Dependencies

• A Unity project with the Metaplay SDK integrated - In this guide, we assume you already have the Metaplay SDK integrated into a project. If you haven’t done that already, check out Integrating the Metaplay SDK and come back here!

Key Concepts

• A Model is a class containing data for entities that the client and server share. For example, PlayerModel represents the state of a player.

Overview

Mostly everything that makes up a player's game state will be stored in a Model, including their stats, inventory, and general player information. For that reason, most gameplay programming happens by triggering actions, which then modify said Models.

The inspector shows the values of all members of the Model in real-time and can help in development, debugging, or any situation where you'd want to log or print any Model information.

Using the Inspector

You can open the inspector by clicking on Model Inspector on the Metaplay menu on the toolbar.

The button will open a tab you can drag anywhere in your Unity Editor.

Enter Play Mode to start the inspector. Here's what it inspector looks like for the PlayerModel while Idler is running.

You can optionally also see read-only properties and properties of the base class.

And last but not least, switch which Model you are viewing by clicking the dropdown and choosing a different one.