Arrow selector | Official Unity Discord | Page 1

warped sphinx Jun 17, 2023, 5:52 AM

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Ok so, where can i find the debug log

wise tangle Jun 17, 2023, 5:53 AM

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Run your game, and hover over the elements. It will appear in that giant grey area under Console

warped sphinx Jun 17, 2023, 5:53 AM

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it dosent

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thats why i am confused

wise tangle Jun 17, 2023, 5:53 AM

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This isnt related but helpful: Turn off Collapse, it isgoing to group similar messages and you wont know when you get a new one

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then that means the function is not getting called at all

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Check to see if the arrows or whatever this script is on is being blocked by anything, you can check in the EventSystem in your Hierarchy (on the left). It tells u what you hover on

warped sphinx Jun 17, 2023, 5:56 AM

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where do i see that

wise tangle Jun 17, 2023, 5:56 AM

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When you click on the EventSystem during gameplay something should pop up, let me pull up a screenshot

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lol suddenly i got a null reference exception gimme a sec

wise tangle Jun 17, 2023, 5:58 AM

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warped sphinx where do i see that

First click the hierarchy event system, then expand the thing on the right

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it tells u UI information like pointerEnter is going to tell you what you want

knotty pumice Jun 17, 2023, 5:59 AM

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warped sphinx Ok so, where can i find the debug log

Is this a game object or a ui object?

wise tangle Jun 17, 2023, 6:00 AM

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omg i didnt even see that.. it has a transform not recttransform

warped sphinx Jun 17, 2023, 6:00 AM

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wise tangle Jun 17, 2023, 6:01 AM

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ok that is definitely not what i told u to click on

warped sphinx Jun 17, 2023, 6:01 AM

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wait

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ok

wise tangle Jun 17, 2023, 6:01 AM

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either way though, pumpkin found the actual bug

warped sphinx Jun 17, 2023, 6:01 AM

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got it

wise tangle Jun 17, 2023, 6:01 AM

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you must put this on a canvas, this currently isnt a UI element

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because it has a transform, not a recttransform

warped sphinx Jun 17, 2023, 6:01 AM

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how do i do that?

wise tangle Jun 17, 2023, 6:03 AM

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I would definitely look at a tutorial for UI, but right click hierarchy, under UI, make a canvas

warped sphinx Jun 17, 2023, 6:03 AM

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k made one

knotty pumice Jun 17, 2023, 6:04 AM

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wise tangle omg i didnt even see that.. it has a transform not recttransform

Im not really a UI person so I wasn’t too sure at first 😅. I didn’t even know they could be rendered without a canvas

wise tangle Jun 17, 2023, 6:04 AM

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maybe for the background, put the image you have covering the entire background
new game, continue, and options can be text
then the arrows maybe make them images

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im not entirely sure, maybe buttons even for the arrows

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im not really good at UI either

knotty pumice Jun 17, 2023, 6:05 AM

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@warped sphinx just double checking, this is a ui element right, not a regular game object?

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seems weird to me that it rendered without a canvas but dunno

warped sphinx Jun 17, 2023, 6:05 AM

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knotty pumice <@625164091476017163> just double checking, this is a ui element right, not a re...

i think it might be an object atm

wise tangle Jun 17, 2023, 6:05 AM

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i imagine its just extremely scaled up

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actually what is MainMenu, is that a canvas?

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it really does look like some of these are UI elements

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OH WAIT, this script is just on an empty transform

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hold on a moment lol we gotta go through this hierarchy

warped sphinx Jun 17, 2023, 6:08 AM

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k want me to send a screenshot of ti>

wise tangle Jun 17, 2023, 6:08 AM

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Just send a screenshot after you click on MainMenu in your hierarchy

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im almost confident thats a canvas

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this one

warped sphinx Jun 17, 2023, 6:08 AM

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knotty pumice Jun 17, 2023, 6:08 AM

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notlikethis

wise tangle Jun 17, 2023, 6:09 AM

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what about starting menu..

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surely thats a canvas

warped sphinx Jun 17, 2023, 6:09 AM

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it is

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i just checked

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wise tangle Jun 17, 2023, 6:09 AM

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ok we are saved

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Sorry yea i just didnt realize this script was on an empty transform

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This script needs to be on the object (with a rect transform) that you plan to hover over

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right now, you have it on a gameobject which exists in 3d space. You cannot hover over this

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you gotta put the script on the arrows basically

warped sphinx Jun 17, 2023, 6:11 AM

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so let me just confirm i attach the script i have to the three arrows

knotty pumice Jun 17, 2023, 6:12 AM

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warped sphinx so let me just confirm i attach the script i have to the three arrows

yep, the arrows with

warped sphinx Jun 17, 2023, 6:13 AM

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knotty pumice yep, the arrows with

none of mine have that i dont think

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knotty pumice Jun 17, 2023, 6:15 AM

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warped sphinx

move them to be a child of StartingMenu

warped sphinx Jun 17, 2023, 6:15 AM

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knotty pumice move them to be a child of `StartingMenu`

k

knotty pumice Jun 17, 2023, 6:15 AM

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my phone’s about to die

wise tangle Jun 17, 2023, 6:16 AM

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you can just put the script itself on the arrow

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which UI element is the arrows

warped sphinx Jun 17, 2023, 6:17 AM

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sorry i am lost, do you mind if i stream to you in dms?

wise tangle Jun 17, 2023, 6:19 AM

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sorry no i dont do 1 on 1s

warped sphinx Jun 17, 2023, 6:19 AM

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k

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lets go back a few steps

wise tangle Jun 17, 2023, 6:19 AM

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Basically, the arrows have to be a UI element. The same way you put this script on Arrow System Continue, put it on the UI element

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which thing in your hierarchy is specifically the arrow

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like is it Arrow variation 2? are those rect transforms somehow

warped sphinx Jun 17, 2023, 6:20 AM

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arrow Continue and Options are Clones of Arrow ssytem new game

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arrow system new game has 2 arrows in it one facing each way

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wise tangle Jun 17, 2023, 6:22 AM

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but what element is the actual arrow that you want to disable

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because this has nothing inside it

warped sphinx Jun 17, 2023, 6:23 AM

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Essentially what i want is for them all to start invisible and when you hover over the buttons like New game and continue and options the one for thqat button becomes visible

wise tangle Jun 17, 2023, 6:23 AM

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yes, but where are the actual arrows

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like this thing, what UI element is rendering this for you

warped sphinx Jun 17, 2023, 6:24 AM

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i just dragged them in from my assets

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arrow selector is a sprite in here

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wise tangle Jun 17, 2023, 6:26 AM

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i understand it exists in your assets, but in your hierarchy one of these UI elements has to actually display the arrow

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ah ok

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so this selector needs to be under your canvas, have a rect transform, have that sprite renderer, AND the script you made

warped sphinx Jun 17, 2023, 6:27 AM

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wise tangle so this selector needs to be under your canvas, have a rect transform, have that...

so i drag it under starting menu by itself

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or do i drag the Arrow system new game that holds it

wise tangle Jun 17, 2023, 6:27 AM

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you can drag the entire Arrow thing, but a lot of those really are empty

warped sphinx Jun 17, 2023, 6:28 AM

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and then i attach the script to them?

wise tangle Jun 17, 2023, 6:28 AM

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I would just make a new empty object under starting menu, call it arrows
then NewGameArrow which has 2 children, the left and right arrow
etc etc

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instead of having arrow variation other side, and arrow variation which have 1 child each

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yes, the script has to be on the arrow or some box ontop of the arrow

warped sphinx Jun 17, 2023, 6:30 AM

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so if i create an empty object called arrows

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attack the script to it

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then drag the three other arrows into it

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then it should work>

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?

wise tangle Jun 17, 2023, 6:32 AM

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the script has to be on each arrow

warped sphinx Jun 17, 2023, 6:33 AM

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on the sprite?

wise tangle Jun 17, 2023, 6:33 AM

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this 1 script should live on multiple objects, otherwise everything gets enabled and disabled at once

warped sphinx Jun 17, 2023, 6:33 AM

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right

wise tangle Jun 17, 2023, 6:33 AM

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honestly you should test this with 1 random arrow just in the middle of the screen

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create a sprite under your starting menu, give it the arrow icon, put the script on, then see if it works

warped sphinx Jun 17, 2023, 6:37 AM

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i dont think it is

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wait under scripts it says control object is that important

wise tangle Jun 17, 2023, 6:40 AM

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Im unsure what you mean by that

warped sphinx Jun 17, 2023, 6:41 AM

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would you mind having a look, i can send it to you on github

wise tangle Jun 17, 2023, 6:42 AM

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I don't have the time to do this

warped sphinx Jun 17, 2023, 6:42 AM

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ok i understand.

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@wise tangle ok so i did what you said it dosent seem to work

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console has nothing

wise tangle Jun 17, 2023, 6:46 AM

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Can you do the very first thing I said now with the event system and see what it tells u about pointer enter

warped sphinx Jun 17, 2023, 6:46 AM

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wise tangle create a sprite under your starting menu, give it the arrow icon, put the script...

this?

wise tangle Jun 17, 2023, 6:46 AM

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wise tangle First click the hierarchy event system, then expand the thing on the right

Nah all the way up here

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After you do that test arrow

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Because it will tell you the name of what you hover on

warped sphinx Jun 17, 2023, 6:47 AM

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ok lemme do that

warped sphinx Jun 17, 2023, 6:50 AM

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wise tangle Can you do the very first thing I said now with the event system and see what it...

it says literally nothing

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wait it says Hills unity game object

wise tangle Jun 17, 2023, 6:51 AM

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Can you show a screenshot

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It will say things while you hover over things

warped sphinx Jun 17, 2023, 6:51 AM

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yep

wise tangle Jun 17, 2023, 6:51 AM

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In play mode at least, idk about in edit mode

warped sphinx Jun 17, 2023, 6:51 AM

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wise tangle Jun 17, 2023, 6:52 AM

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Hills is the object its seeing then, idk much about UI you may have to rearrange what's on top of each other

warped sphinx Jun 17, 2023, 6:53 AM

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k i will try that

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its like it dosent even see it

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hills is literally just this

warped sphinx Jun 17, 2023, 6:57 AM

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wise tangle Hills is the object its seeing then, idk much about UI you may have to rearrange...

i might look up some vids on ui

wise tangle Jun 17, 2023, 6:57 AM

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Yea im not entirely sure how the layering works

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im sure you could figure it out through trial and error though, but definitely watch a tutorial for like onhover effects or pointer enter. Same thing just different names

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