Unity 5 Playmaker Auto Updater (BETA)

[Alex Chouls]

We're going to add an Auto Updater to Playmaker soon to try and fix common update problems automatically. I've attached a beta version that moves PlayMaker.dll from Assets\PlayMaker to Assets\Plugins\PlayMaker. This is a common problem when updating a 4.x project to 5.0.

If you have have a 4.x project that you can test this on I'd love to get some feedback.

Testing:

• BACKUP your projects first!
• Load the project in Unity 5.0
• Update and import Playmaker 1.7.8.2
• Press play and you probably have errors: Method not found: 'UnityEngine.Component.get_guiTexture'
• Import PlaymakerAutoUpdater. It should run automatically.
• Press play and the errors should be gone.

NOTE: The updater currently only checks for and fixes this one problem. I'd like to get feedback on how this works before we expand this proof of concept into a framework for other issues... so please keep this thread focused on that issue. Feel free to start new threads about other upgrade issues

EDIT: New version. Checks for Unity 5 version of Playmaker.

EDIT: Version 3. Added dialog to allow AutoUpdater to make changes.

[jeanfabre]

Hi,

Thanks, that works very well indeed. And thanks for the open source code, I'll be using this tricks in packages I think, for other things like deleting obsolete files and moving files.


Bye,

 Jean

[jeanfabre]

Hi,

WARNING:

 It doesn't work in the case of an 4X project using PlayMaker 1.7.8.2 already that is then upgraded to Unity 5.

Even if I delete the auto updater file and reimport it.

 Bye,

 Jean

[Alex Chouls]

Thanks, I'll test that case... So you ran the auto updater in 4.x? Or just imported 1.7.8.2 in 4.x?

[jeanfabre]

Hi,

 Yes,

1: Fresh project in 4.x,
2: Import PlayMaker 1.7.8.2.
3: Close Unity
4: Open this project in 5.x. ( you will have this error)
5:  Import the autoUpdater, it will not work.

 Bye,

 Jean

[Alex Chouls]

EDIT: Not sure if this addresses the issue above (still looking into that), but still useful info:

Currently the Auto Updater won't update the same project with the same auto-updater version. If you open another project in-between or change the version number in the code it should update.

I'll add Unity Version to the update check, so if it changes it triggers the auto-update. I need to limit the update check somehow, otherwise it happens on every import/recompile. Since updates often trigger a recompile it's easy to get caught in an infinite update loop!
 
The final release will also have a menu item to manually launch the update tool.
Add this to PlayMakerMainMenu.cs to get it now:

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    [MenuItem(MenuRoot + "Tools/Run AutoUpdater", false, 30)]
    public static void RunAutoUpdater()
    {
        PlayMakerAutoUpdater.RunAutoUpdate();
    }

[jeanfabre]

Hi,

 Yep, menu is nice.

I haven't installed the update at all in the 4.x project, I just close the project, then open it in 5.x. I verify that the error is there and then I import the auto updater, and it doesn't work.

Bye,

 Jean

[Alex Chouls]

I think you're missing a step after 4: Import Playmaker 1.7.8.2 for Unity 5. The asset store maintains different versions of Playmaker for different Unity versions. So you need to update Playmaker and import in Unity 5 to get the proper version.

Actually sounds like something I should add to the AutoUpdater - check that proper version of Playmaker is imported!

[jeanfabre]

Hi,

 Well spotted!

 Bye,

 Jean

[Alex Chouls]

I've uploaded a new version that checks for Unity 5 version of Playmaker.

[GregK]

Worked like a charm, thank you for the fix.

[stigma]

Hi,
My project began in version 4 of unity
Unable to resolve a big problem, can I
- Playmaker delete all files in the folder Asset
- import again the playmaker store asset
thank you for the answer

[jeanfabre]

Hi,

 yes, delete both the PlayMaker folder, and also any PlayMaker.dll inside the Plugins folder ( in various sub folder). then reimport PlayMaker, you'll have a clean install.

 Bye,
 
Jean