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[civic cave]

okay

do I add collision to the elevator?

[ancient path]

nope

[civic cave]

the player just fall through it

[ancient path]

parent the player

[civic cave]

how?

[ancient path]

and make it not fall

[civic cave]

how do I do that? I've heard the term before but I can't recall it

[ancient path]

transform.setparent

[civic cave]

in the script?

[ancient path]

yes

[civic cave]

do I just put it anywhere?

[ancient path]

when the player goes into the elevator

[civic cave]

I tried but I think Idk how to do it right

pretty sure I coded it wrong tbh

[ancient path]

k

send code

[civic cave]

how did you do this box to send the code?

[ancient path]

you use this `

[civic cave]

._.

[ancient path]

its called a backslash

three to start
three to end

[civic cave]

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

public class FinalElevator : MonoBehaviour

{
    Rigidbody2D rb;
    public float speed;
    float horizontal, vertical;
    Vector2 direction;
    public GameObject child;
    public Transform parent;
    
    public void Papai(Transform GameObject)
    {
        child.transform.SetParent(GameObject);

    }

    private void Start()
    {
        rb = GetComponent<Rigidbody2D>();
    }
    private void Update()
    {
        direction.x = Input.GetAxisRaw("Horizontal");
        direction.y = Input.GetAxisRaw("Vertical");
    }
    private void FixedUpdate()
    {
        rb.AddForce(direction * speed * rb.mass);
    }
}

[ancient path]

you forgot the cs

[civic cave]

oof

[ancient path]

well if you dont want to move horizontally

use in AddForce

Vector2.up * vertical

and erase any other related with horizontal

and instead of setting direction.y

use a new float called vertical

want me to do it?

[civic cave]

please

[ancient path]

 Rigidbody2D rb;
    public float speed;
    float vertical;
    public GameObject child;
    public Transform parent;
    
    public void Papai(Transform GameObject)
    {
        child.transform.SetParent(GameObject);
    }

    private void Start()
    {
        rb = GetComponent<Rigidbody2D>();
        child.transform.SetParent(transform);
    }
    private void Update()
    {
        vertical = Input.GetAxisRaw("Vertical");
    }
    private void FixedUpdate()
    {
        rb.AddForce(Vector2.up * rb.mass * vertical);
    }

and i just changed to set the player as child from the start

try this

[civic cave]

alright

the elevator moves now up and down

but the player falls through it

cuz there's no collision

[ancient path]

Desactívate gravity

In the player

And I recommend doing an animation where the player enter the elevator or some other way to have the player be on the elevator floor

[civic cave]

hmmm

[ancient path]

The animation can come later

[civic cave]

thanks for your help! I managed to make it work with the collision :3

btw could you also teach me the snappy way too?

[spare coyote]

guys i have problem that i cant solve, i want to instantiate prefab as parent of canvas but it scales too small, if i instantiate it outside of canvas it's in natural size. Why canvas scale it to the point its only a dot?

dude sometimes programming seems like quantum physics, 1 word makes me search and google for almost 24 hours with no sleep, 1 f...ing word

[abstract olive]

What is the thing you're instantiating as a child?

[spare coyote]

i found problem

´´´_instance.transform.SetParent(GameObject.FindGameObjectWithTag("Canvas").transform, true);´´´

fk i forgot how to link to code

when i set true to false it gives me prefab almost size as dot

when it's true everything is fine

[snow willow]

sounds like a scale problem

[bronze anvil]

If we rescale the texture2D, we have to reslice it and recreate the animation. Is there any way to do avoid this?

One more question regarding Sprite Atlas, when creating animations, do we have to reference the texture from the Sprite Atlas or it is okay to reference the original Texture2D that's inclued in the Sprite Atlas? Would using Sprite Atlas help in reducing the RAM used? The game is 2D and 4k so we are trying to optimize it.

[bronze anvil]

Also, the advice is to keep the textures in 4k and let the Unity rescale depending on the resolution, but the memory consumption is much higher even though the resolution is 1080p compared to using 1080p textures. Is there any way to make that the Unity choose different textures depending on which resolution is set?

[knotty adder]

How would one have a kinda circular detection radius for other gameobjects that get close to it? Ive got a player in the center with a circle around it, and I want it to be able to tell which is closest to the center when in the big circle

[turbid heart]

if you have a reference to those gameobjects when they enter the radius, you could use Vector3.Distance to check their distance?

[knotty adder]

Oh youre right... my bad 🤣

[bright condor]

How do I change the position of a tile?

I can change the offset when selecting a tile in the editor but idk how to do it in script

[cold sundial]

Anyone ever had an issue with using ScreenToWorldPoint using the Pixel Pefect Camera?

[compact knoll]

Depends on what kind of problem you are referring to

[cold sundial]

Have an issue with its returning different data with it being on or off.

Best explanation I have at the problem is I capture mouse position, add the z offset and I get different WorldPoints depending on if its active or not. https://i.imgur.com/jX2arBZ.gif

[ancient path]

i googled your problem

haven't found any answers

what about using 2 cameras?

normal and pixel

and use the screentoworldpoint in the normal?

[cold sundial]

I very well could do that, just seems over kill but if its an overall bug I'd like to get it reported as well.

Just trying to make sure I'm not an idiot as well. Lol

Specially considering I haven't found anything in regards this particular issue.

I guess I'll roll with the 2nd camera, wasn't even something I thought about appreciate the idea.

[ancient path]

sure

i guess you could enable and disable it or have it display on another channel so no rendering is done

[exotic cradle]

So let's say I'm working on UI of different screen sizes. Here I have 2 screenshots of the same game but with different screen sizes.

When I run the game on Unity without maximizing, these 'Mana Orbs' are spaced out nicely. But when I maximize the screen and run again, they're too compact. I am currently using transform.position to move each descending mana orb downward.

Is there a unity trick to fixing this problem? Besides making a bunch of empty game objects to act as position holders?

[abstract olive]

Seems like something you'd want to use the UI system for?

Rather than world objects you're spacing manually. But if that was a requirement, then I personally would put empty holders you child things to.

[exotic cradle]

So there's no trick like transform.localScale for this? I noticed that scales objects fine regardless of screen size.

Unless that's what you were talking about with 'the UI system'

[abstract olive]

No, the UI is made in such a way that you can build it for any screen resolution with proper setup/anchoring. It has components such as vertical layout groups as well which will automatically keep things in a specific order with spacing.

[marble badger]

I have a problem. Let's say i have an object at position (0, 0) and when pressed the button E i want it to move to position (5, 0). Not teleport but transition to this new position. And it will have a speed variable that i can set. The object will not go beyond the target position in other words when it reaches it's target position it will stop. The transition will have to be constant.
How do i go about implementing this

Note that the object is physics based with collider

[ancient path]

well

there's plenty of methods for movement

in a physics way it depends

you can use lerp if you don't use physics
or move towards

[marble badger]

with movetowards how do i set speed

[ancient path]

you can also just set the velocity to 0 when it reaches the destination

or constraint it

[marble badger]

with movetowards how do i set speed

[ancient path]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Vector3.MoveTowards.html

in the 3 argument passed

[marble badger]

checking it out

ok it worked. But i did not understand the logic behind it

[ancient path]

what part

[marble badger]

the third parameter is maxDistanceDelta as in the object will not go beyond this distance. but how did we turn it into speed

[ancient path]

ok

speed

is distance traveled in a certain time

everytime you call the method

is the certain time (multiplied by deltatime for independent frames)

the speed is how much distance it will travel when its called

if you have a speed of one

how many seconds will it take to go to

5, 0, 0 position?

(test it and come back)

[marble badger]

on it

5

5s

[ancient path]

so the speed is

1 meter per second

[marble badger]

yes

[ancient path]

meter as unity unit measurement

[marble badger]

yep

[ancient path]

well there you have it

[marble badger]

i see

multiply the speed variable with time.deltatime. For example speed is 10 then you get 10 meter per second

[ancient path]

yes

[marble badger]

and since the maxDistanceDelta parameter decides the max limit the object will travel if i put the calculated variable there then it will not overshoot and give that constant moving.

[ancient path]

i think so

@marble badger keep in mind this

[polar magnet]

how do i make it so that my player jumps and not teleports really fast to a location above them and then falls again? in the tutorials the player jumps realistically but in my project not. pls help

[marble badger]

thanks i will keep that in mind. and thanks for the help

[ancient path]

np

gl

[ancient path]

how are you doing it?

[polar magnet]

ill send the code in a minute

https://pastebin.com/P47LWSLJ thats the jump part

[ancient path]

i would recommend to use

AddForce

or do rb.velocity +=

[marble badger]

i do it like this:
rb2d.velocity = new Vector2(rb2d.velocity.x, jumpVelocity);

when pressed jump and on ground

[ancient path]

also this

[polar magnet]

now i have it like you: oid Jump() { if (Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.Space) && isJumping == false) { player.velocity = new Vector2(player.velocity.x, jumpStrenght); isJumping = true; } }

but dont work either

the player just teleports in the air and not jumps

[marble badger]

does the player have rigidbody attached

[polar magnet]

yes

gravity is set to 20

[ancient path]

can you send a screenshot of it

[polar magnet]

of rigidbody?

[ancient path]

yes

[ancient path]

ok

what about using AddForce

and lowering gravity scale

to 1

[polar magnet]

ill try that

    {
        if (Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.Space) && isJumping == false)
        {
            player.AddForce(new Vector2(player.velocity.x, jumpStrenght));
            isJumping = true;
        }
    }``` you mean like this?

[ancient path]

close

add force is similar to adding velocity += other

so just do

Vector2.up * Jumpstrenght

[polar magnet]

the jump is still way too fast

[ancient path]

ok

is the jump being called in fixedupdate?

is your game doing many things?

is your pc good? or busy?

did you change the strength of jump?

[polar magnet]

yes its called in fixedupdate

[polar magnet]

no just movement and jump

[ancient path]

void Jump()
    {
        if (Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.Space) && isJumping == false)
        {
            player.AddForce(Vector2.up * jumpStrenght), ForceMode2D.Impulse);
            isJumping = true;
        }
    }

[polar magnet]

no

[polar magnet]

i need to change the strength of jump to at least 5000 because otherwise the player just jumps a pixel or so

[ancient path]

well

did you lower

the gravity?

[polar magnet]

yes i lowered the gravity to 1

[ancient path]

hmm

try doing it on an empty scene

create a new scene
and put rigidbody and this movement script and test

[polar magnet]

okay

ill do that tomorrow i need to go to bed cause its late and i cant figure it out here

[spare coyote]

can someone help with this warning

[unborn sundial]

exactly what it says

Components (which inherit from MonoBehaviour) can only be created as part of a GameObject, not directly using new

[spare coyote]

but this script is atached to an object

[unborn sundial]

show the line that is causing the error

looks like its GameController.cs line 52

[spare coyote]

line 52 is Requestbanner()

this function and this is default from admob

[unborn sundial]

which line is 52 exactly?

[spare coyote]

line 52 is just calling this function in Awake()

[unborn sundial]

show me that

and surrounding code

[spare coyote]

requestbanner is 52

[unborn sundial]

this may actually be a problem with the ads library you're using

[spare coyote]

i dont see problem anywhere that's the biggest problem everything is default from google

the only thing is library as u say

[unborn sundial]

can you show the full stack trace? The bottom part here is cut off:
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/763500535554375750/897970461097488414/Screenshot_1545.png

the stuff above AdRequest might be relevant

https://github.com/googleads/googleads-mobile-unity/issues/1585

[unborn sundial]

yea it's the same as that issue on github

[spare coyote]

oh then it's their bug

thanks for finding this

i mean it's only warning nothing happens but it's iritating

[somber wyvern]

When I call this code in my fixed update it frequently doesn't register input. But it's physics movement so I need to call it there right? How do I fix this?

[somber wyvern]

solved it

[arctic iris]

Tried some options of checking distance between 2 GameObjects and it always returning 0...
Any possible solution?

[ancient path]

how are you doing it?

[arctic iris]

rn tried this:

Vector3 Distance_ = objectToFollow.position + transform.position;
            float distanceGap = Distance_.sqrMagnitude;
            if(distanceGap < closeDistance * closeDistance)
            {
                Debug.Log("Disconnected: " + Distance_);
            }

[ancient path]

you can just do

float Distance = Vector2.Distance(objectToFollow.position, transform.position);

unity does the substraction and gets the magnitude in that method

[arctic iris]

Worked! thank you!

[ancient path]

np

[dire zealot]

hey everyone, im not sure where to put this question but im having trouble applying custom pivot points for 2d tilesets. I don't have an issue with doing this with gameobjs because I can just apply as shown

but with tilesets, I try to apply pivot points using the sprite editor, but it doesnt seem to do the trick

this is how i try to apply pivot using the sprite editor

[covert whale]

https://forum.unity.com/threads/tilemap-palette-doesnt-work-well-with-non-center-pivot-sprites.516196/
in this thread if you scroll down to the post by 'huulong' there's an answer

[dire zealot]

thank you!

[keen siren]

I'm importing tilemaps with Unity for the first time using SuperTiled2Unity. This seems ok. I want to be able to add properties to each tile on a layer and later access these properties but Unity's documentation seems aimed at specifically scripting tilemaps.

To be more accurate I'd like to assign tile directions as an unsigned char by researching each tile for it's exits to adjacent tiles.

0000 0001 = north 0000 0010 = northeast 0000 0100 = east ...

1. Should I be using SuperTiled2Unity as I'm not using Tiled Map Editor's properties or even tile objects?
2. Is there a useful tutorial about working with my tilemaps as above?

[hollow crown]

For the "unsigned char" part specifically, what you're looking for is an enum that uses an underlying type of byte

I have an overview of bitmasks here https://help.vertx.xyz/?page=info/bitmasks

[keen siren]

Thanks for your link @hollow crown

byte not unsigned char

Where do I assign the code in the editor? I have to say I'm lost

Just attach the script on the tile layer?

[hollow crown]

I'm not sure how to answer that part of your question, sorry, all I'm saying is that C#'s unsigned char is byte, and using enum allows you to easily have named integral values like my Days example. You can make extension methods for it, Unity supports enum serialisation and you can set enum variables in the inspector using a dropdown. But yeah, not sure about the rest of the question

[keen siren]

ok, thanks

[wide ginkgo]

If you're talking about Unity tilemap here there's no built-in way to give the tilemap unique per-tile instance data. A common workaround is to make a script attached to the tilemap and have that script store per-tile data.

[keen siren]

Right. That makes it clearer. But you can use Unity functions to check tiles by Transform.

[little loom]

Still a bit stuck from yesterday. Managed to do a test part of adding the player tag to a test reference. Question is how do I do the same for a transform?

Basically; making 'None (Transform)' into 'Player' gameObject

[turbid heart]

any gameobject has a .transform property

get a reference to your player, then do .transform

or, just drag the object into the inspector

you might benefit from this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymq2AUckws0

[little loom]

Oh this is for a spawner

Dragging the object to the reference at the prefab doesn't work. Only the ones directly spawned from the prefab has the AI, the ones at the spawner doesn't

[turbid heart]

ah, yeah. you can't assign scene references to a prefab.

i'm confused on what your question is though

you want to assign to your Player transform variable?

[little loom]

My question is that how do I have the enemy that spawns from the spawner get the player reference in the transform

[turbid heart]

"get the player reference in the transform" this bit I dont understand, but you can have your spawner have a reference to your player

then have it pass in the reference to your enemy through a method that you call when you instantiate the enemy

[little loom]

Like this? When I start the play button, 'Object to Find' is classified as the Player.

[wide ginkgo]

So "ObjectToFind" is a reference to a GameObject public GameObject objectToFind. If you want to grab any component from a GameObject you can use GetComponent<TYPE>() So for instance if you wanted to grab the Enemy Spawner component from "objectToFind" you could do:
enemySpawnerVariable = objectToFind.GetComponent<EnemySpawner>() However since all GameObjects are guaranteed to contain a transform component you can get this simply by doing yourGameObject.transform. In your case you would do player = objectToFind.transform; Keep in mind you have to do it after the Find.

[little loom]

Got it to work 👍

The Enemy spawns from the EnemySpawner, and is now doing the AI script I gave it

thx

[still tendon]

using UnityEngine;
using UnityEngine.UI;

public class TextScript : MonoBehaviour
{
    Text val;
    public Transform spawnPos;
    public GameObject Square;
    private Vector3 scaleChange;
    float thickness;
    int n = 0;
    // Start is called before the first frame update
    void Start()
    {
        val = GetComponent<Text> ();
        thickness = Square.transform.localScale.x;
    }

    // Update is called once per frame
    public void textUpdate(float value)
    {
        n = Mathf.RoundToInt(value);
        val.text = "number of elements : " +   
Mathf.RoundToInt(value);
        Instantiate(Square, new Vector3(n * 0.5F - 9, 0, 0), Quaternion.identity);
        scaleChange = new Vector3(thickness, Random.Range(0, 7.0F), 1f);
        Square.transform.localScale = scaleChange;

    }
}

Hello, I am trying to generate squares in a 2d environment which I obviously managed to do. However, when I randomly assign heights to each square, they get out of sync, i.e., they are not on the same line on the X axis.

[twin terrace]

change the Y position by half of height

[still tendon]

@twin terrace thanks it works ! easy fix :)!

[still tendon]

hello guys I want to swap two squares.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bz2OIW3jMvA

Like this

graphically, it feels to fast, can I slow down the swapping somewhat?

[surreal panther]

You could use Mathf.Lerp

Just like this

[turbid heart]

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

[spiral solar]

question to mods/admins - if someone asks a question where a free asset-store asset would work for them is it a violation to point them to it if it's your own work.

[covert whale]

they might see it better in #531949462411804679

[spiral solar]

ah thanks

[spiral solar]

There's no built-in way but there's this free asset #502171717544968212 message

[mild pewter]

Why are my tilemap colliders this weird shape, and why can't I change them?

And why are they occluding OnMouesEnter for my gameobjects?

[compact knoll]

they use the sprite's custom physics shape which can be changed in the sprite editor

[soft blaze]

awfhg alright so!

i have this character right here that i animated in spine and imported to unity

however we're currently using a template that has a certain number of actions: walk, run, jump, fall, and idle

i'd like to be able to do a few things- like maybe be able to control the character's head, add a sneaking or crouching command and a command to turn on his lamp face, and some other actions but i'm not sure where to begin.

[mild pewter]

Hm, I changed the custom physic shape to a square, but when I applied I got a unity error and the colliders haven't changed

[subtle vessel]

Is the template an animation controller?

if so, looking up a tutorial on Unity's animation state machine seems like a decent place to start

[subtle vessel]

What's the error?

[subtle vessel]

oof... that looks like a bug

try restarting unity and see if it fixes it

[mild pewter]

Is there any performance benefit to making the collider a normal square instead of its current shape?

[mild pewter]

Oh, that worked. Lol

[soft blaze]

yes it is! i can grab a screenshot if youd like

[subtle vessel]

just go on youtube and look for a tutorial on animation in Unity. It'll explain what's going on there and how to add stuff to it.

[soft blaze]

ohh okay!

[mild pewter]

How do you prevent colliderA from blocking an OnMouseEnter on colliderB?

Like, how is the order layer of colliders determined? Where can you see it?

Presumably colliderB is underneath colliderA?

[still tendon]

Hi there, does anybody know a way to make it so that my camera pans a bit towards my mouse? It's a top down 2D game. I want it to have a sort of constraint that prevents the camera from panning too far

[compact knoll]

i recommend using cinemachine for something like that. it's super handy and can do much more than just that too

[twin terrace]

Get mouse position and offset camera position by it and some math equation

Or idk use cinemachine if you want but for me this seems simple enough to code manually

[dusky wagon]

I have a rail like the one shown in the picture for my game. Whenever an object on the rail comes from the left then it follows the three points from A to B to C. If it comes from the right direction its the same thing in reverse, so from C to B to A.

Now I want to make it so that if an object drops on the rail it snaps to it and starts moving on it. So if it comes from the yellow point and has velocity towards the right it will move from B to C, if it comes from the orange marker with velocity towards the right it will just go to C and the same thing in reverse if it was to have velocity towards the left

There will also be different types of rails, some of them are more complex (e.g. a curve) and it would be good if I dont have to hardcode it for all of the different pieces, but I have no idea how I could detect the thing shown in this message

[tawny hatch]

Hello guys I am attempting to destroy an unity gameObject which I managed to do. However, there are a set of clones after that that are not getting destroy

Is there a way to destroy the clones and not the actual game object ?

Here is a picture of the problem

Added some nice colours

[covert whale]

you'll need to get a reference to all the clones and destroy them

[tawny hatch]

Basically, I am using a slider to generate squares

[covert whale]

or you could set them all to one parent, and destroy that parent

[tawny hatch]

My goal is to destroy according to the how the slider dot move. So if I move it from 0 ->3 I want to generate 4 rectangles

but if I go back to 2,i.e., sliding from 3->2

I want to remove the 3th element, but can also add it back depending on the slider cursor.

[covert whale]

so you can have a list of the instantiated rectangles and destroy however many you need from that list

[tawny hatch]

https://pastebin.com/ffcUFFdK

I tried something list this

Does not work though

[covert whale]

squareList.Add(Square);

i assume Square is your prefab?

[tawny hatch]

yeah

[covert whale]

you haven't actually added the square you've instantiated

you've only added your prefab

[tawny hatch]

GameObject newGameObject = Instantiate(...); ?

[covert whale]

yes

then you add that to the list

[tawny hatch]

Ah I see

[covert whale]

and when you do
Destroy(squareList[squareIndex]);
you've only destroyed the game object, not removed it from the list

so you're going to have a null reference in the list

what you can do is do squareList.Remove(squareList[squareIndex]); and then destroy the object

oh wait you already have the index

so you can just do RemoveAt(squareIndex)

[tawny hatch]

cool :)!

[covert whale]

but you need a reference to know which square to destroy

so you can do Destroy then RemoveAt

[tawny hatch]

You mean destroy first

then remove from list?

[covert whale]

yep

[tawny hatch]

regarding the reference I have the square index and the value n that is the slider value

it varies from 0-35

[covert whale]

yeah so there's something about n and squareIndex

there's the chance that n can be smaller than squareIndex by more than one right?

[tawny hatch]

yeah

[covert whale]

so you'll need to remove two or more squares

currently you only remove one

[tawny hatch]

But I assume that my textUpdate function is getting called everytime the slider cursor move

[covert whale]

ah ok

[tawny hatch]

or can you jump from ex 0 to 5 and 5-0 etc?

[covert whale]

but you can still tap on the slider

it won't always be continuous

you don't need to drag the slider, if you click on a spot on the slider it'll jump to that

and it won't call value changed more than once

[tawny hatch]

I see

yeah then things will be **** up

[covert whale]

a solution to this could be to find the difference between squareIndex and n, and then do a backwards for loop to remove that many objects

[tawny hatch]

hmm, sounds good:)

Thanks for the discussion 🙂

[tawny hatch]

Hello guys got stuck on another problem

I am trying to swap my squares, for example pos 0 with 1

but I get this :

the pivot kind of gets moved in the Y-axis

I want the first square to get down in the Y-axis, and the second one go up in the Y-axis

My goal is to swap positions

between any square within the x-axis only

[covert whale]

what's your code?

[tawny hatch]

its quite simple

https://pastebin.pl/view/e08cc6eb

[covert whale]

it seems like you only want to change the x axis, so for that you can do
position = new Vector3(targetPosition.x, position.y, position.z)

[tawny hatch]

thanks again king moe you just saved me a lot of time 🙂

can I somehow affect the timing of the swap or is it something that is always instant in time

I was thinking of a moving swap

[covert whale]

if you want to transition between the two positions, you can do some sort of lerp with a coroutine
https://gamedevbeginner.com/the-right-way-to-lerp-in-unity-with-examples/
https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/Coroutines.html

[tawny hatch]

aha ok, great I read about it in google

[still tendon]

hey how can i make a rigidBody to add torque in order that the object look to the mouse?

[twin terrace]

have you googled?

[swift pebble]

Hey how can I make a character?

[still tendon]

yeah

ill i found its about rotating its transform

[lean estuary]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Rigidbody.AddRelativeTorque.html

[still tendon]

now i look like im stupid

thank you so much

haha

[lean estuary]

It's good to familiarize yourself with Rigidbody methods, there's a lot of good stuff there

[swift pebble]

Like how can I make character sprites

[still tendon]

what do you mean

[swift pebble]

Idk

[still tendon]

softwares?

[swift pebble]

I’m new to unity

[swift pebble]

Yes

What software should I use to make 2D character sprites

[still tendon]

i would recomend you using something like inskcape (vector graphics) or gimp (bitmap)

[swift pebble]

I have gimp

Ok

Thanks

[still tendon]

or using some assets until you learn to use unity

[swift pebble]

From the asset store?

[still tendon]

i get them from itch.io

[swift pebble]

O

[still tendon]

https://itch.io/game-assets/free

these are free assets

[still tendon]

but that is for a 3d rigidbody lol

whatever i solved tyyy

[dire zealot]

hey everyone, just a quick question, I was watching a couchFerret video, it seems when you use tile maps you cant use pivot point to sort by custom axis. I was wondering when should I use unity 2d tilemap compared to just creating a gameObj. In his example here, wouldn't this cause performance issues if the game were to get too big
https://youtu.be/UWhXS6iVsUM?t=594

[lean estuary]

Rifidbody2D has only one rotational axis and that one is covered by its AddTorque

[lean estuary]

TileMaps have optimizations to handle thousands of tiles. Which can be chunked further as well.

You can also layer them to have separate for collision maps, swap etc.

[dire zealot]

Thank you! i'll look into that

[random hinge]

Depends, if you want to do normal frame by frame animation go to photoshop or some Thing that but If you want to do pixel art I would suggest getting aseprite or Gimp if you don’t have the money for it

[lost obsidian]

Hello, I have a topdown game with tiles, I'm trying to figure out the best way to find out which tiles are covered by a sprite/shape, e.g a big circle moving over the tiles I want to find out which ones are partially and fully covered/touched by the circle. I'm not sure what to google for here, could someone point me in the right direction?

[austere osprey]

Well your tiles surely have a Tilemap collider. So basically it is not possible to track which of the tile overlaps with the moving circle. I think the best aproach would be creating a grid collider, where each cell has its own collisionbody. That way, you can check Collision with your cirlce

Not sure about your usecase though. It might also be a very terrible solution.

[lost obsidian]

Thanks for your reply! Essentially I will want to check the type of the tile, and if it meets the condition it will replace the tile sprite. I've already written a function where if I return the position of the tile it will do the check, and the replacement if valid. So now I just need to figure out how to the positions of everything under the sprite. I was actually thinking to check collision, it seems like the easiest approach

[covert whale]

the first answer to this might help
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/64976889/detect-which-tilemap-cells-have-collided-with-a-collider2d-in-unity

[lost obsidian]

Looks like exactly the right thing, cheers!

[little loom]

Almost done with my project as far as coding goes. All I need to do is to figure out how to change to a "GameOver" screen whenever my character dies. I know how to change scenes based on button clicks but idk how to do it as a trigger. I tried setting it so that the scene changes when health reaches 0 or less, but that doesn't seem to work.

[turbid heart]

show your attempt?

[little loom]

The second one here is basically from Main Menu / Game Over scenes to Game scene

[turbid heart]

you never call Trigger anywhere

[covert whale]

what's calling Trigger

it's not a built in unity method

[turbid heart]

you probably want to do it when you take damage. not in Update. Otherwise it'll call LoadScene every frame that Health is <= 0

you never call playGame anywhere, unless you assigned it to a button

these are not like Start, or Update, that's called automatically by Unity

[covert whale]

when you call LoadScene in normal mode it'll unload any previous scenes anyway

in additive it won't so for that you want to make sure you're only calling it once

[little loom]

ok ok, so one at a time, what'd I need to call first? The SceneManager?

[turbid heart]

When do you want to check if Health is <= 0?

[little loom]

Instantaneous. Soon as it hits 0 or less, it switches to "Game Over"

[turbid heart]

yeah so where do you make Health go down?

[little loom]

Over here

[turbid heart]

well i can already see you have a Health <= 0 check there

[little loom]

oh ye, true

[turbid heart]

yeah, so which is it? EndGame, or Trigger?

also, you shouldn't rely on FindObjectOfType to get object references

you should watch this video to learn better ways
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymq2AUckws0

[little loom]

well, I'm not even sure why did I write Trigger there so

[turbid heart]

Find is slow, and if there is more than one object with that Type, you don't control which one you get

[little loom]

Oh ok, now apparently when I jump, it duplicated itself

huh

I figured out the scenes but now this bug came outta nowhere

thx btw

[little loom]

and nvm it fixed itself

[cedar verge]

hi, Im trying to get a prefab to animate but for some reason it just takes the first sprite from my spritesheet and doesnt animate any idea why this happends?

[austere osprey]

#💻┃code-beginner message

[spiral solar]

This is how I do it. The interfaces are in there because I use them to search for tiles which do a certain thing, in this case, accept collisions. https://paste.ofcode.org/7CJbeB43YndfXibApPt6Up

[lost obsidian]

cool, thanks!

[hybrid yoke]

Hey @spiral solar can you check out my question in AI?

[spiral solar]

Can you link to it?

[hybrid yoke]

#🤖┃ai-navigation message

@spiral solar

[storm coral]

How would I do an TransformPoint operation with only a vector2, and not an actual Transform

[still tendon]

Should I use [SerializeField]?

[fleet remnant]

if you have a private field and need to be able to drag in a refrence in the inspector, yes

[still tendon]

Is that more efficient than Find?

[fleet remnant]

if you dont have to find the objec at runtime, yes

sometimes u cant drag in a refrence before the game starts

[still tendon]

Oh I see, just do as much as you can before runtime.

[fleet remnant]

because the object is instantiated mid game

yeah

[still tendon]

Increases size but improves performanxe

[fleet remnant]

GameObject.Find in general is not recommended because you are writing hardcoded strings

that u can change later

and then code breaks

FindObjectByType is safer

[still tendon]

Strings?

Oh sorry I was asking about FindObjectOfType

[fleet remnant]

yeah ok

wasnt sure

[still tendon]

Which would still be slower

Than preruntime

But yeah I don't know why unity loves strings so much

[fleet remnant]

eh doesnt matter if you really get it once at the start of the game

but its just safer

because u know exactly what ur putting in

[still tendon]

Well with intellisense I just type 3 chars and hit tab

[fleet remnant]

aslong as there is only one object with that type in the scene, its fine

its just 1 extra line of code

[still tendon]

Only a few types would only be instantiated once

I suppose

[fleet remnant]

if there is a couple i would recommend making some sort of system to keep track of them
depends on the game really

[still tendon]

Yeah

[turbid heart]

Avoid any Find

If it’s something that can only be assigned during run time, say a reference on an instantiated object, then have the script that instantiates pass in the reference to the instantiated object

[still tendon]

And make that object a child of the script that instantiates it?

[turbid heart]

No, nothing to do with what i said. That’s more for organising stuff in your hierarchy

You can make any other object the parent of instantiated stuff

[still tendon]

So then you can't do anything before runtime for this

But you can have an empty variable waiting to be assigned to the instantiated object so you don't have to constantly find? Is that what you're saying?

[turbid heart]

Uh.. i guess? Yeah? Instantiate returns you the reference to the instantiated object. So something like
GameObject newClone = Instantiate(objectToClone);

Then you store newClone anywhere you want, or pass in references it needs through a method it has or something.

For example if you instantiated an Enemy that needs a reference to the player. Have your EnemySpawner hold a reference to the player, then call a method that your enemy has that takes in the player reference as a parameter and use it to assign to the variable that the enemy has to refer to the player.

Syntax might not be correct, typing on mobile

[still tendon]

Yes exactly yeah I get what you mean

I already do that

[turbid heart]

Hope that clears things up.

Oh great. I’m relieved. This is the third time recently that i explained something like this XD

[still tendon]

I'd say one of my bad practices is avoiding interfaces

Essentially, I just wait until I need to to refactor

[turbid heart]

Ah, it takes time. I know they’re useful, but i personally forget to use them too

[still tendon]

Feels pretty annoying to inherit an abstract class which inherits monobehavior and implements my interfaces, for an enemy that only takes a hundred lines to code

But I completely see the value of it at a larger scale

[turbid heart]

Haha, now clearly you’re not a beginner to programming. All the best

[still tendon]

Lol

You too. It's a journey that will never end, and I'm glad.

I don't want it to end

[little loom]

Trying to make a high score program, but the score that was saved are always some other number instead, all of which are divisions of 9

....for some reason

It gets numbers like 9, 18, 27 etc, and regardless of high the score is I got, it always end up as a division of 9

oh and here's what causes my score to increase, in case if it helps

[compact knoll]

couple things to note here:

1. score manager doesn't need to be a singleton. Use events instead if you don't want to get a reference manually
2. OnDestroy is called when the scene ends or game is quit, which means that any of those objects that are in the scene when you close it or whatever will also call that and therefore increase the score/highscore which could be what is causing your issue

[little loom]

Oh I think I just realised why my highscore isn't working, it's that it wasn't saving my score, but rather the number of enemies that are on the map

[compact knoll]

yes, that was what i was saying in point number 2

[little loom]

Yeah I fixed it by the player gaining points not because of the enemy dying but because of the bullet colliding with the enemy. That seems to fix it

thx

[compact knoll]

I mean that's definitely one way to do it. But if your enemy handled its own destruction, you could have just incremented the score there instead of OnDestroy (since like I said before OnDestroy is called when the scene ends)

I'm feeling bored and generous right now so if you want to post the code you've got for the enemy and your score manager in a paste site, I'll show you what i mean by modifying it

[brittle smelt]

Is there a function where it can track a position of a gameobject and determen wich side the tracked object is like in the red or green side?

[covert whale]

you can have trigger colliders for the red and green side and use OnTriggerStay or Enter
or you can use overlap collider

if it's not a specific area and you want to see if the object is on the left or right side of the other object, then you can do
if(square.position.x < point.x)
and that'd be true if the square was on the left of the point

[brittle smelt]

how do i fix this cause i cant use transform.position.x?

[covert whale]

is player of type Transform

if it's not then you need to do .transform.position

[brittle smelt]

it is

[covert whale]

then .position

like how you would access any other transform.position

[covert whale]

if you type tra does it auto complete to transform

[still tendon]

What do you mean you can't use it?

[strange kayak]

How would I go about having a sprite that circles around the player as the weapon and then I can attack from any direction without having to build inputs for up/down/L/R attacks? The weapon should follow the mouse cursor, I found some documentation for lookatcursor but have no idea where to get started..

I've come across this, not sure how to implement it though

public class WeaponRotate : MonoBehaviour
{
    // Point you want to have sword rotate around
    public Transform shoulder;
    // how far you want the sword to be from point
    public float armLength = 1f;
    void Start()
    {
        // if the sword is child object, this is the transform of the character (or shoulder)
        shoulder = transform.parent.transform;
    }
    void Update()
    {
        // Get the direction between the shoulder and mouse (aka the target position)
        Vector3 shoulderToMouseDir =
            Camera.main.ScreenToWorldPoint(Input.mousePosition) - shoulder.position;
        shoulderToMouseDir.z = 0; // zero z axis since we are using 2d
                                  // we normalize the new direction so you can make it the arm's length
                                  // then we add it to the shoulder's position
        transform.position = shoulder.position + (armLength * shoulderToMouseDir.normalized);
    }
}```

[still tendon]

Hello, I have a list of squares with width and heights. However, I dunno how I can access the specific height of a square in my c# code

Can anyone help me to find the correct way to get the square height (the square is 2d).

[sudden fox]

void shoot()
    {
        Vector3 playerpos = new Vector3(cam.ScreenToWorldPoint(Input.mousePosition).x, cam.ScreenToWorldPoint(Input.mousePosition).y, 0);
    Vector3 difference = playerpos - transform.position;
    float poopirotation = Mathf.Atan2(difference.x, -difference.y) * Mathf.Rad2Deg;
        float rotationZ = poopirotation - 90f;
        GameObject bulletins = Instantiate(Bullet,ShootingPoint.position,ShootingPoint.rotation);
        bulletins.GetComponent<Rigidbody2D>().AddForce(new Vector3(0, 0, rotationZ) * bulletSpeed);
        Destroy(bulletins,5);
    }
``` I am trying to shoot a bullet from the gun but the bullet leaves the gun with no force at all and drops on the ground. The bullet speed is not working (it is declared in the script).

[snow willow]

you are adding a 0,0 force to it

your Vector3 which might have a non-zero Z component will be automatically converted here to a Vector2 (the Z component is dropped off), and you have 0, 0 for x and y

so you're just adding 0 force

also for a one-off force like this you should use ForceMode2D.Impulse, or better yet for this kind of thing just set the velocity of the Rigidbody2D directly instead of using AddForce

[sudden fox]

ahhh gotcha, thanks for the help

[wheat dragon]

Hey there!!

so i was trying to create a timescale for death

in my 2d game

using UnityEngine;
using UnityEngine.UI;

public class PlayerScript : MonoBehaviour
{

public float JumpForce;
float score;

[SerializeField]
bool isGrounded = false;
bool isAlive = true;

Rigidbody2D RB;

public Text ScoreTxt;

private void Awake()
{
RB = GetComponent<Rigidbody2D>();
score = 0;
}


    // Update is called once per frame
    void Update()
    {
        if(Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.Space))
        {
            if(isGrounded == true)
            {
              RB.AddForce(Vector2.up * JumpForce);
              isGrounded = false;
            }
        }

        if(isAlive)
        {
          score += Time.deltaTime * 4;
          ScoreTxt.text = "SCORE : " + score.ToString("F");
        }
    }

   private void OnCollisionEnter2D(Collision2D collision)
  {
   if(collision.gameObject.CompareTag("ground"))
   {
     if(isGrounded == false)
     {
       isGrounded = true;
     }
   }

   if(collision.gameObject.CompareTag("spike"))
   {
     isAlive = false;
     Time.timescale = 0;
   }
   }
  }

this is my code

https://i.imgur.com/bRmSGZE.png

this is what it shows

[covert whale]

does the square have a collider? or is it just a sprite

[wheat dragon]

if somebody is free pls do consider helping me 🙂

[covert whale]

have you configured your ide?

[wheat dragon]

wym exactly??

[still tendon]

nope the object does not have any collider

[wheat dragon]

srry if im acting dumb cuz im new to unity..

[covert whale]

check #854851968446365696 for how to configure your ide

it should underline that error

[wheat dragon]

ohkk

lemme open through my vsc

[covert whale]

you can check sprite.bounds although it's not always accurate
https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Sprite-bounds.html

[wheat dragon]

no it doesnt seem to underline the err

[covert whale]

configure your ide then

[covert whale]

so do you want the sword to follow the mouse while keeping the same distance from the player

so rotating around

[wheat dragon]

wont this help

[strange kayak]

Yeah, so I'd like the sword to rotate around the player following mouse movement

with the hilt of the sword always facing the player

[covert whale]

it does but i can't give you the solution if you don't configure your ide

in the future it'll save you and others who want to help a lot of time

[wheat dragon]

i still am not sure about the ide config

[covert whale]

#854851968446365696 has a link for vs code

[wheat dragon]

which one manually or unity

[strange kayak]

unity is also throwing up a object reference error but I'm not sure what its telling me does/doesn't exist

[covert whale]

you said you had 'vsc' so i assume you click on the VS Code

[strange kayak]

RotatePoint = transform.parent.transform;

NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object
WeaponRotate.Start () (at Assets/Scripts/WeaponRotate.cs:15)

[wheat dragon]

ohk then

[covert whale]

does the transform have a parent?

the script that this is on

[wheat dragon]

ohk the c# extension is installing

[strange kayak]

That's cleared it... I unparented it when trying to figure out how to always have the hilt face the centre

[wheat dragon]

https://i.imgur.com/7E2fKuh.png

seems to be installed

https://i.imgur.com/2owepx9.png

[covert whale]

so do you have any code that you've implemented currently and how is it working/not working

[strange kayak]

I've implemented the below:

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

public class WeaponRotate : MonoBehaviour
{
    // Point you want to have sword rotate around
    public Transform RotatePoint;
    // how far you want the sword to be from point
    public float armLength = 2f;
    
    private void Start() =>
    
        // if the sword is child object, this is the transform of the character (or shoulder)
        RotatePoint = transform.parent.transform;
    
    void Update()
    {
        // Get the direction between the shoulder and mouse (aka the target position)
        Vector3 shoulderToMouseDir =
            Camera.main.ScreenToWorldPoint(Input.mousePosition) - RotatePoint.position;
        shoulderToMouseDir.z = 0; // zero z axis since we are using 2d
                                  // we normalize the new direction so you can make it the arm's length
                                  // then we add it to the shoulder's position
        transform.position = RotatePoint.position + (armLength * shoulderToMouseDir.normalized);
    }
}```

[wheat dragon]

nope

still not

[strange kayak]

I then created an empty object called RotatePoint and made the club it's child object, the script is on the club and the Rotatepoint is set as the RotatePoint variable reference

I did have the RotatePoint object set to the centre of the player sprite but for some reason it seems to move to the same transform as the club despite it being the child

https://gyazo.com/d5b031c378a4bdb6abf3880643f175b0

alright so I now have it rotating around the centre

how would I get it so that the tip of the weapon always faces the cursor?

[wheat dragon]

umm im still facing issues ;-;

[dawn umbra]

so is this like a help channel?

[wheat dragon]

yes

[covert whale]

you can use LookAt https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Transform.LookAt.html

[wheat dragon]

for 2d games

[dawn umbra]

alright i need help

i started with unity yesterday

i got this nasty ass error

[covert whale]

i don't use vs code, don't know how to configure it, make sure you've followed the link properly

[covert whale]

#854851968446365696 for how to post code

[wheat dragon]

i did i even downloaded the extention

https://i.imgur.com/aotdHGl.png

[covert whale]

have you set it as your external editor

[wheat dragon]

maybe

[dawn umbra]

https://hatebin.com/gkmbqsyqno

Ok so here it is

this is the error

i hope someone could help me

[covert whale]

do you want to do health == 0?

[dawn umbra]

i mean

im watching a course

health is equal to 100

thats like the max health

its kinda obv

[covert whale]

oh so you want >=

[dawn umbra]

for what

i just want to fix this error xD

[dawn umbra]

1

[covert whale]

you've done => which is basically assigning something

>= is comparison for if it's larger than or equal to

[dawn umbra]

yeah

i want it to check if the player is dead.

if health was below 0 i

[covert whale]

so you know comparisons in c#?

[dawn umbra]

yes

i do.

[covert whale]

then use the right one, because you've used => which is a lambda expression

[wheat dragon]

it seems something is wrong with my func

TIME

[dawn umbra]

im gonna like

kiss u

rn

no cap

[covert whale]

please don't

[dawn umbra]

thats so stupid

omg how did i not think of that

ty bro.

[covert whale]

you should do some c# tutorials to get the syntax down

[still tendon]

float height = squareList[j].GetComponent<Renderer>().bounds.extents.y; is this the correct way to get your height of a 2d object ?

[dawn umbra]

im watching a course

xD

[covert whale]

alright good luck

[dawn umbra]

blackthornpod

ty 😄

[strange kayak]

so something like

public Transform target;
    void Update()
    {
        // Rotate the camera every frame so it keeps looking at the target
        transform.LookAt(Cursor);
}```

[wheat dragon]

anybody still there??

[dawn umbra]

dang roblox community is way more toxic than this

[strange kayak]

then add that to the club?

[dawn umbra]

im happy here

[covert whale]

think so yeah

but it depends on what your sprite's transform.forward is

[wheat dragon]

;-;

[covert whale]

so you may need to define an argument for up

[covert whale]

you configured your ide?

[wheat dragon]

i did but still no red line

[covert whale]

can you show a screenshot of it

[wheat dragon]

and i wanna fix this Time error

[wheat dragon]

of?

[covert whale]

of your configured ide

[wheat dragon]

still it doesnt show

the ide page

can u maybe show me a ss

[covert whale]

i haven't used vs code for a while now

[wheat dragon]

i do have an extension of c#

but i dont think thats what ur asking for

[strange kayak]

hmm it says Cursor is a type, which is not valid in the given context

[covert whale]

i assumed that was a vector3 of your mouse position

in world space

since that's what you want it to look at

[wheat dragon]

still isnt it possible to help without that ide??

[wheat dragon]

my discord.js has the autofill

but the c# is different

[covert whale]

https://bit.ly/3cN4gyW

follow this link

carefully

[wheat dragon]

https://i.imgur.com/9kp1nAb.png

[dawn umbra]

@covert whale tell me if you are annoyed by me pinging

oops

[covert whale]

no it's alright

[dawn umbra]

https://hatebin.com/juoysoabap

so

i want to add a range for it

i've seen how to add one

but always fails.

[covert whale]

if it still doesn't work for you and you've tried everything, ask someone who's used vs code or switch to vs

[dawn umbra]

its not logically right if my health was -5

cuz whenever i press space bar

health goes down

i wanna make the minimum 0

[covert whale]

do you want to clamp it in Update?

or in the inspector

[dawn umbra]

inspector.

[strange kayak]

I think that code is for a 3d Space

it does nothing to the sprite

[covert whale]

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

[jolly narwhal]

Installing the extension is just one of the prerequisites. You have to follow the entire instructions.

[fleet remnant]

range only works in inspector from what i know

[covert whale]

if you want to clamp it in code then Mathf.Clamp

[fleet remnant]

or have a check if(health < 0) then health = 0;

[dawn umbra]

@covert whale i added range

[wheat dragon]

ill try relogging

[covert whale]

yeah so this only works in the inspector

[fleet remnant]

we litterally just told u range doesnt do anything

[dawn umbra]

still goes below "0"

[covert whale]

also is your ide configured?

[dawn umbra]

whats that

[dawn umbra]

so what do i do xD

[covert whale]

if you type tra does it autocomplete

[dawn umbra]

where

[snow willow]

the range thing only affects the inspector. Your code can still make it go under 0

[dawn umbra]

oh

i see i see

is there anyway to prevent this?

[covert whale]

anywhere is fine

yes

[dawn umbra]

abstract

[covert whale]

you can do a logic check as said here

[dawn umbra]

thats what autocompletes for me

[covert whale]

or clamp

[covert whale]

can you show a screenshot of your entire script

[wheat dragon]

yes it does show the funcs now

[covert whale]

yeah MonoBehaviour should be green i think

check the link for your ide in #854851968446365696

[wheat dragon]

what should i do next

[dawn umbra]

i mean

[covert whale]

if you've configured your ide then it should underline your error and give autocomplete the right one

[dawn umbra]

imma just go with the course

ill explore more

as i go through it

im rn trying to do stuff my course doesnt mention

[covert whale]

the course probably doesn't tell you to configure your ide

[wheat dragon]

https://i.imgur.com/RmsQ54s.png

[dawn umbra]

mhm

[covert whale]

if you don't configure then you'll end up with it not highlighting errors or auto completing

both are essential

[dawn umbra]

how to configure?

[covert whale]

check the link for your ide in #854851968446365696

[dawn umbra]

@covert whale i did not get that

[wheat dragon]

@covert whale

did u mean this

https://i.imgur.com/bz5lsJX.png

[dawn umbra]

this is what pops up

[covert whale]

@wheat dragon

follow all the instructions

[wheat dragon]

yep my dot net and extention has been installed

[covert whale]

you'll need to set your external script editor to your ide

[covert whale]

can you show me a screenshot of the code in your ide

[dawn umbra]

where do i find my ide

[wheat dragon]

https://i.imgur.com/iLVlq1f.png

this?

[covert whale]

what are you using vs?

[covert whale]

cool it's configured

[dawn umbra]

yes

virtual studio

[wheat dragon]

but it still doesnt show the red line

[covert whale]

now if you go to your Time.timescale it should tell you that it needs to be Time.timeScale

[wheat dragon]

lemme see

[covert whale]

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/gamedev/unity/get-started/getting-started-with-visual-studio-tools-for-unity?pivots=windows#configure-unity-to-use-visual-studio

follow this then

[wheat dragon]

it doesnt but the code stil lworks

the error is gone

[covert whale]

amazing

[wheat dragon]

demn that was quite a silly mistake huh

[covert whale]

it's what happens if you don't have a machine to tell you that you've misspelled something

[wheat dragon]

https://i.imgur.com/Bzjj7iU.png

new err

[strange kayak]

https://gyazo.com/2ebd4d21c5bf0b685b7043e9277d9a7a

woooahh we're halfway there

[covert whale]

show the code and line

[wheat dragon]

kk

[dawn umbra]

yo i just wanna ask u, how many days u have been devving for?

[covert whale]

nice

[dawn umbra]

its my first day i just wanna know

[strange kayak]

2nd day

[dawn umbra]

dang really?

[strange kayak]

so like 10 hours maybe

[dawn umbra]

what course are u following if you are following any

[wheat dragon]

https://i.imgur.com/ixeCKHW.png

[dawn umbra]

im going in like 5 hours

[strange kayak]

I bought the Zenva subscription as they have a bunch of projects

but I take the projects and try and build it myself

[wheat dragon]

https://i.imgur.com/4nUV6Qx.png

[strange kayak]

and add additional stuff

[wheat dragon]

here

[covert whale]

#854851968446365696 for how to share code

paste instead of screenshots

[fleet remnant]

most likely u didnt reference the Text object in the inspector

[wheat dragon]

ohkk then

[dawn umbra]

im following blackthornprod

course

[strange kayak]

For this project they wanted to use WASD for movement and up/down/left/right for attacks but I think a rotating cursor is cooler so I'm going to figure out how to make that work

[wheat dragon]

using UnityEngine;
using UnityEngine.UI;

public class PlayerScript : MonoBehaviour
{

public float JumpForce;
float score;

[SerializeField]
bool isGrounded = false;
bool isAlive = true;

Rigidbody2D RB;

public Text ScoreTxt;

private void Awake()
{
RB = GetComponent<Rigidbody2D>();
score = 0;
}

    // Update is called once per frame
    void Update()
    {
        if(Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.Space))
        {
            if(isGrounded == true)
            {
              RB.AddForce(Vector2.up * JumpForce);
              isGrounded = false;
            }
        }

        if(isAlive)
        {
          score += Time.deltaTime * 4;
          ScoreTxt.text = "SCORE : " + score.ToString("F");
        }
    }

   private void OnCollisionEnter2D(Collision2D collision)
  {
   if(collision.gameObject.CompareTag("ground"))
   {
     if(isGrounded == false)
     {
       isGrounded = true;
     }
   }

   if(collision.gameObject.CompareTag("spike"))
   {
     isAlive = false;
     Time.timeScale = 0;
   }
   }
  }

here

[dawn umbra]

creative idea

[dawn umbra]

ahh my eyes

hatebin.com

[covert whale]

use one of the sites in #854851968446365696

[wheat dragon]

pastebin or sourcebin should work too

[wheat dragon]

ohkk

[fleet remnant]

@wheat dragon

we cant know tho because u didnt specify the line

[wheat dragon]

https://hastepaste.com/view/9rjRDYlies

here

[covert whale]

which line

[wheat dragon]

39

[covert whale]

yeah then this

[fleet remnant]

this^

[covert whale]

gotta drag it in

[wheat dragon]

umm?

[covert whale]

last one

[wheat dragon]

oh

wait i got it

[strange kayak]

https://gyazo.com/214e4960aa567b6db75783bfba5c3eec

yeah thats not uhh

[covert whale]

oh god

[wheat dragon]

uh ok

so i didnt understand the reference

[fleet remnant]

https://youtu.be/ymq2AUckws0

[strange kayak]

https://gyazo.com/b86a952e29af5a937afc6c3a561bb14e

[covert whale]

pretty cool

[strange kayak]

I wonder if I should add a limitation that you can't rotate beyond like 180 degrees of the direction you are facing

[fleet remnant]

basically take the gameobject that has the score on it and drag it to the field where it says Text(None) or somthn on ur other gameobject

[strange kayak]

So you still have to face upwards to get a degree of motion on the upwards direction

So if you want to recreate this effect and have a parented object (the club) rotate around your player pointing towards the mouse this is the code you will need.

If it can be done cleaner, please let me know so I can implement it!

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

public class WeaponPivot : MonoBehaviour
{
    public GameObject myPlayer;
    public float armLength = 2f;
    public Transform RotatePoint;

    private void FixedUpdate()
    {
        // Converting screen position of mouse to world position. - transform.position is the pivot of the weapon distance
        Vector3 difference = Camera.main.ScreenToWorldPoint(Input.mousePosition) - transform.position;

        difference.Normalize();

        float rotationZ = Mathf.Atan2(difference.y, difference.x) * Mathf.Rad2Deg;

        transform.rotation = Quaternion.Euler(0f, 0f, rotationZ);

        // Get the direction between the shoulder and mouse (aka the target position)
        Vector3 shoulderToMouseDir =
            Camera.main.ScreenToWorldPoint(Input.mousePosition) - RotatePoint.position;
        shoulderToMouseDir.z = 0; // zero z axis since we are using 2d
                                  // we normalize the new direction so you can make it the arm's length
                                  // then we add it to the shoulder's position
        transform.position = RotatePoint.position + (armLength * shoulderToMouseDir.normalized);
    }
}```

[covert whale]

oh

putting this in Update would be better

since you're not interacting with anything to do with physics

(at least not yet)

[strange kayak]

Wouldn't I want it in fixed update so FPS doesn't affect it

it's going to have a collider and interact with enemies/world objs eventually

[covert whale]

oh ok

then move Input.mousePosition to Update

so that it doesn't miss any input

[strange kayak]

just move this entire piece of code to:

private Update()
{
Vector3 shoulderToMouseDir =
            Camera.main.ScreenToWorldPoint(Input.mousePosition) - RotatePoint.position;
        shoulderToMouseDir.z = 0; // zero z axis since we are using 2d
                                  // we normalize the new direction so you can make it the arm's length
                                  // then we add it to the shoulder's position
}```

?

[covert whale]

so you'd need to make shoulderToMouseDir not a local variable so that you can use it in FixedUpdate

so declare it at the top

[strange kayak]

public shouldertoMouseDir;

?

[covert whale]

yep

?

type Vector3

doesn't need to be public actually

[strange kayak]

private Vector3 shoulderToMouseDir;```

[covert whale]

yep

[strange kayak]

and then move that vector 3 code to a standard update

[covert whale]

yeah

[wheat dragon]

so u mean a tag right??

[fleet remnant]

no

[wheat dragon]

https://i.imgur.com/qOGwsqs.png

[fleet remnant]

nothing to do with it

[covert whale]

general rule of thumb is
-input in Update
-physics and related interactions in FixedUpdate

[wheat dragon]

anything from this

u want me to change

[strange kayak]

Cool thanks, just trying to piece together code from my limited knowledge and make it do the things

[wheat dragon]

then where??

[strange kayak]

I'm sure the best way to do things will come with time

[wheat dragon]

srry if im being a pain but well im just noob for starters.. just started vsc 4hrs ago

;-;

[fleet remnant]

on the object that has the script on it that u are getting the null reference on

[strange kayak]

Now just to build the entire player movement system and enemies and their AI and the combat system and...

[covert whale]

one step at a time

you're doing good

[still tendon]

Hello guys I am trying to do bubble sort with squares, my goal is to move them in the X axis, however, some squares are moving and not all of them. I suspect the way of swapping is not correct.

[fleet remnant]

so on the playerscript

[strange kayak]

I take it I can add a trigger to the weapon

and use that to detect the enemy instead of having to click they can just rotate their mouse like a lawnmower

[covert whale]

yeah and have OnTriggerEnter, compare tag to see if it's an enemy and if so then destroy or whatever you need to do

[strange kayak]

cool yeah, picked that up from the wee 3d game I did, made loads of collisions

A big hurdle I think I'm going to have is changing that object that is parented to the player

[wheat dragon]

lemme give it a try

[strange kayak]

I'll be adding other weapons and that, so realistically I need a working inventory and a script that changes out the parented item with the same script and variable values but takes on the new sprite and damage/collider values

[fleet remnant]

theres no try, that is the solution :)

[wheat dragon]

https://i.imgur.com/hcsp6QR.png

so this is what it looks like

the small comp like object u see at bottom left is the game

[strange kayak]

are you trying to record your score? I made a score system yesterday

[wheat dragon]

https://i.imgur.com/psUDg3s.png

[strange kayak]

what isn't working

[wheat dragon]

yes

[fleet remnant]

u r looking the scene view

lol

[wheat dragon]

yes

[fleet remnant]

change to game tab

[wheat dragon]

i have

[fleet remnant]

so

[wheat dragon]

in game tab the score is in middle

[fleet remnant]

what is the problem

[strange kayak]

where do you want it

[fleet remnant]

well change it

[wheat dragon]

https://i.imgur.com/GalWdv5.png

[fleet remnant]

to wherever u want

[strange kayak]

you can click and drag it and resize it

[wheat dragon]

i want it right there

[wheat dragon]

already done

[strange kayak]

use the options at the top right of the inspector to anchor it to where you want it as well

so whats the actual problem

[wheat dragon]

https://i.imgur.com/hHwLast.png

[fleet remnant]

where

[strange kayak]

what line of code does it say

[fleet remnant]

we cant magically know wheres ur null refe3nce exception

u need to show

which line is it

and then

give the script

[strange kayak]

i think I might know what it is

[wheat dragon]

https://i.imgur.com/iG0UJse.png

playerscrip update

i suppose

[strange kayak]

so look at line 39 of your code

and send it to us

[fleet remnant]

so u still

[wheat dragon]

.

[fleet remnant]

didnt drag in

ur text into the player script in the inspector

[fleet remnant]

^

same thing just u do that with ur text and the player script

[covert whale]

you should really look at this video

it tells you how to do this

[strange kayak]

I only know this because I did the same thing yesterday trying to figure out the gui stuff

[wheat dragon]

https://i.imgur.com/cTtoBeC.png

[strange kayak]

?

[fleet remnant]

thats the material dude

lmao

[wheat dragon]

ik

[fleet remnant]

so

??

[strange kayak]

you need to drag your text component to your UI script

[fleet remnant]

u have on ur gameobject it says
PlayerScript
then under it says
Text(None)
drag the text obj
into there

i cant have it any more obvious

[strange kayak]

So currently the weapons X transform is following the cursor, how would I change the transform on the sprite so that it points out the top of the weapon instead of the side?

[still tendon]

Hello guys I am trying to swap 2d squares so that they are sorted according to their height. I am using bubble sort but the swapping is not correct. I suspect there are some wrong assumptions in how I swap my squares. Here is the code : https://hastepaste.com/view/gHKvaF0NB

this is how I think it shall look like.

[covert whale]

what are you using to rotate the sword?

[strange kayak]

Z axis in relation to the cursor as far as I know

[covert whale]

could you show your code?

[wheat dragon]

i understoof the text obj.. but i dont get the Text(None) thing

can u show an ss where do u see it

[covert whale]

watch this

it tells you how to do it

better than any explanation we can give over text

[strange kayak]

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

public class WeaponPivot : MonoBehaviour
{
    public GameObject myPlayer;
    public float armLength = 2f;
    public Transform RotatePoint;
    private Vector3 shoulderToMouseDir;

    // Update is called once per frame
    void Update()
    {
        // Get the direction between the shoulder and mouse (aka the target position)
        Vector3 shoulderToMouseDir =
            Camera.main.ScreenToWorldPoint(Input.mousePosition) - RotatePoint.position;
        shoulderToMouseDir.z = 0; // zero z axis since we are using 2d
                                  // we normalize the new direction so you can make it the arm's length
                                  // then we add it to the shoulder's position
        transform.position = RotatePoint.position + (armLength * shoulderToMouseDir.normalized);
    }

    private void FixedUpdate()
    {
        // Converting screen position of mouse to world position. - transform.position is the pivot of the weapon distance
        Vector3 difference = Camera.main.ScreenToWorldPoint(Input.mousePosition) - transform.position;

        difference.Normalize();

        float rotationZ = Mathf.Atan2(difference.y, difference.x) * Mathf.Rad2Deg;

        transform.rotation = Quaternion.Euler(0f, 0f, rotationZ);
    }
}

[covert whale]

can you paste it in a site instead please

[strange kayak]

I can't seem to change the pivot point of the club sprite though, I opened up the spritesheet editor and move it to the bottom left and applied but when I move it to the scene the pivot is right back in the centre

http://pastie.org/p/5OW7Z0twobCchDGhljtaPj

[covert whale]

maybe this can help?
https://youtu.be/NsUJDqEY8tE

[still tendon]

no one answered my question 😛

[wheat dragon]

if u suggest

kk lemme see it

[strange kayak]

Yeah I can't seem to access the import inspector..weird

[desert cargo]

Try this:

squareList.Sort((a, b) => a.GetComponent<Renderer>().bounds.y.CompareTo(
  b.GetComponent<Renderer>().bounds.y
);

That will sort your list in place

[still tendon]

The idea here is to use bubble sort

[scarlet violet]

Think just your variables were off a bit, i re-did it here using what you had, but outside of Unity:
https://hastepaste.com/view/Rf8uv

So as long as it's not a float comparison issue, then it should work.

Using what I provided here.

@still tendon Specifically this section here is what you want to change to:

                    if (height1 > height2)
                    {
                        int temp = squareList[j];
                        squareList[j] = squareList[j + 1];
                        squareList[j + 1] = temp;
                    }

That's the logic, just update it with your vector3, etc.

Looks like your temp and var assigning were just a bit off.

[still tendon]

@scarlet violet thanks will double check it soon 🙂

[still tendon]

This is what I think would work but it didn't, I guess I am missing something , i.e., when I swap in the X-axis. The bubble sort algorithm works fine with numbers as you said.

here is my code : https://hastepaste.com/view/ojcnd.

I have put several hours to make the swapping functionality work but have not progressed yet. I would be more than happy if anyone could help me with the swap method. My personal mail is [e-mail]. Have to rest now for my programming job tomorrow. Further, thx for your comments & good night everybody 🙂

[scarlet violet]

Your last line should just be equal to temp.

Why a new vector3 now?

[real ivy]

I'd like to modify a 2D tilemap grid selection with my own custom functions. How do I get access this selection?

[covert whale]

#↕️┃editor-extensions maybe?

[wheat dragon]

https://i.imgur.com/IELGVv5.png

can somebody explain this??

[hollow crown]

https://help.vertx.xyz/?page=programming/scripts/1-script-loading

[wheat dragon]

https://i.imgur.com/ve71IXO.png

seems to be identical

[hollow crown]

and the rest of the steps after that?

[wheat dragon]

yes

[hollow crown]

Also, your screenshot shows no code, so it doesn't prove anything is identical

[wheat dragon]

https://i.imgur.com/KZErSoO.png

it wasnt happening first

[hollow crown]

There's your problem.

[wheat dragon]

where??

[hollow crown]

Your class name is not the same

[wheat dragon]

public class NewBehaviourScript : MonoBehaviour

this one??

[hollow crown]

yes, as my website said

[wheat dragon]

https://i.imgur.com/4nzkH4O.png

Thanks a lot man 🙂

[wheat dragon]

umm hey

i have another prob

i have made a script for my camera to move along the player but it seems its always faster than the player and isnt following it

[compact knoll]

show code?

[covert whale]

can you show your script?

[wheat dragon]

yes

https://i.imgur.com/cZin3Yb.png

this is my camera movement script

[compact knoll]

that's just constantly moving it along the x axis at a fixed rate. Are you sure you want to be doing that instead of actually following the player?