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Tutorial: Quick start

in this tutorial you will learn how to quickly setup a chart and add data to it.

The scene created in this tutorial can be found in “Extras/ExampleScenes/QuickStart”.

1. Go To Tools/Graph and Chart menu and click on “Add Data Series Chart”

Apply a margin to the newly created object:

2. Create a new Script and name it “DataLoader”

Copy the following code into the script file

using DataVisualizer;
using UnityEngine;

public class DataLoader : MonoBehaviour
{
    public DataSeriesChart chart; // the chart object
    // Start is called before the first frame update
    void Start()
    {
        var category = chart.DataSource.GetCategory("dataseries-1").Data; // obtain category data
        category.Append(0.0, 0.0); // call append to add a new point to the graph
        category.Append(100.0, 2.0);
        category.Append(200.0, 1.0);
        category.Append(300.0, 5.0);
        category.Append(500.0, 2.0);
    }
}

3. Create a new game object and name it “DataLoaderObject”

Add a data loader component to the newly created object

drag “DataSeriesChart” into the chart field of the data loader component

4. Click the play button