Adding text label to sprite

Kingsley Obeng

13:00

having now created hand tile as a ui..with rect form , I added the tilescript basic tile, but its not blue

Zibelas

blue = prefab

we dont need it blue

you see my last two screenshots dont have it blue as well

Kingsley Obeng

yes, but there suddenly isnt a prefab basic tile to add

Zibelas

you want a prefab if you decide you need many copies of something

Kingsley Obeng

your one has it blue

Zibelas

that one should be in your asset folder

Kingsley Obeng

13:01

I'll check again

Zibelas

ah, you mean in the answer post

i might have made it a prefab in the question, makes no difference if it is or not in this case

Kingsley Obeng

ok, I think I see the problem

when I create a handtile, via create empty, it is a child and has a rect transform, but it doesnt give me the option to choose the size like your does

Zibelas

it should be always possible to edit that

Kingsley Obeng

which anchor preset did u use?

Zibelas

for hand tile?

none

Kingsley Obeng

13:07

yeah...ok

Zibelas

just created an emnpty one and changed width to 800

Kingsley Obeng

so with my handtile, I have rect transform section and tile bag

as in tilebag (scipt)

thats it

Zibelas

add the grid layout group

Kingsley Obeng

aaaah

how do I do that

Zibelas

click the button

add component

and start typing grid layout

and select the correct one

Kingsley Obeng

13:08

go it

got it

Zibelas

try hitting play again

Kingsley Obeng

ok, now last thing...if oyu look at your last screenshot the selected basic tile is prefab..I havent got this option for some reason

Zibelas

which last screenshot?

from here or from answer

Kingsley Obeng

in fact both basic fab and the handtile are both prefab..for some reason I can't select ...oh drag and drop??

Zibelas

creating prefab is from hierarchy to assets

by drag and drop

Kingsley Obeng

13:10

last screenshot in the main instruction nr.9

Zibelas

you can forget about that part that it is not a prefab

you will create anyway only one hand at a time since I doubt you are going to display the tiles of your opponents, right?

Kingsley Obeng

and how did u get the prefab of handtile?

Zibelas

but yeah, if you want a prefab, just drag the tilehand to assets

Kingsley Obeng

just right click on handtile in hirarchy , right?

Zibelas

no, drag and drop from handtiles in hierarchy to assets folder

Kingsley Obeng

13:12

prefab = prefabricated, right? Starting to understand:)

Zibelas

probably, no idea for what it stands

it is just called prefab by everyone

docs.unity3d.com/Manual/Prefabs.html

Kingsley Obeng

I can't get my handtile in hierarchy to be prefab

Zibelas

and the error is what?

Kingsley Obeng

OMG...nearly there...I changed the grid of handtile to 800 and now, at least I see all the randomly created letters and numbers, but there all next tiles instead of on them

so wierd that I can't share pictures with you

yeah, so no error, I just have a gME WITH 6 white tiles and letters and numbers left of the tiles

so now I'm trying to adjust the positions of the letters and points

I double clicked the letters and I get all sorts of coloured lines

I thought it would be clear what I need to drag in which part

Zibelas

you want to adjust the prefab of the tile

Kingsley Obeng

13:20

you know what I mean?

I guess,yeah...how do I do that?

ah

Zibelas

do a double click on the BasicTile in your assets

Kingsley Obeng

double click in assets ,righT?

yeah

Zibelas

give it under letter one letter

and points as well

adjust so it looks good

Kingsley Obeng

ok, and how do I save the prefab again after adjusting

?

although I have a tick on autosave

Zibelas

that should be all

top left you see scenes / basictile, you can click on scenes to get back to your scene view

Kingsley Obeng

13:23

no, it needs to csave and compile somehow..no difference

I was doing the amendments on scene

is that wrong?

Zibelas

hard to say

never make changes while in play mode

those are temporary and only last until you hit stop playing, reverting back to before playing

in the scene (or hierarchy) you should not be able to make changes of the Basic Tile since we dont have a Basic Tile in the Hierarchy

Kingsley Obeng

how do i stop play.? I don-'t see a stop button:)

Zibelas

just click the play button again

Kingsley Obeng

ah...lol

Zibelas

about the uload function, you need 100 reputation of stackoverflow to upload images in chat

Kingsley Obeng

13:28

oh I see

the positioning isnt working, but I know what to play around with I think...how can I thank you?

Zibelas

which part

Kingsley Obeng

its actually weird its not changing positions of the letters or points

Zibelas

well, without seeing what you did I cant tell you what you did wrong

Kingsley Obeng

I might just follow your whole instructons again, maybbe Ive just played about too much with the environment

Zibelas

when you click on the prefab

ich should look like thos

Kingsley Obeng

13:30

definately doesnt:)

Zibelas

plus a background that i was too lazy to add

Kingsley Obeng

Ive got about 3 circles and 2 rectangles

..and yeah, oh, an"A" from my text input:)

I think I understand the environment now good enough to follow your instructions afresh;)

Zibelas

sure, give it a try and see if you are stuck still somewhere

this is the basic of basics of unity

Kingsley Obeng

actually

Zibelas

(at least for any 2D tutorial)

Kingsley Obeng

13:33

it seems like my letter is a 3D sphere...I can move it around like a ball..do I have the wrong component maybe?

Zibelas

no, the right one

just wrong tool selected

Kingsley Obeng

..which would explain the circles around my A

Zibelas

you probably have the third to the left selected

Kingsley Obeng

oh yeah

so, I just click prefab again and choose the other one?

so I just select the hand

There's so much to this environment, its crazy

Zibelas

well, it is a full game editor

you use most of those tool if you want to edit 3D enviroment

Kingsley Obeng

13:39

o, I see the problem

when I look at the prefab of my basic tile I see the texts are all to the left of my tile how do I change that?

Zibelas

it is like saying photoshop has 100 buttons and menus when you just want to change

Kingsley Obeng

thats actually it

Zibelas

make sure that all x and y are 0

start from top to buttom

like basic tile first

than background, letter and points afterwards

we want to have it 0, 0 because later in game when we spawn it, we are giving it the position

but a prefab should always be 0,0 to not make weird things

Kingsley Obeng

ok

let me try that

scale and pivot on 0 as well?

pivot is on 0.5

I think I got that from you

Zibelas

thats the default

Kingsley Obeng

13:45

for some reason there's a lot of concentration on the bottom left corner

Zibelas

the number will get a 1 in all, but that will happen automatically if you assign the anchor present

Kingsley Obeng

strange

Zibelas

i do not understand

what you mean

Kingsley Obeng

sometimes "NewTExt" is written downwards, sometimes to the left

Zibelas

because the field is only so big

and text has to fit so it tries to change the wording to fit the box

remove it to a single letter

since that is what your tile later has to display

Kingsley Obeng

13:46

ok

my pref letter and point actually have A and 5 in them respectively...I don't know where its getting the "New Text" from

Zibelas

well, somewhere you have most likely on your prefab another text component that still has new text written

Kingsley Obeng

ah, Ive found where the components of my prefab are being valuated from

so tell me, what do u do? is this your job?

Zibelas

no, just a hobby

Kingsley Obeng

wow...you just love helping out

Zibelas

im just bored

and dont felt like working

Kingsley Obeng

13:50

and you have so much time? Do u have loads of apps running currently?

excellent

u in europe right now?

Zibelas

yes

im a normal fullstack dev

Kingsley Obeng

don't mean to pry but which country?

Zibelas

but i can usually finish my expected workload for the day in like 1-2h

slovakia

Kingsley Obeng

oh ok, because you're so good...I get it

u have apps running?

Zibelas

what apps?

Kingsley Obeng

13:52

well I would have thought you'd be making loads of money creating apps on app store, no?

Zibelas

i dont have a single on app store

nothing published

Kingsley Obeng

wh not...if I may ask?

*why

Zibelas

because Im too lazy to make a full game

at least the grafic design part

Kingsley Obeng

oh ok

ok, a general question to my project, what do I need to check up on, as you know what I'm intending..what to read up on, or other languages maybe? Just general adviccce to creating a peer to peer game like that

Zibelas

and a bad looking game is not selling regardless of game play

networking for that scrabble?

Kingsley Obeng

13:54

yeah...well generlly..maybe something I might not have thought about

I mean I'm suing unity because unity adviced me to

*using

because chat gpt adviced me to

:)

Zibelas

i think from the big engines, unity is the easiest

compared to unreal or godot

Kingsley Obeng

ok

Zibelas

actually, i made one test game

zibelas.itch.io/splendor

Kingsley Obeng

so unity will allow me to do the whol thing right?

Zibelas

DemoTest

Kingsley Obeng

13:57

*whole

Zibelas

yes, it will allow you to make a platform independent game

Kingsley Obeng

right up to setting it up in app store?

Zibelas

i think you will need to set it up in the app store itself and not with unity

because app store is google

Kingsley Obeng

what about the peer2peer aspect..for me to practise using it with other people is that possible in a beta version somehow

Zibelas

but it will create an apk that you can upload

Kingsley Obeng

13:59

ok

Zibelas

mirror-networking.gitbook.io

Kingsley Obeng

damn, with your knowledge I'd have 20 apps running ...hahahaa...

Zibelas

this is the network library I use with Unity

Kingsley Obeng

got so many ideas....

Zibelas

you can have a lokal network modus with it

Kingsley Obeng

14:00

and you can fuse existing real succesful games...don't ven need to be creative

Zibelas

so basically one player is playing server for the others to join

Kingsley Obeng

oh ok

cool

Zibelas

not even internet required, just wlan

if you manage that to get working correctly, there is no difference for a real peer to peer with a server

Kingsley Obeng

ok

Zibelas

just a change in the controller for where the server is

so if you have a mobile phone, you can test at your computer for player one

and your phone is player 2

Kingsley Obeng

14:01

another meeting :(

Zibelas

fair warning

on a difficulty of 1 to 10, this here would be a 0.5

and networking is in the range of 8+

Kingsley Obeng

I'm working as a data scientist...but our dept is being dissolved...getting laid off

so I have quite a bit of time

I mainly use python...and in the past VBA, but this environment is something else...very interesting

Zibelas

the game i linked to you that i made

is using machine learning for the ai

which is basically written in python

but i can only read the basics of phyton, not really code in it

if you go unity, you should know c# or learn it

as for you game

forget multiplayer for a start

get it working a single player with all functionality

remote call procedures are a pain to debug if your normal game logic is not even working yet

the main part of splendor game was to figure out how to write a working AI, not to get the game nice and working

so i lost interest in it once the ai was good enough

if you know how/ what you want in your scrabble, it is probably a 2-3 day project of coding, it is not that complicated of a game

some drag and drop, word + point evaluation and thats it

i have to go in around 30min

if you have anything else needs clarification

Zibelas

14:20

you can ping me on Discord under the same nick if you have further questions since I usually dont chat here

Kingsley Obeng

cool

listen I need to go off...

I wanted to thank you so much for your time..

I'm not as stupid as I seem..lol

Zibelas

sure thing

Kingsley Obeng

I just hadserious difficulties with this envionment..

Zibelas

im soon off as well

Kingsley Obeng

Can I contact you somehow? If I get stuck?

is that ok?

Zibelas

14:26

yes, preferable over discord

and you should have image upload available there as well

this chat here is good for clarifications, but doesnt really keep history and is more a public chat room

Kingsley Obeng

oh that would be great

whats your account name at discord?

Zibelas

same nick, should be zibelas there too

Kingsley Obeng

cool zibelas ..I'm kingz there

I only used it for Starcraft 2 a while ago..but it seems tobe getting more popular discord

*to be

Zibelas

your settings are not allowing friend requests

there are a lot of indy game devs on discord

Kingsley Obeng

really?

Zibelas

14:29

almost any game i play has a discord for the game

Kingsley Obeng

u seen the request?

fantastic dude

chat later

peace!

Zibelas

take care

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