Opened a new project using 2021.3.8f1. Followed update suggestion to upgrade to new editor.
Started doing Create with code tutorial. I’m redoing the tutorial to learn C# coding and typed in translate.Transform (1,0,0); and the placeholder moves in the wrong direction. This code should move the placeholder in the x direction Right? Instead it is moving in the y direction. When I move the 1 to the y postion, then the place holder moves in the x direction. I can work around it to do redo the tutorial but would like to know if
I can fix this. I am too new to Unity and coding to figure out this problem. Very frustrated with Unity.
This is Grade A nonsense. If you type nonsense I think you can expect … errors.
Do you perhaps mean transform.Translate(); with some kind of movement argument(s)?
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- what you tried
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Tutorials and example code are great, but keep this in mind to maximize your success and minimize your frustration:
How to do tutorials properly, two (2) simple steps to success:
Step 1. Follow the tutorial and do every single step of the tutorial 100% precisely the way it is shown. Even the slightest deviation (even a single character!) generally ends in disaster. That’s how software engineering works. Every step must be taken, every single letter must be spelled, capitalized, punctuated and spaced (or not spaced) properly, literally NOTHING can be omitted or skipped.
Fortunately this is the easiest part to get right: Be a robot. Don’t make any mistakes.
BE PERFECT IN EVERYTHING YOU DO HERE!!
If you get any errors, learn how to read the error code and fix your error. Google is your friend here. Do NOT continue until you fix your error. Your error will probably be somewhere near the parenthesis numbers (line and character position) in the file. It is almost CERTAINLY your typo causing the error, so look again and fix it.
Step 2. Go back and work through every part of the tutorial again, and this time explain it to your doggie. See how I am doing that in my avatar picture? If you have no dog, explain it to your house plant. If you are unable to explain any part of it, STOP. DO NOT PROCEED. Now go learn how that part works. Read the documentation on the functions involved. Go back to the tutorial and try to figure out WHY they did that. This is the part that takes a LOT of time when you are new. It might take days or weeks to work through a single 5-minute tutorial. Stick with it. You will learn.
Step 2 is the part everybody seems to miss. Without Step 2 you are simply a code-typing monkey and outside of the specific tutorial you did, you will be completely lost. If you want to learn, you MUST do Step 2.
Of course, all this presupposes no errors in the tutorial. For certain tutorial makers (like Unity, Brackeys, Imphenzia, Sebastian Lague) this is usually the case. For some other less-well-known content creators, this is less true. Read the comments on the video: did anyone have issues like you did? If there’s an error, you will NEVER be the first guy to find it.
Beyond that, Step 3, 4, 5 and 6 become easy because you already understand!
Finally, when you have errors…
Remember: NOBODY here memorizes error codes. That’s not a thing. The error code is absolutely the least useful part of the error. It serves no purpose at all. Forget the error code. Put it out of your mind.
The complete error message contains everything you need to know to fix the error yourself.
The important parts of the error message are:
- the description of the error itself (google this; you are NEVER the first one!)
- the file it occurred in (critical!)
- the line number and character position (the two numbers in parentheses)
- also possibly useful is the stack trace (all the lines of text in the lower console window)
Always start with the FIRST error in the console window, as sometimes that error causes or compounds some or all of the subsequent errors. Often the error will be immediately prior to the indicated line, so make sure to check there as well.
All of that information is in the actual error message and you must pay attention to it. Learn how to identify it instantly so you don’t have to stop your progress and fiddle around with the forum.
I’m sorry that I posted a badly worded,looking for help message. I have had multiple Covids and sometimes I make mistakes . I solved the problem. Am trying to do my best and have only come on the forum a few times to ask for some help. For the last 8 months, I have been learning 3d design from zero. Never used 3d modeling programs or anything like that. Started learning Fusion 360, then Blender. Also taught myself 3d printing and designed a bunch of stands for my die cast car collection,as well as several doll stands for my wife’s doll collection. Had a designer make a Blender model for a game idea I had, many years ago. I’m almost 65 years old. So I know it seems silly for an old man to be making a game at this stage in life, but I am. Thank you for the detailed explanation of workflow. I am glad that you took the time to help me. I realized last night that I had typed translate.Transform() and made a mistake on that. Was coming back to this post to edit and correct. I am really trying hard to learn the coding. I’m taking Raja Biswas’s Udemy beginning C# programming course, and doing as many Youtube tutorials as my tired old brain can handle. Appreciate the help, sincerely. Really wish I could find something to help the damage that Covid caused to my thinking and focus. This journey has not been easy. I keep going.
Their screenshots showed the use of transform.Translate() so I think they just mistyped their post.
Learning to code/make games in Unity isn’t easy to begin with, let alone with covid brain fog. I applaud your efforts and encourage you to keep at it.
And there’s no harm in asking questions on the forum.