, where if the player walks of a moving object that has a velocity of 2 and the players movement script adds a velocity of 80 each fixed update by using the AddForce method, until the player hits a velocity of 8, the player somehow gets a velocity of 20, 40 or sometimes even 50

And the only reason I could imagine was, that AddForce changes the velocity applied based on the current velocity of the object, since walking normally works fine

[worthy stump]

Just providing the answer for anyone else who's wondering. The "If" statement within the update loop was terminated by a semicolon. When this happens, the body of the statement will be executed regardless of whether the condition is true or not. "Ifs" should never really be followed by semicolons.

[still tendon]

Does anyone has a script for a gun

In 2d

[grand coral]

two things: first, you have to be much more specific to get the answer you want. second, don't just steal scripts from others when you could easily make them yourself. outline all the things you want your gun to do and go through them one by one yourself. if there's a small step you need help with along the way, you can ask that here.

[turbid heart]

<@&502884371011731486> here too

[waxen chasm]

Hello, i got error Script Error: OnTriggerEnter2D

The code:

private void OnTriggerEnter2D (Collider collision)```

please help :(

[compact knoll]

what is the full error?

[waxen chasm]

Only showing that

The message parameter has to be of type: Collider2D

[compact knoll]

so make the parameter a Collider2D.

[tall current]

You're using OnTriggerEnter2D

not OnTriggerEnter

therefore the return must be Collider2D

[waxen chasm]

Oh, wait let me do it

it's not error anymore thank you!
but the score not counted

(making flappy bird)

[compact knoll]

that's not relevant to the issue you posted. Let's focus on that first. Did you fix the Collider2D issue?

[waxen chasm]

Yes

I did

[compact knoll]

great! now show more code and explain what you expect to happen, and what is actually happening

[waxen chasm]

wait

[tall current]

there are more problems?

[waxen chasm]

yes this one...

[compact knoll]

aren't there always? lmao

[waxen chasm]

wait i send the code

[compact knoll]

make sure to use a paste site like #854851968446365696 recommends when sending code

[waxen chasm]

I just make a UI text to count the score

using UnityEngine.UI;

public class playerMovement : MonoBehaviour {
    Rigidbody2D Rb;
    public float jumpForce;

    float score;
    public Text scoreTxt;
    void Start () {
        Rb = GetComponent<Rigidbody2D>();        
    }
    
    // Update is called once per frame
    void Update () {

        scoreTxt.text = "" + score;    
    if (Input.GetMouseButtonDown(0))
        {
        Rb.velocity = Vector2.up * jumpForce;
        }    
    }

    private void OnTriggerEnter(Collider collision)
    {
    
        if (collision.gameObject.tag=="point")
    {
        score++;
        }
    }
}

[wild pivot]

SpriteRenderer.color = 727272;```I want to change the color of a game object using a script, and I want to use a specific hexadecimal but unity won't allow me, how can I do this?

[waxen chasm]

and i also tag and point the trigger object

[compact knoll]

don't compare tags using string equality, use CompareTag() instead

you also didn't fix the issue from before

[waxen chasm]

i'm a beginner, could you tell how to use CompareTag()

[waxen chasm]

but there aren't error logs anymore

[compact knoll]

oh i see what you did, you changed from OnTriggerEnter2D to OnTriggerEnter. You need to use the 2D version if you are using 2D

also this is how you use CompareTag:
https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Component.CompareTag.html

[waxen chasm]

if i use OnTriggerEnter2D it's show this error

[waxen chasm]

okay

[compact knoll]

yes because you didn't do what I told you to do before. You need to use the Collider2D parameter. You are passing a Collider now, add 2D to the end of that

[waxen chasm]

ok i did add them again then?

how to add parameter 😦

[compact knoll]

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

[waxen chasm]

sorry, i am a beginner

alright

[compact knoll]

you should seriously consider some basic C# tutorials before even thinking about continuing with Unity.
But you also have the word Collider in your script exactly one time. Change that to Collider2D

[waxen chasm]

Ohh i solve them all...

thank you

now one more issue's, the text so bad quality

[compact knoll]

use TextMeshPro instead of regular Text objects

[waxen chasm]

ok, thank you for helping

[wild pivot]

SpriteRenderer.color = new Color(0.4, 0.4, 0.4);

I have this in my script but I am getting an error that says "error CS1503: Argument 3: cannot convert from 'double' to 'float' " how can I fix this?

[north grail]

new Color(0.4f, 0.4f, 0.4f);

The 'f' denotes float

[wild pivot]

Thanks

[dusky wagon]

Im having some problems with my player movement.
Player-Movement-Code:

layerVelocity = new Vector3(move, 0) * m_AccelerationSpeed;

            if (!((Convert.ToInt32(playerVelocity.x) ^ Convert.ToInt32(m_Rigidbody2D.velocity.x)) <= 0) && Mathf.Abs(m_Rigidbody2D.velocity.x) >= m_MaxSpeed)
            {
                
                playerVelocity.x = 0;


            }

Code for making the player stay on a moving platform when that one parents the players transform:

controller.m_Rigidbody2D.velocity += transform.parent.gameObject.GetComponent<VelocityFriction>().rb.velocity;

Whenever the player moves with the platform that is applying friction to it, he is extremely fast. Even though the parent object only has a velocity of 2 and the child one has a velocity of 8, the player gets launched at a velocity of up to 40. When the player moves in the opposite direction of the parent object it is extremely slow and has a lot lower velocity than it would normally have. Does anyone have an idea why and how I could fix it?

[worthy stump]

Are you intending to use the ^ operator there?

[dusky wagon]

Yes and the movement works so far, it just launches you when you walk on the moving platform

[worthy stump]

Could you write out in words what you want that if statement to do?

[ancient path]

Why can’t you parent the player?

[compact knoll]

the if statement does what it is meant to do. It checks if velocity is higher than a maximum set and if the intended force to add is opposite current velocity. (i wrote it)

[compact knoll]

by the way, you don't need to use the Convert function, you can just cast the floats to ints by doing (int)playerVelocity.x

[dusky wagon]

Oh right I confused it with python and tried int(and then the value here), but that didnt work, so I assumed you have to do it with the convert function

[dusky wagon]

Also Im setting the x velocity of the player to 0 when he isnt moving to prevent sliding but that just gave me an idea on what is causing the error

[worthy stump]

Forgive me if I'm getting this wrong, but what I'm reading is:

If NOT ((playervelocityx XOR rigidbody.velocity.x) <=0) ...

So the inner parenthesis will only evaluate to true if one of the velocities is zero and the other one isnt, but then you're doing a <= 0 for some reason?

[dusky wagon]

It might be because as soon as the player starts moving, the x velocity doesnt get set to 0 anymore and the two velocities stack together

Altough I dont see hpw that could case velocities of 20 or 40, And the weird thing is, that it is exactly 20 or 40

[compact knoll]

it was written that way for clarity when reading it literally. it's checking that only one of the two values is below zero (meaning the forces are opposite) but inverting that so that it doesn't allow adding force if it is not opposite. So basically the if statement says "if the force is not opposite and velocity is greater than maximum"

[worthy stump]

Im not sure it is, feel free to correct me though. I think if you wanted to do what you described you'd need to do:

if ((velA <=0) ^ (velB <=0))

I think what you wrote is doing a boolean operation on VelA XOR VelB (Which yeilds true or false, 1 or 0) and then comparing the result of that using <= 0

[compact knoll]

i assure you that is is working as i intended it to

[worthy stump]

Can you walk me through it?

Lets break it down:

(!((Convert.ToInt32(playerVelocity.x) ^ Convert.ToInt32(m_Rigidbody2D.velocity.x)) <= 0)

(Convert.ToInt32(playerVelocity.x) ^ Convert.ToInt32(m_Rigidbody2D.velocity.x)

This is a boolean operation, so will evaluate to True or False

Which means the above becomes:
(!((True/False) <= 0))

So i guess if one of the velocities is negative, the boolean operation will treat it as a zero. But that means that a zero velocity is also treated in the same way. So your resulting conditions in the game would be that the condition evaluates to true if one velocity is positive, and the other is either zero or negative

But then I'm confused why the result of that is compared using <=0 rather than just == true/false, or omitting that entirely

[pseudo moon]

Hey I was wondering if bolt support's 2d

[real pilot]

Why would you use Bolt?

[vocal condor]

My only suggestion for debugging is printing rigidbody's velocity everywhere after you've modified it.

Including after adding forces.

Chances are, you're doing a little extra or not doing something when moving. Best just assume nothing's really working and actually debugging everywhere you're modifying the rb's velocity.

[hoary ginkgo]

I am trying to save changes made to my store. 4 weeks of screwing with this, I am about to scrap the idea.

This bit of code is my shop template for my different shop items

This code is the code that loads my panels(shop items into the store)

This code is where the items should be saved after being purchaseed

This is the playerdata script

This is the save system

This is the initial scene without trying to load the save data. No save data yet

You can see the isactive bool is active so therefore the panel is active

This image the basketball has been purchased.

Setting the bool t false

[worthy stump]

And whats the issue?

[hoary ginkgo]

Upon leaving the scene or exiting the game, the bool isActive will not save or load

[worthy stump]

Ok, lets have a look

[hoary ginkgo]

So basically when I leave and come back all items are set to true again. I only want the player to be able to purchase once

[worthy stump]

Did you say you havent set up save data yet?

[hoary ginkgo]

This is just where I am at right now, I have tried changing stuff in playerdata all sorts of way

I have tried saving on awake to create the file inside of shopmanger

[worthy stump]

Try putting
[SerializeField]

Before your boolean flags

[hoary ginkgo]

Sorry, Not sure what you mean.

Which script

[worthy stump]

In Playerdata

public bool[] blah;```

Not sure if it works with arrays though

Oh sorry, you already flagged the class as serializable

[hoary ginkgo]

Right

I assume it has something to do with the way I am pullingn data in playerdata though

[worthy stump]

Are you actually calling your save function anywhere?

After purchase item

[hoary ginkgo]

Yes, I call it on shopmanger under purchaseitem

SaveSystem.SavePlayer(this);

[worthy stump]

I presume that the save function is actually being called correctly, yes?

[hoary ginkgo]

NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object
PlayerData..ctor (ShopManager shop) (at Assets/Scripts/PlayerData.cs:23)
SaveSystem.SavePlayer (ShopManager shop) (at Assets/Scripts/SaveSystem.cs:18)
ShopManager.PurchaseItem (System.Int32 btnNo) (at Assets/Scripts/ShopManager.cs:63)
UnityEngine.Events.InvokableCall1[T1].Invoke (T1 args0) (at <cfc1ad890650411e946cff2e6f276711>:0) UnityEngine.Events.CachedInvokableCall1[T].Invoke (System.Object[] args) (at <cfc1ad890650411e946cff2e6f276711>:0)
UnityEngine.Events.UnityEvent.Invoke () (at <cfc1ad890650411e946cff2e6f276711>:0)
UnityEngine.UI.Button.Press () (at Library/PackageCache/com.unity.ugui@1.0.0/Runtime/UI/Core/Button.cs:68)
UnityEngine.UI.Button.OnPointerClick (UnityEngine.EventSystems.PointerEventData eventData) (at Library/PackageCache/com.unity.ugui@1.0.0/Runtime/UI/Core/Button.cs:110)
UnityEngine.EventSystems.ExecuteEvents.Execute (UnityEngine.EventSystems.IPointerClickHandler handler, UnityEngine.EventSystems.BaseEventData eventData) (at Library/PackageCache/com.unity.ugui@1.0.0/Runtime/EventSystem/ExecuteEvents.cs:50)
UnityEngine.EventSystems.ExecuteEvents.Execute[T] (UnityEngine.GameObject target, UnityEngine.EventSystems.BaseEventData eventData, UnityEngine.EventSystems.ExecuteEvents+EventFunction`1[T1] functor) (at Library/PackageCache/com.unity.ugui@1.0.0/Runtime/EventSystem/ExecuteEvents.cs:262)
UnityEngine.EventSystems.EventSystem:Update() (at Library/PackageCache/com.unity.ugui@1.0.0/Runtime/EventSystem/EventSystem.cs:385)

[worthy stump]

Execution errors?

When does that occur?

[hoary ginkgo]

When I click the purchase item button

[worthy stump]

Ok, well this is probably why it isnt working, haha

[hoary ginkgo]

I assume it is happening when trying to save

[worthy stump]

Double click on the NullReferenceException, where does it take you?

[hoary ginkgo]

PlayerData line 23

[vocal condor]

Should be like 23 of the player data as suggested by the stacktrace.

[worthy stump]

Which one is that? No line numbers on the screenshot 😛

[hoary ginkgo]

isActive[i] = shop.shopPanels[i].isActive;

[worthy stump]

I'd guess shop is null

Could be the panels though

[vocal condor]

Likely not since it's a parameter passed to the function. Likely panel

It could be though (shop) if null was simply passed in 🤷‍♂️

[worthy stump]

Yea, hard to follow a stack trace via screenshots without class names 😂

@hoary ginkgo wanna stream it? Ill walk through it with you

[hoary ginkgo]

Yes

Would be great

[vocal condor]

Or isActive could be null as well

[worthy stump]

Cool, just send me a dm

[dusky wagon]

Sorry, I fell asleep because Im a bit sick and didnt see that, but I already tried that and it always has the high force already, no matter where I put a print statement

[still tendon]

can u help me understanding this prints pls?

print(hit.point + v * 0.5f);
print(grid.WorldToCell(hit.point + v * 0.5f));
print(grid.GetCellCenterWorld(grid.WorldToCell(hit.point)));```

hit is a RaycastHit2D

https://gyazo.com/abb2e9ada05f4eabc40708dd3a489fbc

in this case v is (0,-1) i think, a ray going down

yeah, so original hit is at (0.5, 6)

so if im not wrong, world coordinates (0.5, 5.5) belong to the cell (0, 5), right?

but, why is the center that?

shouldnt the center be 0.5, 5.5?

oh my bad

i am forgeting the +v*0.5 on the cell center

so, from all those things, what do i need to give setTile?

[vocal condor]

Purpose is to see exactly where and when the velocity is abnormal.

The actual value doesn't matter much other than a possible pattern. As for the code snippet you've provided before, the first isn't relative to RB2d velocity or force (they're working with velocity variables that I'm assuming you're going to be applying to velocity eventually) and the second illustrates that your adding extra velocity to rb but we aren't aware how often or the values before/after.

Identifying when abnormality occurs will allow you to pin point the issue.

[dusky wagon]

Im running both these blocks of codes in fixed updates and the abnormality seems to happen between these fixed update calls

[vocal condor]

When specifically?

You aren't providing enough information for us; I know it's right in front of you but we cannot see when or how often you're modifying velocity.

[dusky wagon]

Okay I will try to provide more information, but Im really not feeling well right now so I will do it as soon as I get better

Thanks for the help so far!

[still tendon]

if i have a tile map with object that can be destroyed, should those objects be tiles too?

[weak sinew]

Is there a way to increase a textures sizes on a tile-map?

[still tendon]

yeah

pixels per unit

go to the sprite of the tile, and change pixels per unit

[weak sinew]

alright

[twilit osprey]

does anybody know how to fix UI buttons not working. they are interactable and yes i have an event system. idk whats wrong here. PLS HELP

[still tendon]

when u are making a 2d tilemap, and it will have destructible object, should these object be part of the tilemap too?

[languid lily]

It depends on alotta things, either your event system main object doesn't have the script, or the script name is wrong, etc

[harsh silo]

Does anyone know a good tutorial on how to make enemies.

[still tendon]

Does anybody know any camera scripts/Cinemachine things that can allow me to limit the view range of my player?

like, i dont want players on larger screens to be able to see further

[grand coral]

brackeys probably has one idk

[grand coral]

you could adjust the camera's aspect ratio or size based on the width of the screen which you can query in a script

[honest python]

weird question

but

how do I display this in unity

(⸌﹏⸍)

cuz

it doesn't have the "⸌" and "⸍"

[rapid wagon]

My animations keep getting stuck and looping even after I release any button, where it's supposed to play the idle animation. It didn't do this until this morning. I am not using animation transitions. Can someone help?

[grand coral]

you can just copy and paste it into the text box it should work

[honest python]

it did not

those characters did not show up in the textbox

[grand coral]

make sure you are using a font that supports those characters, that could be the issue

you shouldn't need them anyway, if you really do then you can use an image

[grand coral]

make sure when you select the animation in the asset window that looping is unchecked in the inspector

[rapid wagon]

I did that, and that didn't really do anything. The idle animation doesn't seem to be playing at all for some reason when it's supposed to

[grand coral]

oh huh i see

well if you're not using any transitions maybe it's just never switching to the idle animation

are you switching to idle using another method than transitions?

[rapid wagon]

I fixed it

I basically accidentally put < somewhere on a timer when it should've been <=

[sudden oar]

does anyone know of a good tutorial that not only goes over 2d rigging, but also how to make a full walk cycle so that my player actually moves rather than just animates? A lot of tutorials are great at showing inverse kinematics, and the actual rigging/weight painting process, but I have no idea how to actually make a character walk with the steps that he's taking

[snow willow]

I used a diagram like this

x

so just like

makee the keyframes and match with each reeference image

[sudden oar]

that's great, but I might not have worded that correctly. It's not a matter of making it look like it's walking, it's a matter of actually getting it to move

[snow willow]

worked pretty well for my first time

[snow willow]

Then you need to understand how to use Unity's animator?

[sudden oar]

unless the animator can make the character's transform position change, no

[snow willow]

the animator is for... animating it

usually you use other things to actually move it

like a Rigidbody or CharacterController

[sudden oar]

...

it's those other things that I don't understand

that's why I said no

[snow willow]

You asked about 2D rigging

so I assumed you were asking an animation question

[sudden oar]

oh

[snow willow]

moving the character is completely unrelated to rigging or animation.

[sudden oar]

well that's kind of the problem, tutorials always go straight to animation and nothing else

how would you sync the animation with the movement speed?

[snow willow]

Usually I give my walk animation a parametre like "walkingspeed" and just pass in the character's current movement speed

[sudden oar]

hmmm...

I could give that a try

[snow willow]

sometimes play with a multiplier a little bit until the animation matches up with the actual movement speed properly

and then you're good to go

[sudden oar]

and multiply it when the character moves faster or slower

ok, thanks! I'll give it a try

[snow willow]

That's how I got this working: #archived-works-in-progress message

[sudden oar]

looks cool!

[fleet knot]

Hello Community, I wan't to ask something,how to make enemy drop item but the position is random(near dead enemy) on 2D games? and i am using for loop to spawn item but it spawn on the same position

[compact knoll]

so it sounds like you are currently stuck on randomizing the position. This is actually pretty easy, you can use Random.Range(min, max) to determine an offset then when instantiating just add that offset to the enemy position and use the newly created position as the point you instantiate the item at

[fleet knot]

ok i'll try it thanks

[fleet knot]

dude its work ,thanks,but can i make it like just pop out from dead enemy position?

[compact knoll]

you totally could. To figure out how to do that, break it down into steps:

1. Instantiate at enemy position
2. find desired end position
3. move the object to the desired position

[fleet knot]

void dropItems(){
GameObject go = Instantiate(gameObject , position // i put move stament here? , Quaternion.identify)
}

[compact knoll]

nope, you would need to move it after you instantiate it if you want it to appear at the enemy position then move to another position

[fleet knot]

ok dude i'll try it thanks again

[woeful sentinel]

Assuming your game is 3d and you want the instantiated y axis along with it's rotation unchanged, something ike this would work..

  GameObject go = Instantiate(gameObject , new Vector3(deadEnemy.position.x + addedXrandomValue, transform.position.y, deadEnemy.transform.position.z + addedZrandomValue) , Quaternion.identify)
}

[compact knoll]

this is 2D code, mate. also they already sorted out instantiating with an offset from the enemy position

[woeful sentinel]

Doesn't seem like it, so ... #🖼️┃2d-tools message

[compact knoll]

they did get it to work? but then they decided to do something different by having it move from the enemy position. are you just not reading the messages or what?

[woeful sentinel]

you really really.....really need to read it more carefully

take your time

[compact knoll]

they initially wanted to spawn it at a random position offset from the enemy position. I helped them figure that out, then they decided they want it to pop out from the enemy, so i told them how they could do that.

[woeful sentinel]

👀

[compact knoll]

am i missing something from the conversation i had?

or are you somehow implying that using your code will somehow make the item appear at the enemy's position and move to the offset position?

[fleet knot]

ok i don't know much, but i will try , thanks

[uneven stream]

Im getting this error NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object
In the following code:

            _segments[i].position = _segments[i - 1].position;
        }```

I checked it and it's ok in vs code, no errors. I went to unity and appears this error and my entire game freezes.

[turbid heart]

show the full error in the console

[uneven stream]

NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object Snake.FixedUpdate () (at Assets/Scripts/Snake.cs:32)

    {

        for (int i = _segments.Count - 1; i > 0; i--) {
            _segments[i].position = _segments[i - 1].position;
        }

        this.transform.position = new Vector3(
            Mathf.Round(this.transform.position.x) + _direction.x,
            Mathf.Round(this.transform.position.y) + _direction.y,
            0.0f
        );
    }```
This is the code that refers to the error.

[turbid heart]

which one is line 32

[uneven stream]

for (int i = _segments.Count - 1; i > 0; i--) {```

[turbid heart]

your _segments is probably null

[uneven stream]

how can i fix it

[turbid heart]

is your _segments a List? make sure you've initialised or assigned to it

you can't access the .Count property of something that's null, so.. make it not null

[uneven stream]

7     private List<Transform> _segments;```

[turbid heart]

this is declaring. you need to assign to it

[uneven stream]

ok i just fixed it

a letter missing

[turbid heart]

really? damn

can you take a picture of your IDE please

your Visual Studio code

have you set it up properly to have intellisense?

when you type Debug. does it suggest Log?

[uneven stream]

was

private void Star()
    {
        _segments = new List<Transform>();
        _segments.Add(this.transform);
    }```
fixed
```cs
private void Start()
    {
        _segments = new List<Transform>();
        _segments.Add(this.transform);
    }```

[turbid heart]

wow, okay

[uneven stream]

yes

i don't payed attention

and put star accidentally

well, thanks

[uneven stream]

no

is that bad?

[turbid heart]

then I dont think you set up your IDE properly. Go to #854851968446365696

if you set it up properly, you'd get autocomplete, suggestions, and typos in your code would be underlined

for that you'll need to confirm if you're using Visual Studio Code or Visual Studio Community

[uneven stream]

intellisense works fine

but not with debug

i will check whats wrong

[turbid heart]

i personally dont know about Visual Studio Code myself, it's just how I usually ask people to test

[uneven stream]

oh ok

btw im using the blue vs not the purple one

one thing more it's vs better than vs code?

[turbid heart]

blue vs is VSCode

VSCode is lighter weight than VS, but VS is easier to set up

[chrome grove]

Is there an easy way to setup a Tile Rule (Or something similar) where I can do a Checkerboard pattern?

[dusky wagon]

Whats a good way to make a rail system for a moving platform? I want to make some rule tiles that let me place a rail on a tile map. Then if you place a moving platform on the rail, the platform follows the different parts of the rail into the direction the lead to. I already have a system that makes the platform follow each on of the transforms of an array until it reaches it, then switches to the next one, but I am not sure how I could configure that system to work on a rail

I was also not able to find a tutorial on this online

[stoic moon]

This is my line of sight code, with the layermask set to everything but the enemy layer(all objects with this script have the enemy layer), but suddenly enemies now block it? I'm not sure what I changed to make this happen, but I'm sure its not with the variables. How van i fix this?

even setting the layer to ignore raycast does nothing, the enemies still block each other

Traced the issue to a gameobject as a child of each enemy, but it's just a trigger object with another layer set on it? Somehow that's blocking my raycasts

[snow willow]

How are you settlng up the LayerMask

[stoic moon]

Managed to find a solution to the problem

[snow willow]

Oh yeah if there's another collider not on the enemy layer that will block it

[dusky wagon]

Does anyone have an idea for this?

[solar thicket]

you want to turn off root animation, in the animator iirc

alternately, if you are making the animation in unity (and not importing it from somewhere), you can just delete any keyframes on the position

[worthy stump]

iirc = if i recall correctly 😛

[shy blaze]

how can i add offset to object relative to rotation??

[chrome grove]

Still wondeirng about this if anyone knows.

[silver heron]

just use a tilemap?

then you can also add a grid

[still tendon]

does duplicating my project and putting it somewhere on my pc a way to back up my project? Theres a crazy storm coming towards my house. would like to have a backup

[worthy stump]

Yes, but if your PC gets damaged it won't help

At the very least, upload a zip folder of your project to google docs or similar

[still tendon]

damaged by an outage?

or lightning

[worthy stump]

Your project is stored on your computer's backing storage. If that physical component becomes damage, or corrupted, everything stored on it will become inaccessible

Imagine it like this, if you had a piece of paper with your code on it, and your printed out another piece of paper for a backup, put them both somewhere in your house and then your house burned down, you'd still lose everything

But if you took the printed copy and put it in your neighbours house, it would be OK

In this case, the internet is your neighbors house

[still tendon]

ok

Would it still help though if my pc shut off because of no power and I was on that project. I hear stories about that happening and peoples project getting corrupted

or is it the same thing

@worthy stump

[worthy stump]

That can happen

However in that case, if you had made a backup copy that was stored somewhere else on your computer (as you suggested) the copy would not be corrupted, only the project that was open at the time

[still tendon]

ok

thank you for your help

also cool profile pic

[worthy stump]

thanks 😛

[pale tide]

Is there a way to make all childs of a certain object in the editor force to have a script?

[chrome grove]

Except I don't want to go placing each checkerboard manually. I'd rather have a Tile Rule setup for it.

[silver heron]

why not just take a starting position and create a multi dimensional array

[chrome grove]

Do you mean via code and place it down that way?

I'd rather be using the Unity Tile Map, and not building out my own, as I have other things in my project that work with the tilemap.

[silver heron]

yeah i do and you could still use a unity tilemap you'd just have to find the game object then would be a matter of doing something simple like

for (x=0;x!=size;x++;){

if(x==checkerheight){
y++;
}
//placecheckerSquare or store in array
}

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/GameObject.FindWithTag.html

[chrome grove]

Right I understand how to go about doing a checkerboard pattern via code, but I'd rather build it out ahead of time via a Tilemap rule or something similar.

[silver heron]

depends on how you plan on manipulating it

general i'd say unless its a static object that wont ever change you'll probably need to code but otherwise you should be able to just store it as a prefab

[celest drum]

how do you have multiple Box Colliders on a game Object?

like for example if i want one collider for actual physics collisions, and another for checking distance or something?

[fervent otter]

Add it to a child gameobject @celest drum If those objects don't handle the collision/trigger the event will bubble up to the parent.

[still tendon]

is it normal that the pixel perfect camera makes moving objects stutter in a kind of way?

[fervent otter]

What version unity are you using @still tendon

[still tendon]

2020.3.01f

@fervent otter

[fervent otter]

https://forum.unity.com/threads/fixed-in-2021-1-pixel-perfect-camera-experimental-does-not-like-cinemachine-jittering.1036507/

Supposedly has been officially fixed in 2021

[still tendon]

Can I change the version on a unity project

[fervent otter]

Yeah in Unity Hub you can pick whatever versions you have installed

[still tendon]

is there a chance to corrupt?@fervent otter

[fervent otter]

I've never heard of it.

I mean probably

But I wouldn't worry about it

You should probably push all your changes before updating anyway

[still tendon]

push all my changes?

[fervent otter]

You might want to consider keeping your projects on github

in case something goes wrong

[still tendon]

Ok

[fervent otter]

like if your hdd dies or something

and takes all your work with it

[still tendon]

ok I'll look into that

thanks for the help 🙂

[strange cove]

Ive been trying to figure this out for a while but couldnt does anyone know why when i click a crate and it changes my sprite to the other one my player goes in the ground? heres the code: https://pastebin.com/a6wnHL3J

[faint iron]

ok apparently i need someone to help, that my movement results in the left image (sharp movement, and the tip of the trail is not like a triangle, and i want the results to be the right illustration instead. how to do this?

my script:

    public Vector3 movleft;
    public Vector3 movright;
    public Vector3 movup;
    public Vector3 movdown;
    void Update()
    {
        if (Input.GetKey(KeyCode.D))
        {
            transform.position = transform.position + movright;

        }
        if(Input.GetKey(KeyCode.A))
        {
            transform.position = transform.position + movleft;

        }
        if(Input.GetKey(KeyCode.W))
        {
            transform.position = transform.position + movup;
        }
        if(Input.GetKey(KeyCode.S))
        {
            transform.position = transform.position + movdown;
        }
    }
}

[slim crescent]

I have a 2D platformer where the player's character is a robot that can change out its body parts. Different body parts might have different "use" animations. How do I have each body part tell the player's animation controller what the "use" animation should look like? Should each body part have its own controller? I'm pretty new to this area so I don't understand animation vs animation clip and a lot of stuff like that.

[slim crescent]

lerp from one direction to the next

[faint iron]

how to do that? i suck at coding

[dusky wagon]

How can I recreate the Vector2.MoveTowards method with rigidbody velocity? I already have a script, that sets the velocity of an object to move towards another one, but I want to include the feature that it doesn't go over the object, but stops as soon as it hits it. I tried making it stop as soon as it is in a certain distance of the object, but it isn't frame independent. If the frame rate is too low, it doesn't catch the point where it is close enough to the object and just shoots over it.

[slim crescent]

direction you are moving = Vector3.Lerp(direction you are moving, direction you want to be moving, interpolation speed * delta time)

use rigidbody.velocity instead of setting position directly

[turbid heart]

that is the wrong way to use Lerp.
https://gamedevbeginner.com/the-right-way-to-lerp-in-unity-with-examples/

[slim crescent]

completely depends on your use case. i just gave an example

you're right though he probably wants the true linear nature

if(timeElapsed < lerpDuration)
{
  rb.velocity = Vector3.Lerp(lastDirection, newDirection, (timeElapsed += Time.deltaTime) / lerpDuration) * speed;
}

[faint iron]

ok thank you

[slim crescent]

{
  rb.velocity = Vector3.Lerp(lastDirection, newDirection, (timeElapsed += Time.deltaTime) / lerpDuration) * speed;
}```
please use this instead

[faint iron]

okay

[still tendon]

is there a way to remove a script from an object ?

[abstract olive]

You can use Destroy (theComponent); to remove it from an object at runtime.

[still tendon]

thx

[still tendon]

is there a specific way to remove scripts ? simply putting its name wont work

[abstract olive]

Yes, you pass in the component. A script is just a component.

Destroy (GetComponent <MyComponent>());

[still tendon]

oh ok thx

[idle kite]

Hey! 🙂
So, I have a pixel art game and have some zoom issues. it seems that the max zoom I can get is pretty small. I would like further zoom.

I've read Unity's documentation and it suggested to use this function to get the camera zoom right:
var camSize = (Screen.height / (zoom * pixelSize)) * 0.5f;

zoom is from 1 to ∞ where 1 is max zoom, and pixelSize is our assets size (in our case, 128px).

As mentioned, 1 is pretty small. Any suggestions? should we maybe use smaller assets?

[dull radish]

why are my sprites doing this when colliding?

sorry if this is the wrong channel to post this

[turbid heart]

Doing what?

[dull radish]

getting on top of each other i mean

it looks weird

[turbid heart]

You probably need to adjust their sorting order in sprite renderer

[dull radish]

ohhh ic

i'll try that

[main hemlock]

Hello. I am trying to make a bit of a logic 2d game and I want to have 3 floor colors and 3 lever with the same colors as the floor.

    {
        if (collision.gameObject.CompareTag("Lever") && useHand == true)
        {
            if (collision.gameObject.name == "LeverRed")
            {
                redFloor.gameObject.SetActive(false);
                print("red floor gone");
            } 

            if (collision.gameObject.name == "LeverGreen")
            {
                greenFloor.gameObject.SetActive(false);
                print("green floor gone");
            }

            if (collision.gameObject.name == "LeverBlue")
            {
                blueFloor.gameObject.SetActive(false);
                print("blue floor gone");
            }
        }
    }```
This behaves really oddly as I sometimes manage to destroy one floor with the lever, but afterwards when my player collides with another lever, that lever becomes inactive. There is also a situation where my lever doesn't work. It seems random. Any idea why that would happen?

Okay, actually not that random. I always manage to destroy the red floor and the red lever is the only lever that doesn't disappear.

Nevermind, I resolved the issue. Had the levers inside my player component (inspector) instead of the floors by mistake (I am really tired). But if there is anything I should fix in that code, please let me know.

[dusk hatch]

I have a problem with my code, it says I cannot convert float to string, the error is at line 22
https://pastebin.pl/view/8cdf2191

[snow willow]

yeah invoke doesn't work like that

invoke takes the name of a function to run

[dusk hatch]

oh

I tried to make a separate function but the collider, "en" wouldn't work in it's own function

[snow willow]

you should use a coroutine

they're much more flexible

[dusk hatch]

okay, thanks ill try to find out what that is

[snow willow]

@dusk hatch Something like this:

IEnumerator SetMoveSpeedAfterDelay(Enemy enemy, float speed, float delay) {
  yield return new WaitForSeconds(delay);
  enemy.moveSpeed = speed;
}```
And to start it:
```cs
StartCoroutine(SetMoveSpeedAfterDelay(en, 5, 3));```

[dusk hatch]

oh wow thanks!

[blissful sundial]

anyone know how i could make a game object follow a predetermined path ingame?

[unborn sundial]

@blissful sundial I'm aware of two things that might help. Unity Timeline (package), and Animation Curves, but I haven't used either.

you could also do it in script/code obviously

[blissful sundial]

im trying to script it atm

[craggy kite]

What is your issue there? What did you try already?

[blissful sundial]

i tried scripting a game object following a path but it isnt moving, could be some oversight but i cant tell whats wrong

i have an array attached to my path parent (it has the path joints as children and those joints are all in that array), and a script attached to the object: https://paste.mod.gg/lozigipoyi.csharp

[craggy kite]

Is it 2D?

[blissful sundial]

ye

[craggy kite]

What is your movespeed?

[blissful sundial]

7f

[craggy kite]

its public, so did you accidentally change it to 0 or something in the inspector?

[blissful sundial]

hm, lemme check

ah i see, it didnt update

i had it at 0 and saved it, then changed it to 7 and unity didnt update the value

[craggy kite]

if its set in public inspector once, it will rely on the inspector, no matter what you do in code in the public var line 🙂 @blissful sundial

[blissful sundial]

ah thats why

thanks for the info 👍

[snow willow]

BTW you can look into Cinemachine's dolly cart component

You can edit the freeform path in scene view and the dolly cart can be scripted to follow the path

[lament rivet]

I can’t see the textures on my 2D game

I tried to apply a red texture

and it’s invisible

why won’t my texture work

[craggy kite]

we need some more info, where do you apply them, is the alpha of the color to 1?

[lament rivet]

The alpha is max and I’m applying them to a circle

[craggy kite]

If you want help, you really need to give as muc information as you have. especially as this is a coding channel, I have not seen any coding yet

[lament rivet]

there really isn’t any coding involved

Just a circle that is visible with a line texture but not with a red texture

[dusk hatch]

I've tried to put your code into my script but I'm not really sure where/how to do it

[snow willow]

Replace the invoke call with the startcoroutine

[dusk hatch]

thanks it works better now, but there's still a small problem, the enemy is supposed to slow down, then after 3 seconds, get up to 5 speed again, but it doesn't gain back it's speed at all

[snow willow]

Change the code to do that then

It's pretty straightforward

Just wait another 3 seconds in the coroutine and set it back

[dusk hatch]

hmm okay

https://pastebin.pl/view/45a532f5

not sure why it aint workin

[snow willow]

Oh because you're destroying the object the script is attached to

That stops the coroutine as well

[dusk hatch]

yeah

I found out what to do eventually

infact the game I was making is now done!

so thanks for your help, people like you are really awesome

[snow willow]

Np happy coding

[still tendon]

is there a way to make a collider along a camera?

[snow willow]

wdym

[still tendon]

i don't want any objects to leave the view of the camera

instead they'll bounce off

[snow willow]

Place box colliders at the edge of the camera view

[still tendon]

ok

now everything just falls

should i have used 4 different edge colliders

[solar thicket]

colliders only push things out of them, they don't keep things in them

[still tendon]

why?

[abstract olive]

Check your console for any compiler errors.

[snow willow]

Hit clear

I see 466 errors - I bet one or more of those will stick around after you press clear and those will be the ones you need to fix

[still tendon]

?? i hit it

[snow willow]

go into package manager, make sure all your packages are up to date. Then delete your library folder and restart unity

[still tendon]

doesnt work

[hollow crown]

You also may need to configure your IDE properly. Instructions are in #854851968446365696

(it will not fix your errors, but it will help you from making any in the future)

[faint iron]

how to use this? where should i put this?

[mild kelp]

Hi!
I have a problem in unity that I have been struggling for days. I am making a top down shooter game. For some reason, in some cases, bullets go in the right direction, but in other, they just don't. It doesn't make any seance. Here is the code:

GameObject bullet = Instantiate(bulletPrefab, firePoint.position, firePoint.rotation);
bullet.GetComponent<Rigidbody2D>().AddForce(firePoint.up * bulletForce, ForceMode2D.Impulse);

GameObject bul = Instantiate(bullet_prefab, firePoint.position, firePoint.rotation);
bul.GetComponent<Rigidbody2D>().AddForce(firePoint.up * 5, ForceMode2D.Impulse);

I attached a video showing this. The circle bullets are shot by the second code, and the triangle bullets are shot by the first code. The orange squares in the scene view are the fire points, so I know they are in the right rotation. 

Does anybody know why this is happening?

[hollow crown]

you're not debugging the rotation though, you're debugging the position

you can use Debug.DrawRay to debug a direction

put firePoint.up as the direction parameter and see where it's pointing

[mild kelp]

I know they are pointing in the right direction, because if I pause the game, I can see that the local y axis is in the right direction.

[hollow crown]

They shoot once on the very first frame, so honestly, can't say much

debug the direction when it shoots and pass in the time parameter so it persists a bit

then you can see what that direction was instead of assuming

[abstract grail]

hey! i have some code, but it doesnt work, basically this code is meant to reload the scene when the player collides with an object, the code is bellow.

void OnTriggerEnter(Collider other)
{
    if(other.GetComponent<Collider>().tag == "Player")
    {
        SceneManager.LoadScene("SampleScene");
        }
    }

[hollow crown]

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

[abstract grail]

thanks

[paper canopy]

Could I ask for help here? Unity 2D 2019, c#, I want to write a script to change the order in layer if a sprite name is "Pellet"

[turbid heart]

break down the steps
1)how to find a gameobject by its name
2)how to change a sprite's order in layer through script

[paper canopy]

if (gameObject.name == "Pellet")

gameObject.GetComponent<SpriteRenderer>().sortingOrder = 1;

this is my unworking script

I now the steps, I just dunno what's wrong with the code

brb

[turbid heart]

Have you checked if the code runs by Debug.Logging? @paper canopy

keep in mind gameObject refers to the GameObject that the script is on

[meager mural]

if you have more than 1 pellet, you need a for loop

[paper canopy]

Ihave it on a parent object which holds all pellets

[turbid heart]

then you should have asked how to sort the sorting order of child objects. just get the reference to the children and then change the sorting order there

[still tendon]

so im working on a platformer game and when my player dies i made it so a clone is spawned but the clone of it , but the script of the clone wont copy correctly

this is what the player script looks like in the inspector

and here is what the clones script looks like in the inspector

it wont take in a respawn point , the health text or the prefab its suposed to clone if it dies again

so it wont take in other gameobjects from what i can see , does anybody know what the problem is and how i could try to fix it ?

[paper canopy]

okay, call me a noob

I didn't notice the searchbox in the Hierarchy window

found all the Pellets, ctrl+A, changed the order

I wish I'd found it like 2 hours ago

[still tendon]

Ok so scrap most of what i said above , now i realise that i was askibg to much at once and i didnt make myself to clear

So i want to make a copy of my character using prefabs , but when i make the copy of it the text game object wont asign to it , how could i do that ?

[odd glade]

have the active character have a unique tag, and when it dies remove the tag.

so then the text can have code to only go to the gameobject with that unique tag.

or you could have it look through all the gameObjects for the first one with the script that moves the player, then remove that script when the player dies.

Just my idea.

[clear furnace]

why does this happen?

            int maxHeight = height + 3;
            height = Random.Range(minHeight, maxHeight);```

    {
        for (int x = 0; x < width; x++)
        {
            int minHeight = height - 1;
            int maxHeight = height + 3;
            height = Random.Range(minHeight, maxHeight);
            int minStoneHeight = height - 5;
            int maxStoneHeight = height - 3;
            int stoneHeight = Random.Range(minStoneHeight, maxStoneHeight);

            for (int y = 0; y < height; y++)
            {
                if (y < stoneHeight)
                {
                    SpawnObject(stone, x, y);  
                }
                else
                {
                    SpawnObject(dirt, x, y);   
                }
                yield return new WaitForSeconds(0.1f);
            }
            SpawnObject(grass, x, height);
            yield return new WaitForSeconds(0.1f);
        }
    }``` full script:

[snow willow]

"this" being?

[clear furnace]

a terrain

generator

[snow willow]

yes but

you said "why does this happen"

what is happening that you don't want to happen

[clear furnace]

the mountain thing

why does it go very upo

or very down

[snow willow]

            int minHeight = height - 1;
            int maxHeight = height + 3;
            height = Random.Range(minHeight, maxHeight);```

this is going to tend to go up over time

if you change height + 3 to height + 2 what happens

[clear furnace]

it goes down

[snow willow]

            int minStoneHeight = height - 5;
            int maxStoneHeight = height - 3;
            int stoneHeight = Random.Range(minStoneHeight, maxStoneHeight);```

that's then because of this

I think

¯_(ツ)_/¯

[clear furnace]

no

the stone does nothing

it doesnt edit the height

[snow willow]

wait

is height and int or a float?

[clear furnace]

int.

[snow willow]

I would expect using -1 and +2 would work then

since Random.range(-1, 2) should give you -1, 0 or 1

uniformly

what if you do:

height = height + Random.Range(-1, 2);```

[clear furnace]

ok

doesn't work still

it goes down

[snow willow]

I mean random is random no?

[clear furnace]

yes

[snow willow]

Sometimes it goes up, sometimes down

[clear furnace]

no

not like that

it always goes down if the add is 2

it always go up if the add is 3.

[snow willow]

I wonder...
What if you do this:

height = height + new System.Random.Next(-1, 2);```

[stoic moon]

I'm currently using this code: Vector3 mousPos = Input.mousePosition; mousPos = Camera.main.ScreenToWorldPoint(mousPos); Vector2 direction = new Vector2(mousPos.x - transform.position.x, mousPos.y - transform.position.y); transform.right = direction; for rotating an object towards the mouse. How would I make it so that instead of doing it instantly, it rotates slowly towards the mouse? I'm assuming it has something to do with rotatetowards, but most of the google searches i found used raycasts and I'd rather not do that if possible.

[still tendon]

how do i get an object to rotate to face the left of my screen?

[teal gazelle]

Im trying to get my 2D circle collider to be able to move over this much of a lip but I haven't had much luck.

I saw a suggestion online to give both of them a frictionless physics material but the player wasnt able to move around a lip this big even with that

Is there known ways to fix the physics collisions in this kind of situation so that the player doesnt get stuck on small bumps?

[sly brook]

does anyone have a platformer movment script i could use ? in c#

[hot fog]

hi ik this isnt code based as such but how would i add a z input to unity

[snow willow]

what's a z input

[hot fog]

as in if(input.getkeydown(z) sort of thing

because unity doesnt have z with the default settings

[snow willow]

looks like you know how already

[abstract olive]

You want to detect when the Z key is pressed? 🤔

[hot fog]

yos

[abstract olive]

Input.GetKeyDown (KeyCode.Z)

[hot fog]

that doesnt work

[snow willow]

it does...

[hot fog]

unity doesnt have an input for z

[snow willow]

lol wtf are you going on about

[abstract olive]

Yes it does.

It can do input for every key on your keyboard.

[hot fog]

see

[snow willow]

that's the input manager and it's irrelevant for GetKeyDown

GetButtonDown and GetAxis care about that

[abstract olive]

You can always add your own to the Input Manager as well by increasing the array count.

[hot fog]

yeah im goinna quickly watch a yt vid on how to do that

[serene talon]

Hey all. I am trying to implement an InputField UI component in a 2D game that follows a GameObject around as it moves. I tried placing a Canvas as a child of the GameObject but the scaling for UI is all pretty bad. Any advice on how I can make this work?

[craggy roost]

Hey y'all! Quick question, is there a way to have some "distance" between the mouse and the player moving to it? I have the movement down but I want to have some distance between it if that makes any sense

[turbid heart]

How are you moving the player to it right now?

[craggy roost]

With the mouse, but when I move it around, it follows it directly like this

But I want to have like an offset of some sort

[turbid heart]

I meant the code

[craggy roost]

oh

uno momento

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

public class playerMovement : MonoBehaviour
{
    public float movementSpeed = 5.0f;
    private Rigidbody2D rb;
    public Camera cam;
    Vector2 mousePosition;

    void Start()
    {
        rb = GetComponent<Rigidbody2D>();
    }
    
    void FixedUpdate()
    {
        mousePosition = cam.ScreenToWorldPoint(Input.mousePosition);

        Vector2 lookDirection = mousePosition - rb.position;
        float lookAngle = Mathf.Atan2(lookDirection.y, lookDirection.x) * Mathf.Rad2Deg - 90;

        rb.rotation = lookAngle;


        transform.position = Vector2.Lerp(transform.position, mousePosition, Time.deltaTime * movementSpeed);


    }
}

[snow willow]

Lerp should be MoveTowards

[craggy roost]

just changed it to that. Thanks!

[turbid heart]

Oh, i was going to suggest using lerp where the t value maxes out at 0.8 or something, but prae knows better

That’s also an incorrect way of using lerp, in case you didn’t know

The third parameter is a progress that goes from 0 to 1

https://gamedevbeginner.com/the-right-way-to-lerp-in-unity-with-examples/

[snow willow]

With MoveTowards your "movementSpeed" variable actually means movement speed in units per second

which is actually sensible to think about

[craggy roost]

Ok, thanks. I switched over to MoveTowards

Gonna try figuring out how to have like an "offset" between the mouse and the object

[turbid heart]

You could try my suggestion with lerp

Read the link i sent, and if you understand it, you’d know that if the third parameter of lerp is 1, your player’s position would be at the mouse position. So.. if it’s a bit less than 1, it would be almost at the mouse position @craggy roost

[craggy roost]

i'll read it now

Ok thanks @turbid heart i just tried that and it seems to be working. Just gotta get it to move a bit quicker

[turbid heart]

You can make the rate which the progress parameter goes up higher

[craggy roost]

looking for that section now

I think i got it

Ok got it to work. Thanks for the help guys! @turbid heart @snow willow

[teal gazelle]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/669975874455732224/879824907792416808/unknown.png
I'm using unity rigidbody physics for the first time, when I add force in the Green direction, when it hits the flat collider, I would expect it to bounce in the blue line direction, but what happens is it bounces in the black line direction, perpendicular to the wall along it's normal vector.

Its a default 2DCircle collider/default rigidbody against a polygon collider wall, is there an obvious reason this is happening that I am overlooking?

Damn it looks like the problem is I had Freeze Rotation on