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One of the new conditional components that is in v4.2. They have several build in conditions and you can easily add your own plugable conditions. Everything is message message for performance. This will really help with setting up things in your game and by using the Context property you can now create powerful custom selection buttons with much less effort.

 

Didn't make it the upcoming version v4.2, however a Vietnamese translation is included in the development code ready for the following release.

.. many thanks for Truong Giang for the contribution

 

Experimental feature to allow for associating variables with GameItems along with a corresponging API to acces them. Future improvements will include more types and a custom editor.

 

v4.2 is released. Some big enhancements to GameItem Buttons, Unlocking, Purchasing and rolling out of the Context concept further to a number of components. Also included are new configurable and extendable EnableBasedUponXxx components.

See here for a full list of changes and be sure to check out the updated GameStructure demo.

Let me know if any feedback or comments

 

New Colliders ready for the next version Win Level, Lose Level, Star:

 

A bit of a breather from new features to focus on quality. There were already some test cases in place (there will be more). Using some time now updating scripts for better automation of build, and testing of the many different features and integrations including against different Unity versions and configurations. The result a better higher quality product and less time on manual testing.

 

New colliders custom editor in place - improvements with customisable conditions coming in the future...

 

Game Framework works great with PlayMaker! Currently working on additional Playmaker Actions - access to Level and Player coins, score health and lives. Let me know if there are other actions that you need.

 

Improving and cleaning up the GameManager interface:

 

New modifiers for the localise text component:

 

v4.3.1 is submitted to the Asset Store for review with some of the features mentioned above. Should be available in a few days..

 

v4.3.1 is released with improved GameManager setup, some localisation additions, several new PlayMaker scripts and several other minor improvements and fixes.

See here for a full list of changes and be sure to check out the updated GameStructure demo.

 

The Getting Started Tutorial is updated to cover some of the new changes to GameManager and use of the different setup and unlock modes.

 

A new set of components coming in the next version for setting things up based upon Level, World, Player or Character variables.

 

New Master With Overrides Level setup mode - Ideal if you have lots of similar levels that you want to create from a configuration file without the effort of creating individual config files. Also allows ti optionally override a few with custom configuration if needed.

 

Working on a major overhaul of the localisation system. Finally starting to get the editor to play nicely:

 

Localisation enhancements are merged into the git master branch ready for final testing. Let me know if you notice any issues, otherwise a new release should be submitted to the asset store within the next few days.

 

Colors now available for configuring within the GameItem (Level, Player,...) Variables section

 

Google translate is now integrated to the localisation editor for easy translation - just press the translate button next to the field you want translated.

 

Added SetPositionFromGameItemVariable, SetRotationFromGameItemVariable, SetScaleFromGameItemVariable components and implementations for Character, Level, Player and World.

 

GameManager now has a list of (Global) Variables for use for your own purpose..

 

A bit quiet over the summer with vacation, but in case you missed it v4.4 was released with the rewritten localisation system, Gamemanager variables and new setup mode, new variable types along with other diverse updates and fixes. Hard at work again on a load of new cool features.

See here for a full list of changes.

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New option to Colliders to add your own call backs along with custom editor. More cool features planned for the future too for this component..

 

Fully customisable counters are coming:

 

Refactoring some of the GameItem code to support the new Counters feature and at the same time including unit tests to verify the quality and functioning. Here is a sample so far:

 

A way to show the new counters, options to show amount, best, last saved, ...:

 

Counters are now added to the cheat functions window so you can easily test your game.

 

New release with the new counters features is submitted for review. Also updated Prefs Editor (included in the extras bundle) to display and work with Editor Preferences:

 

Keep up the amazing work!!!

 

v4.5 is released with new customisable GameItem counters and several other minor improvements and fixes.

See here for a full list of changes



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Change Counter Over Time component added for automatically changing a counter over time.

Announcement coming in the next couple of days on some big new features in the soon to be released v5.0!

 

More counter components: SetImageColorFromCounter, SetSpriteRendererColorFromCounter, SetTextColorFromCounter and SetImageFillAmountFromCounter

 

The soon to be released v5.0 includes the concept of plugable Actions so you can easily configure things just as you want. Shown below is the new Collision Handler component that replaces the collider components and lets you specify what should happen when a collision occurs.

This feature will of course be in both the free version and the extras bundle.

 

In addition to actions v5.0 will include plugable Conditions. One of the components that uses this is the ConditionalAction component shown below that lets you perform actions when certain conditions change. This saves time and gives great power without needing to know the underlying API (which is still available). It also utilises messaging to give improved performance over polling for condition changes.

 

Update is submitted for review. Started adding Game Action support to Beautiful Transitions so you can trigger transitions and other things. First up Shake (e.g. you could show particles and shake the camera / a GameObject on a collition):

 

Do you have any working examples of creating/loading levels or world via script? I want to dynamically create world and level buttons based on data downloaded from a backend webserver during run time.

 

Hi @blacksun666. There should be a couple of ways to do this, however are you thinking of loading all information from the webserver (without local configuration files) or combining the two? Also what type of information are you thinking of loading and how often (once per game or continually)?

Based upon what you need, I can go into more detail however at a high level, for the first option you would need to setup and populate the GameItemManager collection manually (e.g. GameManager.Instance.Levels.Items), the second you could subclass the GameItem (e.g. Level), override the CustomInitialisation method and then create instances of this in the resources folder.

Ref. your mail, it is probably correct that the Extending Levels tutorial fails as API improvements have meant there are simpler ways of doing what was mentioned. I have marked the tutorial as deprecated. Thanks for letting me know.

 

Hi and thanks for getting back on thus so quickly.
Currently I am downloading information about worlds in the title scene, this includes the name of each of the worlds and an addional field int Id. There are at most 8 worlds returned out of about 32 possible options and their sprites are stored locally and not downloaded.
I'd like to display the worlds in a simple grid in the 'menu' scene. When a world is clicked on I need to request and download the data for the levels for that world. There is at most 16 levels, again Sprite data is locally stored, but the level data includes name and additional fields int Id, string and 6 additional string,int pairs fir the enemies on that level.
So basically I only ever download data twice, firstly to get all the data for the worlds, then secondly to download all the data for the chosen worlds' levels. Players will never be given the chance to select a second world, they have to relaunch the app if they wanted to do this.
I am happy with either option to subclass worlds and levels, or to use the variables options provided for both classes, but want to create the worlds, levels on the screen populated with the extra data.
As the data I get back from the server is json, I did wonder about changing the GitHub code to include supporting json strings as a source as an alternative to json files, but that's probably even harder than the manual options via script.

 

@blacksun666 One of the issues is going to be how to handle the async download of the data and combining that with other setup to make sure everything is in place before you use things. If the number of worlds and levels is fixed then the simplest option might be:

• Some sort of loading screen that downloads all data (world and level) and caches this with suitable handling of download / internet access errors. I am assuming that the data is small enough that downloading everything won't have a negative impact. You could inherit from the Singleton component or set DontDestroyOnLoad to keep the component with the cached data alive between any scene changes.
• Create subclasses of Level / World and override the CustomInitialisation() method to access the cached, downloaded data and set / use the data as appropriate.
• Use the above subclasses to create resource files for use with the standard setup method for worlds / levels

Does that sound like it might work?

 

I was hoping to only download the data for the world the user selects as they have to pick a world and play that worlds levels, but guess I could just take the hit and download it all as its about 64KB. What I was hoping was to create the world and buttons via a script similar to the example in the extending custom levels section (although that example is no longer up to date.
The number of worlds and levels varies but would it be possible without disrupting the system to disable the buttons for any worlds or levels that arent in the downloaded data by disabling the gameobject perhaps in the custominit routine?
As I mentioned in the email, one option I was wondering about is to add an option to load the data from a resource that is held in a variable (struct or json string) rather than a file on the disk although that does seem more involved and any updates to the framework might break my changes.
Basically the problem I have is that the world/level data is not static and definately isnt known before the game starts and will be different each day.

 

I would initially start simple with downloading all the data and iterate to splitting the loading if that is a problem. You could do this by having a 'loading' scene that downloads the data and automatically swaps to the next menu scene when the downloaded is complete. Even over mobile 64kb should download in less than a second.

As for the display, it is important to distinguish between the GameItem that holds the data and the display components. If you for example update the GameItem Name in a CustomInitialisation() method on your Level subclass to your downloaded data then that will be displayed automatically in the appropriate place, same with other standard data.

As for a more customised display, currently in things like the LevelButton most of the UI references are hard coded and so GameObjects must keep similar names to maintain the same functionality (you can find names by looking at the component source that controls them). In the future I will change this behaviour to make more use of the Conditional Action and other components for even greater flexibility, and you can indeed use these component today. Creating a subclass of e.g. LevelButton and using that instead should allow you to disable any GameObject or otherwise customise the display and use your new data.

Loading data from a variable or string rather than disk is an option, but probably something best done in the CustomInitialisation() method as such needs will likely vary from case to case. There is also how to handle things that can't easily be parsed from a string such as image / prefab reference and the like.

If you want to add me on Skype (same as my email) then we can take a closer chat if any of the above is unclear.

 

v5.0 is now released with much of the above including reusable Conditions and GameActions to save time and coding. Also new counter components, and more...

Note: Always take a backup before upgrading. See here for a full list of changes

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v5.0.1 is out. Couple of minor changes to support the new Beautiful Transitions v5.0 which is also included in the Extras Bundle.

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Working on a replacement getting started tutorial (that will actually be a bit more fun to play ). Will announce again here once the series is ready.

 

Added GameAction support for targeting the 'other' gameobject when involved in a collision. Shown is the Transition Out action from Beautiful Transitions, however this also works with all Game Actions.

 

Added customisable targets to game actions so you can swap between the current gameobject, a specified one, or the colliding gameobject.

 

New Run Game Action component for automatically running a list of Game Actions, or adding as a callback from some other component that doesn't natively support Game Actions e.g. UI Button.

 

Adding a full set of game actions for Beautiful Transitions so you can add nice effects.

 

v5.0.2 is out. New RunGameAction component. Game Action improvements. Updated to include Beautiful Transitions v5.1. Several other improvements and fixes. Note: Always take a backup before upgrading.

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A few small updates coming soon to Pro Pooling that is in the extras bundle. First a cleaned up PoolManager inspector window: