Play animation on collecting items

jaimi

I have a chest (with animations for opening and closing) This chest has an ItemCollector on it, with type = box. The player has an animation to "get".

When the player walks up to the box, and chooses to open it, I would like to play the animation for the "getting" on the player. Then, I would like to play the animation for opening the chest, at which point, I would like to display a dialog of the items in the chest (just like it does now). when the person has taken all the items, I would then like to play the close animation.

Is this possible?

jaimi

This is what I have tried.

I set the "Item collector" start type to "none". I added an "event interaction" component to the chest.

I created a Game Event in the event editor, and added 2 actors to it. Actor 0 is the player. Actor 1 is the Starting Object.

Added a Mecanim Animation node, and had it play the "use" animation. Set the actor to the player.

Added a Legacy Animation node to the chain. Set the actor to the chest (the starting object). Told it to play the "open" animation.

Added a Start Item Collector node to the chain. Told it the actor was the chest (the starting object).

Result:

Mecanim animation played. Legacy animation did not play. Item Collector did not pop up dialog.

Removed the mecanim animation from the chain, and reconnected everything.

Result: Legacy animation did not play. Item collector dialog did not pop up.

At this point, I'm under the impression that the "starting object" is somehow not the chest, even though that is the item that has the "event interaction" component on it.

jaimi

Got it working - if anyone is interested, selecting "type=Starting Object" on the chest actor was the problem. It works if instead, type is "object", and "Event object" is selected. Not sure the difference... :)

gamingislove

The event object is the game object the event interaction is placed on. The starting object is the game object that started the event (e.g. in most cases the player).