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PlayMaker News => General Discussion => Topic started by: mdotstrange on November 01, 2016, 03:03:51 AM
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I just saw that snipt.net is shutting down on Dec 31st
https://blog.snipt.net/snipt-is-closing/ (https://blog.snipt.net/snipt-is-closing/)
This is where a lot of PMaker users store their custom actions to be made accessible through Ecosystem-
With Snipt shutting down where should we be hosting our custom actions? Github? Gist?
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Very good question. Thanks for letting us know, this is a problem as snipt was good.
Need to start backing up the actions..
???
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Hi,
I think the best things is to add them to github
An Advantage is that we can add preview images, which is not possible with snipt.
You can do this straight on the github website or using sourcetree
1st thing you should do is make an account and send your username/e-mail to jean.
I will see that i can make a video on what's next tomorrow.
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@djaydino
Please make a video. I only have problems with github, nothing ever seems to work.
:o
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Hi,
I will do asap.
I was planning this already but i just got top priority now :)
You can already register and send the username/e-mail to jean
or to me and i will ask jean to add you.
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Hi,
yeah, that's a sad news. I too really enjoyed Snipt, and never found anything on that level for sharing, github api doesn't let you search gits and bitbucket snippet system isn't good neither...
Maybe this is time for a custom solution.... ( what did I just say... :P)
DudeBxl, maybe we could have a skype session, where we would go together on this.
Bye,
Jean
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Hi,
@jean: i would secure the actions for now on github as there is not much time
I made some video's to use github.
I am a bit sick but i hope you can understand what i am saying :)
If you need some help you can find me on the discord channel.
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Have you all checked out Gist from Github? it looks and acts a lot like snipt- you can search gists and even add comments to them- looks useful to me but I don't know how the API stuff works :)
Here's an example Gist https://gist.github.com/mdotstrange/4ac21c9b585b62d16e7992bb0df78dd0 (https://gist.github.com/mdotstrange/4ac21c9b585b62d16e7992bb0df78dd0)
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@djaydino Great videos!
I might wait till December before I move my actions, I like the idea of a custom solution.
Github is not very intuitive for me, but I willing to use it if I have to.
Thanks
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Have you all checked out Gist from Github? it looks and acts a lot like snipt- you can search gists and even add comments to them- looks useful to me but I don't know how the API stuff works :)
Here's an example Gist https://gist.github.com/mdotstrange/4ac21c9b585b62d16e7992bb0df78dd0 (https://gist.github.com/mdotstrange/4ac21c9b585b62d16e7992bb0df78dd0)
Gist api does not expose search.. it's a real shame indeed... hence why I used Snipt in the first place.
Bye,
Jean
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Hi,
@jean: i would secure the actions for now on github as there is not much time
I made some video's to use github.
I am a bit sick but i hope you can understand what i am saying :)
If you need some help you can find me on the discord channel.
yes, for now it's fine though. the big problem is that snipt scripts do not provoque unity errors if missing a library or an asset. I am not sure how we are going to bring back everything inside a Unity Project without all the various dependancy. I have to think about this.
Bye,
Jean
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Hi,
Another problem with snipt, is for example :
The action "UGuiSetFirstSelectedGameObject" is an action that should be unity 4 but it shows unity 3.
If they are on github we can adjust them our self or send an issue.
with snipt we need to contact the author personally and ask to change this.
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Hi,
Another problem with snipt, is for example :
The action "UGuiSetFirstSelectedGameObject" is an action that should be unity 4 but it shows unity 3.
If they are on github we can adjust them our self or send an issue.
with snipt we need to contact the author personally and ask to change this.
Thats an action I did- I don't even know how to add/change the Unity version- sorry
I added all my scripts to github if that helps https://github.com/mdotstrange/PlaymakerActions (https://github.com/mdotstrange/PlaymakerActions)
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Hi,
All actions on github will have to go into specific repositories. I haven't yet provided access to arbitrary reps yet.
But that will make it easier indeed to move everything to the right rep for sure.
What I am thinking of doing is to stop searching snipt in the coming days, and then everyone can start moving their actions back to github. I will have to ensure during the process that all actions are valid because the github reps are actual working Unity Projects.
I'd like to keep Unity Projects error free, but I am facing an issue with thirdparty assets dependancy... I have no ideal solution yet... too many github rep to search within will make searches even more unstable and long, and requiring every contributor to install all assets dependancy is a no go neither.
Bye,
Jean
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What I am thinking of doing is to stop searching snipt in the coming days => I have 200+ actions to sort out. Can you give a date for when you are to stop the snipt search as I have to find the time to sort everything out. Thanks
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@ jeanfabre -sorry i prefer not to use skype but thanks for the offer
@ mdotstrange - thanks for video
I have been trying for a few hours do it and i am still stuck. Github is really not using to use and i don't have time to learn but i was able to upload a bunch of stuff; Please check https://github.com/dudebxl/ and can you link it so that it shows in ecosystem?
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Hi,
nop, I can't link your github reps to the ecosystem unfortunatly. it would affect search performances all around unfortunatly.
At which point are you stuck? are you using sourceTree? are you on windows or mac?
Skype is just one mean, we can use any chat system you like.
Bye,
Jean
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Hi,
ok cool. Let me do a final push this weekend and i will get back to you
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What about this: https://gist.github.com/
Can this be used with ecosystem?
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Hi,
nop, the rest api exposed for gist doesn't allow to search for content... you can only use it when you have a reference of the gist already, such a bummer... and it's the same with bitbucket snippets... they are totally missing the obvious, or simply don't want to provide a free service for this ( second option more likely), as it would become defacto the biggest saas for public code sharing.
Bye,
Jean
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Someone created a tool to make it easier to download your scripts from Snipt- the tool is here http://fotis.co/snipt/export.php (http://fotis.co/snipt/export.php)
If you have a Gist account and use GistBox you can click the exported script code to automatically add them to your Gist account.
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Hi,
Yes, that's one way, then you can patiently move them to the soon to be available dedicated Github Repository as well as the existing ones ( If your action is a valid one that doesn't require any third party assets, then it can go in the U4 or U5 gitu rep).
bye,
Jean
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Hi,
What is happening on this? Any news?
:o
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By the way i don't have access to PlayMakerEcosystemPackagesRep_U5 - could someone give me access?
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I tried again to push my actions.. but i have no idea if it worked.. :o
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Hi Everyone,
Ok, I removed snip searched from the Ecosystem.
Now, "unfortunatly" github will be the way to go, I know it's not as easy the first few times but I did not find any other way other then creating a custom system which is totally out of budget right now... Maybe one day, I hope we can do something on this.
So meanwhile, I created a "Misc" github rep. This rep is following a Unity project folder setup but is not meant to be opened with Unity, only meant to be used as a "drop" repository for you to put your actions that do not fit in any other ecosystem rep. Typically, if you make an action that requires a third party asset, it will go there because all other ecosystem must work as is with Specific Version of Unity as is.
https://github.com/PlayMakerEcosystem/PlayMakerCustomActions_Misc
If you have questions, let me know :)
Bye,
Jean
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@JeanFabre. I did a push but nothing is showing up in ecosystem. Do you see or did you get any info?
Why don't you clone snipt just for playmaker? snipt is open source so no/little cost...
anyway.. for anybody who need my actions, you can find them here: https://github.com/dudebxl/
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Hi,
I though about cloning snipt, but it needs modification because I would not want everyone to use it for something else than PlayMaker else the hosting would definitly be costly ( which is why it got stopped it seems).
Can you give me github links to what you pushed I'll see what doesn't work and report back.
Bye,
Jean
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hi guys please i'm new to playmaker and i'm having issues with the draw line feature, does anyone have an update? would really appreciate it, the old one doesn't work anymore as im getting several error messages..........thanks in advance!
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Hi,
Can you post a new fresh thread, this thread isn't appropriate. Pm me when you are done I'll reply there.
Bye,
Jean