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Unity Venus's Club [v9.5.0.1] [Disgruntler]
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To add to this, if you keep Venus's Club deep deep deep nested in a very long path the path might be getting truncated and the game may not be able to actually reach the girlpacks. Doubtful if it's pulling up their stats, but possible.
In this case, keep Venus's club closer to the root directory.
The utility Chubberlang linked comes highly recommended and its dev is very responsive to feedback (which is why I endorse it).
Dude, after playing your game, I want to make one myself.
But I have a problem. How do you create the file for every girl in [Girlpacks]?
What should the corresponding code be?
I want to make a game similar to fm2022
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Football Manager 2022 ???
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Hey Disgruntler, idk if you've looked into it at all but when I dropped working on my remake of VC I was looking into multithreading the initialization of Girlpacks. Would you be open to some help?
Can someone post a picture of the office? Where you can assign girls...there are a bunch of spots, each just has a rectangular black text box. What does assigning girls to these spots do? I'm talking about the promote/assign option
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Tobe made the code for this a long time ago and I've not changed it--but I can tell you the broad strokes on how it works.
First, there's the GirlClass class that contains the data structure for the girl. This just uses unity's library to read the initial values from the JSON directly for each property. For example, the property GirlClass.moneyCost is in the JSON as "moneyCost": 300, or whatever--it's just as easy as making sure the name matches the property. For internal-only properties, you just don't put those in JSONs, and you don't tell anyone they exist.
Handling the videos is easy as well. Because the name of the girl and the name of the folder must be identical, you just have the code look into the directory like StaticStrings.PATHTOGIRLPACKS + girl.name + StaticStrings.VIDEOFOLDER + StaticStrings.SEXFOLDER + StaticStrings.BACKVAGFOLDER where the properties of StaticStrings are defined in their own static class. It then pulls a random video from the file list there (checking if that was the last video played but that's neither here nor there.)
That leaves the portraits. In initialization, it runs co-routines that load the images into unity's sprite objects for each of the 6 portrait types, and then stores them. If a portrait is missing, I then added code that has it set the references for missing portraits to the level below, ensuring that all 6 portraits have a representative in the code (and therefore doesn't have to check every type it calls a portrait). This doesn't work with Nicole, however, because she operates under completely different rules, accessing Unity's resource system.
Once you have that structure in place, it goes into the Girlpacks directory---and it checks every subdirectory for the JSON, and if it's missing, it gives an error and won't create that girl. If it is and the JSON has the wrong name, it gives an error and won't create that girl. Otherwise, it goes in and creates it.
To keep track of it, it just using a List<Girlclass> as a master list of the girls in the game. Girl gets created, added to the list, rinse repeat.
There is a snag though. You do not want to use this master list as your in-game data. In order to get around this, you have a clone method that creates a copy of the girl as a new object, and you use this as your recruited girl data. Creating a clone is important--if you just go recruitedGirlsList.Add(masterList[index]) you'll toss a reference to the master data on your recruited list and that means any changes you make to the girl (including gaining stats in the booth or other changes over time) will copy over to your master list, and on a restart this means that your girls will not 'start from scratch.'
A similar thing is necessary for Scramble Mode, though my exact implementation is different from Tobe's and I had a lot of 'learning as I go' trying to get it to work, and save properly. The recruited girls in Scramble Mode save as normal, but the list of girls to be recruited needed to be saved seperately as well.
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Now, if you want to make a game along these lines, if I may?
There is no need to reinvent the wheel! Just go into this thread, look up Tobe's posts, and you should be able to find his link to the 8.1 source code. Study it (the GirlClass.cs in particular, as well as RegisterGirl.cs and StaticFunctions.cs and StaticStrings.cs is where the meat of what you're looking for is) and use it as a basis of your own. Port the code over that does the loading and initialization, and leave out the part that loads data from the Girlpack's JSON.
Then you can have a second JSON it'd pull your game's specific data from, and have that in the same place the description.JSON is. Have code that can generate a new one from scratch and save it as a JSON (unity has this in its library) and badabing badaboom, you're now able to use VC girlpacks in your game.
You'll want to add an interface for selecting the location for the girlpack folder (do NOT copy VC's for this, for your own sanity TRUST ME) but other than that, bob's your uncle.
I fully support and endorse other games using VC Girlpacks as expandable user-made content for their own--I love TUSC's take on it and I do not see more games using this as a bad thing.
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Run a script that converts all the mp4s in girlpacks to webms using v8 for the video codec and vorbis for the audio codec.
Then, next time I do a source-code upload you can recompile that using Unity 2019 on linux and it will work. I just don't have a linux environment to do this in myself.
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thx for quick reply, now I can stop thinking about it and get on with the game and own Packs. thx again
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As CaptC said, it is not *currently* changeable.
However--the system itself is potentially modular and it's entirely possible for me to change things to 'Assistant Packs' in a similar manner to GirlPacks--though this would be a higher level of work for creators.
So my answer to this is 'no, for now.' I won't promise I will change this but I won't promise I won't.
Here are pictures of my screens loading it on linux. The loading of characters can be fixed via converting the video files. I still, however, have black rectangular text boxes covering almost all of the text in the game. How do I reconcile this?
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Oof.
I have no idea!
The best I can do is upload source code and let you unity it into a linux version.
Dude, some problems now...
I copied the code and made some modifications..
...↓code↓...
public List<GirlClass> girls = new List<GirlClass>();
GirlClass Lee = new GirlClass();
...
Lee = SaveWithJson.Instance.LoadFromJsonFile<GirlClass>("/StreamingAssets/GirlpacksA/" + directoryInfo.Name + "/JSON_data/Description.json");//RegisterGirlFromJsonFile
girls.Add(Lee);
Debug.Log(girls[0]);
Debug.Log(girls[0].name);
...
【theUnityConsole】 ：
GirlClass
UnityEngine.Debug:Log (object)
Aria Lee
UnityEngine.Debug:Log (object)
My expectation is: Debug.Log(girls[0])→“Aria Lee” instead of “GirlClass”
I want to find a designated girl by naming so how should I modify the code？T T
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The first debug log is going to return the class because it's a list of class instances. You should be able to search by name (if girls.name == string) and return the values that fit it. I might have an old copy of my attempt laying around somewhere and I can copy-paste my search code in here when I'm home from work.
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Heads up, you'll need to include "using System.Text" in your search script for the StringBuilder but that only matters if you want dynamic updating on keypress.
Here's my Search function:
Code:
void Search()
{
for (int j = 0; j < shopList.Count; j++) //Traverses the list of performers in shopList
{
if(search.Length == 1 && shopList[j].name.ToLower().StartsWith(search.ToLower())) //If user inputs a single character, jumps to the first performer with that name.
{ // Would otherwise look for the first instance of that character anywhere in a name.
GetComponent<Girlpack_Reader>().LoadPortrait(shopList[j],girl); //Set the girl to the front
LoadGirlInfo(shopList[j]); //Display all relevant info
i = j; //int used to keep track of shop highlight
SideGirls(); //Function call to load portrait on either side.
break;
}
if (search.Length > 1 && shopList[j].name.ToLower().Contains(search.ToLower())) //If user enters more than one character.
{
GetComponent<Girlpack_Reader>().LoadPortrait(shopList[j], girl); //Same as above
LoadGirlInfo(shopList[j]); //
i = j; //
SideGirls(); //
break; //Same as above
}
}
return;
}
Code:
if (Input.anyKeyDown && (Input.inputString.Length != 0) && (Input.inputString != "\n") && (Input.inputString != "\b"))
{ //Verifies that the input isn't enter or backspace
timerIsRunning = true; //all timer related things is for a function that had the text stay on screen temporarily
if(timerIsRunning)
{
builder.Append(Input.inputString); //Using the System.Text Stringbuilder to add characters as they're input
search = builder.ToString(); //Converts to whole sting
searchTime = defaultTime; //resets fade out time
searchBar.GetComponent<TMPro.TextMeshProUGUI>().text = search; //displays text on screen
StopCoroutine("FadeText"); //stops the text fade out
StartCoroutine("FadeText"); //resets the fade out
}
Search(); //Calls search function
}