Getting particle emissions working

[modest creek]

Il try to help you here its so busy in the other chat

[mortal spear]

okay

[modest creek]

The only time im seeing a transform be used is when player is being accessed

Or is trying tm be accessed

[mortal spear]

wait let me send the piece of code i think is giving me this error

[modest creek]

Okay

[mortal spear]

 using UnityEngine;
  
 public class Enemy : MonoBehaviour
 {    
 public Transform target;
 public float Roffset = 90f;
  
 private void Update()
 {
     if (Vector3.Distance(transform.position, target.position) > 1f)
     {
         RotateTowardsTarget();
     }
 }
  
 private void RotateTowardsTarget()
 {
     var offset = Roffset;
     Vector2 direction = target.position - transform.position;
     direction.Normalize();
     float angle = Mathf.Atan2(direction.y, direction.x) * Mathf.Rad2Deg;       
     transform.rotation = Quaternion.Euler(Vector3.forward * (angle + offset));
 }
 }

this is for the enemy rotation

[modest creek]

Wait

Send the whole error

[modest creek]

Thats not the whole thing

Click on the error

[modest creek]

Okay

Look see the blue words?

[mortal spear]

yes?

[modest creek]

Thats where the error is happening

The enemy script on line 10

In Update

[mortal spear]

perhaps this line of code is still attempting to access the player after my particle script has destroyed the player?

[modest creek]

Maybe

Could also be RotateTowardsTarget()

Cause your calling that in there

[mortal spear]

yeah

[modest creek]

Try temporarily taking that out of possible

Then run the code and if the error happens again then we know

[mortal spear]

this part of the code?

[modest creek]

Nope

RotateTowardsTarget()

Take that call out for a sec

[mortal spear]

alright i'll just temporarily disable the entire script since RotateTowardsTarget() is basically the only function

[modest creek]

No

Dont

[mortal spear]

okay

[modest creek]

We trying to see if that is trying to call something or if its the if statement

Just take the call out and run the game

Not the whole function itself

[mortal spear]

ohh

sorry i'm really dumb

[modest creek]

What?

[mortal spear]

?

[modest creek]

Thats what im wondering 🤔

[mortal spear]

you meant removing RotateTowardsTarget from the if statement right?

[modest creek]

Yes

[mortal spear]

yeah it's still giving me the error

[modest creek]

Okay might as well add it back

[mortal spear]

okay done

[modest creek]

So target is being destroyed

Thats the only option

Becuase transform.position would do that for its own object

What is target?

[mortal spear]

the player

[modest creek]

Can you show me when your destroying the player?

[mortal spear]

after the player collides with the enemy

[modest creek]

Or here lets do this

[mortal spear]

in this snippet

[modest creek]

{
       Your if statement 
}```

[mortal spear]

okay

something like this?

[modest creek]

Put the if(Vector3...) in side of the if statement

[mortal spear]

ok

[modest creek]

Did that fix the error?

[mortal spear]

let me check

i'm really sorry for being so dumb but i'm not sure what you mean by putting the if statement inside of the if statement

[modest creek]

Thats okay

Darn auto correct

Sometimes mobile is annoying

[mortal spear]

oh

[modest creek]

See your first if statement?

[mortal spear]

yes

[modest creek]

Copy the whole thing!

[mortal spear]

okay

[modest creek]

Then delete it

[mortal spear]

okay

[modest creek]

Then place your curser in the second if statement and do ctrl + v

Then show me your code

[modest creek]

Yes but you have it looking weird

[mortal spear]

oh

[modest creek]

Usually you want to indent that stuff

So like go in front of the second if statement and hit tab

[mortal spear]

ah okay

[modest creek]

Then do that for both curly brackets for that if statement

[modest creek]

Good not the rotate towards

Thats how people usually make their code look more neat and clean

[mortal spear]

yeah it does look neat

[modest creek]

Now that should fix it

Try the error now

[mortal spear]

still getting it

still saying the same thing as before even when i check the whole error

[modest creek]

Ctrl + z to undo all that

I dont know what to do

Sorry buddy

I should take a break

I might ping you later to try and help you again

[mortal spear]

alright

but thank you anyway

[modest creek]

Did you get it figured out?

[mortal spear]

nope

particle emissions still not working, still getting that same error upon collision

i think i'll keep trying today, will keep you updated

[mortal spear]

i think i will resort to not destroying the player, but once it collides it'll give a game over UI so it won't need to be destroyed anyway

will play the particle, maybe some knockback for it to look a bit nicer

and then the game over UI turns on

now i just need to get the particles working

you know what

i'm just going to scrap this script and make a new one

coding is so painfully tedious holy crap

i solved the error we are trying to fix

[modest creek]

Yes it is

[modest creek]

Good

[mortal spear]

i still need to get particles working

[modest creek]

Okay

Try calling particleSystem.Stop() before particleSystem.PLay()