Question Help with Assembly definition for the Volvo Vehicle Sample Project

Hello, I'm working an a project using the Volvo vehicle sample project, but I'm having trouble accessing a script iv'e created from within one of the sample Volvo scripts.
I'm trying to change their input system to use the new input system inside of DemoCarController.cs, but I'm getting this good old error message ...

"Assets\Addins\External\VolvoCars\Scripts\Runtime\Controllers\CarController\DemoCarController.cs(34,30): error CS0246: The type or namespace name 'InputManager' could not be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)"

The file i'm trying to access from within DemoCarController is InputManager, and is located as per the following image.


I have no idea how these assemble definitions work so could use some help with them please. (Assuming that I even need one, and this can't be fixed another way.)


I know I could just re-write the Volvo code and put it in the same scripts folder as my code, or but I'd rather not have to do that.

Thanks in advance.

 

Ok, quick update, I located an asmdef in Assets\Addins\External\VolvoCars\Scripts\Runtime, I added a reference to a new asmdef I created in my scripts folder and everything can see each other. But now I get a cyclic dependencies error.

One or more cyclic dependencies detected between assemblies: Assembly-CSharp-Editor, Assembly-CSharp, Assets/MainGame/Scripts/MainGameScripts.asmdef, Assets/Addins/External/VolvoCars/Utility/Editor/com.volvocars.public.utility.editor.asmdef, Assets/Addins/External/VolvoCars/Scripts/Runtime/com.volvocars.public.vehicle_fundamentals.asmdef, Assets/Addins/External/VolvoCars/Scripts/Editor/com.volvocars.public.vehicle_fundamentals.editor.asmdef

I guess I need help with this issue instead now!

 

You can't have assembly A reference assembly B, if B references A. This also generalizes to more than 2 assemblies, you can't have A->B->C and then have C->A, since that's an infinite loop: A->B->C->A->B->C->A.... etc.

Just make sure than your assemblies form a tree-like structure instead of a loop. This might need refactoring your code to ensure there's no cyclic dependency chains.

 

I couldn't be bothered to find out which .asmdef to link to what, so I just deleted them all.

Problem "solved"

Maybe one day I'll actually try and figure it out correctly. But I doubt it.

 

Just keep in mind that compilation times will likely increase as a result, since the entire project needs to be recompiled after every change now.