Anoo

Hiya,

I am trying to implement a feature where, when a combatant selects a target to attack, the global light is turned off and a spotlight is placed on the opponent that is being selected. The goal is to make the scene dark except for the targeted opponent. I have attempted to implement this using game states, but I cant get this to work. Can you provide any advice or suggestions on how to accomplish this?

Thanks!

(btw I don't know if you played Child of light but that the effect I'm going for)

supportreport1

In your battle menu you can set events to trigger based on accepting, canceling, or closing an option on the menu. It's under the 'Status Changes' settings.

I would implement a schematic on accepting your attack option that will deactivate and activate the lights accordingly. You can manage your lights via something like tags, game states, or a variable/condition tied to them in a game object manager component. You can even just change a variable if you want to on accepting, it doesn't have to be a schematic.

Alternatively if you use a Target Selection menu and have an open schematic on that you can always trigger the lights you need that way too.

One other option would be using the methods I mentioned above while targeting to disable the global light and then use a Target Highlight Prefab that holds the spotlight in it, this would probably be easiest as you can move it easily between your targets.

Anoo

Nice! thanks I got it working