#Asset creation
proper willow
The path you are trying to create a new asset at is exactly the same, that is why you are getting the errors. When creating assets it is best to use the path =AssetDatabase.GenerateUniqueAssetPath(path); to make sure it is a unique path.
You also are trying to save the same instance of the asset. If you want a create a new instance then you use Object.Instatiate(..)
Or for your case, you can just use AssetDatabase.CopyAsset(..)
All AssetDatabase.CreateAsset(..) does is basically create a file on disk for the UnityEngine.Object instance you give it (It does other stuff, but that is all that is important atm).
boreal sluice
You also are trying to save the same instance of the asset. If you want a create...
im not trying to copy the same asset, im making a new asset for each inputAction
that needs to have the inputAction assign to the InputAction property of it
proper willow
im not trying to copy the same asset, im making a new asset for each inputAction
What is InputAction?
boreal sluice
in the middle
proper willow
Okay so you are using the input system. Why are you creating assets for the InputActions?
boreal sluice
sry i was afk, im creating a asset for the asset store that wraps the new input into the old one
and im using SO to subscribe and to have a reference to the action
proper willow
sry i was afk, im creating a asset for the asset store that wraps the new input ...
What...? Why would you do that, that sounds like the worst of both words if I am understanding you properly. I mean to each their own, but still.
If the InputActions are SOs then they are already saved as assets, so you don't need to make them assets
boreal sluice
in the middle
I want to generate so based on the input actions located here
proper willow
I want to generate so based on the input actions located here
Yeah those are already assets
You can use a InputActionReference to reference them
boreal sluice
Every SO has a field for the input action
Ik
The field is a reference
But i want to attach that specific input action to the field when it is generated
proper willow
What field? When what is generated?
boreal sluice
The generate function from above generates input data files in a directory
That input data is a scriptable object with a serialize inputactionreference
U can see a for loop in the generate function
proper willow
Oh I see I think
boreal sluice
Thats where all the input action from the input action asset are created
proper willow
That's my bad, I misread it
boreal sluice
Np
proper willow
So what is the current problem?
boreal sluice
Whem the so is generated i need to attach the input action(inside foreach) to the input action field of it
proper willow
Okay, first of all, you are creating multiple assets of the same instance. Is that what you want?
Simply doing _inputDataInstance.InputActionRef = inputAction; before creating the asset is all that is requried
proper willow
might have to set the object dirty after setting the value
boreal sluice
Set the object dirty?
proper willow
EditorUtility.SetDirty(inputDataInstance);
boreal sluice
What does that
proper willow
It tells Unity that the object has changed
proper willow
So it knows it needs to be saved
proper willow
Sure thing!
boreal sluice
it didnt work
boreal sluice
i figure out
im dumb af
[SerializeField] private InputActionReference inputAction;
public InputAction InputAction { get; set; } ```i was setting the InputAction property to the correct input action
but forgot to set the inputactionreference
...
sry for all the time wasted with me