Research Tree - Disable Status Preview Behavior

Krixus

The status value prefab bars that I have set up for "status previews"/blinking between current and projected value trigger when I hover over a "research tree view" menu part that contains research items that grant abilities.

Is it possible to disable this behavior specifically for the research tree? I don't want to disable it when hovering over abilities in other circumstances, eg. hovering over an ability on a shortcut bar during combat however, having the previews trigger on the status values bars (as I happen to have a player stat HUD in the same research menu screen) is really something I don't want.

gamingislove

No, there's currently no way to turn this off - research items should show a preview for the research costs.

Krixus

gamingislove

Hmm...can I somehow override the status value bars when displaying a specific player HUD? If I can override it then I would just switch it off the "preview" mode and would that work?

Because basically, I've treated the research tree as my skill tree and in ORK 2/IMGUI that was the "ability tree" menu part. That menu part didn't have any previews of the status value flashing between say 20 Stamina to 25 Stamina when hovering over an ability that has a use cost of 5 Stamina (or if there was, I had it toggled off).

In my case, it's just not needed, the skill tree shouldn't be like a shortcut bar that shows previews on how much of X stat is consumed when hovering over a skill.

Is there really no way around this? I still need the previews on status value bars for other situations like in combat, but I really want to display the preview/flashing of stats in the player HUD when hovering over abilities that have a use cost or something. Yet, I also still need to display the player HUD (with all the stats etc) because the player needs to know which combatant is currently selected, along with the relevant info.

gamingislove

Well, you can use HUD Condition components to manage which parts of a HUD is displayed. This also works on your status value UI prefabs where you can have different setups based on conditions.
Or have your HUD use different status value list setups (with different UI keys to show other status value UI prefabs).

Krixus

gamingislove

Okay thanks, I'll tinker around and see if I can get it to work the way I want.

Krixus

gamingislove

So I've tried a setup with a different UI key, just wanted to run it through with you, is this all I have to do?

In the "Status Values" section, in "Custom Status Value UI", I've defined a new key and assigned the UI prefab Status Value bar that is set to "current" rather than "preview".

Then I created a variant of the player HUD which shows the "Status Value List" and in the "HUD Status Value List" component, I've defined the specific name of the UI key.

It seems to be working, but the question here is do I need to then define duplicate "Player HUDs" each time I want to use a different UI key? Is there any way to only have one Player HUD but define different keys on it and somehow have the menuscreens know which one to use? Or is that just not possible?

By Player HUD, I mean the HUD used to display the player's stats. I used to have one "Player HUD" which I used for combat to show the stats and the status value bars were set to preview so you could see the Use Cost for abilities. When I did the inventory menuscreen, I just reused that exact same HUD.

When I created the skills (research tree) menuscreen, I reused the same HUD until I noticed the status value bars would preview blink when I hovered over the skills.

So currently, I've created a separate Status Value bar prefab for each status value that doesn't use "Preview" but "Current" instead. Those alternative UI Prefabs are then defined in a separate key. I've then had to create a duplicate "Player HUD" hud, that's only used by the skills (research tree) menuscreen, as that HUD has a different HUD prefab with the status value list component which references the "alternative" UI key defined in the status values.

Is this how you must set it up? I can't just do this all on the same "Player HUD"? That's basically what this question boils down to, sorry if it's a bit long winded.

gamingislove

Yeah, that's basically all there is to it - using the UI Key for the prefab you want to use.

You either need to set up separate HUDs or control this in one HUD via HUD Condition components to have different setups based on conditions - naturally you'll have to manage those conditions changing as you need them.