Using enums in ComponentData

Unity Engine
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Hello everyone,

I would like to use this ISharedComponentData

public struct UnitType : ISharedComponentData
{
    public enum Type {Base, CloseOne, CloseTwo, CloseThree, RangedOne, RangedTwo, RangedThree, RogueOne, RogueTwo, RogueThree};
}

and set it to an entitiy (the adding is happening in another script which works fine),

EntityManager.SetSharedComponentData<UnitType>(unitQuery[j], new UnitType { UnitType.Type = UnitType.Type.Base });

what results in this error message:

Do you know what is wrong here?

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The error means you need to place the enum initialization outside of the SCD. Inside you just need to have public Type
type. I dont mess with SCDs much at all except for mesh renderers, but I think Whatever you set UnitType to will be the same for all Units. Hopefully some of the smart folks here will make it clear for you though

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Thank you bekpsmith, it works now!