#need help with names and arrays
misty yew
@thin bobcat your logic isn't correct here. You have it written so that if ANY name in the list does not match collider's name, colliding becomes true
the moment you have two or more unique entries, colliding will always be true
thin bobcat
ok that makes sense
also I'm getting a NullReferenceException
oh actually that's what I wanted
@misty yew I want it to be that if his feet are touching anything, as long as it isn't the legs that they will be able to jump
misty yew
you can fix your loop logic to make it work. Your loop should check if any excludable matches other.name, and if it does return. Then after the loop, colliding = true
thin bobcat
I'm pretty sure the loop is working I just don't know why I'm getting the NullReferenceException error
the excludables are the ones that it shouldn't set colliding to true when it's touching
misty yew
rightFoot or leftFoot is probably null
yes but that logic is broken as-is like I mentioned, the moment you have two entries, it's impossible for one of them not to trigger your condition
thin bobcat
even if it's touching the leg because it will always be touching the leg, it is still supposed to count as colliding
oh my bad I see what you mean
do I have it set up right to add rightLeg.name to the rFoot.excludables array and same with the left or is there a problem with that?
I've never really worked with arrays in unity before
misty yew
no, but it'll throw index out of range instead of nullref
I suggest you use a List instead
List<string> as the type
then to add it's simply rFoot.excludables.Add(rightLeg.name)
thin bobcat
ok thx I'll try that and let you know if it works
with a list, do I use count instead of length?
misty yew
yeah
thin bobcat
hmm, I don't know if it's working because it's still giving that nullreferenceerror
misty yew
at what line?
thin bobcat
69 17 and 29
rFoot.excludables.Add(rightLeg.name);
for (int i = 0; i < excludables.Count; i++)
if (excludables.Count == 0)
misty yew
did you configure excludables in the inspector? that shouldn't be null
rFoot or rightLeg are probably the issue
oh that's probably what it is, you aren't configuring with serialized values at all
use this to initialize excludables: public List<string> excludables = new List<string>();