I'm trying to create a combat system based on color collisions, but I'm not a programmer—I have never written code in my life. However, I recently started trying with various AIs (ChatGPT and Copilot), and I must say that for other small scripts to improve my game, they worked quite well for me. But now, I'm stuck on this issue for weeks.

In my game, the player can draw the sprites of their own "monster" and then make them fight against pre-drawn enemies. The system is based on pixel art and colors. Basically, the player draws on a fully transparent 32x32 PNG texture, which is then overwritten and loaded into another scene where the combat takes place.

In the combat scene, I managed to create a script that generates a pixel-perfect collider around the colored pixels. Then, I added a controller that makes the sprites move toward each other and rigidbodies that make them bounce backward on each collision. For now, the basic system should work so that if the contact happens on red, it deals damage, and if it happens on blue, it blocks the damage. Unfortunately, I'm stuck on the color detection script.

I have two main problems:

1) The collisions (from what I was able to analyze) almost always happen outside the collider. As you can see in the image, there is a black pixel that is a gizmo created by a script, allowing me to visualize where the contact occurred on each sprite. But I don't know if this can be fixed or if it even matters. I mean, even if the contact happens outside the collider, I was looking for a system to detect the nearby pixels.

2) The real main issue is that I haven't been able to make the color detection script work in any way (which Copilot writes under my instructions). I tried using both raycast and a search expansion system based on radius until it finds a colored pixel, making it ignore transparent pixels. However, the color detection system often gets the color wrong, detecting the wrong color from who knows where.

I'm attaching the code here as well. I hope there is a kind soul who can help me—this is the only complex component I need to complete my game in the few free hours I have after work, hoping that one day this could become my full-time job.

I don't know if my approach is wrong and if a different method would be better to achieve what I want, or if it's just the AI failing to write functional code.

Sorry for my bad English, I'm Italian.

CODE:
https://pastebin.com/gGFTyLgR

IMAGE
https://imgur.com/a/6xomUl7

The following errors are shown when the script is placed in AC's Actions folder:

• Assets\AdventureCreator\Scripts\Actions\FinalIK_RunInteraction.cs(7,7): error CS0246: The type or namespace name 'RootMotion' could not be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)
• Assets\AdventureCreator\Scripts\Actions\FinalIK_RunInteraction.cs(38,16): error CS0246: The type or namespace name 'InteractionSystem' could not be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)
• Assets\AdventureCreator\Scripts\Actions\FinalIK_RunInteraction.cs(46,16): error CS0246: The type or namespace name 'InteractionObject' could not be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)
• Assets\AdventureCreator\Scripts\Actions\FinalIK_RunInteraction.cs(54,16): error CS0246: The type or namespace name 'FullBodyBipedEffector' could not be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)

The errors were only shown once the file was placed in the Actions folder (AC_Scripts_Actions), as per the instructions on the wiki. If the file is removed from the Actions folder, the errors go away (but then of course, the action can't be used).

Just paste this into a script called ActionOpenURL:

using UnityEngine;
#if UNITY_EDITOR
using UnityEditor;
#endif

namespace AC
{
    [System.Serializable]
    public class ActionOpenURL : Action
    {
        // Declare variables here
        public string url;

        public ActionOpenURL()
        {
            this.isDisplayed = true;
            category = ActionCategory.Custom;
            title = "Open URL";
            description = "Opens a URL using Application.OpenURL()";
        }

        override public float Run ()
        {
            Application.OpenURL(url);
            Debug.Log("URL opened");

            return 0f;
        }

        #if UNITY_EDITOR

        override public void ShowGUI ()
        {
            // Action-specific Inspector GUI code her
            url = EditorGUILayout.TextField("URL to open:", url);

            AfterRunningOption ();
        }
        #endif
    }
}

Hope you are doing well! Is there a standard way to integrate steam achievements with a game made in AC?
Thank you!

I've setup my container to have the textBox and made a custom script to load it but I can't make it work so I am now heading to the forums to pray to the AC God.

Here's how my inventory layout looks like:
https://imgur.com/a/C3Yk29r

So I want my inventory items to display the time directly on their lower right.

Links for the integration script
https://adventure-creator.fandom.com/wiki/Unity_Third_Person_Controller_integration
And Unity's asset
https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/essentials/asset-packs/standard-assets-for-unity-2017-3-32351

I'm looking to improve my testing workflow in Unity with Adventure Creator. Currently, I'm using a debug mode with a marker that I have to constantly move around the scene to position my player character during testing. This is time-consuming and interrupts my creative flow.

I found a script called "Play From Here" on Reddit that allows right-clicking anywhere in the scene view to start the game with the player at that position. This would save me tons of time during development and testing.

I think it would be great if AC would include something like this. If not, could someone indicate how to integrate it with AC?

Thanks!

Any guidance or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

• The script seems to require that separate skeletons be used for each direction. Is this necessary or is there another way to get it to play different animations depending on the direction, using one skeleton?
• Additionally, how do you apply a skin change, either depending on the animation being played or the direction faced?

Thank you!!

blendshape.relativeIntensity = CustomGUILayout.Slider (" Relative intensity:", blendshape.relativeIntensity, -100f, 100f, "", "The relative intensity (from -100 -> 100) of the Blendshape when the Key is fully active");

Now the question: is this the correct approach, or is there a better (more AC) way to do this? How to retain this change when a new version is created?

Thanks!

I am trying to call a method of a custom script I wrote on a certain item interaction. For this, I have set up the item interaction triggering an action list. There, I use the Object Send Message to call my method. However, I need to pass in a paramater (a string in this case) which the ActionListEditor does not let me do by default. There is an option for passing in an integer but this is not what I need.

I am somewhat stuck on this problem and would greatly appreciate any input.

I am developing an Unity package that uses Adventure Creator. I would like to write unit tests using the Unity's unit testing framework. How should I go about building the tests? How easy is it to "mock" the AC scene with global variables? Or should I create an empty scene and load that in the beginning of the test?

I have done something like this, already. How to go about adding global variables in this case? Thank you!

    [SetUp]
    public void Setup()
    {
        if (EventSystem.current == null) {
            EventSystem.current = new GameObject("EventSystem", typeof(EventSystem), typeof(StandaloneInputModule)).GetComponent<EventSystem>();
        }

        var ks = new KickStarter();
        ks.Initialise();
        go = new GameObject();
        target = go.AddComponent<NGHMenu>();
        // combine path with test directory
        target.hintsPath = Path.Combine(TestHelper.GetTestDirectory(), "fixtures", "test01");
        CreateSampleObject();
        target.guideSample = sampleObject;
    }

With help of the developer of the asset I was able to set everything up how I like it (AC controls the mouse and camera rotation and CMF moves the player). I identified a problem with custom gravity ("GravityFlippers" that rotate the gravity 90 degree, like in this video: https://tmpsend.com/nQ0dG3ZZ):

1. When using the CMF controller that is set up as above and with AC's Player-Component, the following happens: https://tmpsend.com/UkxSbhv0 (the character flips 90 degree on the y-axis and not on the z-axis)

2. When removing the Player Component for test purposes, the flip works (obviously this is no solution, because all AC stuff is missing and the camera can't be rotated).

I am looking for a pointer where to change the Player script to let me use AC while also being able to use those gravity changes. I suspect public Transform FirstPersonCamera to be the culprit, but I don't know enough about AC and Unity to be sure.

I hope I explained the situation good enough. If you need additional info or screenshot, I will provide them. Could you please point me in the right direction here if you got any idea?

Thanks!

using UnityEngine;
using System.Collections.Generic;
#if UNITY_EDITOR
using UnityEditor;
#endif
using HutongGames.PlayMaker;
using AC;

[System.Serializable]
public class ActionBroadcastPlayMakerEvent : AC.Action
{
    public string eventName;

    public override AC.ActionCategory Category { get { return AC.ActionCategory.ThirdParty; } }
    public override string Title { get { return "PlayMaker: Broadcast Event"; } }
    public override string Description { get { return "Broadcasts an event to all PlayMaker FSMs."; } }

    public override float Run()
    {
        if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(eventName))
        {
            PlayMakerFSM.BroadcastEvent(eventName);
        }
        else
        {
            Debug.LogWarning("Event name is empty, cannot broadcast event.");
        }

        return 0f;
    }

    #if UNITY_EDITOR
    public override void ShowGUI(List<AC.ActionParameter> parameters)
    {
        eventName = EditorGUILayout.TextField("Event Name:", eventName);
    }

    public override string SetLabel()
    {
        return $"Broadcast PlayMaker Event: {eventName}";
    }
    #endif
}

When there are multiple gameObjects with the same name in the scene, the script will stop at the first instance it finds.

Add it to your custom actions folder to the Custom actions in the AC window.

using UnityEngine;
using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;

#if UNITY_EDITOR
using UnityEditor;
#endif

namespace AC
{

    [System.Serializable]
    public class ActionFindObjectAndToggleComponent : Action
    {
        public string objectName = "";
        public string componentName = "";
        public bool setActive = true;

        public ActionFindObjectAndToggleComponent ()
        {
            isDisplayed = true;
            category = ActionCategory.Custom;
            title = "Find Game Object Component";
            description = "Find a gameObject in the scene and enable or disable the component attached.";
        }

        public override float Run()
        {
            GameObject obj = GameObject.Find(objectName);

            if (obj != null)
            {
                Component comp = obj.GetComponent(componentName);

                if (comp != null)
                {
                    if (comp is Behaviour behaviour)
                    {
                        behaviour.enabled = setActive;
                    }
                    else if (comp is Collider collider)
                    {
                        collider.enabled = setActive;
                    }
                }
                else
                {
                    ACDebug.LogWarning("Component " + componentName + " not found on " + objectName);
                }
            }
            else
            {
                ACDebug.LogWarning("GameObject " + objectName + " not found in scene");
            }

            return 0f;
        }

#if UNITY_EDITOR
        public override void ShowGUI()
        {
            objectName = EditorGUILayout.TextField("Object Name:", objectName);
            componentName = EditorGUILayout.TextField("Component Name:", componentName);
            setActive = EditorGUILayout.Toggle("Set Active:", setActive);

            AfterRunningOption();
        }
#endif
    }

}

/*
 *
 *  Adventure Creator
 *  by Chris Burton, 2013-2024
 *  
 *  "ActionPlayMaker.cs"
 * 
 *  This action interacts with the popular
 *  PlayMaker FSM-manager.
 * 
 */

using UnityEngine;
using System.Collections.Generic;

#if UNITY_EDITOR
using UnityEditor;
#endif

namespace AC
{

    [System.Serializable]
    public class ActionPlayMaker : Action
    {

        public bool isPlayer;
        public int playerID = -1;
        public int playerParameterID = -1;

        public int constantID = 0;
        public int parameterID = -1;
        public GameObject linkedObject;
        protected GameObject runtimeLinkedObject;

        public string fsmName;
        public int fsmNameParameterID = -1;
        public string eventName;
        public int eventNameParameterID = -1;


        public override ActionCategory Category { get { return ActionCategory.ThirdParty; }}
        public override string Title { get { return "PlayMaker"; }}
        public override string Description { get { return "Calls a specified Event within a PlayMaker FSM. Note that PlayMaker is a separate Unity Asset, and the 'PlayMakerIsPresent' preprocessor must be defined for this to work."; }}


        public override void AssignValues (List<ActionParameter> parameters)
        {
            if (isPlayer)
            {
                Player player = AssignPlayer (playerID, parameters, playerParameterID);
                runtimeLinkedObject = (player != null) ? player.gameObject : null;
            }
            else
            {
                runtimeLinkedObject = AssignFile (parameters, parameterID, constantID, linkedObject);
            }

            fsmName = AssignString (parameters, fsmNameParameterID, fsmName);
            eventName = AssignString (parameters, eventNameParameterID, eventName);
        }


        public override float Run ()
        {
            if (isPlayer && KickStarter.player == null)
            {
                LogWarning ("Cannot use Player's FSM since no Player was found!");
            }

            if (runtimeLinkedObject != null && !string.IsNullOrEmpty (eventName))
            {
                if (fsmName != "")
                {
                    PlayMakerIntegration.CallEvent (runtimeLinkedObject, eventName, fsmName);
                }
                else
                {
                    PlayMakerIntegration.CallEvent (runtimeLinkedObject, eventName);
                }
            }

            return 0f;
        }


        #if UNITY_EDITOR

        public override void ShowGUI (List<ActionParameter> parameters)
        {
            if (PlayMakerIntegration.IsDefinePresent ())
            {
                isPlayer = EditorGUILayout.Toggle ("Use Player's FSM?", isPlayer);
                if (isPlayer)
                {
                    PlayerField (ref playerID, parameters, ref playerParameterID);
                }
                else
                {
                    GameObjectField ("Playmaker FSM:", ref linkedObject, ref constantID, parameters, ref parameterID);
                }

                TextField ("FSM to call (optional):", ref fsmName, parameters, ref fsmNameParameterID);
                TextField ("Event name:", ref eventName, parameters, ref eventNameParameterID);  // Add this line to ensure the eventName field is visible
            }
            else
            {
                EditorGUILayout.HelpBox ("The 'PlayMakerIsPresent' Scripting Define Symbol must be listed in the\nPlayer Settings. Please set it from Edit -> Project Settings -> Player", MessageType.Warning);
            }
        }


        public override void AssignConstantIDs (bool saveScriptsToo, bool fromAssetFile)
        {
            if (!isPlayer)
            {
                constantID = AssignConstantID (linkedObject, constantID, parameterID);
            }
        }


        public override bool ReferencesObjectOrID (GameObject gameObject, int id)
        {
            if (parameterID < 0 && !isPlayer)
            {
                if (linkedObject && linkedObject == gameObject) return true;
                if (constantID == id && id != 0) return true;
            }
            return base.ReferencesObjectOrID (gameObject, id);
        }


        public override bool ReferencesPlayer (int _playerID = -1)
        {
            if (!isPlayer) return false;
            if (_playerID < 0) return true;
            if (playerID < 0 && playerParameterID < 0) return true;
            return (playerParameterID < 0 && playerID == _playerID);
        }

        #endif


        /**
         * <summary>Creates a new instance of the 'Third Party: PlayMaker' Action</summary>
         * <param name = "playMakerFSM">The GameObject with the Playmaker FSM to trigger</param>
         * <param name = "eventToCall">The name of the event to trigger</param>
         * <param name = "fsmName">The name of the FSM to call</param>
         * <returns>The generated Action</returns>
         */
        public static ActionPlayMaker CreateNew (GameObject playmakerFSM, string eventToCall, string fsmName = "")
        {
            ActionPlayMaker newAction = CreateNew<ActionPlayMaker> ();
            newAction.linkedObject = playmakerFSM;
            newAction.TryAssignConstantID (newAction.linkedObject, ref newAction.constantID);
            newAction.eventName = eventToCall;
            newAction.fsmName = fsmName;
            return newAction;
        }

    }

}