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For a custom game engines, what should I do if my core data is malformed or missing?
Log an error and gracefully exit.
Ideally, display a human readable error on screen as well. There should be a core pipeline of hard coded functionality that operates without these data files. It's ...
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For a custom game engines, what should I do if my core data is malformed or missing?
Byte56 mentioned one option. There is at least one other:
Assume default values and display a Warning.
Depending on the nature of your data, it might be perfectly acceptable to assume some default ...
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For a custom game engines, what should I do if my core data is malformed or missing?
It depends on whether this happens during development or release.
During development, you will have all kinds missing things, errors, and mess-ups, constantly, all the time, and you may even want to &...
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Should game data be encoded in configuration files, given that it will almost always contain logic?
A game or an engine
If you were making a game, then you write the code for each case in your game. Then the configuration only needs to specify which of the possibilities it uses. Which seems to be ...
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Is it still possible to set default script template for Unity Mac?
I suppose you installed your Unity Editor via Unity Hub, and if yes, then the path has changed to this
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How to fit game to screen size?
Many thanks to the DMGregory for help in this matter
The problem was that I have a script which manipulate with camera.rect:
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Should game data be encoded in configuration files, given that it will almost always contain logic?
Only externalize if you solve a problem with it
Configuration files and similar external resources are an option which should be used if the benefits outweigh the costs. Generally speaking I would ...
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Should game data be encoded in configuration files, given that it will almost always contain logic?
Moving game data into config files has several advantages:
You can edit these files without having to recompile the game. Which can, depending on your technology stack and the scope of your game, ...
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How to pre-configure a prefab in the editor for multiple similar buttons before instantiating them
You can do that with prefab variants. A prefab variant is a prefab which inherits most of its properties from another prefab.
Create your basic button
Turn it into a prefab by dragging it from the ...
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