🖼️┃2d-tools

[uneven stream]

im moving it manually

[snow willow]

Are you doing so in a physics-friendly way?

I suspect not

if you're modifying transform.position that will completely ignore the physics engine

or using transform.Translate

[uneven stream]

1 sec

transform.position

but i will need to rewrite the code?

or i can use physics with transform.position

[spiral swan]

You could use rigidbody velocity to move your character. Transform.Position basically ignores everything else with the only mission to move the exact amount that you told it to, so if zed amount was large enough it would run right through the colliders

[uneven stream]

wait

im sorry

i didn't used any script in the ball

i confused

[snow willow]

you will need to rewrite the code if you're using transform.position

[uneven stream]

but if i don't

use transform*

what can be the problem

[spiral swan]

Can you send a video

@uneven stream

[uneven stream]

of

hmm

is there a way of verifying unity

idk why my unity just crashed and it isn't starting

man it's late here and my unity just broke

i will try tomorrow

im very sory

[left canyon]

if (enemySpawnerTilemap.GetTile(x, y) != null) anyone know why GetTile hates this?

"No overload method for GetTile takes 2 arguments" but anything i try to throw in for the z doesnt work

[late viper]

read da docs https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Tilemaps.Tilemap.GetTile.html

[snow willow]

it takes a Vector3Int

[nova remnant]

already tried that

it doesnt work

it just zooms off into infinity

Nvm i got it working

it was moving the camera beyond the scene

from z = -10 to z = 0

solved it by using a vector 3 with a fixed Z

[limpid drift]

could anyone help me out with a bullet script right now i shoots the wrong way and i think it has to do with this line of code

transform.position -= new Vector3(Mathf.Sign(Player.transform.position.x - transform.position.x) * Velocity, 0f, 0f);

no matter what i tried i either keeps shooting the wrong way or it stays on the player every frame
https://gyazo.com/cebed3bced3da20f95ad9813b91878ca

[spiral swan]

Just inverse it

[undone gorge]

hello

what can i do to make my game's code smoother ?

[abstract olive]

Use the profiler to see where the bottlenecks are.

[undone gorge]

acctualy

the game was running at 20 fps

so

i set the targeted framerate to 60

works fine

• adaptive performace

[undone gorge]

how can i reduce the loding time to load a scene

[craggy kite]

reduce the objects in your scene, learn to load things only when needed, dont put prefabs in the inspector, rather try to use addressables. a lot of approaches there

[undone gorge]

ok

but

i resolve that problem by doing some weird shit

but my splash screen is not showing, but unity's is showing

why

instead of my splash image

there is a black screeeb

[craggy kite]

Please try to not spam the chat with one word posts... you did say loading time. So is your scene showing or not? If there is no scene showing, you maybe did not set any to be build in the scene overview.

[undone gorge]

my splash screen image not showing, just black image, after a few seconds, the unity's splash screen pops up, and after the game loads

[craggy kite]

Okay, so where and how did you setup your splashscreen? @undone gorge

[undone gorge]

player settings<splash screen

[craggy kite]

Did you read that?

Virtual reality

[undone gorge]

yes

[craggy kite]

You gotta add it to the logos list

[undone gorge]

what ?

i need to add a logo there ?

but ma game is not vr

[undone gorge]

how i can load lots of music tracks in my scene

without effecting load time ?

[snow willow]

load them on demand

instead of all up front

[undone gorge]

how

[undone gorge]

how can i do that ?

[mossy fossil]

hi

my animator does a strange thing

when going fromany state

to some animation

the play_hide bar is not moving

it just stays there like so

it starts

it changes the sprite to hiding

but doesnt play the animation

ok fixed it

i need to check trigger not bool

[river sail]

Hello

I'm currently doing a 2D platformer game and I need one last step to finish it off. When my enemy goes below a certain Y co-ordinate I need it to trigger my EndGame scene (I already have the code for)

I think my method is wrong but I dont know what to use

(Using c#)

[ancient path]

use

<=

intead of >=

because ^ is more than

[river sail]

I tried both and neither worked

Do you know how to use a delay

I tried invoke

[ancient path]

what about a coroutine

or a timer?

[river sail]

I don't know how to do either, I'm fairly new

[ancient path]

a timer is a float you add time.deltaTime

with an if statement checking if it bigger than the desired value

[river sail]

I've heard of it but I can't say I know how to incorporate it too well

[ancient path]

well depends on what you want

[river sail]

This is what i've got but it doesnt quite work obviously

[ancient path]

research for coroutines

they are very useful

[river sail]

Is there no way I could use time delta

[ancient path]

yes

[rancid moss]

using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;

public class CharacterMovement : MonoBehaviour
{
    public float moveSpeed = 5;
    private bool walking;

    private Rigidbody2D rb;
    private Animator anim;

    private Vector2 movement;

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

    }


    void Update()
    {
        movement.x = Input.GetAxisRaw("Horizontal");
        movement.y = Input.GetAxisRaw("Vertical");

        if (movement.x != 0 || movement.y != 0)
        {
            if (!walking)
            {
                walking = true;
                anim.SetBool("walking", true);
            }

            Move();


        }
        else
        {
            if (walking)
            {
                walking = false;
                anim.SetBool("walking", false);
            }
        }
    }

    private void Move()
    {
        anim.SetFloat("X", movement.x);
        anim.SetFloat("Y", movement.y);

        rb.MovePosition(rb.position + movement * Time.fixedDeltaTime);
    }
}

I cant get my 2d character to move with arrow keys could someone help me fix the script?

MissingComponentException: There is no 'Animator' attached to the "Front" game object, but a script is trying to access it.
You probably need to add a Animator to the game object "Front". Or your script needs to check if the component is attached before using it.
UnityEngine.Animator.SetFloat (System.String name, System.Single value) (at <753965d1225041ae90af37ef632f784e>:0)
CharacterMovement.Move () (at Assets/Animations/CharacterMovement.cs:52)
CharacterMovement.Update () (at Assets/Animations/CharacterMovement.cs:36)

[hollow crown]

As the error says:

You probably need to add a Animator to the game object "Front". Or your script needs to check if the component is attached before using it.

Also, large codeblocks should be posted via paste sites as mentioned in #854851968446365696

[rancid moss]

I added the animator but it only moved the scene screen not the actual character

nvm got it to work

[rancid moss]

https://paste.ofcode.org/?edit=gUbGL8By7TMJevAKtzsAg9

Assets\Scripts\Player\PlayerMovement.cs(18,28): error CS0117: 'Input' does not contain a definition for 'getAxisRaw'

need help again

[ancient path]

is GetAxisRaw

capitalization

[rancid moss]

oh

works now

thx

[ancient path]

np

[hollow crown]

If you're making capitalisation errors, do you not have autocomplete? If not, configure your IDE using the instructions in #854851968446365696

[strange cove]

so ive been trying to figure this out and my dash only works when i press space and left shift at the same time, how do i fix this? ```csharp
void Update()
{
horizontalMove = Input.GetAxis("Horizontal");
transform.Translate(Vector2.right * speed * Time.deltaTime * horizontalMove);

    if (Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.Space) && playerJumps < maxPlayerJumps && isGrounded)
    {
        playerJumps++;
        if (playerJumps == maxPlayerJumps)
        {
            isGrounded = false;
        }
        rb.AddForce(Vector2.up * jumpForce, ForceMode2D.Impulse);

        Dash();
    }
}

void Dash()
{
    if (Input.GetKey(KeyCode.LeftShift))
    {
        rb.AddForce(Vector2.right * dashForce, ForceMode2D.Impulse);
    }
} ```

[hollow crown]

That's what your logic is saying

If you want it to only work when you are holding shift, then move Dash(); out of the enclosing if statement

[strange cove]

oh im dumb i didnt see that

[blazing mica]

I am trying to make directional particle system works in 2d space. The particle will instantiate on point A to point B, i cant really get my head around the rotation in the Particle System.

[prime musk]

I have a problem with the jump animation in my character. Where should I add the IsJumping bool of animator in my script.
This is my character controller script
https://paste.ofcode.org/fVELPYkeuyBcc7MPwgMfPv

[turbid heart]

well.. shouldnt you add it where you jump?

i'm assuming here, since it's commented as "JUMP"

[prime musk]

there is a double jump code So, idk where to add the code

[turbid heart]

I dont think it'll make a difference? I'm assuming you want the jump animation to play when you jump. double jump or not

so look at your own code, and see where your jump logic is, then add that there

[prime musk]

Can i add two True bools?

[turbid heart]

sure..? if you have different jump animations, I guess so

[prime musk]

i am using same animation.

[turbid heart]

well ask yourself why you think you need two bools first then

Your question is.. bizarre. Did you copy paste this code from somewhere?

[prime musk]

no

[turbid heart]

So then why can't you pinpoint where the jump logic is?

[prime musk]

ok i'll try

[turbid heart]

I believe I found it here anyway, so why can't you set the isJumping bool of your animator there?

[prime musk]

ok thanks for your help

[prisma ocean]

I'm currently making a ship building part for my game; I want to have a screen that pops up where you can see / edit the blueprint for your ship before going back to the real ship and building it. Should I / can I implement the blueprint mechanic in a second scene that is overlaid over the first scene?

not sure if that was clear

[abstract olive]

Yes, you can have multiple scenes stacked.

[frigid minnow]

Howdy folks. I'm trying to rip a sprite sheet on runtime and dynamically store them as sprites to use in the assets. Can someone tell me why what I'm doing is wrong?

   Sprite icon = Sprite.Create(spriteSheet, new Rect(50, 3, 7, 7), centeredPivot);
   AssetDatabase.AddObjectToAsset(icon, icon.texture);

I don't totally understand how sprites are stored, trying to add it to the texture here, which doesn't seem to yield any results beyond this:

I might just try to manage without doing this

Just wanted to know if there's actually a way of storing the created sprites

[snow willow]

It looks like your image is stored in the assets folder somewhere?

If you're loading a sprite at runtime it would prresumably come from outside the project folder(s)

and if you want to save it you'd save it in Application.persistentDataPath

However:

AssetDatabase``` is not something you will be able to use at runtime

that's an editor-only thing

[frigid minnow]

Gotcha, welp! I think at this stage I've decided that saving the sprites in that manner isn't really necessary; what I'm trying to do is basically dynamically create an animation set from a sprite sheet

I've run into an entirely different issue with that though

I have no clue at all how you're supposed to set a keyframe value using a sprite.

Because a Keyframe can only take two float values

One for time, and one for the actual value of the frame

No clue how Unity is pulling off the witchcraft that is just slapping some sprites into an animation

This ain't no float

[prisma ocean]

Say the dark blue walls (tile map) and white grid (quad) were supposed to be inside the frame (the light blue box) how would I make it so that anything outside of the box didn't render?

Is masks what I need to look up?

[frigid minnow]

Just noting for anyone who might care; turns out what I need is an ObjectReferenceKeyframe, which is totally undocumented.

[snow willow]

interesting I was looking at the API and was at a loss

[strange cove]

Is there a way to check if a collision ends im trying to make a platform that destroys after a little bit of time but i want it to only destroy if the player is on the platform so i need to know if the player isnt on the platform anymore.

[magic junco]

You can use OnCollisionExit or OnTriggerExit depends of how you setup your Colliders.

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

[fleet knot]

Hello Comunity, i want to ask about loop,how to call method every X time? with systematic

[frigid minnow]

private void MyMethod(){
  //Do our stuff here.
  StartCoroutine(RepeatMethod(1));
}

IEnumerator RepeatMethod(float seconds){
  yield return new WaitForSeconds(seconds);
  MyMethod();
}

@fleet knot This should repeat MyMethod every 1 second

[fleet knot]

Thanks ill try this

[coral yarrow]

Hey guys, I have a big problem that I've tried fixing for 3 days, basically my game has a tilemap (2d platformer) and the tilemap uses a polygon collider. I have some dropdown platform that use the PlatformEffector from unity. The two colliders (tilemap and platform) are perfectly alligned at the top, but everytime my player walks from the tilemap to the platform. He glitches. I looked online for solution to maybe merge the colliders but I cannot since one of them uses the effector. Does anybody have a clue on why it's doing this?

[vestal rock]

i need a 2d unity to dm me

[opal socket]

It’s program, it may have some trouble formulating words

[dusk escarp]

probably a quick video would be helpful so people can see what "glitch" you're talking about

[mossy fossil]

Hi

I would need to know if it is possible to do something like this

the two green lines being connected to the two black circles

and when I move one of the circles

the green lines to move like this

without changing size

(I want to use it for hands)

[craggy briar]

Yeah, sebastian lague just posted a video the other day on that actually

@mossy fossil https://youtu.be/PGk0rnyTa1U?t=180

[mossy fossil]

wait really ? 😄

really !

thanks

in case someone would also need it

[gusty oyster]

How to I detect if a 2D particle hit my 2D player?

oh nvm

it worked

[prisma ocean]

Anything on applying masks to quads or mesh renderers?

[harsh hollow]

Guys I have a question

It's not about coding

I'm making a 2d space shooter game

And I'm trying to add a wall so that my spaceship cant pass through

I tried to add the 2D collider, but it didnt block

What should I do?

[snow willow]

your spaceship needs to have its own collider and a Rigidbody, and you need to move it in a physics-friendly way

[harsh hollow]

I have BoxCollider2D attached on this wall

[snow willow]

e.g. no transform.position = or transform.Translate

[ancient path]

And have the wall rigidbody static

[harsh hollow]

I have the Rigidbody2D attached to the player, with body type = dynamic

[snow willow]

you have to move the ship via the Rigidbody2D

[harsh hollow]

And a collider2D on the player

which is the spaceship

[snow willow]

right you have to also move the ship with the Rigidbody though

[harsh hollow]

what do you mean?

[snow willow]

i mean

what I said

move the ship with the Rigidbody methods

not via the Transform

in your code

[harsh hollow]

Alright

Let me try

So basically

I ahve to get the rigidbody2D in the Start

Then in the code which I use to move the spaceship

So right now my code for moving is like this:

float Inputhorizontal = Input.GetAxis("Horizontal");
float Inputvertical = Input.GetAxis("Vertical");
transform.Translate(new Vector3(Inputhorizontal, Inputvertical, 0) * _speed * Time.deltaTime)

[snow willow]

yep - Translate is no bueno

it ignores physics

You have to either set rb.velocity

or use rb.MovePosition

in FixedUpdate()

or rb.AddForce

[harsh hollow]

Ok

I know the AddForce one

Thank you!

Ok if I dont use the Rigidbody2D

But I want to write in the coding

that the spaceship can't pass through a certain X

As if there's a wall there

How can I do it?

So it's like I have the wall with collider, and if my spaceship's OnTriggerEnter2D hits the wall's collider

What kind of code do I write so that the spaceship remains there even if I press the left arrow

[snow willow]

you'd have to do your own custom raycasting, find where the wall is, know your ship's physical extents, and only move your ship up to where the edge of the ship would touch teh wall and no further

the code is a bit more complicated

not that complicated though

[harsh hollow]

I'm trying to add a bool

And make the MoveLeft and MoveRight 2 different voids

So when the spaceship hits the wall, the bool _stopMovingLeft is true, and the spaceship can move towards right side

[prisma ocean]

Can I not make a simple tile asset? or does it have to be rule tile?

[eager gyro]

try something like ```cs

    if (Physics.Raycast(transform.position, transform.TransformDirection(Vector3.right), out hitRight, 1f))
    {
        Debug.DrawRay(transform.position, transform.TransformDirection(Vector3.right) * 1, Color.green);


        if (hitRight.collider.tag == "Wall")
        {

            
            canTurnRight = false;

        }```

so in your update move you simple do cs if (Input.GetKey(KeyCode.D) && canTurnRight) or something

[harsh hollow]

Okay I added the rigidbody and found a script to move my spaceship with rigidbody

float Inputhorizontal = Input.GetAxis("Horizontal");
GetComponent<Rigidbody2D>().velocity = new Vector2(Inputhorizontal * _speed, 0.0f);

But why my spaceship still passes through the wall....

I even tried to Debug.Log if the collision has been detected

[eager gyro]

i already pointed you the way with a simple raycast to detect wall

[harsh hollow]

Yeah I saw it, but I wanna try different methods

So I can learn more

[eager gyro]

raycasting is fundamental

[harsh hollow]

I know

[eager gyro]

you can also limit the transforms axis by certain range

[harsh hollow]

How do you do that?

[eager gyro]

if you move left to right limit the X

etc

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

that's two things to learn right there

[harsh hollow]

Okay

Thanks

[fierce cairn]

yo i havent used unity in a while so i sorta forgot this but how do i change the time the animation starts and its speed within the unity animator

[eager gyro]

transitions?

[fierce cairn]

yea

lemme show

[eager gyro]

click on the arrow transitioning one clip to another

[fierce cairn]

so thers 2 problems

first when i move just a little bit

[eager gyro]

speed is in the clip itself or you can use multiplier variable

[fierce cairn]

it startts at the wrong frame

so theres no step

second for sprinting i need to up the framerate

so how do i fix those two probs

[eager gyro]

screenshot your transition from idle to run or w/e

[fierce cairn]

alr

thats the main anim

idle > playerrun

[eager gyro]

you tried moving the bottom clip closer?

[fierce cairn]

wouldent they overlap

and prob create some really weird animation

[fierce cairn]

it works sorta but then when i stop running it dosent smooth back into idle

[eager gyro]

try fixing your exit transition now

[fierce cairn]

is there a way to like

smooth between the two

or no

[eager gyro]

generally this what a blend tree is useful for

[turbid heart]

you can drag those bars, or open up settings to adjust numbers

[eager gyro]

the tab settings you can decrease more of the transition time yes but also moving bottom clip closer helps

also this is better suited in #🏃┃animation tho

[fierce cairn]

oh yeah srry

[fierce cairn]

wait the animation thing isnt looped right

like that entire thing is just one time

cuz ive been moving it closer very slightly lmao

[eager gyro]

there is a preview window if that's what you want

[fierce cairn]

nah i think i got it

theres like very small movement bugs but i dont have enough ocd to need to fix that rn

overall its fine now

[eager gyro]

its better though?

[fierce cairn]

yeah

[eager gyro]

ok yeah, if you want smoother look into learning blend trees

[fierce cairn]

even the smallest movements are animated now

so yeah

[fierce cairn]

alr

ill prob do that when i decide to fix the mini movement bugs

[spring compass]

is there a way to check on OnTriggerEnter2D if the object isnt colliding with anything? i want the same button press to have a different action depending on the object colliding or not

[ancient path]

you can use a collider cast

capsule cast
box cast
circle cast

[spring compass]

oh i forgot about that thanks

[snow willow]

overlapXXX

[pale jasper]

I still cant code movement ive tried using tutorials such as brackeys but it hasnt worked would anyone has like a movement test file i could use

[turbid heart]

how come you're unable to get things working if you're following tutorials that tell you exactly what to do? what goes wrong?

[pale jasper]

i dont know what wrong

ive been working on this for the past week as a hobby

i feel like i am going insane like its a big joke i cant stop laughing

[waxen citrus]

help

ive never coded

[turbid heart]

#💻┃code-beginner message

[turbid heart]

#💻┃code-beginner message
Learn the fundamentals first instead of copying blindly

[waxen citrus]

that wont work for me

[turbid heart]

and why is that?

[waxen citrus]

i have a hard time following videos

i prefer to have a class where i can ask questions

[turbid heart]

well then.. go to school and pay money

or you know, actually go through that and ask questions here?

[waxen citrus]

i dont have any

im 13

[turbid heart]

you'd know that if you went through the C# tutorial like I said, and not just glanced at how "oh, there's a video up top", it's not videos

it's interactive exercises where you read, and try out coding yourself

[waxen citrus]

okay

[coral tusk]

Hello, I am using Physics2D.CircleCast to check for collisions. It seems that it first checks from the right side of the object, then traces around the circle clockwise, causing first point of contact to be the right side in cramped spaces

How can I tell unity to start the collision check from another point (such as the bottom of the circle?

[clear vector]

how do i play a sound on a collisiion trigger in 2D?

[turbid heart]

break it down and try searching
1)how do i detect a 2d collision
2)how do I play sound

[clear vector]

ök

[orchid pewter]

how do i wait til an animation has finished playing?

[eager gyro]

https://answers.unity.com/questions/362629/how-can-i-check-if-an-animation-is-being-played-or.html

[orchid pewter]

thank you loki

[timber shore]

The character moves automatically and I can't control where it does, I suspect it's prolly in this part of the script:

private void FixedUpdate() {
  float x = Input.GetAxisRaw("Horizontal");
  float y = Input.GetAxisRaw("Vertical");

  Vector3 moveDelta = new Vector3(1f, 1f, 0f);

  transform.localScale = new Vector3(-Mathf.Sign(x), 1f, 1f);

  transform.Translate(moveDelta * Time.deltaTime);
}```

[compact knoll]

your move delta is always at 1, 1, 0. You should probably be using your x and y variables in your moveDelta vector

also there is a good chance you probably don't want to be using transform.Translate for movement, unless you don't care about physics/collisions working correctly (or you are planning to implement your own collision detection)

[alpine pumice]

are there any up to date tutorials for 2D? It seems like a lot of the tutorials I'm finding were made before Unity included more 2D functionality to the engine.

[subtle vessel]

They mostly still work fine. Is there something you're trying to do you can't figure out?

Off the top of my head, most of the 2d improvements were in rigged 2d animation, tilemaps, and the spriteshape tool. Physics and other basic functionality hasn't really changed.

[atomic adder]

I need helo with AI patroling

help*

it doesn't have errors but it has a seizure every time it plays

https://pastebin.com/nijnetwF

thats the code

[alpine pumice]

@subtle vessel I played around with unity about 6 years ago when 2D stuff wasn't that good. had to use an asset packaged called TK2D to do stuff like loading sprite sheets, animation, camera, etc.

now it looks like a lot of that functionality is built into Unity, but a lot of tutorials I'm finding don't show how to use that and instead rely on an outdated library to do 2D stuff or they use their own system

[amber socket]

I am trying to create a game that uses the right click button to hold and rotate the camera around an object in 2d.

My main issue is about having the camera not instantly switching around because of relative x positions.

Here is my current code:

//Camera Controls
        if (Input.GetMouseButtonDown(1) == true) //As soon as the mouse button is clicked.
        {
            pMousex = Camera.main.ScreenToWorldPoint(Input.mousePosition)[0];

        } else if (Input.GetMouseButton(1) == true) //The frame after. (when it is being held down)
        {
            mousex = Camera.main.ScreenToWorldPoint(Input.mousePosition)[0];

            player.transform.rotation = Quaternion.Euler(0, 0, cameraSensitivity*0.1f*(mousex - pMousex));
        } else if (Input.GetMouseButtonUp(1) == true) //As soon as the user lets go of the button.
        {

        }

I'm not currently sure as to what I should do so it starts off rotating from it's last set position

[unborn sundial]

The second if will never run. That's not how frames work.

Each call to Update() is a new frame. A single pass through Update() is always the same frame.

Within that call, "Input.GetMouseButton(1) == true" will always have the same value

If it is true, then the first "if" clause runs, the later ones won't because that's how if/else works

[snow willow]

the second if will run on the second frame of the mouse being held. The first if is GetMouseButtonDown()

[unborn sundial]

oh holy heck, I misread that badly

[bold crown]

how do i make an animation play when i am attatched to a wall? it keeps getting l stuck after i jump off of the wall instead of when i am on it

i have a transition from run anim to the wall anim which has conditions set as run = false and wall = true
i also have a transition from the jump anim which is wall = true

https://pastebin.com/AJED1jkr

[brittle smelt]

i'm trying to make a random generated towerd defense game i followed a tutorial on this code and everytime i started the game it displayed an argument out of range massage, how do i fix it?

[vocal condor]

Double clicking the error takes you to which line?

[brittle smelt]

it didnt take me to any line

[vocal condor]

Show the complete error in detail.

[brittle smelt]

ArgumentOutOfRangeException: Index was out of range. Must be non-negative and less than the size of the collection.
Parameter name: index
System.ThrowHelper.ThrowArgumentOutOfRangeException (System.ExceptionArgument argument, System.ExceptionResource resource) (at <eae584ce26bc40229c1b1aa476bfa589>:0)
System.ThrowHelper.ThrowArgumentOutOfRangeException () (at <eae584ce26bc40229c1b1aa476bfa589>:0)
System.Collections.Generic.List`1[T].get_Item (System.Int32 index) (at <eae584ce26bc40229c1b1aa476bfa589>:0)
MapGenerator.getBottomEdgeTiles () (at Assets/Script/MapGenerator.cs:38)
MapGenerator.generateMap () (at Assets/Script/MapGenerator.cs:59)
MapGenerator.Start () (at Assets/Script/MapGenerator.cs:17)

[vocal condor]

Map Generator line 38

[vocal condor]

Which line is line 38?

[vocal condor]

Eh?

Why 1 < mapWidth?

[brittle smelt]

it should have be i, i think

typo

[vocal condor]

Perhaps you meant i < mapWidth

[brittle smelt]

yeah

typo

thanks for the help

[vocal condor]

Did this solve the problem?

Cool 👍

[brittle smelt]

it does, thx

[still tendon]

i got an error saying The referenced script (Unknown) on this Behaviour is missing. does anyone know how to fix

[abstract olive]

Check your console for errors.

[still tendon]

The referenced script (Unknown) on this Behaviour is missing.

that is the error

[abstract olive]

Show your console

[native hatch]

show ss

[abstract olive]

Your entire console.

[abstract olive]

Jeez, as in, the entire window. What's with these partial screenshots, damn. The point is, to check if you've hidden compiler errors.

There's three buttons at the top right of the console. Is the first one disabled?

[still tendon]

clear or collapse

oh top right

no

[abstract olive]

Try removing the component and adding the script you want.

[still tendon]

k

didnt work

[vocal condor]

How'd you add it if it's missing?

Did the error change?

Ah cross posted...

[still tendon]

damn plagiarizing is hard

welp time to do what i came here to do

I added a dash script from YT and its not working

[brittle smelt]

How do i fix game object destroying it self even though there is no destroy function in the script?

[turbid heart]

something is causing it to destroy itself. check why

[turbid heart]

have you saved your script

[brittle smelt]

i cant find the source of the problem

[turbid heart]

if you control shift F, and type destroy, does anything come up

[brittle smelt]

nothing come up

i've tried

[turbid heart]

when does it destroy itself

[brittle smelt]

every time it starts

[turbid heart]

when you press play? do you have a lot of scripts?

[brittle smelt]

no, one really long script

[turbid heart]

put that really long script into a paste site and share it here #854851968446365696 has links to paste sites

[brittle smelt]

https://paste.ofcode.org/eWB8y9mH6TmMiRDUsMUgx5

[turbid heart]

are you sure it's destroyed?

can you take a video and show what's happening?

[still tendon]

wdym

[turbid heart]

have you ctrl+s? it needs to be saved before the code gets compiled. I see a dirty marker on the top, that's why I asked

[still tendon]

yeah

[turbid heart]

then you're going to need to be more specific on what doesnt work. are there also any errors?

[still tendon]

nope

there is nothing wrong except that i added a shift dash code and it does not work at all

and i have no idea why

[turbid heart]

have you attached the script to an object?

use Debug.Logs to check which of the conditions it's not fulfilling in the if statement

[brittle smelt]

the empty void should be filled with tile that has different color

[still tendon]

yes i did

is there something wrong with the script?

[turbid heart]

Path color looks like alpha is 0. it's there, but transparent maybe? You should click where the path is and actually see if there's an object there. Also check your own hierarchy

[turbid heart]

i dont know. I'm not bothered to look through someone else's script that you copied anyway. If you copied it and it doesn't work, usually just means you didnt copy the process properly

learn to debug it

use debug.logs. print values. check.

[brittle smelt]

your right its transparent, but how do i make it not transparent

[still tendon]

i don't think i copied it wrong since i checked it 3 times out of boredom

[turbid heart]

click on it in the inspector, and change the alpha there

[brittle smelt]

whats an alpha? sorry i'm new to unity

[turbid heart]

color is made up of 4 channels. r g b a. a is alpha. it's the transparency level of the color

[brittle smelt]

ok thx

[earnest aspen]

do anyone know a good asset/tool for 2D movement or character controller? , cuz most of them are more related to 3D

[brittle smelt]

it works

[still tendon]

Anyone help me with the Dash script that i added it doesn't really work or give any errors

[turbid heart]

#🖼️┃2d-tools message

[still tendon]

i have no idea what im looking for tho

[turbid heart]

check if IsGrounded is false. check if movX is not 0

[still tendon]

does not exist in the current context

[turbid heart]

you should learn some basics
<#💻┃code-beginner message>

[still tendon]

.

[fluid island]

I'm having trouble adding a rigidbody2d. I added it in my script, no errors. However, when press the play button (to add the rigidbody2d), it adds it perfectly fine but skips ahead.

[turbid heart]

what do you mean by skips ahead

[fluid island]

It adds the rigidbody2d and like 3 seconds later, gravity takes over and it goes falling

[fluid island]

any clues?

[eager gyro]

how many go obj u have?

[fluid island]

I don't think it's because of the amount, if I have just one it does the same.

[fast gyro]

if im making 2d animations in aseprite for unity, would i need to make all new files for each animation, jump, run, walk? or do i do it on new layers

[orchid pewter]

when i buy sprite sheets from the Unity store they are in 32x32 frames each frame of animation in its own image file @fast gyro

[fast gyro]

ok thanks

[orchid pewter]

even if they were all on the same image you would still have to slice the image file

[fast gyro]

you think it has to be 32x32?

@orchid pewter

[compact knoll]

hey mate, your questions about art and stuff would be better off in #archived-art-asset-showcase or #🏃┃animation . However, there is no reason you would have to limit your pixel art to 32x32, you can use whatever size(s) you prefer

[fast gyro]

ok thanks man

[orchid pewter]

i don't know thats just what the pixel artist does when i buy them

[carmine token]

Hello, I'm trying to toggle the SpriteRenderer component of an array of 2D objects with a given tag. How can I change them collectively rather than connecting each individual renderer? An image of my script is attached

[lament barn]

heya, is there any way to change the alpha of a whole tilemap without going tile by tile with a foreach loop?

[snow willow]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Tilemaps.Tilemap-color.html alpha can be set with this

[nova jungle]

Simple question probably (I'm a beginner), but how would you get a character to collide with the border of the camera? Want to have something to prevent them from moving offscreen

[turbid heart]

you can either put collider boxes on the edge of the screen, or detect the position of characters and stop them from moving when they exceed a certain position

Better way of doing the second method is to use some form of ViewportToWorldPoint or WorldToViewportPoint thing, where viewport is the coordinate of your camera's view

starts from 0,0 at bottom left. 1,1 at top right

[nova jungle]

The first method seems to work good enough, thanks!

Simplest solution seems to work the best for what I need for now.

[blazing mica]

Hi, I want to make a "rubber-band" like physics in my project, where a link will be connected to a fixed point, and an object at the end of the link. The link can be stretch or shrink based on the distance between the fixed point and the object. How can i do this

[ruby karma]

https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/class-SpringJoint.html maybe this is what you want

[blazing mica]

the problem with this is that it will push back the object when it is getting near the fixed point, which I dont want it to happen, unless I should modify its spring frequency based on their distance ?

because when you put the Frequency too low, it has very little effect to control over their maximum distance too

[ruby karma]

the frequency?

[blazing mica]

ahh, I found what I wanted, which is DistanceJoint, but it does not have the elastic properties like SpringJoint, maybe I can combine them?

[blazing mica]

the frequency determine the number of times it check for both objects to stay at a certain distance

[zenith snow]

Guys, I am trying to make a function that lets me know if a tile at a certain position is in an island or it is connected to land.

This image is an example (it is procedurally generated). If a sand tile within the red circle is taken, it should say it is part of an island, the other tiles instead are part of land.

[modest cargo]

Wheel joint may be worth a try
It has more options

[lament barn]

alright, i finally got it to work. my code was faulty and i just thought it was impossible to do what i was trying to do

but now ive come across a whole new problem

I'm using rule tiles in my project, and now that i have tiles that disappear when you touch them, id want them to blend in with the normal foreground

but i have no clue how to do that

[orchid pewter]

do you keep your tileset inside the same folder as your tile palettes?

[lament barn]

i do

[orchid pewter]

i'm trying to design a project layout

i'd look to peek at how the professionals do it

[opal socket]

You mean assets folders etc or something else?

If you mean folders, we don’t have a special way to do it and it’s hit or miss on professional projects xD

[orchid pewter]

i'm talking about the folder layout for assets yeah

a tiny desktop makes for an easy project

i'm trying to organize everything so whenever i want to update the game in the future its really simple

at the moment i'm working on folder layouts for tile palettes and a naming system

[orchid pewter]

i've been coding thinking that anim.GetCurrentAnimatorStateInfo(0).IsName would return a false output once it finished playing the animation haha oof

while not looping

https://newbedev.com/csharp-how-to-check-if-an-animation-has-finished-playing-unity-code-example

you live and learn

[exotic token]

Hello! I am looking to create a way switch a bunch of tiles with other tiles via code.

My end goal is to make a sort of season effect. Eg. at one point tiles are grass, and another time snowy.

What would be the best approach to this problem?

[lean pecan]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Tilemaps.Tilemap.SetTile.html
or
https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Tilemaps.Tilemap.SetTiles.html perhaps?

[exotic token]

I’ve seen that, but I don’t know if this would be the best solution. As it would require a bunch of if statements for each type of tile?

Actually, I think this may work if I have both the snowy and grass tiles with the near identical names (maybe like “grass0” and “snow0”). So then I will be able to get the name of the tile and replace it with the other tile

[hoary ginkgo]

Any reason why a jitter between two gameobjects on collision would randomly start occurring? Everything was smooth until now.

Well, I went in a changed my camera to fixed update and it fixed not sure why after 100s of hours of developement this issue just started

[orchid pewter]

doesn't the pixel perfect camera stop jittering movements?

[honest glen]

It is conceivable that you have reached a level of complexity, which requires a bit more thoughtful planning ahead.

1. The correct order of logic between void Update, FixedUpdate and LateUpdate
2. Script execution order

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

[mossy fossil]

ok so i found the tut

sort of

[still tendon]

part of my pixel art is cut off(the sun) anyone know why

wut

[orchid pewter]

is it possible to do this "if (anim.GetCurrentAnimatorStateInfo(0).normalizedTime > 1)" but for a specific animation not just whatever animation is currently playing?

[opal socket]

I work in AAA and pretty much all of our code is dumped into one folder, sooo... I wouldn't say "professionals" have any standard xD

[meager mural]

I'd say this is pretty clean

[abstract olive]

What is your experience in making anything with Unity?

Then start with learning how to use Unity before you jump. There are tutorials in #💻┃unity-talk.

[tight wraith]

If i have a sprite with multiple colliders on it how can i detect which collider collided with something?

[snow willow]

Collision2D contains that information. See the poorly named "otherCollider" property:
https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Collision2D.html

[final prism]

Hope a small picture is alright. I'm looking to create a similar 2D map for a project, ideally something I can position sprites around and handle mouse interactions. Anyone have any suggestions on how to approach this?

Trying to avoid the Tilemap if I can, it's a bit much and doesn't provide the seperator lines between the tiles at runtime anyway.

[covert whale]

i'd personally use the tilemap and have the sprites have a faint white outline so that it looks like the grid, but if you really don't want a tilemap then i'd do an executeineditor script that has a field for the size of the grid, the size of each tile and a prefab for the default tile then do something like

[pseudo code]
for(i = width)
{
   for(j = height)
   {
         Vector3 position = new Vector3(i * tileSize, j*tileSize);
          Instantiate(tilePrefab, position);
    }
}

for this to work u'd have to have the size of tilePrefab the same as tileSize, and only have this script run once so disable the script after the firs time it runs so that u don't have lots of tiles

then u could manually change out the sprites for whatever tile u want

and it would be neater to have all tile objects under one parent so assign that when the tile is instantiated

[blazing mica]

For detect and interacting with items in 2D, which way is more preferable?

A) Raycast
B) An Invisible TriggerCollider as detection

What are the pros and cons of using this 2 methods?

[placid briar]

help whenever my 2d character is supposed to run infinitely but keeps on stopping on the way like there is sth invisible blocking
Its being animated and root motion is turned off and i have frozen the z rotation on the rigidbody.

[orchid pewter]

is there a way to check if a specific animation is playing not just if an animation is playing?

[eager gyro]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Animator.GetCurrentAnimatorStateInfo.html

[grand coral]

check that there are no colliders there that you can't see

[placid briar]

already solved it

thnx

[grand coral]

oh ok awesome

[placid briar]

i was using a polygon colllider that got left behind

by the player\

[frigid minnow]

Hey, so, when I create a sprite using Sprite.Create(...), how might I go about saving that to the assets in-editor?

Is it possible with AssetDatabase.CreateAsset?

As far as I'm aware, you need a file extension for that, right?

Can you just use .asset?

Actually, it seems like "yes" is the answer

[frigid minnow]

Alright, so I've encountered an odd bug

Basically, I've created a script that will rip a texture into separate sprites, then save the sprites, then compile the sprites into animations, and finally an animation controller

For some reason, though, the resulting animations have some weird behavior

Particularly, each generated animation will only play the first frame, unless you do this:

I assume this refreshes the animation or something and establishes that these frames actually exist

But you can't just do this once

This happens every the game is played

Just locks up on the first frame until you move the keyframes back to where they actually go

Dunno

The problem also doesn't get fixed by restarting Unity

Somehow something just isn't interpreting the presence of the keyframes until I manually set them

The animation preview in editor also gets locked up on the first frame until I do the above, but in play mode, it needs to be done again

So I can't even just replace the frames in the editor and be done with it

[chrome grove]

Has anyone done 2D Topdown lighting?

I guess that of similar of say, ALTTP. But rather then the shadows being baked into the sprites themselves, they're dynamic?

[orchid pewter]

maybe you could fake it with a shadow layer

@chrome grove

[chrome grove]

Thought about that. I also know Unity has 2D lighting as well now.

[orchid pewter]

it does have post processing

[crisp narwhal]

Is there a simple way to make the camera be the perfect size to fit for example 10 tiles by 10 tiles without cutting halfway through a tile at the side

[snow willow]

if you're using an orthographic camera you can use Camera.orthographicSize to set the height of the camera

and then the width is based on your resolution aspect ratio

[crisp narwhal]

Yea i cant find a balance idk if im being dumb

[snow willow]

so if you want to set the width properly you'll need to do a little math with the aspect ratio

[crisp narwhal]

a ill try tomorrow again ig its been a couple days out of frustration lol

[snow willow]

the math is fairly straightforward:
aspect ratio: AR
height: H
width: W

AR = H / W
W * AR = H
W = H / AR
also
H = AR * W

So if you want the width to be 10, then you do:
H = AR * 10

aka just multiply the aspect ratio by 10 and that's the orthographic size to set to the camera

[crisp narwhal]

width and height are in tiles as its unit right

[snow willow]

they're in units

aka meters

if your tiles are 1x1 then yes

[crisp narwhal]

ah okay

[prisma ocean]

How would I apply a prefab to a tile that isn't a rule tile? particularly during run time

[prisma ocean]

Or would I just make a rule tile?

[strange cove]

anyone know why this wont decrease the enemys health? ```csharp
using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;

public class Enemy : MonoBehaviour
{
public float health;

private Bullet bulletScript;

void Start()
{
    bulletScript = FindObjectOfType<Bullet>();
}

private void OnCollisionEnter2D(Collision2D other)
{
    if (other.gameObject.tag == "Bullet")
    {
        TakeDamage();
    }
}

void TakeDamage()
{
    health -= bulletScript.damageAmount;
    if (health <= 0)
    {
        gameObject.SetActive(false);
    }
}

} ```

[hollow crown]

Add some logs or use the debugger to see what's being called

[hollow stratus]

you have to call takedamage on the enemy

vertx you gotta try a little man

[hollow crown]

They do.

[strange cove]

I did.

[hollow stratus]

on the enemy?

[strange cove]

yes

[hollow stratus]

other.TakeDamage()?

I don't see that

[hollow crown]

This code is on the Enemy

other is the bullet.

[hollow stratus]

haha I'm an idiot

sorry dude

[strange cove]

yea

[hollow crown]

Also, the logic for getting the bullet seems flawed. This would only work if there was only one bullet. You should be getting the bullet component from other.gameObject

[hollow stratus]

is damageamount a property?

[strange cove]

?

[hollow stratus]

you might need to do damageamount()

[strange cove]

yea it a float that has a value pf 1

of

[hollow crown]

Or, you should inverse all this logic as Master Bronze Elite implicitly suggests, and have the bullet handle dealing damage to the things it hits (via an interface perhaps)

[hollow stratus]

you need to put parantheses

if it's a property

[hollow crown]

"?" is unhelpful. If you have a question about what I wrote, ask it.

[hollow stratus]

make damageamount this

public void DamageAmount()
{
   return damageAmount;
}

then call it using

bullet.DamageAmount();

try that

[strange cove]

alr

[hollow crown]

Not sure how that changes anything

[hollow stratus]

he said it's a property but I don't see him calling it with parentheses

[strange cove]

but isnt it easier just to make it a float which i did

[hollow crown]

Properties are not called like methods

[strange cove]

idk what a property is

[strange cove]

i think damageamount is an attribute

[hollow crown]

It's likely a field, but regardless, if it was a property it's still invoked the same

It's not an attribute. All of this is irrelevant anyway. You haven't debugged whether any of this is being called at all

[hollow stratus]

wait can I just see your bullet code?

post that

[strange cove]

yea

using UnityEngine;

public class Bullet : MonoBehaviour
{
    public float speed;
    public float damageAmount = 1.0f;

    [HideInInspector] Enemy enemyScript;

    void Start()
    {
        enemyScript = FindObjectOfType<Enemy>();
    }

    void Update()
    {
        transform.Translate(Vector2.right * Time.deltaTime * speed);
    }

    void OnTriggerEnter2D(Collider2D other)
    {
        if (other.gameObject.tag == "Enemy")
        {
            Debug.Log("Destroyed First");
            Destroy(this.gameObject);
        }
    }
} ```

[hollow crown]

Because you are moving the bullet via its transform it's likely not interacting with the physics engine at all, and the physics messages will not be called.

[strange cove]

im not good at physics so i would use addforce?

[hollow stratus]

private void OnCollisionEnter2D(Collision2D other)
    {
        Debug.Log("Step 1");
        if (other.gameObject.tag == "Bullet")
        {
            Debug.Log("Step 2");
            TakeDamage();
        }
    }

^do that

then tell me what you see in console

if you don't get either

[strange cove]

in the bullet script?

[hollow stratus]

no in the first script u sent

enemy

just add those 2 debug lines

[hollow crown]

Sure, or set its velocity

[strange cove]

alright

ill try his first

it says step 1 first

but when the game runs it does

[hollow stratus]

wdym

so it only appears when the game starts?

[strange cove]

yes

[hollow stratus]

is there a number to the right of it?

that gets bigger

[strange cove]

because its out of the if other.gameobject.tag == "Bullet

[hollow stratus]

yeah that's intentional

to test both parts

[strange cove]

Also i never see step 2 when i shoot it

[hollow stratus]

is there a number to the right of it though

the step 1

or no number at all

^ like the 8 there

[strange cove]

no

it just says Step 1

[hollow stratus]

are you shooting it multiple times?

or just once?

[strange cove]

2

1

[hollow stratus]

21 times?

[strange cove]

1

[hollow stratus]

shoot it multiple times see if more step 1's pop up

[strange cove]

i dont see anything when i shoot it twice

[hollow stratus]

oh

check if your bullet even has its tag set correctly

[strange cove]

it does

[hollow stratus]

and make sure it's capitalized the same way

is it spelled Bullet exactly?

same capitilization?

[strange cove]

yes

[hollow stratus]

hmmm

oh

try changing the oncollisionenter

to a ontriggerenter

OnTriggerEnter2D(Collider2D other)

I think it may not be colliding with the bullet

it's probably just colliding with another random object

and on your hitbox component

check the "is trigger"

also make sure everything has a collider on it

the bullet and enemy

[strange cove]

it doesnt even collide with the enemy

the bullet is also a trigger

nvm the enemy falls through the ground

because it has a rb

[hollow stratus]

does your bullet's ontriggerenter work?

[strange cove]

wdym?

[hollow stratus]

like does it destroy itself

after touching the enemy

[strange cove]

Yes

[hollow stratus]

does your bullet have a rigidbody?

[strange cove]

no

[hollow stratus]

I think for oncollision to work it needs a rigidbody

because it needs to collide with something physics related

[strange cove]

but the bullet destoryed when the enemy wasnt a trigger

[hollow stratus]

because ontriggerenter doesn't require a rigidbody

but oncollision does

pretty sure

[snow willow]

onTriggerEnter needs at least one of the objects to have a Rigidbody

the Rigidbody can be kinematic if you want though

[hollow stratus]

oh yeah that's right

[strange cove]

so i gave the bullet a rb and made the gravity 0 and it collides with the enemy but still doesnt decrease the health

[snow willow]

and for OnCollisionEnter at least one of the obejcts needs a dynamic RIgidbody (not kinematic)

[hollow stratus]

does step 2 show up in the console?

[strange cove]

no

[hollow stratus]

can I see the tag you have

on the bullet

[strange cove]

wait yea

[hollow stratus]

just screenshot

[strange cove]

it does

[hollow stratus]

oh nice

[strange cove]

but then i get a nullrefrenceexeption for takedamage

[snow willow]

then it's working

[snow willow]

well that part you need to fix

but that's no longer related to the collision code

[hollow stratus]

that means bulletscript is null

probably

[strange cove]

but im confused cause it looks right and seems right to me

[snow willow]

I don't understand why you have a bulletScript reference on your ENemy class

that makes little sense

[strange cove]

so i can acess the damageamount

[hollow stratus]

yeah I was confused too because his system should be flipped

but I went with it

lmao

[snow willow]

your bullet should do this:

OnCollisionEnter(COllision col) {
  if (col.collider.TryGetComponent(out Enemy e)) {
    e.TakeDamage(this.damageAmount);
  }
}```

[hollow stratus]

ok add this in front of your code

[SerializeField] private Bullet bulletScript;

[snow willow]

let the bullet handle its own damage and tell the enemy how much damage it took

[strange cove]

uhhhhhhh i have alot of questions what is trygetcomponent and out

[hollow stratus]

then run your game and check bulletScript

you should be able to see it on the right when you click on the enemy

if it says "none" then you found the problem

[snow willow]

maybe you'll understand this better:

void OnCollisionEnter2D(Collision2D col) {
  Enemy collidedEnemy = col.collider.GetComponent<Enemy>();
  if (collidedEnemy != nuill) {
    collidedEnemy.TakeDamage(this.damageAmount);
  }
}```

same thing basically

[strange cove]

uh

im doing a 2d game not 3

3d

[snow willow]

so?

[strange cove]

u used oncollisonenter

[snow willow]

ok fixed

[strange cove]

doesnt work with 2d

[snow willow]

¯_(ツ)_/¯

it's fixed now

[strange cove]

so that goes on my enemy?

[snow willow]

nop

it goes on your bullet

it just does this:
when you collide with something, check if the thing you collided with has an Enemy script on it

[strange cove]

i would need a refrence to my enemy script

[snow willow]

if it does, apply damage to it

The code is getting the reference to the enemy script

right there

Enemy collidedEnemy = col.collider.GetComponent<Enemy>();

it's grabbing it from the collision

this is the right way to get a reference for a collision

[hollow stratus]

alright blue you help him I had my go at it already 😆

[snow willow]

Then you just change your TakeDamage function on the enemy so it takes a parameter:

    public void TakeDamage(float amount)
    {
        health -= amount;
        if (health <= 0)
        {
            gameObject.SetActive(false);
        }
    }```

boom done

no weird references to worry about

(and make it public)

[strange cove]

OnCollsionEnter2D is red

[snow willow]

why

[strange cove]

it says Method Must Have A Return Type

[snow willow]

yeah you forgot to write void

but wait were you using OnTriggerEnter2D?

and that was working?

you should use that if that was working

[strange cove]

yes

[hollow stratus]

the issue was a null

[snow willow]

void OnTriggerEnter2D(Collider2D col) {
  Enemy collidedEnemy = col.GetComponent<Enemy>();
  if (collidedEnemy != null) {
    collidedEnemy.TakeDamage(this.damageAmount);
  }
}```

[hollow stratus]

I think bulletscript was null

[vocal condor]

null

[snow willow]

oh sorry

I'm trying to type too fast

[hollow stratus]

what you should do for referencing is just to assign them before you run the game IMO

[snow willow]

disagree

in this case you should absolutely be grabbing the reference from the collision

[vocal condor]

Copy pasting will cause a lot of potential issues; which I'm assuming he's doing due to previous return type issue.

[snow willow]

nothing else makes sense for a projectile hitting a target

[hollow stratus]

actually what you should do is just put the damageamount in the bullet code

and do

other.damageAmount

instead of having a separate bulletscript thing

[strange cove]

im confused ill just figure it out tmrw

[hollow stratus]

lol good luck

[full light]

Hi I wanted to ask how I could detect objects in 2D (Im making an endless runner and I want to make it so that there is a chance to spawn powerups in empty lanes)

[vocal condor]

Cross post from #💻┃code-beginner

[hollow crown]

Please post questions in one channel at a time

[full light]

Ok sry

[glad wagon]

hi would anyone be able to help me? my aim is to have triangle prefabs (enemies) spawn just outside the "screen" and as they spawn they would move across the screen. So if they spawn on the right they must leave on the opposite side that being the left (vice versa) An approach i have thought about is; 1. Identify the area the enemies can spawn from (probably need to know screen size) 2. Instantiate the prefab 3. Move the prefab

[jolly narwhal]

Sounds like a good approach, go for it

[glad wagon]

thanks the only thing is i have a rough understanding on how to do steps 2 & 3 im just not quite sure how to go about my 1st step and since its 2D

[vagrant nexus]

you can turn a screen position into a world position by using yourCam.ScreenToWorldPoint(0, 0); // would be the bottom left of the screen in worldspace and yourCam.ScreenToWorldPoint(Screen.width, Screen.height); // would be the top right of the screen in worldspace, where "yourCam" is whatever reference you have to the camera

you could then use these two points to calculate the X positions of the left and right spawn, as well as the Y range they are allowed to spawn at

[placid briar]

im trying to make a 2d shooter game and i want to make the character to be able to shoot while running
but these are 2 diff animations
how do i go about it
?
is there like a spine for 2d characters

[glad wagon]

ohh ok thanks, would i also be able to do something like this? i used this code to set the boundaries of the screen for my player object so that it couldnt go outside it ```cs
private float minX, maxX, minY, maxY;
private float playerRadius;

// Start is called before the first frame update
void Start()
{
    float camDistance = Vector3.Distance (transform.position, Camera.main.transform.position);
    Vector2 bottomCorner = Camera.main.ViewportToWorldPoint(new Vector3(0, 0, camDistance));
    Vector2 topCorner = Camera.main.ViewportToWorldPoint(new Vector3(1, 1, camDistance));
    
    CircleCollider2D playerCollider = GetComponent<CircleCollider2D>();
    playerRadius = playerCollider.bounds.extents.x;

    minX = bottomCorner.x + playerRadius;
    maxX = topCorner.x - playerRadius;
    minY = bottomCorner.y + playerRadius;
    maxY = topCorner.y - playerRadius;
}

void Update()
{
// current position
Vector3 pos = transform.position;

    // horizontal constraint
    if (pos.x < minX) pos.x = minX; 
    if (pos.x > maxX) pos.x = maxX;

    // vertical contraint
    if (pos.y < minY) pos.y = minY;
    if (pos.y > maxY) pos.y = maxY;

    // update position
    transform.position = pos;

}```

[vagrant nexus]

yes you could easily reuse a lot of this code, its basically the same logic

you just take the corner positions, grab their X value, and thats the left and right of the screen

so you could just subtract or add some to that X value to make them spawn a little offscreen

[vagrant nexus]

depends... is this a hand-animated 2d game? or are you using skeletal bones. Or are you asking if 2D rigging exist? because it does

there should be a 2D rigging package in the package manager that you can import, but it takes quite a bit of setup and decent animating skills to really get the hang of

there are some tutorials online

if it's hand animated at the moment though, there would be no real way to do it without making a new animation that has both attacking and running hand-animated as a new animation

[prisma ocean]

I want to implement a construction mechanic where if you hold the button down on a tile then it "constructs" it, similar to the mechanic in space engineers. Is there a way to apply a prefab to a generated tile that isn't a ruletile during runtime or should I look at making a "tile" class and an instance for every tile, that could then be accessed from a dictionary based on where I'm clicking?

[visual shell]

        float rotZ = Mathf.Atan2(difference.y, difference.x) * Mathf.Rad2Deg;
        
        
        
        transform.rotation = Quaternion.Euler(0f, 0f, rotZ + offset);```
how can i stop the revolver from going all the way back like this? I want it to flip and be right side up when it passes over the head

[vagrant nexus]

if the rotZ + offset is over a certain amount, you flip the spriterenderer on the Y

as in, you use the FlipY property

it might just be rotZ, I dont really know what your offset var represents

[visual shell]

offset is just in case the sprite doesnt line up

it doesnt do much

[vagrant nexus]

alright, well what I said still applies, just without the + offset

[visual shell]

sth like this?

[vagrant nexus]

well it would be like

renderer.flipY = rotZ > 90f || rotZ < -90f;

I dont know if those values would work though, not sure

[visual shell]

i tested them, they should work

[vagrant nexus]

then go for it

[visual shell]

ight lets see

[vagrant nexus]

but the thing is that

you might be missing a negative sign

because if its greater than 90 OR less than 90, thats basically always true unless its exactly 90

[visual shell]

oh yeah sorry i missed the negative

it works like a charm though

thanks m8

[vagrant nexus]

alright sweet!

np

[dusky wagon]

Can someone help me figure out a concept for a rail? I have a rail component that has two arrays of transforms. One if the object is coming from the forward direction, and one if it is coming from the backwards direction. When an object hits the rail, I want it to follow the rail, depending on where it landed and which direction it is heading. My main problem is to figure out at which transform in the array it should continue. My idea was to add a direction parameter as wheel as an index in the array to the array, but I am not sure, how to figure out which transform is the next one that the object should travel to

Here is a rail as an example. The yellow things are its transforms in the array and the white thing is the rail itself

[chrome grove]

How do you guys handle shadows? If I make them transparent, I BELIEVE the left will happen, but obviously, the right would be preferred.

[dapper zinc]

Hey Folks, i try to create a puddle from a huge rain drop on a floor in 2D Space. The puddle is the sub emitter of the raindrop particle system. The problem is, that the puddle appears above the collision ( on the centerpoint of the drop). I dont use a shape on the sub emitter. Is there any good way make the puddle appear on the intersection of the collision ?

[dusky wagon]

Was I clear enough with my question here?

[mossy fossil]

i dont understand technical stuff much but what about having all of the shadows on one layer, render them there without being transparent on (so you end up with right) and then change the opacity of the shadow layer??

[fleet knot]

Hello Community ,i want to ask Something again how to ignore game object parent transform rotation?, or just make Child object transform always in 0,especially Z axis

Thanks before

[turbid heart]

Theres a few results if you google it

[strange cove]

what is the better way of doing movement instead of transform.translate?

[turbid heart]

there isnt really a "better" way. Just different ways of movement. physics based or not
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNtOcDryKv4

[strange cove]

i just wanna make it so the player doesnt slightly go in to a wall when moveing against it and still be able to jump with a way

[turbid heart]

watch the vid. it'll explain it

you'll need physics based movement if you want your player to respect colliders

[strange cove]

i tried moveposition but it messed with the velocity

[fleet knot]

Sadly, its not work

[finite garden]

If I change the position of an object emitting a trail, will the trail lead from it's old location to new location?

[turbid heart]

you should probably test it. That's rather specific

[finite garden]

I'm changing my bullets from projectiles to raytracing and wanted to keep the "tracer" effect

so my plan is to instantiate the tracer object at the gun barrel and then just move it to hit.point

[turbid heart]

you mean.. raycasting?

[finite garden]

yeah, i'm half asleep right now. don't mind me

[turbid heart]

again, you should probably test that yourself since you have the means to do so pretty much set up already

it's a bit too specific for someone to have the answer to right off the bat. unless you wait a bit

[finite garden]

I'll give it a test, was hoping someone might have known already but no worries :3 i have it all set up on my end

[subtle vessel]

yep, that's how you do it. The bullet object should just be aesthetic -- no functionality attached to it.

[finite garden]

well, originally i wanted projectiles but it proved to be impractical for both the players, and for balance

[subtle vessel]

hitscan weapons are fine

if that works better for your game

[finite garden]

i thought it would, but it doesn't. The type of game it is vs the projectile system makes the gameplay stale when someone outguns you because their projectiles move faster

once taking into consideration the firerate of certain guns and the damage they deal over range, it makes no sense to me to keep a projectile system

[vocal condor]

Cross posting is against #📖┃code-of-conduct. We know you'll receive faster support but it's not acceptable and cause folks to respond/answer already answered questions.

[placid briar]

ok

[frank wedge]

hey quick question, is there a good way to trigger Invoke() with a keyframe instead of a time?

I'm trying to sync up an attack sweeping animation with a hit detector

[turbid heart]

animation events

[frank wedge]

ah i've never actually used those before

i'm really new to unity

[turbid heart]

well, it sounds like it's exactly what you're looking for 🙂

[frank wedge]

ye it is, how does one use it?

[turbid heart]

https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/script-AnimationWindowEvent.html

[frank wedge]

pog thx

omg it was so easy

i love unity

here i was trying to calculate the exact number of frames between point a and point b

[lunar quiver]

what can i use for simple movment, no jumping. just up down left right

[turbid heart]

2 simple parts. Detect input. Move object

[lunar quiver]

heres the thing, i dont know how to code

[turbid heart]

#💻┃code-beginner message

[lunar quiver]

i have this code just to move a circle sprite, but when i use wasd it wont move, can anyone help?

[compact knoll]

1. Is the script attached to the sprite object with a rigidbody2d also attached?
2. Did you constrain the X and Y positions on the rigidbody2d?
3. do you have any errors?
4. Make sure to properly set up your IDE using the steps in #854851968446365696 so it will correctly highlight errors in your script

[lunar quiver]

so i thought i added the script to it already

turns out i didnt

but when i try to add it

it says "cannot add script because script class couldnt be found"

[compact knoll]

make sure the file name and the class name are exactly the same, it is case sensitive. make sure there are also no errors in your console

[lunar quiver]

so my sprite is labeled as "Player" and the script is called "PlayerMovment"

i have no idea where to find script class

[compact knoll]

your class is named movement2D

[lunar quiver]

so do i rename it that?

[compact knoll]

either rename that to the same name as the script file or rename the file to movement2D

[lunar quiver]

wait wait wait, file? what file?

[compact knoll]

the script, it is a file on your computer. it has a name that you said is PlayerMovment

[lunar quiver]

so do i rename it in unity or do i have to go into the file?

[compact knoll]

whichever is easier for you because renaming it in unity is renaming the file

[lunar quiver]

ok

thanks it works now

sorry if i was a bother, i havent used the program in years

[compact knoll]

no worries. i do recommend maybe brushing up on C# using the tutorials linked in the pins of #💻┃code-beginner
those tutorials should go over what each part of the script is and how to spot common syntax errors.
also make sure you set up your IDE using the steps linked in #854851968446365696

[lunar quiver]

oh now i have a new problem

so still wasd doesnt work

even after all that

[lapis sundial]

I want make button to open another scene, but there error, what i make worng

[lunar quiver]

my sprite wont move

[compact knoll]

did you make sure to drag the text object into the "moneyText" field in the inspector?

also, set up your IDE using the steps in #854851968446365696

[compact knoll]

any errors in the console? gonna need more info than it won't move

[lunar quiver]

no errors

[compact knoll]

can you show a screenshot of your rigidbody2d settings on the sprite object?

[turbid heart]

Oi. Don’t crosspost #📖┃code-of-conduct

[lunar quiver]

sure

[lapis sundial]

Ok

[lapis sundial]

Sorry

[compact knoll]

uncheck the x and y boxes in the constraints. those are literally freezing the position on that axis

[lunar quiver]

right

there we go

thank you guys for all your help

[lunar quiver]

what is a script i can use for my camera to follow my sprite?

[ancient path]

cinemachine

[lunar quiver]

i tried that, but it wont show up

nevermind

so cinemachine is not what i need

it like pulls on my sprite

like rubber

it wont let me go anywhere

[compact knoll]

cinemachine is exactly what you want unless you want to write your own script for camera movement. You can set the sprite object as the follow target for the vcam. You can modify the body properties to get the follow effect that you prefer

[lunar quiver]

then how do i fix my sprite not being able to move a far distance?

[compact knoll]

are you certain the sprite is being stopped by the cinemachine camera?

[lunar quiver]

waitr

im so confused

i have it set to follow player

but it wont

i just want to do a script

i hate cinemachine

[compact knoll]

i think you may be confusing the soft zone for it not following/doing what you want. change the soft zone width and height to 0 and it will always have your player centered in the camera

[lunar quiver]

where is softzone?

[compact knoll]

in the body settings for the vcam

[lunar quiver]

nope

doesnt work

[compact knoll]

you need to be much more specific than just "doesn't work"

[lunar quiver]

so i have a cube just off screen

if the cam follows the sprite

then it should show the cube

but everytime i move

i know for a fact my camera isnt following the sprite because the cube never shows up

[compact knoll]

if you manually move the camera in the editor, does it show the cube in game view? because it may not actually be able to see it if it does not

[lunar quiver]

ive move the cube

and in game view it shows up

will it be easier if i just show my screen?

[compact knoll]

a screenshot or something that shows what is happening would probably help clear this up

[lunar quiver]

i can prob do a video

would that help?

[ancient path]

yes

[lunar quiver]

sorry i cant do a mp4

[ancient path]

you can just change the file type manually

[lunar quiver]

really?

[ancient path]

yes

[lunar quiver]

wait

[ancient path]

it doesnt corrupt these files

[knotty barn]

@lunar quiver If you are in OBS, there's a remux feature to change it to mp4

[lunar quiver]

ok

ill be right back

[compact knoll]

your video shows that your camera is clearly not following the player so it just isn't set up right

[lunar quiver]

ok

cani have help setting it up right?

[ancient path]

yes

thats whats this server is for

[lunar quiver]

ok

[compact knoll]

show your vcam settings and your main camera settings

[lunar quiver]

my vcam settings

my camera settings

[compact knoll]

your main camera doesn't have the cinemachinebrain on it and it looks like you are using a 3d vcam

[lunar quiver]

well i clicked 2d

[compact knoll]

remove the vcam from your scene then right click your hierarchy and go to Cinemachine > 2D Camera. it will add the cinemachine vcam to the scene and should automatically add the brain to the main camera

[lunar quiver]

oh wait

my bad

cinemachinebrain is on my main camera

i just didnt get it

into frame

[compact knoll]

you sure about that? also the camera you showed a screenshot of isn't even tagged as MainCamera

[lunar quiver]

oh yeah

i was in a panic and accidentally deleted main camera so i had to put a new one

uh