Okay, so I’ve been toying with a loot system in my game. I want to be able to punch in numbers for: Rarity (Trash, common, uncommon, rare) Level of item (might ditch this and go with pure rarity?) Type (Weapon, potion) Subtype (Axe, dagger) And get a list of (say) all axes of common rarity at lev…

Why not just use scriptable objects to define loot tables? Otherwise, you would use both concepts. Have a database scriptable object that holds onto a reference of everything, or use addressables of Resources to load them as desired into a collection. Then just write API methods that let you retrie…

[image] spiney199: Why not just use scriptable objects to define loot tables Huh. So are you thinking I should have something like an array of scriptable objects, each holding a portion of the loot database organised (say) by type? Then I would attach this to the thing dropping the loot itsel…

[image] TiggyFairy: Huh. So are you thinking I should have something like an array of scriptable objects, each holding a portion of the loot database organised (say) by type? Then I would attach this to the thing dropping the loot itself, rather than having anything central? He didn’t suggest…

[image] orionsyndrome: He didn’t suggest to portion your database. You want a central repository which you can easily query about. Then I’m a little confused because of the scriptable object part. Why would I want to use that when I can just have the list in my core game file if it’s just goi…

[image] TiggyFairy: Then I’m a little confused because of the scriptable object part. Why would I want to use that when I can just have the list in my core game file if it’s just going to be the one list in a class? Is there a benefit to doing so? I saw the other thread, but it didn’t really hel…

[image] Ryiah: Creating and modifying items through the editor. Oh, thanks. I already have objects for the items themselves. I’m just not sure why I would put the list in an object attached to a file instead of on a regular file. It seems like an extra step I don’t need.

Cause your items have to be referenced somewhere, they just happen to give an example doing it in an SO because that’s a common way people do it.

[image] TiggyFairy: Oh, thanks. I already have objects for the items themselves. I’m just not sure why I would put the list in an object attached to a file instead of on a regular file. It seems like an extra step I don’t need. Like @lordofduct mentioned SOs have the advantage that I can re…

As for your OP… What am I looking at here? Do you have various lists of objects that have lists of object that have lists of objects that have lists of objects? I mean… I can think of a way to do something like this to result in the ability to write some code that looks like what you say. But I h…

Making an item lookup system

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orionsyndrome June 14, 2023, 5:08pm 4

Check out this thread , literally from yesterday. I’ve unloaded an example in post #3 which might give you an idea for a “database”. Then you can easily apply spiney’s idea of predicates to look up for any item you’d like.

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Making an item lookup system

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