combatant object HUD

omeegaa

I have a question regarding the combatant object HUD.
I made one for a party menu.The menu is quite tricky.Basically I make spawn the prefab of the machine object that join the group(like genshin impact) in the formation(battle group) and since what the player see is a dummy(spawn combatant without faction) and not the actual machine object in the group I can't just use a combatant HUD because it would have been not correctly placed( there is 4 postion and the player can choose to assign any combatant to any position).

So my issue is even if i deactivate theses dummy(I can't destroy them due to the complexity of the project ie: not able to retrieve their position after a game save/load) their HUD that goes in the HUD layer is still visible from any distance in the map.
The area where the dummies are placed is quite far (around 100 unity units) from where the player is when the menu is close(the menu is the UI box above the layer of the "real world" the player play and at a specific location in the scene).So its either I have no HUD at all(because the dummies are really far from the player) or I have the HUD visible from all across the map.For instance if the distance is 5(tested distance from player and from camera) I can see the HUD but I can see the HUD from anywhere ,if i setup less than 4 as distance even in the menu it doesn't appear.
I tried some settings but not really a good result.
I precise that I setup display conditions and tried the block HUD node too in a schematic ,a call open / call close with auto display deactivated aswell but in that case info doesn't display on the HUD.
So for this HUD it seems to completely ignore the condition of display.
So if I could have the HUD visible when the camera look at them at close range (I think its something like 5 units with cinemachine) and doesn't display when I am not in the "menu" meaning very far away from them that could be great.
Even if i saw the setting wtih the camera it doesn't help , is it because the camera is handled by cinemachine ?

gamingislove

Are you using the Limit Display Range settings of the HUD?
I've got such a HUD set up and that works fine, with game states managing if the HUD is shown or not (e.g. only showing when in control).

Those dummies that you spawn, are those actual combatants (i.e. the game object set as the combatant's game object) or e.g. part of a prefab view portrait setup, or some custom solution?
The Combatant Object HUD is only displayed at the combatant's actual game object.

omeegaa

Yes I'm using it , I was using the settings of the 3D RPG ACTION tutorial as base and then i custom it a little .
Here is the actual settings even if i tried multiple of them , as you can see the HUD as a limit display + a condition but it activates even if the condition is not fullfill.Basically looking with the camera in the direction of the combatant spawned in the party menu(even deactivated and not in the menu) activate the HUD and it become deactivated once the camera is not looking it.
The link contain 3 images with the settings.

As for the spawning I called dummies is kinda custom , a sub menu with combatant HUD is showed when clicking on a HUD click on the screen, theses list is only a combatant menu part that show HUD and containing themself HUD click to make appear a "ADD" or "remove" button.
If i click on the add button a check will be made to know who is the machine object of the clicked HUD and based on that make spawn the combatant using a simple spawn combatant without a faction( even if it seems it get affected to player automatically).
the part that make the spawn look like this :

gamingislove

Enabling Invert Range Check will (with your setup) will show the HUD if the player is 10+ world units away from the HUD's combatant.
Also, Combatant Object HUDs are only displayed if the combatant's object is visible, which is based on the Visibility Settings in Game > Game Settings. E.g. the combatant not being viewed by a camera can disable the HUD.

As for the dummy (and said earlier) - if the spawned combatant has no connection to the actual combatant you're displaying, it'll naturally also not display it's combatant object HUD. And if your HUD only displays for player, a combatant not in the player group will not display the HUD as well :)