"In Text Box/Keywords" - Separate Tooltip Questions

Krixus

1). Is it possible to somehow display a text box and when the user hovers over a certain word, it triggers a tooltip? This would be so helpful. An example would be the game "Battletech", where if a random event triggers, you get a wall of text however there are certain keywords that are underlined and in a different color and if you hover over them, they have their own tooltip which gives you a bit more lore and context of what is going on in the random event.

Just overall, it would be really nice if this was possible. Is it possible, even if there is a hacky method?

2). I saw that menuscreens have a "comparison" menu part and I was wondering, would this be used if I wanted to setup "Comparison" tooltips? You know the typical where you display your equipped items and an inventory box and if you hover over another piece of armor, it displays your currently equipped armor on the left and the tooltip for the item in the inventory on the right. Is this possible?

3). If the above is possible, is it possible to somehow create a UI in the tooltip that marks which tooltip is for the equipped item vs the item in the inventory? An example would be like if you define some text in the title box of the UI box used for the tooltip, so the tooltip on the left would have "Equipped" in the title and the tooltip on the right would have "Inventory" in the tooltip title. This would be very important too so players don't get confused.

gamingislove

1) When using global text codes to add content information (see the buttons above a text area while editing the text), tooltip information is automatically included with that - but you can also wrap a tooltip around some other text (for a defined content) by using the Add Tooltip button instead of Add button.
For this to work, you also have to add a UI Tooltip (TextMesh Pro) component to your UI box and have it reference the TMP component that displays the text.

2) Yes, but it's not a HUD or tooltip, it's a menu part that can show 2 separate things, e.g. the currently equipped equipment of a slot and what's currently selected in the list box (Equipment menu part).

3) As said in #2, it's a menu part, so only used in a menu in combination with another menu part (i.e. any part that handles slots, e.g. equipment). The current and selected content are each displayed in their own UI box.

Krixus

gamingislove

1a). So, I'm not 100% sure if this is what you mean but I will write up what I've set up so far so you can check and see if this is what you intended.

The way I am showing this "text box" is through a schematic that calls the "Show Dialogue" node. The type choice is either "Choice" or "Message" depending on the circumstance.
In "Message Content", the only area that I've found that has the "Add Tooltip" button is the "Data" section.
The "keywords" that would display the tooltip when the player hovers over them are not names/shortnames, rather they would be "custom" or defined content.
I couldn't find any "custom" section to where I could define the tooltip information that I wanted to display for the keyword so I decided to just display the description of "Area" and create a bunch of "Areas" and type the information I wanted to display in the description there.
In other words, I am using "Area" as an info dump and that section in the editor is where I create all my "lore" snippets even if most of them are not actually related to an area but a specific event in time etc.

Question: So I guess the question here is firstly, is this what you meant by "Add Tooltip", you specifically mean the button that shows when you click over the "Data" section right?

In the below image, I have a generic piece of text and "special" is wrapped within the tooltip I believe. Basically I just highlighted "special" then clicked on "Add Tooltip" to add the description of the defined "Area" to the keyword "special". This is what you mean by "wrapping" right?

1b). If the above is setup correctly, instead of displaying the description of "Area" is there some way I can just display "custom" content? That way I don't have to like hijack a specific part of the editor in case I actually want to use the area stuff in the future.

Ideally, maybe in the "Base/Control" or "Game" section of the editor, if we literally just had a section called "Custom" where we could define a bunch of things and then define a name/description/icon etc. That would be really handy, especially considering there are already aspects of that for "custom content".

1c). If that was possible, there would need to be a specific "tooltip" check type, in cases where you only want to display the tooltip just for "keywords" but I guess there is already the "custom" type for tooltip so maybe you just need a custom area. It really would be nice, otherwise I have to find an area in the editor that I don't think I'll use and define all the content/description for the tooltip to show, unless there is another way?

2). Okay so just to clarify, there is currently no way to do "comparison" tooltips? Eg displaying two simultaneous tooltips side by side when you hover over an item in the inventory menu part, one that shows the item from the equipment box part and the other for the item you are hovering over, in the inventory menu part?

3). I'm not sure if I am envisioning this correctly. So let's say we have a menuscreen, there is a box on the left displaying the menu user's equipped equipment and then there's a box on the right that shows the player's inventory. There is then a box in the middle which is the "comparison" menu part and this is where the information is displayed?

Does the information appear in the box when you hover over an item in the inventory? Is it basically like a "fixed" comparison tooltip? Or does the information only appear when you click on an item in the inventory, not hover but click and one you click/select that item in the inventory it also displays information from an equipped item if the "equipment parts" match up? Is that how it works?

GeneralK

@Krixus on #2 I was able to create a side by side tooltip comparison but it is large and hacky lol. So proceed at your own risk. I got it working pretty well though at this point.

I created a Menu for each equipment slot, so it has a Single equipment menu part only showing that One slot with a Description part at cursor (with offset to have it appear beside the real tooltip HUD, I ended up using a script on the UI Box prefab for more control over the limit to screen functionality and offsets). The description part used identical visual setup to the tooltip HUD so it looks like the same thing (Same background image, same Ork Status Text content, etc). I also added extra space above the top for an image and "Currently Equipped" text like you see in most games.

Schematic called from the UI->HUD-> Equipment tooltip -> open schematic
(Ensure HUD is only for Equipment via Tooltip Checks)

Use local selected data -> action in the schematic, this provides reference to the equipment in inventory that is calling the default equipment Tooltip HUD.

Then I used Check Equip Item Type -> selected data action , to determine the equipment slot (this is trickier if your equipment goes in multiple slots) so like if the Item Type was Light Feet, Medium Feet, Heavy Feet then I would Call Menu -> Single Equipment Feet Menu which only shows 1 equipment slot, feet. (This is probably easier to do in script, checking the item type, rather than check/fork nodes but it does work in schematic). Obviously this is easier with Use Sub Types if like the item type Sword and Axe etc are all children of the type Weapons, then you are only checking one type for one slot.

If the item type was ring, then I would check if equipment slot is equipped and if so open a menu for each ring, the farther one having a greater offset, so there are actually 3 tooltips in a row, and I can still show both rings that are equipped or just 1 if only 1 is equipped.

Then have to have a Close schematic on the Tooltip HUD as well that closes all the Single equipment menu screens so when the tooltip moves off, it closes whichever menu was open next to the Tooltip HUD. I had a bit of an issue with them not closing. I have a small gap between my inventory container slots to trigger the close, and also in the Open schematic, I would close them first before running through opening a new menu.

I had an issue with when changing the Menu User with the normal Menu User part in my equipment/inventory menu it would not update for the tooltip HUD schematic, tried using menu user changes in HUD clicks and some other ways and could not get it to work. Eventually ended up storing the new user to Global Selected Data so any time that user change menu was used I had an updated source for the schematic. I think the Menu User is not passed to a schematic of a HUD, it's only passing the HUD user (in this case the equipment shortcut) and like UI stuff, so I had to get the overall Menu user combatant a different way. This was awhile ago so I don't recall everything I tried, but I ended up here and it works shrug.

Edit to add, an In inventory container node to check that the equipment is in inventory before continuing with the schematic so that side by side does not occur if the equipment is from the equipment menu part.

Krixus

GeneralK Fascinating! I'll give it a shot, thank you!

gamingislove

1a) Exactly - this is used if you want to add a tooltip around any word.
Tooltips are only available for things in Data, i.e. all the things with content information you've set up in the editor. Beside areas, you can use any other content as well, e.g. scene objects or logs or even items.

1b) No, there's currently no custom tooltip setup you can use that way. You'll have to hijack some other content (e.g. scene objects or logs) for this.

1c) The best place to set that up would be via scene objects, they're only used when you add them to something in your scene via component.

2) There's no built-in thing for this, but as @GeneralK showed, you can do a lot of things via the HUD components :)

3) Yes, but the equipment slot and equipment list (inventory) would be from the Equipment menu part. I'm not sure if it actually works if you only display slots from Equipment part and use a separate Inventory part for the inventory box.
The Comparison box will display according to it's setup (Always Visible and Show Without Comparison settings).