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Character Id - use & clarification

Josh
started a topic on Fri, 03 April 2015 at 9:37 AM

I was reading your character announcement and I had some questions about the character. How does the Character Id relate the character catalog item? In the following example from the leaderboard, both users have the same characterType, but different character Ids.

        "Leaderboard": [ 
        {
            "PlayFabId": "2039475",
            "CharacterId": "9234992",
            "CharacterName": "CoolDude",
            "DisplayName": "MyUserName",
            "CharacterType": "blue_warrior",
            "StatValue": "1001",
            "Position": "0"
        },
        {

            "PlayFabId": "88887475",
            "CharacterId": "18838574",
            "CharacterName": "StrongDude",
            "DisplayName": "SomeoneElse",
            "CharacterType": "blue_warrior",
            "StatValue": "300",
            "Position": "1"

        }

Is that the intended fuctionality? How would one use a character Id?

Thanks,

Josh

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Brendan Vanous said on Fri, 03 April 2015 at 12:22 PM

Hi Josh,

Just like the PlayFabId, the CharacterId is automatically generated, and it's unique for all characters (across all players). It's not related to the catalog item used to create a character in terms of how it's generated, apart from the fact that the item must exist in the player inventory when the GrantCharacterToUser API call is made.

The CharacterType gets set using the ItemId from the item in the catalog. So, in our example, those characters would have been created from an inventory item instance which was of ItemId "blue_warrior".

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Brendan Vanous said on Fri, 03 April 2015 at 12:22 PM

Hi Josh,

Just like the PlayFabId, the CharacterId is automatically generated, and it's unique for all characters (across all players). It's not related to the catalog item used to create a character in terms of how it's generated, apart from the fact that the item must exist in the player inventory when the GrantCharacterToUser API call is made.

The CharacterType gets set using the ItemId from the item in the catalog. So, in our example, those characters would have been created from an inventory item instance which was of ItemId "blue_warrior".

Brendan

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hey brendan can you write some code on how to reference this in unity?

like if i wanted to display StatValue, or displayName, how would i do it?

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There's a complete example of using many of the basic PlayFab features in our GitHub, here: https://github.com/PlayFab/UnicornBattle. Specific to leaderboards, have a look at the LeaderboardPaneController in that example code.

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