Phase Combat - Player Combatant Selection - End Turn Input Key

Krixus

In "Input Key Settings", within the "Player Combatant Selection" section, I know that there is a specific key you can define to end the entire phase of the player's faction, but can you also please add an input key just for "End Turn", or in other words to specifically end just the turn of that combatant?

When you have multiple combatants, being able to end the turn of a specific combatant is nice as it makes it easier to keep track of the remaining player combatants that need to act, especially when you specifically disable the "Auto End Turn" options due to 0 AP abilities.

Being able to just define an input key for this within the editor would be really nice, otherwise I'd probably have to hack it on through an ability/schematic or something and I'd rather not do that especially because I just want to create a control type HUD as individual buttons to trigger these actions.

There are already input keys to end phase and cycle to the next/previous combatant, all that is missing is an input key to specifically end just the turn of the currently selected combatant.

Krixus

If I want to create a control type HUD, is the correct component to use the "HUD Button Control Content" component? All I want to create is the equivalent to the ORK 2 HUD Type "Control", which allows you to assign input keys that you've defined in the editor which would then be used as a HUD "button", eg. A box with an arrow, clicking the box ends the current turn by triggering the input key that you've defined to end the turn.

Krixus

If "HUD Button Control Content" is the correct component to set up something like a HUD button that triggers an input key on clicking, is it possible to add the option to assign a "Click Clip/Play Sound File" that will trigger when the HUD is clicked/input key triggers?

I've tried adding an additional "HUD Click" component which calls an empty schematic but it seems like when these two components are added together the sound doesn't trigger. Removing the "HUD Button Control Content" component will trigger the sound again, once it is added, it stops playing.

I'd rather not have to then trigger the sound file in the schematic that I call, I feel like this is all a bit excessive just to trigger a sound effect when the HUD is clicked.

Then again this might all be possible already and I have simply used the wrong component to achieve my goals, please help.

I have to specify as well that the input key that I am calling is the input key to end the phase. It seems if the input key is tied to ending the phase, then "HUD Click" events will not trigger. I tried to swap the input key to something else and the "HUD Click" events work again, it seems to only be if the phase is ending at the same time as hud click events trigger?

Krixus

I'm now trying to display a sprite/icon within the HUD button, but I can't get it to display properly, again still learning all the ins and outs of Unity UI.

First, I tried defining an icon text code, I'm not sure if I have to put the entire sprite tag in or if just the value is enough.

Then in the HUD prefab itself, I added a "ORK HUD Text Content" component. I then tried displaying the index of the sprite (100). I also tried another method which was going to Data > Input Key > "Input Key Index" > Icon then adding it directly into the text box.

That's normally enough to do the trick in IMGUI ORK 2, but I guess it's a lot different with ORK 3 Unity UI.

I then tried adding the sprite index to the text mesh pro text box itself too, but no matter what I've tried, I can't seem to display an image in the HUD box.

Krixus

There's some odd behavior when it comes to the "Button" component, but I'm not sure if this is a Unity UI issue or if it is something related to ORK. This is all in context to the same current setup with a HUD component etc.

The issue is to do with when using "Sprite Swap". The highlighted sprite works the first time when hovering over the HUD button but once it is pressed, it will always remain in the selected state. Even if I click another UI box or somewhere else it never leaves the selected state. I've tried not defining a selected state but it just defaults to the target graphic and so the issue is the "highlight" breaks. It's meant to just be a small button with an icon, you hover the mouse over it, it glows yellow, you press it and it go back to the neutral color but if you hover over it again it highlights again. It never highlights after you press it once.

The only workaround I've found is that I have to define a "HUD" click event and a duplicate of the same button and I have to toggle the original button off and enable the duplicate, then clicking the duplicate button toggles the duplicate off and toggles on the original HUD button again. If I do that, the highlight works when hovering the mouse over after clicking the HUD button.

Krixus

This point refers back to 3) and 5).

I can't get my "workaround" for the highlight issue (defining a duplicate button with HUD click event to toggle on/off) to work specifically with an input key to "End Phase" because as stated in the bold text at the bottom of 3), it seems that HUD Click events won't trigger if an input key to end the phase is also triggered at the same time/defined on the same HUD prefab.

Krixus

I can't seem to get input keys that I have defined for rotation left/right etc for the "Top Down Border Camera" to trigger while using the above setup. In other words, having a HUD with a "HUD Button Control Content" component to actually trigger.

I was trying to mirror the setup from ORK 2, where I had a control HUD type, trigger an input key. The input key was the same key used to rotate the camera to the left/right for the "Top Down Border Camera".

I can't seem to get it to work in ORK 3.

Setup for the input key:

The setup on the actual HUD prefab, it has other components beneath it like a "HUD Click" component and a "ORK HUD Text Content" component which I was hoping would be used to display the icon.

I figured triggering the input key from a HUD should rotate the camera but I can't get any movement from it. Perhaps there is something blocking?

gamingislove

1) That can be set up as a control map for your combatant.
Set up a control map key with the None action, which will end the turn.

2) Generally, you can add control HUD elements to any other HUD and even UI boxes.
The scene hierarchy context menu has ready to use setups that you can create: Makinom > HUD > Control
There are controsl for buttons, axis (single axis) and joystick (2 axes/input keys).

3) Might be due to the order of the components.
Try moving the HUD Click component above the button control component.

4) You can just use regular Unity UI components, i.e. just add an Image component and select the sprite you want to use.
The HUD content components are used to display specific content coming from the HUD's user/content, e.g. a combatant's name or icon, equipment content, etc.
So, as long as you don't need content-based display that can change due to what's displayed by the HUD, you can simply add a sprite or texture using regular Unity UI components.

5) The button control doesn't really use a Unity Button component. Unity UI states are handled differently, so it being selected or highlighted can change due to other UI (e.g. a UI box having some button selected).
Try the setup that you can create via the context menu.

6) Is this with HUD click on the same game object as a button HUD? If yes, try as explained in #3.
Otherwise, might be the phase input key causing input reset before the click is used by the HUD.

7) As said above, try a setup created via context menu.
Also, is the input key working when using the actual key and not the HUD?

Krixus

gamingislove

Thanks, so pressing the input key itself works however, it does not work when you try to trigger it from a HUD with the "HUD Button Control Content". In fact, none of my input keys work with the strange exception being the 3 input keys defined in the phase combat battle systems for next/previous combatant and end phase. I will explain further below in point 7.
So, I'll write instructions on how to replicate this issue.

This is based on the 3D RPG Playground project.
https://orkframework.com/guide/tutorials/3d-rpg-playground/start-3d-rpg-playground/

I've set up input keys for "Rotate Left" and "Rotate Right" for the top-down border camera.

So now, there is confirmation that the input keys by themselves work, you can rotate the camera left and right with Q and E.
Battles/Battle System/General Settings - I've swapped "Default Battle System" to phase.
I then create another input key for "End Phase", then I define that key as the "End Phase Key" in "Player Combatant Selection".

I then download the "Control HUD" prefab from here;
https://orkframework.com/guide/tutorials/ui-setups/unity-ui-control-hud/
I then position the "Control HUD" in the middle of the screen for easy access.
Then I've defined a "Latest Turn" HUD and defined the "Control HUD" prefab.

Within the "Control HUD" prefab, the "HUD Button Control Content" component on the Accept Button has the input key "Rotate Left". The "HUD Button Control Content" component for Cancel Button has "Rotate Right".
I then start the game, I run across the bridge, trigger a button. Since it is a quick setup, I enable the "Top Down Border Camera" script again, pressing the red or green buttons does nothing, I cannot rotate the camera with the HUD but I can with the input keys.
Now, go back into "Control HUD", swap the Accept Button input key to "End Phase", repeat the steps. Clicking the green button does end the phase, if you create next/previous keys those will work to.

I don't know why but with this setup, basically none of my input keys work, I've tried this with the hotkeys (1-9) for the shortcut keys, trying to activate them but that doesn't work either. The control map that is meant to end the individual turn won't trigger either. Currently the only input keys that work are only the ones I've defined in the phase battles.

Krixus

I've also just tried then to do it again from scratch with a "context menu" created HUD Button Control but the inputs don't work for Rotate Left/Right. Only end phase and next/previous from phase combat work, other inputs don't trigger.

gamingislove

Hm, yeah - strangely other inputs (e.g. for accept) are working fine via HUD.
Might be a timing issue, I'll look into it.

Krixus

gamingislove

Great, thanks for looking into it.

I have another issue that has occurred, and I'll use this demo as the example. This is based on the "Control HUD" prefab.

Control HUD/Accept Button/Input Display (Sprite)/Image - I cannot get the defined image to show above the sprites defined in the "HUD Input Display (Sprite)" component.

All I've done is just define "icons_0" as the source image and defined boxbeige/boxblue as non-pressed image, pressed image and cursor over image in the "HUD Input Display (Sprite)" component. But, whatever I do, I cannot get the icon to show above the boxes. The only time the icon appears is if there is no image defined in non-pressed image.

gamingislove

Well, the non-pressed image is used when the input isn't pressed - so it'll replace whatever you've selected in the Image component automatically. This setup is needed when you pressed or cursor over image changes, otherwise it would not reset to the non-pressed image.

Krixus

gamingislove

I was thinking that I could have the "non-pressed" image be the HUD box and then the image component being the "button icon" that goes over the HUD box. Is a setup not possible for something like this? I tried creating a separate gameobject for just the image component, hoping it would be layered over the top but that doesn't work either.

I don't know if creating a separate HUD just for the image to be layered over the top would work either, would the layers/detection not interfere with this? I also need to add a custom HUD tooltip to each button to.

Is it not possible to create a control HUD button that has non-pressed image/pressed/hover and with an icon that you can layer over the top of the button all within a single HUD that also works with HUD tooltips?

My issue now is just not being able to define an icon for the button while using a prebuilt/context menu "Button Control" HUD.

gamingislove

Well, yeah - the component simply changes the sprite of the referenced Image component, e.g. if you use a different one (or put another as a child object with a fixed image).
You can add any content you want to it, either with HUD components to display some information or via regular Unity UI components to just add some static content.