Moving Player HUDs relative to Battle Menu

Leyk36

Hi there,

To start with, I'm very new to Ork 3 and going through the 3D RPG starter project. I'd like to add additional functionality to the Fade Out schematic for the battle menu that also smoothly moves the player HUDs into the center of the screen. How do I go about calling ChangeUIOffset so it can modify other UI objects in my scene?

gamingislove

There is no way to directly access the other UI in your schematic, but since the Unity UI is also just game objects, you should be able to get them by searching for the game objects in the scene.

E.g. using a Find Object type actor or a Search Objects node, searching them by name, tag, attached components or other conditions.
You could add a tag to the HUD prefab of the player HUD and find the open HUD objects like that.

Leyk36

Still trying to get a handle on data selection and usage, but I must be doing something wrong. I created a "PlayerHUD" tag and I'm trying to find the ui elements that way. But when I go to use them, nothing happens. I know I probably just have something wrong in my set up here, and I'm sure its super simple but I just can't figure out what it is for the life of me.

gamingislove

Ah, sorry, forgot that the UI nodes only use selected data.
You have to store those objects into selected data, or better the UI components.

It's pretty simple, use a Select Components node:

data key: ui (same as in the UI nodes)
component name: IUIBase (this is the base interface for UI boxes and HUDs and will get you the components for them)
object: your actor

Put this right after the settings node an the selected data ui will have all UI components for the nodes to manipulate.

You can also do this outside UI schematics, e.g. if you want to fade out all UI during certain attacks or cutscenes handled by schematics.

Leyk36

Finally getting back to this after moving for the past couple of days. This did the trick. Thank you!