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@stiff rainwhat is the unwanted behavior?

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I have some videos

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is that purple bar supposed to be on the tank?

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no

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I guess it's arbitrary

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the purple bar is a placeholder for a cool angle thing
I don't thing there is anywhere I can put it on the small tank

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It's hard to tell from the videos where exactly in 3d space that gun is. the second video seems to be finding the angle between the tank and mouse position, and I assume you want the purple thing itself to point at the mouse?

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not the purple thing

the purple thing is a visualization

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oh man I just realized from one of the videos

you're trying to manually account for the fact that atan2 returns (in degrees) -180 to 180

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yes it does

here is me trying to change values on the firepoint

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@stiff rainI'm still unclear on what exactly you're trying to do.
Do you want it so that, for example:
when the tank faces to the left and the mouse pointer is to its right, it points like this?

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yes

kind off

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what am I missing?

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I don't think you are missing anything

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https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Vector2.Angle.html@stiff rain

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I want it to lock in place when the mouse moves to the top or bottom so it doesn't move after that
But I think this is better anyway so I am going with this

I also hate this

the snapping

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I think that vector2.angle is the better way of doing this. for the first parameter, you'd just want the horizontal direction of the tank, so that when:
it's facing left, it'll return: (-1,0)
it's facing right, it'll return: (1,0)

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I was also thinking to just apply the angle to the projectile when it spawns

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the second parameter will just be the vector from somewhere near the center of the tank to the mouse pointer

then you clamp the turret angle to something like 30 degrees or so

this all prevents any need for you to mess with the c# trig functions

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I am working on 4 hours of sleep

my mind has reached it's limmits

it's been like 16 hours

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..... are you in a jam or something?

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no

I just spent 4 hours last night trying to do this destroying my sleep

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that'll burn you out quick

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that was the first time I opened this in 1 month

which is actally pretty good for me

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relatable

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mostly cause of school

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anyway, try what I suggested

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I spent 5 mins looking at it
And not getting it
And also using ChatGPT
No I don't know how to

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chat gpt doesn't really help you lol

@stiff raintry debug.logging your root gameobject's transform.forward

it should return a vector that's (1,0) or (-1,0)

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well it got мe some of the original code

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and that's probably why you'll get stuck again in the future

chatgpt won't teach you anything

ANYWAY

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nah it has
I made a whole website that is better than like all of my peers with minimal prior understanding of css and java

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we're getting off topic

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and like 4 css stylus scripts that people have downloaded for different websites

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ya

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I once got stuck for 5 hours cause I hit freeze position on a rigidboddy and it took me and 4 other people to notice it

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I've got to go. I've given you enough breadcrumbs to solve it yourself. read the documentation.

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alright

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using vector2.angle(tank.transform.forward, mouse.position-tank.position) will give you an always-positive angle value I believe

actually check this out

the docs themselves give a solution

cya. good luck.

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alright

bru

ok this has been more unhelpful than chatgpt...

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K this doesn't work
It doesn't allow it to go down

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debug.log the angle in each case (point up and face left, face right, point down, etc) and show it

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going down = going up
But going up wins

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debug.log everything. the tank's forward vector, the direction to the mouse pointer...

you used SignedAngle?

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this is just lookAngle

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what's lookangle?

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float lookAngle = Vector2.Angle(tankDirection, mousePosition - tankPosition);

k for some reason player(tank).transform.forward (tankDirection) is showing up as 0.0, 0.0 no matter what I do
It wasn't doing this before

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did you read what I sent? Vector2.SignedAngle will return negative values

Vector2.Angle will not

as for that newer problem.... I don't know know what's going on

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I though you wanted me to use Vector2.Angle

The newer problem is just something with debug.log

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Even chatGPT yelled at me to use Signed Angle

Still I am using some of my previous code
Which I stole from a youtube video

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I have gotten to this point where

1. Yes the angles flip but they also desync with the cursor
2. Still shoots backwards (I have an idea)
3. You have to first move left to be able to aim

OK fixed 2

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Have any ideas for 1 and 3?

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@stiff rain are you multiplying an angle in degrees by Rad2Deg?

radtodeg =180/pi iirc. a relatively large value

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no

whole code:
https://hastebin.skyra.pw/vewecefafo.pgsql

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I have a feeling that the mouse position won't register until the window's been focused on (clicked), but I might be wrong

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No literally click it in the video
But it doesn't update the mouse position till I turn left

Man rambles with 4h of sleep

yea ChatGPT said Definitely direct quote "Bruh just rotate it very sligthy"

k so only Dsync when left travling left