Change a hotspot's "player action" (walk to/turn/do nothing...)

Zombiehype · January 1

Is there a painless way to change this property of a hotspot interaction through an action list? I'm looking for something I could put in a generic AL with a parameter, and run for every hotspot I need to change the action to.

The scenario is that we're at the end game and it takes place in a previously visited scene, full of now superfluous hotspots. I want the player to focus on the task at hand, but at the same time I don't want to just turn off all old hotspots. Most hotspots have a "walk to marker" action on the use interaction, and it feels silly for the player to walk up to a hotspot and just say "now it's not the time". So I'd like to change that "walk to" into "do nothing" for all of these old hotspots.

I thought I could add a second "use" action with "do nothing" for every hotspot, disable the old one and enable the new one, but it doesn't work for me for a couple of reasons: it doesn't work if I pass the hotspot as a parameter (so I would have to do it manually for each one) and I want to also change the examine "player action", but I can't add a second examine action.

ChrisIceBox · January 2

Not built-in, but you can control this property through a custom script function that you can then call via an ActionList using the Object: Call event Action:

public Hotspot[] hotspotsToAffect;

public void SetToDoNothing ()
{
    foreach (Hotspot hotspot in hotspotsToAffect)
    {
        if (hotspot == null) continue;

        if (hotspot.HasContextUse ())
        {
            foreach (var useButton in hotspot.useButtons)
            {
                useButton.playerAction = PlayerAction.DoNothing;
            }
        }

        if (hotspot.HasContextLook ()) 
        {
            hotspot.lookButton.playerAction = PlayerAction.DoNothing;
        }
    }
}

Zombiehype · January 2

Hi Chris, thanks a lot
If anyone's interested I transformed this into a custom action script that can change the playerAction either way

using UnityEngine;
using System.Collections.Generic;

#if UNITY_EDITOR
using UnityEditor;
#endif

namespace AC
{

    [System.Serializable]
    public class ChangePlayerAction : Action
    {

                public GameObject objectToAffect;
                public Hotspot hotspotToAffect;
                public PlayerAction useAction;
                public PlayerAction examineAction;
                public int useActionInt;
                public int examineActionInt;
                public readonly string[] options = { "Unchanged", "DoNothing", "TurnToFace", "WalkToMarker"};


                public override ActionCategory Category { get { return ActionCategory.Custom; }}
                public override string Title { get { return "Modify hotspot player action"; }}


                public override float Run ()
                {
                    hotspotToAffect = objectToAffect.GetComponent<Hotspot>();

                    if (!objectToAffect || !hotspotToAffect) {
                        Debug.Log("exiting ChangePlayerAction - no hotspot found");
                        return 0f;
                    }

                    if (hotspotToAffect.HasContextUse ())
                    {
                        foreach (var useButton in hotspotToAffect.useButtons)
                        {
                        if (useActionInt == 1) {
                            useAction = PlayerAction.DoNothing;
                        }
                        else if (useActionInt == 2) {
                            useAction = PlayerAction.TurnToFace;
                        }
                        else if (useActionInt == 3) {
                            useAction = PlayerAction.WalkToMarker;
                        }
                        else {
                            useAction = useButton.playerAction;
                        }

                                useButton.playerAction = useAction;
                        }
                    }

                    if (hotspotToAffect.HasContextLook ()) 
                    {

                        if (examineActionInt == 1) {
                            examineAction = PlayerAction.DoNothing;
                        }
                        else if (examineActionInt == 2) {
                            examineAction = PlayerAction.TurnToFace;
                        }
                        else if (examineActionInt == 3) {
                            examineAction = PlayerAction.WalkToMarker;
                        }
                        else {
                            examineAction = hotspotToAffect.lookButton.playerAction;
                        }

                        hotspotToAffect.lookButton.playerAction = examineAction;
                    }

                    return 0f;
        }

        public override void Skip ()
        {
             Run ();
        }


                #if UNITY_EDITOR

                public override void ShowGUI (List<ActionParameter> parameters)
                {
                        objectToAffect = (GameObject) EditorGUILayout.ObjectField("Hotspot to affect:", objectToAffect, typeof (GameObject), true);
                        useActionInt = EditorGUILayout.Popup("Use action", useActionInt, options);
                        examineActionInt = EditorGUILayout.Popup("Examine action", examineActionInt, options);
                }

                #endif

        }

}

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