How to Persist Main ModelContainer about unity3d-mvc

[felladrin]

Hi, @phraxjams. Thank you for using unity3d-mvc!

I understand what you're trying to achieve, but it wouldn't fit, and probably won't easily work, with the current implementation of this framework.

The best solution, if you don't want to use GlobalStorage would be:

1. create a static class to hold your data while your game is running or
2. create a new mono behavior script that you'd attach to a game object and make that game object don't be destroyed on load scenes. What, in the end, would work like using the GlobalStorage.

That's what's explained on Unity's Writing the Game Manager tutorial.

Using the ModelContainer is not expected by the system, but if you want to do this anyway, you'll need to link the ModelContainer to the Application object from the next scene by listening to the Event SceneManager.activeSceneChanged. So when ModelContainer receives the message that the scene has changed, it would look for the new Application object on scene and reference itself on Application.model attribute. But I've never tried that, so I'm not sure if it would work.

The scene structure is a known problem of this structure, that's why I've started creating unity3d-mvc-2 (not documented yet). It'll allow us to use MVC (or a similar approach) independently from what scene we are.

[phraxjams]

Hi,

Thanks for a detailed response.

Fundamentally, a model should keep the data and in our unity's mvc case we are not keeping it by default and doing workarounds like you suggested. My point is... if we still have to keep the data on an external manager then the only thing left is controller and view and then i start thinking to stop using MVC which i dont want. Yes i will go for a workaround and will see how things will go.

Secondly, Thanks for the mvc-2, it looks promising, i would request you to please spare few minutes and write its brief documentation, i would love to experiment with that, too.

Thanks again

[felladrin]

Sure! I'll write a brief documentation for mvc-2 as soon as possible. Thanks for your feedback!