How do I access my player currency through a cloud script function? I want to display the currency my player has on the screen all the time.

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anudeep asked Jan 4, '22

How do I access my player currency through a cloud script function? I want to display the currency my player has on the screen all the time.

As the title suggests, my game in UNITY is a choice based decision game. I have made cloud function for adding currency and reducing currency by 1 and run a for loop to "spend the currency" for example for(i=0;i<20;i++)

{

reduceCurrency();

}

This doesn't seem to work though, sometimes it only deducts 9, sometimes 10 from the playfab's player currency.

Maybe if i can actually just access the currency into my script, I can put conditions for it with the currency in my UI? which isn't the same as of now. I initialize my UI currency with the same value that i put into my player's through a cloudscript function.

How can I connect my UI to the playfab ? How can I pass in values to the cloudscript to add/subtract certain amount from the wallet?

How do I implement Game Currency into my cost based decision making game ?

CloudScript In-Game Economy Character Data

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Answer 1 · 2022-01-04T09:32:31Z

Made Wang answered Jan 4, '22

Are you using Cloud Script Classic or Azure Function Cloud Script? Azure Function Cloud Script is recommended.

In Azure Function, you can use AddUserVirtualCurrency and SubtractUserVirtualCurrency to increase or decrease virtual currency, and use GetPlayerCombinedInfo to get virtual currency.

On the client side, you can use GetPlayerCombinedInfo to get virtual currency, use ExecuteFunction to call Azure Function Cloud Script, and pass in the type of virtual currency and the value of increase or decrease as parameters when calling.

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anudeep commented · Jan 08, 2022 at 08:40 AM

Okay! So you recommend me to switch to Azure Function Cloud Script? Can't I achieve the same with the Cloud Script Classic ?

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Made Wang anudeep commented · Jan 10, 2022 at 07:44 AM

In fact, we recommend using Azure Function Cloud Script.It has many advantages, you can refer to Announcing CloudScript using Azure Functions is now GA (playfab.com) to learn more. Of course, you can also call the above APIs on Cloud Script Classic. Note that ExecuteCloudScript is used on the client side to call Cloud Script Classic.

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anudeep Made Wang commented · Jan 10, 2022 at 03:28 PM

Okay! I have been looking up at azure functions for the last 3 days and I am tad bit confused about where I should be adding my currency? In the azureFunction.cs ? or in my azureFunctionHandler.cs which in turn calls the my azureFunction?

The video tutorial is quite bit confusing.

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anudeep commented · Jan 10, 2022 at 08:18 PM

What I mean is, following the HelloWorld Function, I had come to written a small addCurrency function.

But using PlayFab.Plugins.Cloudscript isn't being detected, the error is stated below.

The type or
namespace name 'Plugins' does not exist in the namespace 'PlayFab' (are you missing an assembly reference?)

I have used Visual studio 2019 for most of my game code and VS code doesn't help me at all in coding or pointing out errors, which has been real difficult.

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anudeep commented · Jan 10, 2022 at 09:33 PM

using System;
using System.IO;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
using Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc;
using Microsoft.Azure.WebJobs;
using Microsoft.Azure.WebJobs.Extensions.Http;
using Microsoft.AspNetCore.Http;
using Microsoft.Extensions.Logging;
using Newtonsoft.Json;
using PlayFab.Plugins.CloudScript;
using PlayFab.DataModels;
using PlayFab.ServerModels;
using PlayFab.Json;
using System.Collections.Generic;

namespace Buffbaer.Economy
{
    public static class AddCurrency
    {
        [FunctionName("AddCurrency")]
        public static async Task<dynamic> Run(
            [HttpTrigger(AuthorizationLevel.Function, "post", Route = null)] HttpRequest req,
            ILogger log)
        {
            FunctionExecutionContext<dynamic> context = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<FunctionExecutionContext<dynamic>>(await req.ReadAsStringAsync());

However I am now getting, CS0246: The type or namespace name 'FunctionExecutionContext<>' could not be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)

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Made Wang anudeep commented · Jan 11, 2022 at 06:45 AM

Your code does not use the methods under the PlayFab.Plugins.CloudScript namespace, and if you use the PlayFabFunctionContexts, it is obsolete, we would recommend you not to use it.

FunctionExecutionContext is a method in CS2AFHelperClasses, you need to add reference: using PlayFab.Samples;

If you want to call the API in PlayFab, you should also add a reference to it: using PlayFab;

Other than that, all you need to do is to complete the necessary environment configuration by referring to PlayFab CloudScript using Azure Functions Quickstart Guide - PlayFab | Microsoft Docs.

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anudeep Made Wang commented · Jan 11, 2022 at 11:50 AM

However I am unable to configure the environment as PlayFabAllSDK and PlayFabCloudScriptPlugin aren't being added by NuGet Package Manager. PlayFabAllSdk isn't compatible.

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anudeep anudeep commented · Jan 17, 2022 at 07:56 AM

I have configured every thing I could, except the playfab sdk and plugin as per the document.

I have changed the directory for my Azure Function app as well, and still no change. What shall I be installing again ?

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Made Wang anudeep commented · Jan 17, 2022 at 08:36 AM

In fact, I can't reproduce your problem, dotnet add package should be like this under normal circumstances.

I suggest you to look for some professional support on .Net and Nuget.

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