Incorporating Character Customization demo into C# game

[anon_20588637]

Hello everybody,

I’m working in a small multiplayer game based on the Island demo, and using the SmartFox Server.
Lately, I’ve been trying to integrate the Character Customization demo (the dressing room to be precise) before the island loads (right after the login scene), so the user can choose its character and enter the island with it.

The problem I’m having is that for some reason, Unity freezes everytime I try to access the island after choosing the character I’m going to use (I have a button saying “Go to the Island!” to load the Islands scene).

I’m trying to use C# when generating the character and I’m following the same steps as in DressingRoom:

while (!CharacterGenerator.ReadyToUse) yielding();

CharacterGenerator generator = CharacterGenerator.CreateWithRandomConfig();
		
while (!generator.ConfigReady) yielding();

GameObject remotePlayer = generator.Generate();

Where yielding is:

private IEnumerator yielding() {
   yield return 0;
}

Anyway, Unity freezes when accesing “ConfigReady”, exactly at this point:

foreach (CharacterElement c in currentConfiguration.Values) {
   if (!c.IsLoaded) return false;
}

And I have no idea why.
I’ve tried the VirtualWorldDemo way (In Javascript) and it works fine, but I would like to do it in C# for a better integration in the code.

Can anybody figure out why this could happen? It may be because the currentConfiguration variable gets corrupted for some reason?

Thanks!
Jose Franco

[tomvds]

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while (!CharacterGenerator.ReadyToUse) yielding();

You cannot start a Coroutine in C# without StartCoroutine. So to make it work, you need:

while (!CharacterGenerator.ReadyToUse) yield return StartCoroutine(yielding());

Of course this makes the yielding function rather ackward in use. You should therefire just write yield return 0 directly instead of using your yielding function.

Note that the function with the while loop will also need to be an IEnumerator and started with StartCoroutine, or it still won’t work.

[yuriythebest]

to anyone interested this is my end result (btw this thread is a lifesaver I’m eternally grateful to the above individuals)

• this is from my project so it’s a little different but you’ll get the gist

using UnityEngine;
using System.Collections;

public class CharacterCS : MonoBehaviour
{
public string character;
public string config;
public string anim = “walk”;
public CharacterGenerator generator = null;
public GameObject gameController;
public string prefName= “CharacterPref”;
public bool createRandom= false;
public int setScale = 1;
public GameObject characterVisuals;
// Use this for initialization
void Start ()
{
StartCoroutine(InitCharacter());
}

// Update is called once per frame
void Update ()
{

}
private IEnumerator InitCharacter()
{
Debug.Log(“starting”);
while (!CharacterGenerator.ReadyToUse) yield return StartCoroutine(yielding());
Debug.Log(“CharacterGenerator.ReadyToUse=”+CharacterGenerator.ReadyToUse);
if(createRandom)
generator = CharacterGenerator.CreateWithRandomConfig(character);
else
generator = CharacterGenerator.CreateWithConfig(PlayerPrefs.GetString(prefName));
Debug.Log(“reached!”);
while (!generator.ConfigReady) yield return StartCoroutine(yielding());

// Create the character.
if(generator.ConfigReady)
{
characterVisuals = generator.Generate();
if(gameController)
gameController.active=true;
EtceteraBinding.hideActivityView();
// Attach the character to this prefab so we can move it around.
characterVisuals.transform.parent = transform;
characterVisuals.transform.localPosition = Vector3.zero;
characterVisuals.transform.localRotation = Quaternion.identity;
//go.transform.position.y+=0.2f;
characterVisuals.transform.position=new Vector3(characterVisuals.transform.position.x,
characterVisuals.transform.position.y+0.2f,
characterVisuals.transform.position.z);
// Play and loop the specified animation.
characterVisuals.animation.Play(anim);
characterVisuals.animation[anim].wrapMode = WrapMode.Loop;
characterVisuals.layer=10;
characterVisuals.transform.localScale*=setScale;
gameController.SendMessage(“SetCharacterVisuals”,characterVisuals);
}

}

private IEnumerator yielding()
{
yield return 0;
}
}