No Cinemachine Script Defines / Symbols?

Given that Cinemachine allows developers to integrate custom code and features, why are there no default scripting symbols for cinemachine (e.g. #define CINEMACHINE)?

Let's say I decided to create an integration with Cinemachine and my own camera system. Without any defined symbols, end users would need to take an extra step of deleting files, or unchecking the folder for scripts in an asset import, just so they don't get errors.

This to me seems like quite an oversight. Maybe we could see such a thing in a future release? It's only 1 line of code, and it makes a world of a difference to developers like me.

Thanks, hope to hear back.

 

Okay, wasn't aware that that would occur with that approach, however I don't believe that invalidates my suggestion. To clarify, I'm asking if it's possible for you to implement a scripting symbol (see below) that developers can use to manage their project dependencies?



Example:
Lets say I'm making a camera controller system, at the moment if I want to integrate cinemachine I have to create a separate unity package so that users without cinemachine don't receive compilation errors when using my camera controller system. However, if you included a script define symbol, I could use utilize that during initialization and/or at runtime to dynamically manage my dependencies without users needing to do any "extra" steps.

Hope this makes sense! Thanks!

EDIT:
After thinking a bit more about it, I could technically manage this on my own by adding a custom symbol when a user clicks some button or checkbox, however I feel it would be nicer for cinemachine itself to provide this out of the box.

 

You can do this on your side through an assembly definition (asmdef) asset.

If you create an asmdef asset, you would add a dependency to Cinemachine (via the assembly definition references list). Then you use the version defines list in your asmdef to let Unity generate a define for you, that you can check against in your code.



If the

com.unity.addressables

package is present and its version is greater or equal 0.0.0, then Unity sets the specified

ADDRESSABLES_PRESENT

symbol that I can use in my package code.

 

Holy cow, that's awesome! Thanks man. Question = answered