Steamworks Foundation appears to be installed and must be removed before continuing [Unity]

[quaint sail]

So I tried updating Steamworks foundation yesterday, simply pressing the "Update" button.
When I did, this message popped up.

Steamworks Foundation appears to be installed and must be removed before continuing. Should we uninstall Steamworks Foundation now?
I can press "Uninstall" which uninstalls the package again, or "No" which doesn't.
If I press "No" I can keep the package right up until I start the game, then it pops up again.

I have tried reinstalling it, and Steamworks.Net, but that doesn't help.

[pearl olive]

Just did an update to FOundation that introduced that bug I will get it sorted shortly

That should be reverted now

sorry about that

Foundation is a sub set of the main asset so we update it by copying over the main assets files but that test of course is only used in the main asset to make sure you remove Foundaiton first 🙂

so ... copy paste error from brining in updates from main asset

[quaint sail]

@pearl olive Thank you so much - I was soooo frustrated last night, thought I had fucked something up bad 😛

Now I have another problem tho;
Whenever I launch the game, I have a SteamworksController with the "Steamworks Behaviour" script. The events aren't called. Neither success nor failed.
I have checked that the script is active and the steamworks settings are correct

[pearl olive]

Looks like a similar copy paste bug

Sorry about that stable for years did a big update yesterday and you just got very lucky with that

you can register the events in code and they will work the SteamworksBehaviour is just for devs that prefer to work code free and all its doing is using the API in the background ... so for example on Enable it does this

API.App.evtSteamInitializationError.AddListener(HandleInitializationError);
API.App.evtSteamInitialized.AddListener(evtSteamInitialized.Invoke);

or well it should the one for SteamInitalized was missing for some reason 🙂

so I will get that fixed in just a min

[quaint sail]

Damn I've never felt so lucky 😄 Haha thanks fo the quick support 🙂

[pearl olive]

that should be sorted now

just press update on UPM and it should update

[pearl olive]

Ya we had a user yesterday need an update to Foundaiton so we did a quick update to the latest main version

its a manual process usually would be done slower once every year or os

but this one was done in a bit of a hurry to solve an issue they had

[quaint sail]

I was having troubles yesterday as well, which is why I updated late last night when it broke 😛

I just tried pressing "update" and got this:

[pearl olive]

A lot of Unity devs have moved away from using the behaviour did you know you can do it with API directly

that is not from our asset

that looks like com.unity.terrain

[quaint sail]

Hmm.. It didn't do anything 🤔

[pearl olive]

Let me check over that fine a bit more looking at the history and it shouldn't have had a missing event handler

so somthing funky is going on in Git

[quaint sail]

I removed and installed it again and now it works

[pearl olive]

ya still something odd with git going on so I am going to rebase

[quaint sail]

But back to old problam I was having yesterday:

Steam is connecting in Bootstrap, but when I try to get like the Avatar image on the next scene, I get that error, and I don't appear as playing a game in steam.
I have had it working before

[pearl olive]

That is saying Steam is not initalized

so when we initalize

we print some messages to the log

can you show me those

they will list of the App ID and similar

1 sec I can get you an example

[pearl olive]

Let me bring up the foundaiton project so I am not showing what the full package does

Thats a server

servers cant use client API

change your build target to client build

[quaint sail]

Ohhhh I see!

Yea it works now 🙂

[pearl olive]

SO in steam there are 2 "end points"

Client and Server

[quaint sail]

Thought it only triggered server if told to or something 😛 But it makes sense 🙂

[pearl olive]

Client has a logged in user so it can do all the things

Server is anon so it can do many things but not anything with Steam Friends

we init server when its a server build and init client when its not

youc an use the API directly if you want to manually control that

but by defualt we do it for you based on build target

you can wrap your own code in

#if UNITY_SERVER
// server
#else
// client
#endif

if I remimber C# right 🙂

I work in a lot of langauges so consider that pseduo code

IO get syntax mixed up some times 😄

[quaint sail]

Yea I get the point 😛
But I haven't worked with the API before, would that take a lot of effort? 🙂 (And would it be worth it)

[pearl olive]

Not at all the component scripts your using now just use the API so you can use them as an example when you need

but for initalization ...

App.Client.Initialize(appId);

SO as you can see supper complicated 🙂

for server it would be

App.Server.Initialize(appId, config);

That forgoes using SteamSettings entierly and does it pure code

You can keep using SteamSettings if you want in code

yourSettings.Initialize();

But it will try to guess what you want based on build target

[quaint sail]

Okay thank you 🙂

[pearl olive]

https://kb.heathen.group/toolkit-for-steamworks/unity/quick-start-guide