Questions tagged [data]
Values of qualitative or quantitative variables, belonging to a set of items.
123 questions
1
vote
0
answers
52
views
Game Manager Persisting? [closed]
In the video you''ll see I change the Time Countdown to 500, but when the game is running the value is 15. I've had this issue before, and re-created the script / prefab from scratch. Can someone help ...
- 11
1
vote
1
answer
107
views
Efficiently passing data to the GPU corresponding to a collection of objects
I am beginning to work on a physics system, where there are multiple objects in the world that get rendered. The current approach I am considering consists of pseudo-OOP in C where each object has ...
- 153
0
votes
0
answers
42
views
How can I detect which slice of the pie chart my mouse is hovering over?
I'm trying to create a simple pie chart for my game (a strategy/simulation game) to show population demographic data for a province, but I'm struggling to figure out how to detect which slice is being ...
- 474
0
votes
0
answers
45
views
How to save data the most efficient [duplicate]
If I have a lot of data to save, say 500 ints for how many stars a user has collected, some text for user created levels, settings, etc.
What would be the best method to save all of this?
Should I use ...
- 176
0
votes
1
answer
396
views
How to serialize data from C# in a non-human-readable way?
How can I serialize a C# object (class, struct, etc) to a file without that file being easy to read?
Binary Formatter
First I used the Binary Formatter, which worked really well, but there were a lot ...
- 449
0
votes
0
answers
110
views
How do I make a cross scene data save in Unity?
I am trying to find a way to keep my "key" data from 1 scene to another. While removing the key from the first scene, and keeping the information of the coin being collected onto my next ...
8
votes
3
answers
932
views
Should game data be encoded in configuration files, given that it will almost always contain logic?
Question inspired by the accepted answer to another question: Wondering if there is a more efficient way to store level data in my game?
The answer, by @Evorlor, says:
You should have the data for ...
- 977
2
votes
1
answer
788
views
How to store localized text data in Unity?
I need to create a lot of read-only text data. As far as I know storing a lot of data directly in the script is not good, so I need to create a separate json file with ready-made data to load in the ...
- 37
0
votes
0
answers
184
views
How to export a Unity terrain to a DEM or other 3d data for external use?
I have found numerous examples of exporting Unity terrain to programs like Blender or just importing digital elevation files (DEMs) into Unity. But can a terrain generated in Unity be exported into ...
- 1
0
votes
1
answer
90
views
Confused about how specific bools or flags are actually accessed and used by other scripts
I have a problem which I'm sure can be abstracted to some larger concept but I don't really have the knowledge to know what to google. I'll just explain what im trying to do and if you can please tell ...
1
vote
2
answers
224
views
What dynamic range of numbers do games typically use?
Most of the numeric quantities used in games (aside from integers for counting or indexing objects) are single-precision floating point. This is IEEE format, which allows for numbers as big as 1e38 ...
- 125
0
votes
1
answer
80
views
'Partial data load' terminology
I am writing up my work and I'm trying to think of a word, or phrase, that better describes a 'partial load' of data.
In my case, I have one very large file that is "environment A". To ...
0
votes
1
answer
91
views
Instantiate only specific objects in Unity
Here is the situation: I have 10 weapons in my game, in main menu player may choose only two weapons that could take to the game, and this information about two weapons will save in a kind of "...
- 37
2
votes
3
answers
495
views
GM files in online mobile games: what type of GM file should I keep a local copy and how does it synchronize with server?
In mobile game development there are types of data that are not user save-data but are necessary for the game, we call it GM files. In my specific case, the GM files include text data such as "...
- 153
4
votes
1
answer
1k
views
Should you avoid memory allocation and deallocation while the game is running?
I recently read this answer on this site, which says the following:
making sure no allocation/deallocation is being done while the game is running is a golden rule of thumb.
I interpret this as ...
- 157