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• ChrisIceBox

  October 2023

  You'd need to be familiar with Unity's Animation system, but with the aid of a custom Action, it's possible.

  The circle animation(s) would be a prefab that gets spawned in when you click, and which then plays a different animation according to what you clicked on.

  1. Add an empty to the scene and attach an Animator. Use Unity's Animation tools to create 3 animations - one for when clicking on the NavMesh, another for when clicking on a Hotspot, and another for when clicking elsewhere. Make this last one the default.
  2. For the NavMesh and Hotspot animations, create Trigger parameters that cause these animations to play. Name them "NavMesh" and "Hotspot" respectivly.
  3. Make this object a prefab, and remove from the scene.
  4. Go to your Project setting's Input manager, and create a new Input named Click. Set its Positive button to mouse 0.
  5. Go to AC's Active Inputs window (in the top toolbar) and create a new Active Input. Set its Input button to Click, and assign an ActionList asset in its ActionList when trigger field.
  6. Create a new folder in your Project window, and copy/paste the code below into a C# file named ActionClickAnim. In the Actions Manager, point to this folder from the "Custom Action scripts" panel to install it as a new Custom: Click animation Action.
  7. Go to the ActionList created in step 5 and add this new Action to it. Assign the prefab created in step 1, and make sure the Trigger names match.

  That ought to do it!
• ChrisIceBox

  October 2023

  using UnityEngine;
  #if UNITY_EDITOR
  using UnityEditor;
  #endif
  
  namespace AC
  {
  
      [System.Serializable]
      public class ActionClickAnim : Action
      {
  
          public GameObject clickPrefab;
          public string onHotspotTrigger = "Hotspot";
          public string onNavMeshTrigger = "NavMesh";
          private GameObject spawnedClickOb;
          public float lifeTime = 4f;
  
          public override ActionCategory Category { get { return ActionCategory.Custom; }}
          public override string Title { get { return "Click animation"; }}
  
          public override float Run ()
          {
              if (clickPrefab == null || KickStarter.playerMenus.IsMouseOverMenu ())
              {
                  return 0f;
              }
  
              Vector3 mouseScreenPosition = KickStarter.playerInput.GetMousePosition ();
              Vector3 mouseWorldPosition = Camera.main.ScreenToWorldPoint (mouseScreenPosition);
              mouseWorldPosition.z = KickStarter.player.transform.position.z;
  
              spawnedClickOb = Instantiate (clickPrefab, mouseWorldPosition, clickPrefab.transform.rotation);
              Destroy (spawnedClickOb, lifeTime);
              Animator _animator = spawnedClickOb.GetComponent<Animator> ();
  
              RaycastHit2D hit = Physics2D.Raycast (mouseWorldPosition, Vector2.zero);
              if (hit != null && hit.collider != null)
              {
                  if (hit.collider.GetComponent<Hotspot> ())
                  {
                      _animator.SetTrigger (onHotspotTrigger);
                  }
                  else if (hit.collider.gameObject.layer == LayerMask.NameToLayer ("NavMesh"))
                  {
                      _animator.SetTrigger (onNavMeshTrigger);
                  }
              }
  
              return 0f;
          }
  
          public override void Skip () { }
  
          #if UNITY_EDITOR
  
          public override void ShowGUI ()
          {
              clickPrefab = (GameObject) EditorGUILayout.ObjectField ("Prefab:", clickPrefab, typeof (GameObject), false);
              onHotspotTrigger = EditorGUILayout.TextField ("Hotspot Trigger:", onHotspotTrigger);
              onNavMeshTrigger = EditorGUILayout.TextField ("NavMesh Trigger:", onNavMeshTrigger);
              lifeTime = EditorGUILayout.FloatField ("Lifetime:", lifeTime);
          }
  
          #endif
  
      }
  
  }
  
• foggy_studio

  October 2023

  Oh this worked like a charm!
  I wanted to take a moment to express my heartfelt gratitude for the outstanding guidance you provided. That was incredibly clear and helpful.
  I can attach the Prefab to the wiki if that helps others (anims included) with your explanation. This is kind of a small but nice feature.
• ChrisIceBox

  October 2023

  I'm sure that would be welcome. It might also be a good fit for the Downloads page - I'll give it some thought, thanks for the suggestion.
• foggy_studio

  October 2023 edited October 2023

  Thank you for the best guidance.

  I just added it on wiki, just couldn't to upload my .unitypackage file which already had animations, script, etc which could be skipped to step 7 on wiki. However if I find a good host I will upload it at some point. Or you can download it and take a look if that's good add this to Downloads.

  Once again thaaaanks a lot
• ChrisIceBox

  October 2023

  Looks good, thanks.

  I've made a few tweaks to simplify things, and have added this to the Downloads page.