Wow haha, I feel stupid.

Has anyone ever sat for hours upon hours trying to wonder why your script just doesn't work when it turns out you just forgot to put it on the Player? HAHA.

 

Haha! All the bloody time! Lol!

 

That's just absurd, I've never done anything like that.*

* That statement is a bull-faced lie

 

daily.

 

I've edited scripts and wondered why they don't work, ARGH! NOTHING HAPPENING! (oh, I was editing a script from the wrong project folder).

 

hahahahaahahaha glad I'm not the only one!!!!

 

I would not dare try to count the times I've done this exact same thing.

 

LOL I've done that a few times my self LOL.

 

Identical story.

I was playing around with Unity's UI and was trying to figure out why the script doesn't do anything when I press the button.

Hour later I realized I didn't assign my function to the UI.

 

In my experience, all weird bugs and techincal errors we get end with someone finally saying "Gah! I'm an idiot!...".

 

hahahahahah soooo true!
If you ask me, they should start teaching programming in High School or heck even middle school, it will help develop kids brains to actually think for once lol.

(Lord only knows I needed something like this when I was younger to stay outta trouble LOL)

 

They do, if you're lucky

 

Yeah same thing here, usually I make a function that is meant to run every frame, but I forget to put it in the update loop and spend 10 minutes mucking around. It is then I figure out, I was the slowest person in those 10 minutes.

 

I've tried to get into programming as a kid and I even had some basic Java leraning blocks at university but to be honest - before I actually really really wanted to learn more about it the concepts never really stuck to my brain. As much as I am for having a basic programming course at school I think it should be offered as voluntarily learning blocks for those interested in more than the basics. And game scripting should be a thing. Not just calculators or a command line text version of the towers of hanoi.

obligatory disclaimer: I still would never consider myself a programmer. I am an artist but I am starting to grasp concepts and get things done.

(edit) and on topic - yes I've also wondered why scripts don't work which I had not stuck onto any game object yet. But I actually like those *facepalm* moments when it clicks you actually find the thing that went wrong. As long as it didn't cost too much time.

 

yeah that's what I meant LOL.

And pfft, I've spent DAYS of 16 hour days not knowing why something just didn't work and could have sworn I've checked and nope wasn't on player LOL.

 

Someone should write a plugin to warn you if you're editing an unused script more than 2 times in a row.

 

That's actually a good idea LOL.
But how would this said script know LOL?

 

No.

 

Hi

 

No

 

This thing happens to me sometimes

 

When I have the willpower to use proper style, I never have this issue, because there's only 1 gameobject and 1 script in the scene.

There are other scripts... but not until the game runs.

 

The most common problem I've had programming in the past is forgetting to place a single semicolon or bracket somewhere.
Queue hours of hair-pulling...

 

Doesn't Unity point out where error is?

 

That's why I said "in the past".

 

Debug.Log("Line reached");
*stare at the blank console*

GRAAAH!

 

10 PRINT "ONY"
20 GOTO 11

 

It once took me many hours to find some mistake in a PHP script I was writing. Turned out to be I forgot a $ sign in front of some variable so it looked like a constant and it gave no error.

 

Gotta love that unique and awkward $Syntax. Is there a swagscript language that uses #variable?

 

Now this, I have done, just recently in fact.

 

Over the years .... I think I've learned "Hello World!" in 7 - 9 different languages I never followed further.

 

The challenge there is what is "unused". I have tons of scripts that reside only in the project or attached at runtime.

 

This may or may not have happened last night.

 

lool last night i had an
if ()
if()
and it shoulda been
if()
else if()
couldnt figure out why it didnt work for hoourrss.. and they code inside the ifs i changed sooo many times... what a dummy haha ><
... i was doing alot of things that just used if() just a little while before..

 

And here i thought i was the only one with 2 23inch lg monitors @1920x1280 resolution, with ultra edit open with 5 scripts in different size windows, unity, mono open with 10 tabs full, amongst the 20 other windows open with various other software running...(blender,winamp,email, sega emulator playing guardian heros (yes i got the rom lol) ...) yeah, i keep wondering why i keep chaninging scrilts in ultra edit and NOTHING happens, not even an error. Lol

 

Like tomnnn was saying, these kinds of mistakes are exactly why the first thing I always do if something doesn't run when I expect it to, is to stick a Debug.Log("blah"); or similar to ensure that code is ever actually reached! I do the same thing a lot. I have had too many moments of "where's the error in this method?" when the problem is really "did I ever actually call this method somewhere?". Oh how much time I'll spend re-re-re-writing working code haha.

 

Yea... it's a hard habit to overcome to assume something is wrong with the method or an unrelated part of the code without ever verifying that the code actually ran ._. But I'm mostly there now. Now, most methods will have debugs in them until they're working correctly

 

"Mam...uhh..... IS IT PLUGGED IN?"

LOL

 

Yup.

One time, I couldn't understand why my script wouldn't work, only to find out it was not attached to the gameobject. FML.

 

Just pretend the gameobjects are your facebook friends. If you're not seeing constant updates, something is wrong.

 

Yeap, that happens sometimes ( I realize it pretty soon though, not after several hours ).

A similar thing happens to me with 2D/3D Physics stuff. Tearing my hair out wondering why my OnTriggerEnter won't fire until finally realizing I'm not using 2D versions of the methods.

 

I guess we've all been there, done that lol
I did that especially when I started with Unity 2.6

Some months ago I wondered why my physic didn't change like I changed the values in the physic materials, of course I forgot to add the new one...