I'm working on a game using Unity Engine and C#. I'm a beginner.
I've created a Custom class called "Item" deriving from scriptable objects that is the basis of items in my game. An object of type Item is held in the 'Inventory', another class, which, contains Add and Remove Functions to add and remove objects of type Item from the inventory. I'm currently working on the Saving and Loading functions for the game, and since I can't save objects of type Item by serializing them to binary and putting them in a persistent data path, I instead have created code that saves the NAME of the item. My question is: How do I create and add an object Item (My custom class) from just the string of its name. (The property Item.name is shared with the actual name of the object in Unity). I've added Comments to my code to hopefully make it easier to understand what I'm trying to do.
Here is the Class Item:
public class Item : ScriptableObject
{
new public string name = "New Item";
public Sprite icon = null;
public bool isDefaultItem = false;
public virtual void Use()
{
Debug.Log("USING: " + name);
}
public void RemoveFromInventory()
{
Inventory.instance.Remove(this);
}
}
Here is the Class Inventory, which contains the Add and Remove Functions, taking in an Item:
using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;
using System.Text;
public class Inventory : MonoBehaviour
{
public static Inventory instance;
private bool alreadyExists = false;
public static int space = 20;
Vector3 playerPosition;
private void Awake()
{
if (instance != null)
{
Debug.LogWarning("More than 1 inventory");
return;
}
instance = this;
}
public List<Item> items = new List<Item>();
public static List<string> index = new List<string>();
public delegate void OnItemChanged();
public OnItemChanged onItemChangedCallback;
//These are the functions to add and remove an item to the inventory, Taking in an item, of type Item, from my custom class Item.
public bool Add (Item item)
{
if (!item.isDefaultItem)
{
if (items.Count >= space)
{
Debug.Log("NOT ENOUGH SPACE IN INV");
return false;
}
items.Add(item);
index.Add(item.name);
}
if (onItemChangedCallback != null)
onItemChangedCallback.Invoke();
return true;
}
public void Remove(Item item)
{
items.Remove(item);
index.Remove(item.name);
if (onItemChangedCallback != null)
onItemChangedCallback.Invoke();
}
}
Here is the class that actually contains the code in which the problem lies; where I need to somehow instantiate or create an Item and add it to the inventory from the name of the Item. See the LoadInv() for where I need to put it.
using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;
using System.Text;
public class InventoryAttached : MonoBehaviour
{
public string[] invArray;
string all;
//This is the Saving Seperator
char[] delimiter = { '.' };
public void SaveInv()
{
InvSaveSystem.SaveInv(this);
}
public void LoadInv()
{
//Code that gets data for the items that need to be added to the inventory
InvData data = InvSaveSystem.LoadInv(); //This is the Data from my binary formatter
all = ConvertStringArrayToString(data.invSlot);
invArray = all.Split(delimiter);
//For loop that iterates through the inventory array containing the names of the items stored in the inventory
for (int i = 0; i < invArray.Length; i++)
{
Debug.Log(invArray[i]);
//Here, I would like to use my Add function to add the items to the inventory
// It would look something like this: Inventory.instance.Add(invArray[i[]);
}
}
static string ConvertStringArrayToString(string[] array) //Converter Code used to convert to and from string arrays
{
// Concatenate all the elements into a StringBuilder.
StringBuilder builder = new StringBuilder();
foreach (string value in array)
{
builder.Append(value);
builder.Append('.');
}
return builder.ToString();
}
static string ConvertStringArrayToStringJoin(string[] array)
{
// Use string Join to concatenate the string elements.
string result = string.Join(".", array);
return result;
}
}
Just for reference, here is the class InvData, which contains the string array that My saving system formats into binary and saves to the HD.
using System;
using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Text;
using UnityEngine;
using System.Text.RegularExpressions;
[System.Serializable]
public class InvData
{
public string[] invSlot;
public InvData(InventoryAttached inv)
{
invSlot = new string[Inventory.index.Count];
for (int i = 0; i < Inventory.index.Count; i++)
{
invSlot[i] = Inventory.index[i];
}
}
}
