[Custom Action] Variables: MultiBoolCheck

MAC

Hi,

after not coding in C# for at least 10 years I sat myself down yesterday to code my first custom action. I call it "MultiBoolCheck" and it is used to check a unlimited number of global boolean variables if they meet given conditions. I need this to clean up my action lists if there are to many variable state checks.

Or simply said, it can turn this:

into this:


The Action is based on the "Variable: Check" Action. It only works with global boolean variables and does not support ActionList parameters. Maybe someone else has a use for it.

MAC

Oops. I wanted to post the code here but it tells me "Body is 82371 characters too long.". Any ideas how to share the code?

MAC

I made up a wiki page for this.

ChrisIceBox

Thanks for posting!  The page can be found here.

dude

Thank you!

salex

This is very useful indeed! Thank's

VP_3

@MAC

This does not work for me in Unity 2018.2
I put the MultiBoolCheck.cs where the AC scripts are and nothing ...
Anything changed in scripting for 2018 this file ?

ChrisIceBox

Custom Actions must be correctly installed following the guidelines outlined in the Manual's "Custom Actions" chapter as well as this tutorial.

VP_3

1. "If it is, choose to another platform, such as PC, Mac & Linux Standalone temporarily." checked
2. "Within the Custom Action scripts panel, click Set directory." checked

I do not think it is something I did wrong. What else should I check ?

VP_3

I found the problem: I put the cs file in the Actionlist folder instead of Actions. And this is why it was not finding my new Action

sonicjoy

This is such an amazing script...I've used it a lot in my game, which has several puzzle pieces that need to be positioned correctly over markers.  It's a great way to check if all the pieces are in the right spot.

Can anyone help me modify this script to check Integer variables instead of Boolean variables? (I know just enough C# to get me into trouble!)

ChrisIceBox

@sonicjoy: This won't do it completely, but you'll have a good start by renaming all instances of MultiBool to MultiInt, BoolValue to int, and boolValue to intValue (all case-sensitive).

From there, it should mostly be a case of correcting errors that then appear in the Console.

sonicjoy

Thanks Chris! I'll give it a go.

midnightdojo

I know it's been a while, but this is extremely useful... but I can't get it to work. It's telling me there's an error on line 97: ActionMultiBoolCheck.cs(97,35): error CS0115: 'ActionMultiBoolCheck.End(List)': no suitable method found to override

Any ideas?

ChrisIceBox

Welcome to the community, @midnightdojo.

It's an old Action that uses the old Action API, deprecated with AC v1.73.

A guide to changes made to the API can be found here, but I've attempted to update the wiki page with the corrections - have a try now and see if it works.

midnightdojo

Thanks @ChrisIceBox. You're epic! I got it to work, there were only two minor issues that I fixed. Maybe you can update the wiki with them.

line 51 we have:
Hits++:
I changed it to
Hits++;

Then on line 61 we have
{
ACDebug.LogWarning("The 'Variable: MultiBoolCheck' Action halted the ActionList because it cannot find the Global Variable with an ID of " + _multiBool.variableID);
return GenerateStopActionEnd();
}

I changed it to:
{
ACDebug.LogWarning($"The 'Variable: MultiBoolCheck' Action halted the ActionList because it cannot find the Global Variable with an ID of {_multiBool.variableID}");
GenerateStopActionEnd();
return false;
}

It seems to be working now! Tested it out with a few variables. This is going to save me a ton of time.

ChrisIceBox

Amended - thanks for the pointers.

midnightdojo

Cheers! I'm mostly just a composer who is working on a click adventure, so I'm not that good at coding yet, but I was able to hack around until I figured out what worked. Anyway, thanks again. It's been extremely useful.