Question by blits2000 · Feb 19, 2015 at 03:17 PM · instantiate inventory activate equip

Inventory System- Best to Instantiate or Activate equipped items?

Hello, I have created an Inventory system and I am wanting to make the equipped item appear in front of the camera (the game is in 1st person). Should I create all the objects and just activate the one I need and disable the ones I don't (so all the items are there but only one will be visible at a time) or should I instantiate the one I need and destroy the the ones I don't? If both these ideas are hopeless please tell me. Thx

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spiceboy9994 · Feb 19, 2015 at 03:32 PM 1

I'm working exactly on the same component for a game and I can let you know my plan about how I'm going to do that (as a suggestion):

-Read the inventory when the game loads from an xml. -Store the inventory as a singleton array -Create a prefab called InventoryItem with an script attached including the stats to modify when item is equiped -Add a method to it to unequip / equip item to modify player stats.

In my particular case, I'm not destroying the objects for the inventory since my game scenes are really simple and small. I plan to have several small scenes and load them as required. If this is the case, you could use this as suggestion.

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