Triggering highlight component for inventory actions only?

MartynEm

I'd like to use AC's highlight component to brighten the material of hotspots, but only when I drag an inventory item onto an object, not with a regular mouse-over. A similar effect is used in Double Fine's Broken Age - what I'm looking for is on the hotspot, not the Active FX of the inventory pointer. Is there a simple way to achieve this?

ChrisIceBox

You can attach a component to the scene that hooks into the OnInventorySelect and OnInventoryDeselect events, and updates all Highlight components in the scene accordingly:

using AC;
using UnityEngine;

public class InventoryOnlyHighlight : MonoBehaviour
{

    private Highlight[] highlights;

    private void Start ()
    {
        highlights = Object.FindObjectsOfType <Highlight>();
        OnInventoryDeselect (null);
    }

    private void OnEnable ()
    {
        EventManager.OnInventorySelect += OnInventorySelect;
        EventManager.OnInventoryDeselect += OnInventoryDeselect;
    }

    private void OnDisable ()
    {
        EventManager.OnInventorySelect -= OnInventorySelect;
        EventManager.OnInventoryDeselect -= OnInventoryDeselect;
    }

    private void OnInventorySelect (InvItem invItem)
    {
        foreach (Highlight highlight in highlights)
        {
            highlight.brightenMaterials = true;
        }
    }

    private void OnInventoryDeselect (InvItem invItem)
    {
        foreach (Highlight highlight in highlights)
        {
            highlight.brightenMaterials = false;
        }
    }

}