LauraW

Sorry to have confused you. I am simply saying that when I asked the original question in this forum, I would have appreciated the exact answer that Neojac gave above, the detailed description of why Playmaker did not work. Not all of us are well versed in Unity's networking options and I guess I am not the only one. To his credit, Neojac did thoroughly explain this all to me in private and I appreciate this. I felt it needed to be said here for the benefit of others. My understanding, and correct me if I am wrong, is that Playmaker can only be used for things that stay on the client. If you have to call the server at all, you need script and Playmaker is not script. Anything that uses the database is most likely going to have to call the script so you are extremely limited in what you can use Playmaker for in the game. That said, we have used Playmaker to prototype and then rewrite into script, so it still is useful.

Thanks for the clarification. The problem is when we asked about Playmaker and NGUI prior to purchasing the product, we were told on the forums that Atavism would work with Playmaker and NGUI. We were not told that Playmaker would only work with the client until I made my above post. I understand why it does not work, but the initial response implied that we could use Playmaker with Atavism..not simply the client. Several people have asked about it here and on the Unity forums and this is the first time a public explanation was made. I know explained this to me in private, but my point in the above email is that Player will not work with the server as implied. Regardless of whether that implication was intentional, and I believe it was not, it is very good to be perfectly clear with potential clients. Otherwise, there is almost always disappointment. I was clarifying this with the poster since my initial question was never responded to here publicly. Not all of us are as savvy about these sorts of things and we need clear responses.

Playmaker only works with the client, which really is not surprising. It does not work with the server. The claim is now that they always meant the client, although in my opinion, Atavism is the server engine, not the Unity client. Bit of a disappointment for us. Same is true with NGUI. You must write the plugin to the server to make it work.

Okay, made a long response but it didn't stick for some reason. I found this on the forum: I assumed I needed special commands for Playmaker to make it work in Ativism but from your response in this thread it seems we do not need any special commands. Can you confirm this? If so, then no problem. As for the current crafting system, we want a more complex crafting skills than is currently provided in the plugin. Yes, I realize we could take the python script and rewrite it but our inexperienced programmer is not versed in python and prefers Playmaker. That above quote really sealed the deal for us on using Ativism. We already have skills completed with Playmaker, just need to get them into the Ativism system. I am assuming we can plug them into your already created skill system. Is this correct? Just to let you know, we are a family based team and learning is a huge part of why we are doing this. The inexperienced programmer is our college aged son. Oh, and I wanted to add...we need much more documentation please. I realize you guys are busy, but confusion reigns for those of us who are not Greed Monger's level (great game, btw). My questions reflect my own confusion so sorry if you don't get them.

Our team is making crafting skills using playmaker. How easy will it be to actually plug these in to Ativism? One reason we choose to use the MMOkit is because of integration with Playmaker. Could we get a list of the Playmaker commands? Also, a tutorial on how to make a plug-in would be valuable. We will certainly be purchasing the Unistorm plug-in from the store but our crafting system is a little different from the usual game. Thanks. Laura