Create UGC In-Game
In this How-to, we’ll go through the process of creating a UGC asset candidate, adding some information to it and promoting it to a UGC asset that can be viewed by all players in your game.
Prerequisites
Optional
A context to use for the newly created UGC, if none is provided a default context will be given
Create an asset candidate
The first thing a user needs to do is to create an asset candidate, which is the “working state” of UGC in LootLocker.
// Name is required when creating an asset candidate
string name = "New Asset Candidate";
// The below additional variables are optional
Dictionary<string, string> kv_storage = new Dictionary<string, string>();
kv_storage.Add("key", "value"); // Optional
Dictionary<string, string> filters = new Dictionary<string, string>();
filters.Add("key", "value"); // Optional
Dictionary<string, string> data_entities = new Dictionary<string, string>();
filters.Add("data", "name"); // Optional
int context_id = -1; // Optional
string asset_candidate_id = "";
LootLockerSDKManager.CreatingAnAssetCandidate(name, kv_storage, filters, data_entities, (response) =>
{
if (response.success)
{
Debug.Log("Successfully created asset candidate with ID: " + response.asset_candidate_id);
// Save the asset_candidate_id for future requests
asset_candidate_id = response.asset_candidate_id;
}
else
{
Debug.Log("Error asset candidate");
}
});
Working with the asset candidate
After the asset candidate has been created you have several ways of modifying it:
Delete the asset candidate
int assetCandidateID = 13;
LootLockerSDKManager.DeletingAnAssetCandidate(assetCandidateID, (response) =>
{
if (response.success)
{
Debug.Log("Successfully deleted asset candidate");
}
else
{
Debug.Log("Error deleting asset canddidate");
}
});
Add files to the asset candidate
int assetCandidateID = 12;
string filePath = "Assets/Resources/300.jpg";
string fileName = "300.jpg";
LootLocker.LootLockerEnums.FilePurpose fileType = LootLocker.LootLockerEnums.FilePurpose.primary_thumbnail;
LootLockerSDKManager.AddingFilesToAssetCandidates(assetCandidateID, filePath, fileName, fileType, (response) =>
{
if (response.success)
{
Debug.Log("Successfully added image to asset candidate");
}
else
{
Debug.Log("Error adding image to asset candidate");
}
});
Remove files from the Asset candidate
int assetCandidateID = 12;
int fileID = 1;
LootLockerSDKManager.RemovingFilesFromAssetCandidates(assetCandidateID, fileID, (response) =>
{
if (response.success)
{
Debug.Log("Successfully removed file from asset candidate");
}
else
{
Debug.Log("Error removing file from asset candidate");
}
});
Update or add data to the asset candidate
bool isCompleted = false;
// When updating an asset, all properties are optional.
// Empty fields are also updated, only update the ones that you want to replace
string name = "New Name"; // Optional
Dictionary<string, string> kv_storage = new Dictionary<string, string>();
kv_storage.Add("key", "value"); // Optional
Dictionary<string, string> filters = new Dictionary<string, string>();
filters.Add("key", "value"); // Optional
Dictionary<string, string> data_entities = new Dictionary<string, string>();
filters.Add("data", "name"); // Optional
int context_id = -1; // Optional
LootLockerSDKManager.UpdatingAnAssetCandidate(asset_candidate_id, isCompleted, (response) =>
{
if (response.success)
{
Debug.Log("Successfully updated asset candidate with ID: " + response.asset_candidate.id);
}
else
{
Debug.Log("Error updating asset candidate");
}
}, name, kv_storage, filters, data_entities, context_id);
When you are satisfied with the changes to the asset candidate, you simply call the UpdatingAnAssetCandidate()
function again, and change the isCompleted
bool to true
and the asset candidate will then be promoted to a UGC asset to be viewed by all your players.
Conclusion
In this How-to, we’ve created a UGC asset candidate, added some information to it and promoted it to an asset. If UGC moderation is enabled in your game, the newly generated asset will show up in the UGC moderation tab in the web console for you to take action on, and otherwise it will be available instantly to all your players by using any of the ListAssets() functions. With UGC it can also be a good idea to add a way for players to report the created content.
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