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PlayMaker Help & Tips => PlayMaker Help => Topic started by: CreativeVulpine on August 05, 2019, 03:36:32 PM

Title: How to use FSM variables in C# for Save System
Post by: CreativeVulpine on August 05, 2019, 03:36:32 PM

Hi, I am relatively new to Playmaker.
I am trying to work on a save and load system for my game in C#, however I am stuck on how to call a global variable I created in PlayMaker for my in game clock.

The variable is called rawTime and is a float, I want my C# Save manager to access it and save it as a string to a file.

I've followed many tutorials and the PlayMaker documents, but I still cannot wrap my head around it.

Does anyone have an example of how to do this in C#?

Thank you,
CreativeVulpine :)

Title: Re: How to use FSM variables in C# for Save System
Post by: Thore on August 05, 2019, 03:51:51 PM

Welcome,

Here's what I found:
https://hutonggames.com/playmakerforum/index.php?topic=2348.msg10370#msg10370

If you follow the links there, Jean posted this:

Quote from: jeanfabre on August 29, 2012, 03:00:37 AM

Hi, you can access global variables like so:

PlayMakerGlobals.Instance.Variables.GetFsmString("hello")

but be careful, if the variable doesn't exists, it will return the default value of the type ( for a bool it will return false)

Code: [Select]

using UnityEngine;
using System.Collections;
using HutongGames;

public class test : MonoBehaviour {


// Update is called once per frame
void Start () {

Debug.Log(PlayMakerGlobals.Instance.Variables.GetFsmString("hello"));

}
}



bye,

 Jean

Maybe that works. Otherwise, you could set the global variable from PlayMaker, i.e. PlayMaker writes the variable into your save script. To do this, you need to write a (relative simple) custom action. See here. (https://hutonggames.com/playmakerforum/index.php?topic=13389.0)