koobas.hobune.stream
How to make game moddable?
I am making sandbox game and:
All items have ScriptableObject template
All player-world interactions are ScriptableObjects
I would like them not to be added to one resource file like unity does but I would like them to persist in separate folder after build for potential modder to edit and I also would like to do it so modders can add new items. I read about exporting SOs to Json files but I don't know how that would handle textures loading in case od modded items. How should I handle this SOs loading and persisting after build considering textures references? Documentation is not very helpful explaining AssetBundles etc.
Serialize your data to text files (json is probably just fine) and put them into Application.persistentDataPath folder. This, for example, is how you may go about reading texture files:
string mod = "Vanilla";
string subFolder = "Textures";
string fileName = "mod_me_if_you_dare.png";//make sure this file exists (project)/Assets/StreamingAssets/Vanilla/Textures/here
string path = System.IO.Path.Combine(
Application.persistentDataPath ,
mod , subFolder ,
fileName
);
byte[] bytes = System.IO.File.ReadAllBytes(path);
Texture2D texture = new Texture2D( 1 , 1 );
texture.LoadImage( bytes );
texture.Apply( true , true );
relatedMaterial = texture;
Building on this you can read fileName from that json you mentioned - where given asset would be described (or all of them).
