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• ChrisIceBox

  April 2023

  When two assets overlap in feature-sets, integrations are difficult to provide as the exact needs will vary from project to project.

  I'll need some details on your intended workflow. If you're looking to disregard AC's Inventory system in favour of UIS - interface included - what specifically are you needing the integration to handle?
• thusky

  April 2023 edited April 2023

  Well for instance the conflict I currently have relates to the event system, while it's just a notification and not a game breaking issue I hope it's not a bad sign of things to come.

  In this case I have to setup the event system in the scene itself and not through a prefab (following UIS setup), so it ends up conflicting with AC which requires a prefab, I tried making the current setup a prefab but it doesn't work, that's one thing.

  Another I guess is the fact that I want AC to keep track of objects IDs, for that however I just need to add a component to each prefab I assume so that shouldn't conflict, shouldn't but could eventually considering this is just the beginning of the project.

  I'm calling myself a tad neurotic on this one, I admit, I don't have many issues but I'm worried I get more down the line, thus why I inquire about this before the project takes a bigger scale and I get flooded with issues that could have been resolved at the design stages.

  In terms of design I intend to make a Resident Evil 4 style inventory with UIS, I won't have any interaction with items from the menu and game world directly, meaning you won't have a case of:

  Press RMB on item, choose action, it interacts with door or whatever interactive item.

  Rather, I intend to have AC check for the item ID in the inventory then unlock the door/container the player interacts with and remove item from inventory (by unlock it can also trigger a puzzle or whatever is needed).

  I guess for most uses it doesn't create a conflict at all. Like I said I'm just a tad neurotic on this one. My previous project of 2 years wasn't really well prepared in the design stages so I just want to avoid a maximum of future headaches (even though it's game dev, they're bound to come some day).

  Thanks for reading my rant, it might mean this feature request is void, you decide!
• ChrisIceBox

  April 2023 edited April 2023

  Sounds like it's less a direct integration between the two, and more a case of making sure the two can work alongside one another.

  I have to setup the event system in the scene itself and not through a prefab

  You can ignore the warnings from AC on that one. While AC prefers to spawn in a prefab, you're welcome to use one in the scene.

  I want AC to keep track of objects IDs

  UIS has its own save system, but is able to save/load its data as part of a separate system (see the "NestedInventorySaver" example script in their docs here).

  One way to implement this would be to use Json to convert this data to/from a string, and store the value in a Global String variable in the way covered by this tutorial.

  I intend to have AC check for the item ID in the inventory then unlock the door/container the player interacts with and remove item from inventory

  As UIS has its own interaction system, it seems like there's a couple of ways you could do this:

  1. Bypass AC Hotspots in favour of UIS interactions, that run AC ActionLists when triggered.
  2. Stick to AC Hotspots, and run a custom Action that checks if a given item is in the Player's UIS Inventory.

  For the latter, the "Get an Item from an Item Collection" code snippet on this page would likely be the best starting point.

  I'm going only by Opsive's docs so this is untested, but it may be something along these lines:

  using UnityEngine;
  using Opsive.UltimateInventorySystem;
  #if UNITY_EDITOR
  using UnityEditor;
  #endif
  
  namespace AC
  {
  
      [System.Serializable]
      public class ActionUISCheck : ActionCheck
      {
  
          public override ActionCategory Category { get { return ActionCategory.Inventory; }}
          public override string Title { get { return "Check UIS"; }}
  
          public string collectionName = "Item collection";
          public string itemName;
  
          public override bool CheckCondition ()
          {
              var m_Inventory = KickStarter.player.GetComponent<Inventory> ();
              var itemCollection = m_Inventory.GetItemCollection(collectionName);
              var itemInfoResult = itemCollection.GetItemInfo(itemName);
              return itemInfoResult.HasValue;
          }
  
          #if UNITY_EDITOR
  
          public override void ShowGUI ()
          {
              collectionName = EditorGUILayout.TextField ("Collection name:", collectionName);
              itemName = EditorGUILayout.TextField ("Item name:", itemName);
          }
  
          #endif
  
      }
  
  }
  
• thusky

  April 2023

  It's already plenty to go from!

  I'll get on it right away, I had no idea I had to actually tweak the save system from UIS to fit AC, that makes perfect sense however.

  I'll also implement the other script you mentioned since I'm going for option 2 on this one, I want to keep everything outside the inventory to AC.

  I'll come back to this thread to share any hurdle I cannot fix myself then, I imagine the title "feature request" might not fit the thread anymore.

  Thanks again Chris.