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• ChrisIceBox

  May 2021

  You can control such a property through animation, play it back with the Object: Animate Action, and store its state with the Remember Animator component.
• kloot

  May 2021 edited May 2021

  Oh, do you mean by also creating an animation then? I was thinking of something more along the lines of the "Character:Change rendering".
  Since this isn't all that uncommon and I don't really want to animate anything, it might be worth adding a dedicated action for it?

  Either way, thank you for the anim solution though - would've never thought of doing it that way
• Rairun

  May 2021 edited May 2021

  Edit: sorry, I thought I had a similar script, but I don't.
• ChrisIceBox

  May 2021 edited July 2022

  it might be worth adding a dedicated action for it?

  Custom Actions can be plugged in to extend AC whenever necessary - here's a sample one that changes the order of a supplied Renderer.

  Name the file ActionSortingOrder.cs, place it in a dedicated folder, and point to it in the Actions Manager. It'll then be available as Object: Change sorting order.

  using UnityEngine;
  
  namespace AC
  {
  
      [System.Serializable]
      public class ActionSortingOrder : Action
      {
  
          public Renderer renderer;
          public int newSortingOrder;
  
          public override ActionCategory Category { get { return ActionCategory.Object; }}
          public override string Title { get { return "Change sorting order"; }}
  
          public override float Run ()
          {
              renderer.sortingOrder = newSortingOrder;
              return 0f;
          }
  
          public override void Skip ()
          {
               Run ();
          }
  
          #if UNITY_EDITOR
  
          public override void ShowGUI ()
          {
              renderer = (Renderer) UnityEditor.EditorGUILayout.ObjectField ("Renderer:", renderer, typeof (Renderer), true);
              newSortingOrder = UnityEditor.EditorGUILayout.IntField ("New sorting order:", newSortingOrder);
          }
  
          #endif
  
      }
  
  }
  
• kloot

  May 2021

  Thanks for the action. Changing the sorting order in runtime isn't so much the problem as having it saved though, why I figured it might be worth to pair it with a Remember component in AC.
• ChrisIceBox

  May 2021

  Custom Remember components are possible, too - see this tutorial.

  Though, with the animation workflow, and use of the Remember Animator component, no scripting is necessary.
• kloot

  May 2021

  Ah, cool - I'll write a RememberSorting component then. Thanks for the pointers!
• sonicjoy

  July 2022

  I'd love to use this script but I'm getting a console error. I've put the script in a folder called Custom Actions, where my other custom actions live.

  Suggestions as to what I'm doing wrong?

  (My AC v 1.75.4, Unity 2020.3.20f1)

  ActionSortingOrder.cs(16,31): error CS0161: 'ActionSortingOrder.Run()': not all code paths return a value

  ActionSortingOrder.cs(30,76): error CS1503: Argument 1: cannot convert from 'string' to 'UnityEngine.Object'

  ActionSortingOrder.cs(30,89): error CS1503: Argument 2: cannot convert from 'UnityEngine.Renderer' to 'System.Type'
• ChrisIceBox

  July 2022

  It was a typo on my part. Try the updated script above.
• Zombiehype

  November 2022

  I used this script in my game and it works great. I'm trying to extend it a bit to make it accept an AL parameter. I think I'm almost there and when I launch the AL directly it works great, accepting the default value of the parameter.

  The problem is that when I launch the AL from another AL, assigning the parameter (or even without assigning it and using the default values), I get this error:

  UnassignedReferenceException: The variable objectToAffect of ChangeSortingOrder has not been assigned.
  You probably need to assign the objectToAffect variable of the ChangeSortingOrder script in the inspector.

  I found this particularly weird since the action works by itself

  My edits are mainly taken from the script tutorial 2/3. here's my script:

  public GameObject objectToAffect;
      public Renderer renderer;
              protected SortingGroup sortingGroup;
      public int newSortingOrder;
              public int parameterID = -1;
              private int constantID;
  
      public override ActionCategory Category { get { return ActionCategory.Custom; }}
      public override string Title { get { return "Change sorting order"; }}
  
  
      public override float Run ()
      {
                  renderer = objectToAffect.GetComponent<Renderer>();
                  sortingGroup = renderer.GetComponent<SortingGroup>();
                  if (sortingGroup)
                  {
                      sortingGroup.sortingOrder = newSortingOrder;
                  }
                  renderer.sortingOrder = newSortingOrder;
        return 0f;
      }
  
      public override void Skip ()
      {
           Run ();
      }
  
      #if UNITY_EDITOR
  
      public override void ShowGUI (List<ActionParameter> parameters)
      {
                  parameterID = Action.ChooseParameterGUI("GameObject to affect:", parameters, parameterID, ParameterType.GameObject);
                  if (parameterID >= 0)
                  {
                      constantID = 0;
                      objectToAffect = null;
                  }
                  else
                  {
                      objectToAffect = (GameObject) EditorGUILayout.ObjectField("GameObject to affect:", objectToAffect, typeof (GameObject), true);
                      constantID = FieldToID (objectToAffect, constantID);
                      objectToAffect = IDToField (objectToAffect, constantID, true);
                  }
  
                  newSortingOrder = UnityEditor.EditorGUILayout.IntField ("New sorting order:", newSortingOrder);
      }
  
              override public void AssignValues (List<ActionParameter> parameters)
              {
                  objectToAffect = AssignFile (parameters, parameterID, constantID, objectToAffect);
              }
  
      #endif
  
• ChrisIceBox

  November 2022

  Your AssignValues function needs to be outside of the UNITY_EDITOR directive.
• Zombiehype

  November 2022

  Thanks, but unfortunately that wasn't it. I'm still getting the same error. Here's the actual .cs file for good measure
• Zombiehype

  November 2022

  Not sure if related, but I also noticed that when clicking on the little button besides the action parameters that brings up the assets list, I get this other error (the button works fine though)

  GUI Error: Invalid GUILayout state in ActionListEditorWindow view. Verify that all layout Begin/End calls match
  UnityEngine.GUIUtility:ProcessEvent (int,intptr,bool&)
• Zombiehype

  November 2022

  My bad, the error was in the AL, not the script I had forgot one additional instance of the action that had lost the target when I refactored the script, and it was that one that was blocking the whole thing. The script works as it is!

  I still get the console error of my last message, but it's not blocking and doesn't impact any aspect of the action apparently.