Tutorial: ORK3 abilities/shortcuts HUD

ChimpLogik

Adding the UI Receive Cursor Events component to the HUD worked perfectly, now I can click-select from the HUD and the click-move Raycast doesn't go through the UI :)

I also figured out why the keyboard shortcuts were not working. In Battles>Target Setting>Target Selection > Target menu was set to true so the system was waiting for me to select a target from a UI drop down list.

Now the problem is, when I mouse-click on a potential target, I can't tell if it is selected, if I need to press the "Accept" Input Key (which I'd prefer not to) or what I have to do next.

I tried setting Battles>Target Setting>Target Highlight > Highlight Game Object to Flash but doesn't seem to work on enemies. I've seen the Player occasionally flashing, even though I wasn't able to repro it on a consistent base.

Basically I'd like to be able to click-select a target (or location) and use an ability via Shortcut/UI.

Solkyoshiro

<blockquote>gamingislove said: You're welcome - looking good btw :)</blockquote>

Thanks!

I can see how powerful the content provider system is, so it's no wonder. But I'm definitely looking forward to more details.

gamingislove

@ChimpLogik That seems like a job for the group/individual targets - they're set up in Battles > Target Settings and are basically tab-targeting, i.e. you select a target and can use actions on them via control maps or the battle menu. Using those group/individual targets also has to be enabled in the control map key or battle menu to use them.

ChimpLogik

I've tried for few hours and still no progress :( This is what I have so far in Battles>Target Settings>Individual Target Settings>Add Target Settings I've also set a prefab in Target Highlight>Cursor settings and Target Highlight>Highlight Game Object to Flash but never seen them happening

This is how all control Keys are set in Base/Control>Control Maps

I've tried to set Battles>Battle Menu to none in case it was causing that extra "accept" key step (which also seems to block the combat alltogether even if it's set to Real Time) but it didn't do much...

gamingislove

Since Auto Select isn't enabled in the individual target settings, what's your Input Settings there like? I.e. how is the individual target selected?

ChimpLogik

This is how the Input is set in the individual target settings and for the target highlight

I also just realized a potential cause of the problem ...but I still don't have a solution :P All my abilities are supposed to work like this: 1) click on target (select) 2) player moves to target (within the ability range) 3) ability effect

So I set my test ability to use 2 Battle Animations schematic: Battle Animation 0 MoveToTarget
Battle Animation 1 Base Attack

Now, it looks like the ability is waiting for an accept input for the MoveToTarget part but once the player is in range, it doesn't need that extra input anymore. Now, being not obvious when the player is/isn't in rage, it makes that extra accept input very confusing to use. Is there a way to remove it?

gamingislove

Oh, sorry - this is just about the cursor?

The Target Highlight Settings you screenshotted (in the Target Settings) are for the regular battle menu target selection. The group/individual targets have each their own Target Cursor settings, so currently only highlight via a cursor prefab.

However, based on your description (click on target, move there and use ability), the group/individual targets (i.e. tab targeting) isn't what you need - it's click on target to mark it, use an ability automatically on the marked target.

If you want to move to a selected target (i.e. use ability - select target - move there), that'd be handled by the schematics animating it. I.e. similar to this schematic tutorial. However, you'll need to have the player controls disabled during the player actions for this, or the control and the schematic's movement conflict with each other.

ChimpLogik

I added the cursor/highlight image mainly to understand if I was setting that part properly, since I never saw either happening. That lack of visual feedback made it very hard to see if a target was selected or not.

Which section of Makinom should I look into for the "click on target to mark it, use an ability automatically on the marked target" ?

I was browsing through the schematic nodes: 1) is the schematic node "Control Component" the right one to disable the player control? 2) is there a way through the schematic to re-enable the control and interrupt the action on conditions (like if the player clicks to move while he's going toward a target)?

Thank you again for all the support, I can't stress enough how helpful it is!

gamingislove

<blockquote>ChimpLogik said: Which section of Makinom should I look into for the "click on target to mark it, use an ability automatically on the marked target" ?</blockquote>

That's how the group/individual targets work, I was just explaining that :)

1) The Block Player Control is the right one.

2) You could e.g. use a Wait For Input node, enable controls again (Block Player Control node) and stop the combatant's action (Stop Battle Actions node with Stop All disabled).

ChimpLogik

This is what I made on the schematic for the player interruptible move to target. Unfortunately doesn't seem to be working as intended :| The Wait for input is set to any key = true

gamingislove

Seems like your Wait For Input node doesn't use the Wait option to only wait for a defined time, so it'll wait until any key is pressed. I can't see it in the Change Position node in the screenshot, but I assume it also waits for the move to complete, so the schematic will first move completely and afterwards wait for an input ... no wonder that's not working as intended :D

There are 2 possible setups:

1) Don't use Wait in the Change Position node and wait in the Wait For Input node.

2) Use another schematic (e.g. via a global machine) for canceling the action.

in the action's movement node, set a global bool variable to true (e.g. playerActionMove) before moving, wait for movement to complete and set the global bool variable back to false.
the global machine checks for the global bool variable to be true
the global machine can either use an input key to start (if you want to cancel with a defined key) or used in Auto type with a 0 second check timeout
the schematic (global machine) either just cancels the player's action (when started via a key) or checks inputs first (Input Key node this time, since it's used each frame)

ChimpLogik

It took me a bit, but I've tried both the setups :)

1) the click-move to range now works but player goes back to the original position after each attack, even if there is no schematic for that behavior (only moveToTarget and BaseAttack). My guess was the Combatant Destination remains active. Since I didn't know how to use the mouse input for a new destination, I just added a Call Function Node to the Base Attack schematic to stop the player (using the Stop Method from the Default MovementComponent).

Unfortunately the action doesn't seem to get interrupted (Wait for Input also requires a time, which is unknown since the Change Position Node>Move By Speed = true, so I put a random value of 3s)

2) Unfortunately also this setup doesn't seem to be interrupting the player action, not sure what I'm doing wrong :( This is how I set it up. I used the right mouse Input button for testing

I added to Editor>Variables>Define Variables the variable playerActionMove

I created this schematic

and placed it here

with this MoveToTarget schematic

gamingislove

Hm, is the Change Position node waiting for the move to finish?

ChimpLogik

It was, but I just tried also without Wait but it doesn't seem to make any difference.

I used some Unity Console nodes and did some tests to see which nodes were activated and this is what I had: 1) the variable playerActionMovement sets to true (but never back to false)

2) the Middle click is detected from the Global Machine schematic 3) nothing in the global machine that refers to the Player seems to be launching...

gamingislove

By any chance, do you use a separate player and battle leader?

ChimpLogik

I don't think so, the Player Battle Information component says Is Leader = true

gamingislove

Hm ... alright, can you send me a small Unity test project with your setup? Removing the Library folder form the project's folder will reduce the size, upload it to dropbox or something like that and send me the link to contact@orkframework.com :)

ChimpLogik

Yesterday I added a Test() function to one of the Player components and it worked, so the Player Object is selected from the Global Machine after all. The Stop Battle Action doesn't seem to do anything though. I checked the Battle Information and it remains unchanged before/after the Input Interrupt is performed.

I tried adding a StopMovement node with Object=Player and while it stops the action, after that the Player can't perform any actions anymore, it can only move and remains stuck in that state forever..

gamingislove

As said, I'll need a Unity project with your setup to check out. It's working on my end (very simple setup, just stopping the player's action on right click via a global event).

ChimpLogik

Fair enough, I'll need a bit of time to do some major house cleaning though. Even without the Library folder my project is over 20Gb :|

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