Setting UI Combatant through code?

GameDragon

I have an entire pause menu with multiple pages and sub menus that was completed prior to adding ORK framework to my project. I'd like to use this same menu but populate it with data from ORK.

The Status Text Content component seems really robust, however I'm not sure how to go about getting the data from my player. I assume I have to set the combatant to the HUD somehow, but I'm unsure how to go about doing that.

emptyhanded

GameDragon I have an entire pause menu with multiple pages and sub menus that was completed prior to adding ORK framework to my project. I'd like to use this same menu but populate it with data from ORK.

This is the exact same situation I am in!
I can already access the information (combatant name, for example) through script though, by

CombatantComponent combatantComponent = select.GetComponent<CombatantComponent>();
text = combatantComponent.Combatant.GetName();

However since I've also already setup loads of HUD templates in ORK already, and the exact same information and format are needed in my own UI, I am looking for a way to do use HUD templates or ORK component directly and I believe there should be a way, just that I can't seem make it work yet.

gamingislove There are multiple such components available to use them outside of a HUD, e.g. the HUD Player Combatant (Content Provider) component.

So I found 4 content providers that claim to work outside of a HUD:

I'm trying to display the status values of a spawned combatant, and my game does not have a "player character" that player can control through gamepad:

So this HUD Combatant Object (Content Provider) seems like the best fit.

Q.1 Even after I attach a HUD Combatant Object (Content Provider) component to an empty gameObject (named HUD Combatant Object (Content Provider) in screenshot) , point the "Combatant Game Object" fields to a newly spawned combatant, and still nothing happens. All the ORK Framework - HUD - Content/Status Value gameObjects added as child of this HUD Combatant Object (Content Provider) gameObject either displays nothing, or can't be enabled.

Q. 2 Currently I have to drag the "Spawned Combatant" gameObject to the "Combatant Game Object" field AFTER it is spawned. How do I have this connection established as soon as a new combatant is spawned? The idea is when player click on a newly spawned combatant, a UI pops up showing information of that combatant, such as name, level, HP, etc. (As shown in the first screenshot)

gamingislove

The ORK HUD Status Text Content component (and other similar content components) get their content to display from content provider components. There are multiple such components available to use them outside of a HUD, e.g. the HUD Player Combatant (Content Provider) component.

In regular HUDs in ORK/Makinom, the content provider is the root HUD component that get's its content from the HUD setup in the editor. So, to use it in your custom UI, you just need to use one of those content providers or write a custom one that provides the information you want.

gamingislove

Some HUD content providers work outside of HUDs because they access the user/content automatically without getting it from somewhere (e.g. a HUD's user).
As said in your other thread - the easiest way is to just use ORK HUD components (e.g. your already set up HUD templates) and set the content provider component's user to the combatant or content you want to display. The content provider - as the name suggests - provides this content to all HUD content components that use it (and other HUD content providers that can further use something else and provide it to their content components).

1+2) This content provider is intended for fixed setups - assigning a game object during playing will not automatically update it's content. You can call the MarkUpdateContent or UpdateContent function of the component to cause an update, though.

If this is set up as a regular HUD set up in the editor, you can also use a schematic using a Call HUD node to set the user of a HUD.