Comments

• ChrisIceBox

  April 6

  With your intended behaviour, how is it that the player chooses between the available interactions?

  You're not limited to using the cursor: if you set your Select Interactions by field to Cycling Menu And Clicking Hotspot, you can use e.g. the mouse scrollwheel, mapped to the CycleInteractions input, to cycle through the available options. See the Manual's "Choose Hotspot And Interaction" chapter for more on this.

  Regarding the cursor: having the System and Game cursor be separate is optional. If your Cursor Manager's Cursor rendering mode is set to Software, then they'll be separate - though this should only appear so in Play mode depending on the options above. In builds, the system cursor should be hidden.

  However, you can instead set this to Hardware, which causes AC to rely on the System cursor itself - no separation needed.

  If you want the cursor to be moveable only while the Interaction menu is on, you can run Engine: Manage systems Actions as part of the Menu's ActionList when turn on/off properties, to temporarily disable free-aiming, and unlock the cursor.
• Lurky

  April 6

  Thanks for the quick and thorough reply!

  Ideally, I'd like to simply click the Interaction icons when the mouse is over them to run the interaction. The reason for this is that I want to have many different kinds of interactions within my game, and it's important that the player can see their options all at once — think "skill checks", like "Requires [9] Strength to Force Open Door", "Requires [4] Intelligence to Pick the Lock", etc. but displayed as icons instead of text.

  It seems so close to working — the Interaction buttons appear, positioned over the hotspot, and I can easily position the cursor over them — but they are not clickable.
• ChrisIceBox

  April 6

  I need to know details of your setup. Can you share images of your Settings Manager and Interaction menu properties?
• Lurky

  April 6

  Sure thing!
  

  

  

  

  Thanks for taking a look!
• ChrisIceBox

  April 7 edited April 7

  It looks like this is down to the Unity - by default - not allowing UI interactions with a locked cursor.

  I may be able to add a way get around this - I will look into it as part of the next update. In the meantime, however, relying on Adventure Creator for the Interaction menu's Source should have it work.
• Lurky

  April 7

  Thanks so much!
  I tried switching to AC to be the Source for the Interaction menu, and now the Interaction Icons are highlighted when the cursor is over them — which is promising. However, when I click on it, the interaction isn't running. Hope it's just me checking the wrong thing in the settings again :')
• ChrisIceBox

  April 7

  Does it work if you press a keyboard input with the label "InteractionA"?

  A potential fix for the issue with Unity UI: open up AC's OptionalMouseInputModule script and copy/paste this at the top of its GetMousePointerEventData function:

  if (KickStarter.settingsManager.inputMethod == InputMethod.MouseAndKeyboard)
  {
      if (Cursor.lockState == CursorLockMode.Locked)
      {
          var lockState = Cursor.lockState;
          Cursor.lockState = CursorLockMode.Confined;
          var mouseState = base.GetMousePointerEventData (id);
          Cursor.lockState = lockState;
          return mouseState;
      }
  
      return base.GetMousePointerEventData (id);
  }
  
• Lurky

  April 8

  Input method didn't work (though perhaps I set it up incorrectly? — I just used the same set-up as the Crouch Input with InteractionA as the name and "f" as the button).

  Thanks so much for the code! It runs the Interactions when the buttons are clicked (yay), but now the buttons aren't highlighted when the mouse hovers over them. :') I'm also getting a glitch where the Interaction buttons disappear when the mouse was hovered over them, which seems to pop up after I test the game more than once
• ChrisIceBox

  April 9 edited April 9

  now the buttons aren't highlighted when the mouse hovers over them.

  Add this function to OptionalMouseInputModule:

  void RaycastMouse ()
  {
      PointerEventData mouseData = new PointerEventData (KickStarter.playerMenus.EventSystem);
      mouseData.Reset ();
  
      Vector2 pos = KickStarter.playerInput.GetMousePosition ();
  
      mouseData.position = pos;
      eventSystem.RaycastAll (mouseData, m_RaycastResultCache);
      RaycastResult raycast = FindFirstRaycast (m_RaycastResultCache);
      mouseData.pointerCurrentRaycast = raycast;
      m_RaycastResultCache.Clear ();
      KickStarter.playerMenus.EventSystem.SetSelectedGameObject (raycast.gameObject);
  }
  

  Then, replace:

  var mouseState = base.GetMousePointerEventData (id);
  

  with:

  var mouseState = base.GetMousePointerEventData (id);
  RaycastMouse ();
  

  I'm also getting a glitch where the Interaction buttons disappear when the mouse was hovered over them, which seems to pop up after I test the game more than once

  What is your AC version? This sounds related to an issue that should be fixed in the latest release.
• Lurky

  April 9

  My AC version was the latest version, but I was using an old version of the editor. I bit the bullet and just started over from scratch in Unity 6 — seems to be working now (with the help from the code you provided)! Thank you so much for your patience and help with this!