Squarebite announcement

[Super Admin]

Feb 12, 2014
New 1.2 version is up on Asset Store
New video tutorial about crafting system is up on youtube Squarebite tutorial 3 Crafting system part 1
Feb 11, 2014

You can check all future Announcements related to Squarebite Inventory System here.
First I want to thank everyone who purchased my system and on your support. Here are some new things that you can expect in new 1.2 update that will be up soon, I have to announce that moset updates are related to crafting system and system variables are changed from globals to locals so here are updates:

- Almost all global variables re changed to locals, this will help to avoid problems related to global variables and their bugs.
Global variables like Inventory, Inventory Manager, and variables for stats are not changed, maybe in future, they are still globals and no need to change them for now, variables like CurrenContainer///, CurrentWorkbench///, CurrenShop HashTable,ItemCount and Array lists are changed.
- Crafting system improved a lot, now it uses hash tables to check components and instead of game object variables.
- Crafting system supports multiple instances of same object (you can craft 50 cubes, 30 spheres ....)
- Crafting system supports blind and blueprint crafting, blind means you can craft item even if you don't have blueprint, same as container, drop items inside and click craft, if that item combination is defined in your crafting database item will be crafted.
- Now you can craft similar to LittleAlchemy but in more advanced way, depends on what items you defined in your database.

New video about crafting system will be up by the end of the week probably and this update will be up in one week, depends on Unity QA team.

Happy crafting


Dec 12, 2013
As Squarebite inventory is on Store right now I would like to announce some new features that will be added to Squarebite, one of them is crafting system and later on I plan to add some randomize system for items and it will work in a way were you define possible items that can spawn in container and by randomizing with min and max values for certain items container will be filled.

So stay tuned and I will do my best to include this soon.

Cheers!

[Super Admin]

Hi everyone, first of all i want to thank you for your support and also for nice feedbacks, it is good to hear from people in order to improve system in future.

I want to announce some cool features that will be implemented in next release:

- Will add few different workbench systems which means you can approach anvil and you can craft weapons if you have hammer in your inventory, you can approach alchemy table if you have some empty bottles for example (global workbench will stay in system as well, for people who want to craft this way using items without some requirement to approach workbench )
- All items such as cube, sphere etc will be changed into something better looking, i am not professional modeler or artist but i can at least create better items then cubes and spheres
- For people who want to add some animations or cut scenes when crafting items will be some states that will serve as place holders for animations and other stuff, for example you craft your item and after some animation is played or some delay or particle effects, whatever you want to do and after that item will be created in your inventory. I got this idea from a guy named Jack recently and i think it's quite useful to have this.
- And as last feature inventory will be able to use randomize method, still have to figure how to do this in proper way but idea is this: you set 5 items in you chest and you declare that you want 3 items to be displayed when chest is opened for the first time, then system will choose from those 5 items randomly what to display and how many of them based on their number define using some random factor, maybe 30 - 40 % to random like if you have 5 items it will be random between 3 and 5 for certain item, if you have 1 means no random, if you have 1000 it will random from 700 to 1000 etc...

So those things i plan to implement in next update, can's say exact time of update but i will do my best to finish it as soon as possible

What do you think about this guys?

Cheers!!!

[Super Admin]

Hi folks, new version 2.00 is in store for QA, it will be up in store probably during next week. All features that are mentioned here are included in this 2.00 update, especially new Randomize system that can be set to random as you like, you can random how many items will spawn in chest and also you can random the numbers for each item using randomize factor from 0.1 to 1. There are improvements related to crafting, now you can use requirements, for example you can access workbench only if you have smith hammer in your inventory, just defined key for requirement.

Cheers!!!

[Super Admin]

Hello everyone, i did some experiments with this Inventory and i want to rewrite completely but with Daikon Forge GUI, it will be faster, better, more customizable, less draw calls and better overall cause Daikon Forge is really good system.
Have to contact Takuan for this matter first and if he approves i will rewrite inventory soon.

Cheers!!!

[wieljer]

Hello,

Please update this package, I just purchased your package yesterday but can not use until updated. Playmaker shows 70 errors for the project, they all say "This action is obsolete; use Send Event with Event Target instead."

[Super Admin]

Hi and thanks for info, that is not a bug, only warning for that action because Send Event Action is updated and can do both send event and send event to FSM. I use SendEventToFSM action because you can send event to parent of a game object without using global event, and also there some other reasons so don't worry that action is 100% functionall, only reason they marked is as obsolete is because Send Event action is updated to send events to FSM also nothing else
Here is better explanation here on this page:
squarebite.proboards.com/thread/13/error-sendeventtofsm

Cheers!!!

[Super Admin]

HI everyone, here are some great news, first of all i decided to stop my personal game development for now until i finish and update Squarebite system and publish version 3.00 . To finish my game it will take probably whole month but that's too much time to leave Squarebite without update since it's already enough time passed. So right now Squarebite is top priority for me and that means as soon possible to rewrite, update and submit to Unity QA

Here are some things that will be changed:
- No global variables, everything will be done with locals which is lot better approach, no bugs and you can easier change lot of values, more optimized systems overall etc...
- Object interact system will have only one FSM which will take care of everything you approach in game (i already done that btw) it's too complicated as it is right now so next update will simplify lot of stuff.
- This update will be focused on Daikon Forge implementation as additional package and after i success with this and they publish it without problems i will immediately start with next update which will be more like different types and that will be probably drag and drop inventory like in Diablo

So stay tunned people, i will let you know once update is up
Cheers!!!