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humble granite
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instance is the freshly-created instance. It needs to be told about the target.

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TargetTransform is the field that holds the reference to the target

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and _target is the actual target

azure tendon
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can i send a ss of my code so i can tell if i understood it?

humble granite
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send your code properly.

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azure tendon
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like this?

humble granite
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does the object with TestSpawn on it have a NavMeshAgent on it?

azure tendon
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i deleted a bit of it because iam trying around to get it to work rn

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yes the prefab has a navmeshagent attached

humble granite
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but TestSpawn is not on the prefab, is it?

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it's a completely separate thing

azure tendon
humble granite
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what on earth is GetComponent<NavMeshAgent>() supposed to find?

azure tendon
humble granite
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from where?

azure tendon
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from there

humble granite
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why does this thing have an agent?

azure tendon
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or is it wrong

humble granite
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is your spawner supposed to also be walking around?

azure tendon
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its the spawner object

humble granite
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or is this "Test" object the prefab itself?

azure tendon
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supposed to chase

azure tendon
humble granite
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you have mixed up the spawner and the things that get spawned

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they should be two separate things

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unless you want every enemy to spawn even more enemies

azure tendon
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yes they are

humble granite
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then why is there only one object, named "test"?

azure tendon
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ok so test is the prefab

humble granite
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you need to name these things more clearly at the very least

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azure tendon
humble granite
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name the spawned object "enemy" and the spawner "enemy spawner"

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or something like that

azure tendon
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the spawnpoint is a seperate object

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done

azure tendon
humble granite
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so, the spawn point is now a thing sitting in the scene

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and it has a reference to the enemy prefab

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is that correct?

azure tendon
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i also did a test with adding force to it, they spawner and ran

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or moved

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yk what i mean i guess

humble granite
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i don't really know, no

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you need to be specific.

humble granite
azure tendon
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Yes

humble granite
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show me the inspectors for the two objects now

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enemy and spawnPoint

azure tendon
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the script is in a gamemanager

grafik.png
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turned on ofc

grafik.png
humble granite
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I see no reference from the spawn point to the enemy prefab.

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I don't understand what you are doing.

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your enemy has a reference to itself

azure tendon
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right here

grafik.png
humble granite
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ah, okay.

azure tendon
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there is the Instantiate coroutine

humble granite
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so, that Game Manager exists in the scene

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that means you can give it a reference to the player

azure tendon
humble granite
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by adding a Transform field to it

azure tendon
humble granite
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you can then drag the player object into that field to reference it

azure tendon
azure tendon
humble granite
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then, when the spawn point instantiates an enemy, it can tell the enemy about the player

azure tendon
azure tendon
humble granite
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that's where the guide linked earlier comes in.

azure tendon
humble granite
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suppose the enemy component has a field called target

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and the spawn point component also has a field called target

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then...

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var enemy = Instantiate(enemyPrefab);
enemy.target = target;
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note that, in this case, enemyPrefab isn't just a GameObject. It's the type of the enemy component

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That way, you don't have to use GetComponent to get the enemy component out.

azure tendon
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and above public Transform target:;

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?

humble granite
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you will need to declare a field on the game manager, yes

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that you use to reference the player

azure tendon
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iam going to try it

azure tendon
humble granite
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Yes.

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The thing that exists in the scene needs to refer to the player.

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That way, it can tell the instantiated enemies about the player.

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Again, read the guide. If you don't understand a specific part of it, I can explain it further for you

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But you can't just say "I don't get any of it"

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I can't do anything with that.

azure tendon
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alright, thanks for your patiency

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and when i have agent(theprefab).setdestination(whattoputhere)

humble granite
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you are instantiating enemies in both Start and in the coroutine

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you should probably only do it in the latter

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you forgot to set a target there

azure tendon
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you mean instantiate in the coroutine

humble granite
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yes.

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you instantiate there (and then do nothing further)

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also, you are referencing the prefab as a Transform

azure tendon
humble granite
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the type should be whatever the type of the enemy class is

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i forget what it is

azure tendon
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object?

humble granite
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what is the component that controls the enemy?

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I think you previously had one called "Test"

azure tendon
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TestSpawn

humble granite
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that's a very confusing name

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it sounds like it should do spawning

azure tendon
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the script

azure tendon
humble granite
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in unity, rename the file to "Zombie", then go into the newly renamed file and change the name of the class to "Zombie"

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then, instead of doing public Transform zombie; do public Zombie zombie;

azure tendon
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renaming it to enemyController

humble granite
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now, when you instantiate zombie, the function will return an Enemy

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which you can then set the target on

azure tendon
humble granite
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Yes. you should capitalize it LikeThis, not likeThis, though.

azure tendon
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alr but it works now

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i did zombie.player(in the script player is player and iam the target)

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and then = target

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and now just setDestination on it or?

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IT WORKSSSSSSSSS

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HAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

humble granite
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yes, you'll need to call SetDestination to set where the agent goes

azure tendon
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but my player doesnt move rn but idc

humble granite
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now, go back to the guide and figure out how that lines up with what you did

azure tendon
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Thanks for helping i often learn codes the way i understand them and dont know how a guide tells me then

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Thank you, you were very patient with me 🙂

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only problem now they spawn behind each other and all die at the same time

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zombie = Instantiate(zombie, spawnPoint);

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i thought like that

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but now they all the parent of spawnPoint

humble granite
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that parents them to the spawn point.

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if you want to spawn them at the spawn point, just set the zombie's position after instantiating it

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or use the version of Instantiate that takes a position and rotation

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Instantiate(zombie, transform.position, Quaternion.identity)

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Quaternion.identity means "no rotation"

azure tendon
azure tendon
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now my player doesnt move?

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and they all die at the same time

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the prefabs

humble granite
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i'd have to see that code that destroys the zombies

azure tendon
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and block is the prefab

humble granite
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why does the enemy have a reference to its own prefab?

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it shouldn't care about the prefab

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you also shouldn't try to destroy a prefab

azure tendon
humble granite
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as in, the original prefab

azure tendon
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i want a zombie to die after some time

humble granite
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the instantiated objects are not prefabs.

azure tendon
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destroy instance?

humble granite
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Destroy(gameObject) is fine.

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this would destroy the game object the component is on

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if block is actually a prefab reference, Unity will throw an error when you try to destroy it

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i have no idea what block is here, really

azure tendon
azure tendon
humble granite
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that doesn't tell me very much

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is it the enemy prefab?

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is it an instance of the enemy?

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show me how it gets assigned

azure tendon
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i dragged enemy in the block field

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already changed like you said

humble granite
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I don't see a block field anywhere in that screenshot.

azure tendon
humble granite
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I did just remember that, if a prefab has a reference to something on itself, that will turn into a reference to the instantiated thing

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so block would probably have referred to the instantiated object correctly

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now, i noticed that you're just subtracting 1f from killTime every update

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this means that it will die after 600 frames

azure tendon
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yes

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but i have like 5 and they die at the same time

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before they didnt chase the player but died after and after

humble granite
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pause the game and look at the individual enemies

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they should have different killTime values

azure tendon
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question? my enemys are now called enemy(clone)(clone)(clone)

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and adding one clone by every clone

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that fine or not?

humble granite
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that sounds like you're instantiating the spawned enemy

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yes, it is

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            zombie = Instantiate(zombie);
            zombie.player = target;
azure tendon
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all same killtime

humble granite
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you're overwriting the zombie each time

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use a different variable.

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var spawnedZombie = Instantiate(zombie);
azure tendon
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ah ok

azure tendon
humble granite
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well, you tell me

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you need to tell the newly instantiated enemy about the player

azure tendon
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works now

azure tendon
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target

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now my player just doesnt move lol

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it did before

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idk if the new script somewhere overrides the movement

humble granite
azure tendon
humble granite
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it probably does happen to work

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but "happens to work" does not mean "correct"

azure tendon
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changed

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can you help me why my player doesnt move too maybe?

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it did before

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is it a problem if it doesnt have animations

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i deleted them before by readding the player :/

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have them so thats solved

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but still doesnt move

azure tendon
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my joystick keeps being 0

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no matter vertical or horizontal

azure tendon
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@humble granite ?

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it works