Unity Help with the list of Enums being really glitchy. And I really really need some help.

[RetroBox]

As you can see in the you tube video, I’ve created an enum for my tech and I created a list to store unlocked techs. But the thing is the list is very glitchy even when the game is not running and when am trying to manually assign techs to the lists. I’ve no idea what went wrong really. I’ve been struggling with this issue for days and honestly its killing my drive and driving me mad.

So yea please help ? anyone ? Someone ? I don’t even know how to describe the issues as this issue really hurts my brain so I just made an YouTube video to better demonstrate.

I really really need help.

Unity 2D Help with List of Enums being really glitchy.

[Kurt-Dekker]

Enums are really bad in Unity3D if you intend them to be serialized:

Best practice to find object in List of custom classes? Do if in list, if not do something else

BUT!!! Be very careful with enumerated types since Unity’s YAML serializer does not save the mnemonic of the enum but rather just an integer. If you change your enum in code, you could potentially silently bork all your prefabs, assets and scenes that contain these non-identifier serialized numbers. I try to stay away entirely from enums for anything that I am going to let Unity serialize. Otherwise they’re great. using UnityEngine; [CreateAssetMenu] public class Attack : ScriptableObject { …

Unity Card Game Structure

Use extreme caution with enums in Unity. Unity does NOT store the actual enum such as "Block". Instead, Unity stores whatever integer number is associated with "Block" This means if you have an enum with: Attack, Block and you later add one at the start: Prepare, Attack, Block Then Block will now be integer 2, and your previously-serialized Block will now magically (and silently) become an Attack. In my opinion this is a MASSIVE failure in the serialization design that Unity cho…

It is much better to use ScriptableObjects for many enumerative uses. You can even define additional associated data with each one of them, and drag them into other parts of your game (scenes, prefabs, other ScriptableObjects) however you like. References remain rock solid even if you rename them, reorder them, reorganize them, etc. They are always connected via the meta file GUID.

[RetroBox]

Am here to say that the issue has been resolved, The reason for this behavior is cause I was using Int Enums, so it does not matter what the Enum name is as long as they have same int values, its just going to pick the first one it comes across that has the given int value.

[JeffDUnity3D]

@RetroBox

Am here to say that the issue has been resolved, The reason for this behavior is cause I was using Int Enums, so it does not matter what the Enum name is as long as they have same int values, its just going to pick the first one it comes across that has the given int value.

I’m not sure why you would ever have duplicate values in an enum, basically defeats the purpose https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/fundamentals/code-analysis/quality-rules/ca1069