I’ve recently been making some mods for the game Rust. I don’t play much of the game myself, as I’m pretty bad at FPS games in general, but I do enjoy watching a select few YouTubers and streamers play it. One thing that I’ve seen a bunch of them complain about is the excessive use of autoturrets and other traps during raids, and for griefing people and areas. While I can’t do much to help the vanilla players, I am familiar with making mods for the game using the Oxide mod framework, which is now part of...
Weak referencing is a really useful feature when you don’t mind if an object is deleted, but you might still potentially want to access it again in future. For those of you who aren’t familiar with the concept of weak referencing, I’ll describe it briefly. If you already know how it works then you can skip ahead.
.NET is a garbage collected language, meaning that objects you create on the heap (e.g. with new) are automatically cleared up by the garbage collector (GC) when they are no longer being used....