Multiple Inventories

[Degrath]

Is this possible? I have been playing around with it a bit and always run into errors when more than one inventory grid is added to the scene.

[ZaneStauffer]

I'm also trying to refurbish this for my project and will eventually need to separate functionalities. What I would do is add functionality to multiple inventories by attaching a single "inventory" script to GameObjects rather than the GUI. That way you can add an inventory to the player, chests, etc. If I figure it out, I will post here.

[Degrath]

So do all of the current GUI item need be made into prefabs and in some cases broken down into their individual parts and made into prefabs so they can be loaded and assembled via code to allow for multiple inventories? I notice that when you make them prefabs they lose the connected gameobjects unless they are already prefabs. and as soon as you add another item tagged "invenPanel" you get "cannot find instance" error.

[ZaneStauffer]

Likely. I would store two different "states" of the inventory - when the player is opening their inventory, and when the player is transferring items to or from another inventory.

[Degrath]

So after further testing if the InvenPanel is instantiated there it does not give an error or mess up the highlighting when moving or deleting the item, however because the way the Item list is nested I am having issue instantiating it

[Degrath]

oh I get a new error when dropping the item into inventory because it is a prefab it does not like when you set the item as a child object or it. Error is:
Setting the parent of a transform which resides in a prefab is disabled to prevent data corruption. UnityEngine.Transform:SetParent(Transform) InvenGridManager:StoreItem(GameObject) (at Assets/Script/InventoryGrid/InvenGridManager.cs:208) InvenGridManager:Update() (at Assets/Script/InventoryGrid/InvenGridManager.cs:43)
but it stil seems to function normally.
}//set dropped parameters item.transform.SetParent(dropParent); <-- this is the line of code on the error and when commented out does not seem to hurt anything.

[ZaneStauffer]

I am currently working on writing a system like this from scratch with decoupled GUI functionality, where inventory logic is kept within a gameobject instead of the GUI. I'll create a new repo when I finish implementing basic GUI functionality.