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• ChrisIceBox

  August 2014

  Welcome to the forums!

  When I interact with something just as I click the mouse button I get a
  flash of text (where the real mouse pointer is) showing the text that
  hovers over the hotspots, how do I stop this?
  

  From the Menu Manager, delete the Hotspot Menu (or to just disable it, check the Start game locked off box)

  Also I need to know how to turn the mouse off completely, its still
  flashing up on and off quite often when I have a hotspot in view.
  

  The hardware cursor, or the texture one?  Look inside the Cursor Manager, you should find what you need in there.

  Is it possible to have "questions"? I want to interact with a vending
  machine and have it say do you wish to buy? rather than automatically
  buying when you click (edit, silly question, ignore that I
  see theres options for that now!). Also is there any concept of money?
  so you can buy things and collect money etc? Also is there a control
  flow, like to handle actual conversations with multiple answers? Or do
  we need another asset for that?
  

  You can create Conversations, which provide a list of options on-screen for the player.  More than just dialogue options (as in the demo game), Conversations can be used to let the player make any kind of choice.
  
  As for money, go to the Inventory Manager and create an Inventory item called Money.  Check Can carry multiple?, and if you've also got Carry on start? checked, you can specify how many units of currency you're carrying.  To deduct currency, use the Inventory: Add or remove Action - when you set it up to remove Money, you'll be able to decide how much money to remove.  And to check if you have enough money, use the Inventory: Check Action - when you select Money, you'll be able to query how much exactly the Player is carrying, and act accordingly.  It's best to do this from within the ActionList Editor window, rather than the Inspector, because it's easier to visualise in there.

  I also am looking for a way to stop being able to interact with things a
  long way away, ie I need to be close to highlight and use.
  

  At the bottom of the Settings Manager, reduce the Hotspot ray length value. This value determines the distance (in Unity units) that the mouse can "see" from the camera.  For more fine-tuning, you can have the player pass through Triggers that enable/disable Hotspots as well.

  I followed the tutorial for letting a player enter their own name, its great
  one thing I notices is that [var:0] is flashing up visibly before it
  swaps it for my name, perhaps this just needs to be done to the string
  before printing or whatever. I.e I believe its a bug.
  

  It is, and will be fixed in 1.38.

  if you use Dialog play speech and no character the text is too far
  down in the box and looks really strange, if you use character then it
  shows a character name from the variable itself, ideally id much prefer
  to enter my own text them sometimes, is it possible to customise this,
  or simply remove the gap at the top and have the text centred nicely in a
  box of its own?
  

  Speech without a speaking Character is known as narration (as explained in the help box inside the Action).  The Subtitles menu, by default, is set to display speech both with a speaker and without.  Within the Speech Menu's properties, Display speech of type is set to All.  You can change this to Characters Only, and then create your own Menu that's set to Narration Only - best thing is to copy/paste the original, and edit it.

  I have been trying to get something to teleport due to an interaction,
  ive added action type objects teleport and specified the 2 objects,
  object to move has moveable on it (and sits in _setGeometry), and the
  other is an empty game object with the marker script on it (sitting in
  _Navigation/markers) - they are both on ignoreRaycast layer, shouldnt
  this make it teleport? it doesnt seem to happen. Also maybe I didnt read
  docs well enough (been working on this for a few hard days) but I dont
  see exact instructions anywhere for this and a few other things?
  

  The object doesn't need the Moveable script on it - only if you want to use the Object: Transform Action on it.  Rather than create an empty object and add the Marker script, know that you can create Markers from the Scene Manager.

  Another issue is after I click resume in the pause menu I still have to hit p again to really unpause the game (im using ufps)
  

  What is "p" tied to in your InputManager?  Your game will be paused for as long as there are any Menus active with Pause game when enabled? checked.

  And finally, I cannot get inventory to show using an interaction I have
  tried with key presses, and also "turn on menu" (tried "3" and
  "Inventory", etc they dont turn it on, however it does show if I use
  "manual" enabled on start, so it is weird).
  

  It depends on the Menu's Appear type.  When set to Manual, the Menu: Change state Action can be used to turn it on.  The name of the menu, "Inventory", is what you need to enter.
  
• radiantboy

  August 2014

  Wow thanks so much, this will keep me going for days!! I will look into each thing, so thanks very much for the support. 

  
  

  One other thing Im facing now is that I want to set a variable for when someone is inside somewhere. Its a bar, so I have a trigger covering the whole room, Ive had to add a second trigger script to the trigger (Im assuming this is wrong? but it does work), the first trigger is onEnter variable set global "inBar" = True, and the second is onExit variable set global "inBar" = False, this works great, I see the variable change in real time as I enter and exit the bar. Now for the actual question, how do I access this from my other scripts? I want for example to press a button when in the bar and something will happen, but I need to access the "inBar" variable in order to do this (to know if theyre in the bar). Thanks in advance, Im finding this very powerful, but I also think many things I want i will have to delve off into my own scripts too which is totally fine, the game already feels tenfold more pro with the hotspots working and I cant wait to implement cash!.. 
• radiantboy

  August 2014

  OK Wow, AC.GlobalVariables.GetBooleanValue(1); did it, liking this more and more, sorry for all the noise, im splashing around with AC hehe... One thing I liked about UFPS is that they precursor all scripts with VP_ it might sound like a mess of refactoring but it really helps i think, I have so many assets in here the only time im comfortable im getting the right scripts is when im using vp_ ones as there is absolutely no ambiguity. 

  
  

  
  
• radiantboy

  August 2014 edited August 2014

  just on the off chance before I code it, do you have any support for sort of ongoing events? Ive read a lot of docs and I think not, its far too specific really, but what Im doing is when the guy is in the bar he can drink, and doing so should increase a meter of some kind, the whole while he is in there, periodically charging him for the drinks, is there anything like this is or is this something where I have to get my hands dirty? Ironic that part of me wants to get my hands dirty because these assets are all so powerful lol - seriously though Id rather tap into something nice thats been written than write it. :-)
• radiantboy

  August 2014

  On another note when I try to use the AdvancedPlayer from UFPS (which is far better than the generic one you use in the tutorial, because you get everything set up like guns etc) my camera goes wild, when you get a few minutes do you think you could try setting up the most advanced prefab from ufps (advancedplayer I think) with AC, and see if you encounter any issues? For now I have no guns etc in my game as Im working with AC, I tried to go to my main prefab I was using but as I say the camera shuddered as if there were 2. 
• ChrisIceBox

  August 2014

  I haven't had any issues getting the AdvancedPlayer prefab set up with AC by using the same method, so long as weapons aren't involved.  I've been sent a breakdown on how someone else managed to get weapon cameras integrated, though, which I'll be putting into a tutorial soon.  The extra "weapon" camera is likely the culprit of any issue.

  As for ongoing events, know that you can set Cutscenes to Run In Background via a setting at the top of their Inspector.  This lets you run them without blocking gameplay (so the Pause action becomes a Wait, for example).  You can also use the Menu system to create a Slider, the value of which is linked to a float Global Variable in your Variables Manager.
• radiantboy

  August 2014

  thanks for that, could you tell me how I grab a value from my inventory from code? I want to see how many money items my guy has, then set a meter showing the amount of cash, the meter is my own creation, so really I just need to know how I programatically get at the amount of money I have in the Inventory?

  
  

  Cheers.

  gaz.
• radiantboy

  August 2014

  actually got it thanks:

  
  

  Debug.Log ("UPDATE THE BAR");

  
  

  EnergyBar eb = bar.GetComponent<EnergyBar>();

  if (whichBar.Equals("TOLERANCE"))

  {

  Debug.Log("SET TOLERANCE LEVEL");

  eb.SetValueF(0.1f);

  }

  if (whichBar.Equals("MONEY"))

  {

  Debug.Log("SET MONEY LEVEL");

  
  

  Debug.Log("INVENTORY CONTENTS:");

  //set real cash from inventory

  GameObject pe = GameObject.Find("PersistentEngine");

  RuntimeInventory rti = pe.GetComponent<RuntimeInventory>();

  List<InvItem> items = rti.localItems;

  for (int i = 0; i < items.Count; i++) // Loop through List with for

  {

  Debug.Log(i+"/ "+items[i].label);

  if (items[i].label.Equals("Money"))

  {

  Debug.Log("Money found, player has: "+items[i].count);

  float cash = items[i].count;

  cash /= 1000;

  Debug.Log("now setting cash meter:"+cash);

  eb.SetValueF(cash);

  }

  }

  
  

  
  

  }

  
  
• Vadbag

  September 2014

  Hi Chris,
  Regarding the earlier mentioned problem of Hotspot appearing at a real cursor position, I experience the same problem. This is not to do with disabling the hotspot menu, if it is disabled - there is no hotspot name at all. The problem occurs in the first person view. When the game cursor is over a hotspot, the name of that hotspot is correctly displayed right above the game cursor, however once I click to use this hotspot, the name briefly jumps to the location of Windows mouse cursor and then back again to the game cursor. These two cursors are in different positions of the screen, due to the difference in their movement speed I guess. So the question is, how to stop the Hotspot name jumping to the Win mouse position at the time of click?
  
• ChrisIceBox

  September 2014

  @Vadbag: Can't recreate.  Could you post a shot of your Hotspot menu, and tell me if you're using First Person or Ultimate FPS?  I'm assuming this is occuring when the cursor is "locked" in the centre of the screen, yes?
  
• Vadbag

  September 2014

  I'm using the UFPS. Yes, the cursor is locked in the centre, otherwse it will be moving all over screen How do I post my screen? If I simply drag it into my message the forum says that body is too long.
  
• ChrisIceBox

  September 2014

  Just take a screengrab and upload it to imgur, or whichever image hosting you prefer, and post the link to it.
  
• Vadbag

  September 2014

  Ok, here you go http://imgur.com/mU3MgMl
  
• ChrisIceBox

  September 2014 edited September 2014

  May be fixed in 1.39 - hopefully out this week.  Let me know if it persists after upgrading - sorry for the vagueness, but like I said I can't recreate this - only go by my instinct.
  
• Vadbag

  October 2014

  Nope, not fixed, unfortunately. And in new hardware mode the cursor doesn't stay in the centre of the screen, just moves in place of Win cursor.
  
• ChrisIceBox

  October 2014

  By it's nature, the Hardware cursor won't be able to force itself in the centre of the screen - otherwise you wouldn't be able to close the game window.
  
  However, I have managed to finally recreate this, so I'll be able to fix it - thanks for your patience.