I want to write my own editor that would allow me to search the whole Assets folder for object type of X and make an AssetBundle from them.
I went through all the manuals and docs and it seems that they all use the Selection class to build the Assets Bundle.
But what if there are 10 000+ objects scattered in different folders and I don't want to select each manually, yet I still want to track their dependencies. Is there a way to do so?
I have already tried editing Selection.objects, but as much as I understand it's limited to one concrete scene.
Is it possible to skip the whole Selection class and just use BuildPipeline.BuildAssetBundle() method? If yes, how to get the correct list of objects that can be used? Do I need to write my own deep threading loop to get the dependencies?
All you need is a list of objects. That's it. How you get them is irrelevant. You can do that with the Selection class, but if you have other means of finding the assets, that's no problem either.
As for dependencies, keep in mind that your final call will be something like:
BuildPipeline.BuildAssetBundle(main_asset, objects_array, path, BuildAssetBundleOptions.CollectDependencies | BuildAssetBundleOptions.CompleteAssets);
See that BuildAssetBundleOptions.CollectDependencies? It will make sure that all the necessary dependencies for the objects you've specified get included as well.
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I'm trying to Save/Serialize a GameObject and its components (with their current values), but I don't think it's possible, any ideas ???
Keep in mind that I don't wanna use an asset from the assets store, I wanna code it myself.
Thanks in advance :)
Sorry I dont have the rep to make a comment. I use two methods to acheive this save state.
First is what programmer seems to suggest, make a class that hosts the property's needed to recreate the object. Component names can be saved as strings, then fetched using
gameObject.AddComponent(Type.GetType(componentName));
If you are doing this alot it may be worth checking out this forum first.Here
You can serialize these classes using the unity serializer(the string names of types will serialise. You may have to make a sub class to handle the values in each object of different type.
This can be a fairly complicated approach so I prefer a file path serialized for a prefab in the resources folder. Any values that need saving can be saved in a serializable class like first approach which is referenced in a script on the saved prefab. This script has a method to apply all details saved in the deserialized class to the prefab when it is created. The details are captured by the script,added to the class and serialized whenever the object state should be recorded.
The exact way this is managed may vary but I have done this myself with he ability to store any values I could need. Even if you use a third party serializer from the asset store you will still have trouble saving entire objects, but you will be able to get enough info to recreate.
I've managed to save the components I want (custom scripts) by saving them in a json file, then serializing them with binary so they can be more secure.
Thanks to everyone who tried to help tho...
I have hundreds of Catia V5 catparts and catproducts in a folder on hard disc. I want to know if a particular catpart is used in some catproduct or not. If it is not used in any product, I want to delete it and clean my hard disc. One way to do it is to open all catproducts one by one and check carefully they contain this model. This is cumbersome process and can lead to serious mistakes. Is there some automatic way to check it? If not, is it possible to write some macro for that purpose?
It is possible with a VBA script. If it's just Catpart file that your looking for in a product, then your script would work as follows
query your folder(s) for all catparts and catproducts.(use 2 dictionaries or arrays, one for each file type each)
Via a loop, Individually open and load each catproduct and essentially walk the tree and compare each child Catpart to your compiled list of catparts. If a match is found, movethe part to a new "white list"(dictionary or array)
Close the catproduct and check the next one.
Then, when all done, your original list(dictionary or array) will be your unused parts.
I'm not sure exactly how your models are built, but you may need to check for additional references/links in your catproducts (additional logic) before doing something like this.
I need to implement a custom ResultHandler but I am confused about how to actually integrate my custom class into the software package.
I have read this: http://elki.dbs.ifi.lmu.de/wiki/HowTo/InvokingELKIFromJava but my question is how are you meant to implement a custom result handler such that it shows up in the GUI?
The only way I can think of doing it is by extracting the elki.jar package and manually inserting my custom class into the source code, and then re-jarring the package. However I am fairly sure this is not the way it is meant to be done.
Also, in my resulthandler I need to output all the rows to a single text file with the cluster that each row belongs to displayed. How tips on how I can achieve this?
There are two questions in here.
in order to make your class instantiable by the UIs (both MiniGUI and command line), the classes must implement our Parameterization API. There are essentially two choices to make your class instantiable:
Add a public constructor without parameters (the UI won't know how to set your parameters!)
Add an inner static class Parameterizer that handles parameterization
in order to add your class to autocompletion (dropdown menu), the classes must be discovered by the MiniGUI/CLI/other UIs. ELKI uses two methods of discovery:
for .jar files, it reads the META-INF/elki/interfacename service files. This is a classic service-loader approach; except that we also allow ordering instances.
for directories only, ELKI will also scan for all .class files, and inspect them. This is mostly meant for development time, to avoid having to update the service files all the time. For performance reasons, we do not inspect the contents of .jar files; these are expected to use service files.
You do not need your class to be in the dropdown menu - you can always type the full class name. If this does not work, adding the name to the service file will not help either, but ELKI can either not find the class at all, or cannot instantiate it.
There is also a tutorial on implementing a custom result handler, but it does not discuss how to add it to the menu. In "development mode" - when having a folder with .class files - it will show up automatically.
I'm currently making good use of GWT's ClientBundles in my app. It works fine, but I have a large number of resources and it becomes tedious to manually create Java interfaces for each file:
#ClientBundle.Source("world_war_ii.txt")
public ExternalTextResource worldWarII();
#ClientBundle.Source("spain.txt")
public ExternalTextResource spain();
#ClientBundle.Source("france.txt")
public ExternalTextResource france();
I'd like to be able to (perhaps at compile time) dynamically list every *.txt file in a given directory, and then have run-time access to them, perhaps as an array ExternalTextResource[], rather than having to explicitly list them in my code. There may be hundreds of such resources, and enumerating them manually as code would be very painful and unmaintainable.
The ClientBundle documentation explicitly says that "to provide a file-system abstraction" is a non-goal, so unfortunately this seems to disallow what I'm trying to do.
What's the best way to deal with a large number of external resources that must be available at run-time? Would a generator help?
There's an automatic generator for CssResource - maybe you could look at its code and modify it to your needs?
I ended up following this advice: perform the file operations on the server, and then return a list of the file (meta)data via an RPC call.
This turns out to be fairly simple, and also allows me to return lightweight references (filenames) in the list, which I use to populate a Tree client-side; when the user clicks on a TreeItem the actual text contents are downloaded.
I'm trying to come up with a way to make it easy to switch out our "mock" data services and our live ones. Basically, we'll have live servers with real web services, but for whatever reason, a developer may want to load data from static files (file urls).
I figured I would solve this problem by creating categories that override the methods that fetch the data, thus leaving original code untouched (it has no concept of the "mock" data). I don't want to litter my code with #ifdef.
I can put an #ifdef at the very beginning of each file that has categories in it, and I can set a custom flag in the configuration settings, but I'd rather just have a way to include or exclude the files depending on the configuration. Is that possible? How do you solve this problem?
See http://lists.apple.com/archives/xcode-users/2009/Jun/msg00153.html
The trick is to define EXCLUDED_SOURCE_FILE_NAMES in the configuration you want to exclude the files from, and set the value of that custom build setting to a list of the file names (or a pattern that matches those, and only those, file names).
I would recommend creating two targets one of which has the mock categories included and another one which does not.
When you want to test, just build the target containing the mock categories. Everything else can remain identical.
If you would like to add a file but do not wont to compile it. Go to (for all your targets) project>build phases>compile source and take out the file that you do not want to compile.