Relational Arrays

I've been thinking about my "player script."
It will have to keep track of several things each one an array onto itself.

Statistics, Player Condition, inventory, health of weapons, quest flags, etc.
How can I keep them all easily organized as a group? Should I use a relational database is there some form of relational array?
Any thoughts?
Thanks!

 

Not sure if this helps, but I figured I'd chime in ... personally, I would store them most game data in classes...

For example, I'd have a class that dealt with just inventory items. The playercontroller could then call functions on it like 'addtoinventory' or 'drop' etc.

You could have classes for your weapons, just simple classes consisting of a few variables like 'damage','power','type','name' or something then when an item is picked up, you actually add a reference to your class in the inventory array.

Your player control script could end up getting really messy if you try to store all in the one, so I would try to separate them in specific classes.

Good luck!

 

Yes, so would I. It might not seem very productive at first, but it's far better in the long run.

- Chris

 

I agree. To make some relations easier to work with, you could make public variables in the classes so that you can relate the objects together... say you have these classes: Character and Item.

The Character class could have one public variable called EquippedItems[] where you in the UnityGui can attach Items easily. That way, you can set up different player and enemy Prefabs using the editor.

/Ricky

 

I haven't seen anything to show how to save a game in progress. I'm guessing you have to import the IO functions from .net. Anyone have some code examples? If I'm using classes on the player, how exactly would I output that and once done, how to import it again to continue the fun?

Thanks!

 

Saving state can be made using RPC-calls to the server and letting the server save the information to a database or some kind of data files. I strongly recommend using a real database.