Serialization depth limit 10 exceeded - on NovaUI Hierarchy.

[najak3d]

I don't think my hierarchy is THAT deep, but I'm guessing that this Warning is related to this. I'm not sure if there is any damage caused by this warning -- is serialization messing up as a result of this?

Should I find a creative way of making my NovaUI hierarchy more shallow? (is this related to hierarchy depth?)

Here's the error messsages:

And here's my hierarchy:

[adgray1]

This doesn't look like a Nova thing, nor related to your hierarchy depth, more like a Unity serialization thing.

A simple example of something that might cause a serialization depth limit would be something like:

[Serializable]
public class Foo
{
    // In theory this can serialize indefinitely and can cause the depth limit warning
    public Foo NextFoo = null;
}

Though the cycle could be indirect as well, e.g. :

    [Serializable]
    public class Foo
    {
        public Foo2 NextFoo2 = null;
    }

    [Serializable]
    public class Foo2
    {
        public Foo NextFoo = null;
    }

Any chance you have a serialization cycle along those lines in one of your ItemVisuals classes or perhaps another class?

[najak3d]

Thank you!

I think that must be it.... for sake of easier coding, I do have some "back references", thus making it circular. Theoretically, this should be no issue - just allow it, don't serialize the 2nd+ instances of the same object, doh. Sure if they want to not make this allowed, they could at least spit out the "serialization stack" so that we can see which fields are causing the loop.

I'll put "[NotSerialized]" attributes on my back references, and assume that should do the trick.