Advanced Resource/Supply manager available!

EDIT: This resource is now outdated, and is no longer available. It has been enhanced and included within the Community Resource-Building-Villager Mod.

I've built upon the foundation Jared made, and included art (2-d icons) that John McGlamory made to produce as "drop in and play" resource manager for the RTS Starter Kit.

It has been tested against Stock RTS-SK in single player mode, as well as dedicated server-client mode.

From the readme.txt:

Summary:

This resource is designed to encapsulate and abstract resource management, including:
--Client non-authoritative display and inventory tracking
(resources-client.cs)
--Server authoritative inventory tracking and modification
--functionality to:
---assign a resource "cost" to an action the player can perform
(see building.cs modifications for the example)
----validate the cost, and return either an ALLOW or DENY message to the action, including information about why it was denied
(resources-server.cs)
----update the server's inventory, and inform the client of the updates
---allow server objects to add supplies to a player's resource store
---demonstrate one (not very elegant) method to add resources over time to a player's resource store
(see building.cs modifications for the example)
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Download File: RTS-SKResourceManagement.zip

The restricted login is : GGRTS
password : ggrocks

PLEASE do not distribute this login to anyone outside of this private forum.

Thanks to:
Jared for the initial functionality.
John for the icons, and installation testing, and temporary hosting.
Addison for additional installation testing.

NOTE: There is one known issue in dedicated server-client mode, and possibly multiplayer host mode: When a client exits the game but the server stays active, there may be hanging scheduled auto-update supply events. These events seem to continue to reschedule even though the underlying objects are gone. I do not plan on following through on this last bug myself, since it is only for the demo (not the underlying functionality per se), but would welcome any ideas on how to fix it!