Question by kalvinlyle · Apr 29, 2012 at 10:48 PM · ios guid uuid

How can I generate a GUID or a UUID from within Unity

Do we use GUID ?

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Fattie · Apr 15, 2013 at 06:42 AM 0

for future readers, Unity does all this work for you ...

http://answers.unity3d.com/questions/373055/deviceuniqueidentifier-curiosity-.html

ina · Aug 17, 2013 at 08:08 AM 1

This guy is not looking at device UUID but just a UUID string in general as a key to use in a data structure schema

Fattie · Aug 17, 2013 at 08:23 AM 0

True, but it's a bad idea :) it's like asking about generators when all you need is Invoke. Or program$$anonymous$$g physics by hand in Unity, ins$$anonymous$$d of using PhysX.

As I said, for future readers the fact is you just use the amazing function Unity has built-in for this purpose. The scheme presented below (of using the five "random" items) is appalling program$$anonymous$$g on many levels. If you have a job and did that you'd just be fired (well certainly by me anyways! :) )

matronator Fattie · May 30 at 09:41 PM 0

No it's not the same. He didn't say he wants the unique device ID, so don't jump to conclusions. What if he needs multiple GUIDs for different purposes on a single device? Then your approach is kinda useless, since the ID will always be the same per device.

komodor · Nov 29, 2016 at 05:10 PM 1

working with you Fattie must be really fun :D guy who doesn't read specs and then fire random guy ... ROFL

btw ... we've made our proper physics engine :D the one in unity can't do stuff we needed

Answer by Bunny83 · May 06, 2012 at 03:10 AM

According to [Mono Compatibility page][1] Guid is fully supported on all platforms / Mono versions.

It's:

 System.Guid.NewGuid();

So in C# you would do something like:

 System.Guid myGUID = System.Guid.NewGuid();

Usually you want:

 string newBackstageItemID = System.Guid.NewGuid().ToString();

(Like poday mentioned, if you use the micro mscorlib the Guid class is not included and you have to use a custom way to build a pseudo Guid.)

[1]: http://unity3d.com/support/documentation/ScriptReference/MonoCompatibility

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