ChimpLogik

Is there a way via Schematic to check if the player is currently selecting targets for a specific ability?
I tried using Select Battle Action but it seem to only account for when an ability has already started...

GeneralK

@ChimpLogik Hmm Is Battle Action node lets you specify an ability, but not sure if it will register at wherever you are calling the schematic from. Like are you using a schematic in Battles->Target Settings?

Tooltip says checks if the Schematic was started by the action so could be promising?

ChimpLogik

Thank you for the suggestion @GeneralK, unfortunately in this case the Schematic which is performing the checking is in Base/Control->Global Machine (started by a key).

gamingislove

No, there's no schematic node available for that. You'll have to add a custom node for that.
You can get the currently active action for target selection via a combatant's battle menu:
combatant.Battle.BattleMenu.TargetHighlight.Shortcut

ChimpLogik

I used a Store Function Result node to store the result of your Custom Function in a local Selected Data (Key = player_action)

The result of that function is an IShortcut so in order to check that for a specific ability, I connected the Success Connection to a Check Shortcut node with Use Selected Data = true and Data Key = player_action but it doesn't work.

Not sure how to make this work :(

gamingislove

Store Function Result stores a value into a variable (as it's help text explains) - i.e. it'll only work for functions that return int, float, bool, string or Vector3 values.
It has nothing to do with selected data ...

A workaround would be to just have the function store this into a global selected data, e.g.:
Maki.Game.SelectedData.Change("key", shortcut, ListChangeType.Set);

ChimpLogik

Thank you Nicholas, I got the custom function to work. I apologize in advance if my question(s) sound redundant or flawed but I admit I have a lot of knowledge gaps on this topic ._.'

What is the Schematic node to compare the store global selected data against a specific ability?

gamingislove

I don't think there's currently a node for that.
A workaround could be to use the Select Ability node to remove that ability from the global selected data and check if the global selected data is now empty/has less in it via Selected Data Count node. Most likely first store the global selected data into a separate one and operate on that to keep it available :)

ChimpLogik

I tried to follow your advice but it doesn't seem to be detecting the desired ability (Chase and Hire in this case).
This the way I set up the testing, not sure if I did something wrong:

Code in Call Function node:

    public class ORKAbilities : MonoBehaviour
    {
        public IShortcut shortcut;
        public void StoreGlobalSelectedData_PlayerActiveAction(string key)
        {
          StoreGlobalSelectedDataActiveAction(GlobalFunctionsManager.GetPlayerCombatant(), key);
        }
        public void StoreGlobalSelectedDataActiveAction(Combatant combatant, string key)
        {
            shortcut = combatant.Battle.BattleMenu.TargetHighlight.Shortcut;
            Maki.Game.SelectedData.Change(key, shortcut, ListChangeType.Set);
            Debug.Log("(AutoMelee) StoreGlobalSelectedData_PlayerActiveAction called for key " + key);
        }
    }  

Call Function node


Select Ability node


Remove Data Count node