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• ehuvio

  November 2024

  BTW is there an easy way to combine several local variable into one global one?
• ChrisIceBox

  November 2024 edited November 2024

  Best to rely on global variables if you need to be able to access them without opening another scene. Opening each scene at the start of the game to gather local variables would cause issues with the startup logic for each scene.

  You could still rely on separate global variables for each scene, but if you wanted to combine them into one, you'd need to have another unique separator between each data block, and precede each data block with a scene identifier. Your hints variable would then look something like:

  SceneA_Hint1,Hint2,Hint3|SceneB_Hint1_Hint2_Hint3|SceneC etc
  
• ehuvio

  November 2024 edited November 2024

  Hi, I actually managed it so that all the hints are in one string like this ObjectId-boolean-boolean-boolean;NextOne. And the actual hints are stored in Object description as csv and managed by the same ObjectId.

  With this approach there's no need to manage hints by scenes.

  BTW I would really like a tool in which one could see the variable changes in real time. Something like a spreadsheet. That would also have a visual tip when values change - something like a background color flash.
• ChrisIceBox

  November 2024

  The OnVariableChange event can be used to record changes in variable values.

  A rough example, that outputs such changes to the Console:

  using UnityEngine;
  using AC;
  
  public class ShowVariableChanges : MonoBehaviour
  {
  
      void OnEnable () { EventManager.OnVariableChange += OnVariableChange; }
      void OnDisable () { EventManager.OnVariableChange -= OnVariableChange; }
  
      void OnVariableChange (GVar variable)
      {
          Debug.Log ("Variable " + variable.label + " changed to "  + variable.GetValue ());
      }
  
  }