I'm trying to set up navigating menus with the keyboard/gamepad but I'm running into problems with the cursor overriding selections.

Images are all my settings. I'm using the Pause menu to test. I have "directly navigate when paused" checked.

Event System: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1u_RJDzEQFKSeGZKY8qHzajGSEjYkO5u4/view?usp=sharing
Menu Manager: https://drive.google.com/file/d/19O6TR6XDHtJPsTBxcKZwUpVVdCbQ58Lz/view?usp=sharing
Settings Manager: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1MTJRfgIWAkGf8I36xNSsLB8MHCO4Wifo/view?usp=sharing

Scenario 1: Using mouse and keyboard. I press escape to bring up the pause menu. For a split second I can see the first element highlighted before it un-highlights. I assume this is because the mouse is off to the side and the mouse overrides navigation.

Scenario 2: I switch to using my gamepad. I can see in the instantiated event system that the input switched to my gamepad. When I press start it brings up the pause menu but the middle element (Save) is permanently selected. I assume this is because the cursor gets locked to the center of the screen and it automatically highlights save. I can't navigate the menu with my gamepad because of this.

Scenario 3: I disable "use simulated cursor for UI events." I can now navigate the menu with keyboard/gamepad but I can't select anything with the mouse.

Question: I want to be able to select elements while in mouse + keyboard mode but when I switch to a controller I need to be able to navigate without the mouse.
Bonus question: Is there a way to either prevent menu elements from being deselected when the cursor isn't highlighting them (basically an element should be highlighted at all times) or a way to disable only the mouse at run-time?

I can write my own actions and edit scripts I just want to sort out what AC handles natively and what I need to customize.

I have question regarding the latest version of UCC and AC.
This question is in regarding the menu system of AC with UCC.
I am having some issues and do not know how to solve them. A couple of AC menues does not want to work with UCC and I am not sure why. I tested both sources forexample Unity Prefab and AC. But still does not want to display. These menues are:
1. Pause
2. Subtitles

And the game does not pause when I press escaped. This might be a UCC problem but just asking if someone might know how to solve this issue.

Thank you in advance.

I am making an action fps game and switching out the Character Controller for a Rigidbody with collider on the SamplePlayerFP gameobject has the effect of making running in circles jitter the movement or camera - not smooth. I have played around with settings on the game object for a couple of evenings without success of solving the jitter.

As AC is generally made for slower paced games, is the rigidbody jitter a known accepted side effect and best that I write or obtain a new player object script more suited to fast paced action, or is there a fix for the AC version?

many thanks.

I was using triggers and the action "Sound:Change footsteps" to switch surfaces.
I've made a test with "Auto-detect surface" instead bu I get the same glitch.

The glitch is there only with the Movement method set to "Straight to Cursor".
If I can't solve it, it's still possible for me to revert to "Point and Click".

I'm using Unity 6.3 and AC v1.86.4.

I'm sorry to bother you with that during summertime, but if you have any idea about why I get this glitch it would be very helpful.
Thanks in advance

The 1st issue:
I created a new game using the 3D DirectInput style.
The character responds to WASD input by changing directions.
However, the character does not move around the scene space.
Video below:

The 2nd issue:
I have an idle, run, and jump animation.
The player randomly cycles through these animations.
How can I trigger the run animation on WASD input?

Thank you for helping me with these issues! I appreciate your time and diligence!

For example, PlayerA appears up until Scene 10, and Player B takes over starting from Scene 11. What would be the correct way to handle this?

Should I add a Player: Switch Action to the scene’s OnStart and enable Replace old Player’s position?

Or would it be better to set Player B’s Start Data in the Settings Manager so that they start in Scene 11? However, when I do that, PlayerA also appears in the scene. Even if PlayerB’s Start Data is set to Scene 11, do I still need to use the Player: Switch Action?

Thank you for any advice!

This is left over from the FP sample demo. I cant click on it and doesnt seem to be in a game object that I can delete.

Just wondering how to remove it?

Thanks.

The new scene consists of:
The same scene manager
A cube game object functioning as the ground plane
A game camera with identical settings to previous scenes, assigned as the default camera
A cube game object with the hotspot attached
A hotspot with the identical settings to previous scenes
A "hotspot:talk to" interaction with identical settings to previous scenes
The attached action list which is also identical
Dialogue System's dialogue manager prefab (same as previous)

I've combed over every single thing I could think of to check if there were any differences between how I'd set up the scene or hotspot compared with previous scenes where the same hotspot worked, but can't seem to find anything.

I've tested out a trigger with the same action list and that does work, so it seems to be confined to the hotspot/hotspot interaction somehow. The same issue seems to occur with any hotspot I add to the scene.

Quite perplexed by this - if anyone has any suggestions they'd be warmly welcomed.

Hello,

Despite using AC for a few years, this is my first time touching saving, so you'll have to forgive me I'm at the very beginning of my learning!

Basically, when the player runs the game for the first time, I want to change a global variable which is then checked on any subsequent runs of the game. That sounded like a candidate for the save & load system.

However, the save doesn't seem to be capturing the change of variable.

Here's my action list setup:

It sets a global variable to true, and then performs the save.

However, if we look at the save data generated, it would suggest the global variable is false:

Have I fundamentally misunderstood how to save variables? Is there anything else that needs to be done to correctly save the state of them?

In AC Game Editor Default Camera is set to the "FirstPersonCamera" object within the SamplePlayerFB prefab (which is in the scene).

Also getting errors on the console as follows:

NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object
AC.PlayerCursor.DrawCursor () (at Assets/AdventureCreator/Scripts/Controls/PlayerCursor.cs:440)
AC.StateHandler._OnGUI () (at Assets/AdventureCreator/Scripts/Game engine/StateHandler.cs:502)
AC.StateHandler.OnGUI () (at Assets/AdventureCreator/Scripts/Game engine/StateHandler.cs:414)
UnityEditor.GUIView:ProcessEvent(EntityId, IntPtr, Boolean&)

NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object
AC.MainCamera.ForwardVector () (at Assets/AdventureCreator/Scripts/Camera/MainCamera.cs:985)
AC.Char.PrepareSpriteChild (System.Boolean isTopDown, System.Boolean isUnity2D) (at Assets/AdventureCreator/Scripts/Character/Char.cs:3038)
AC.Char.BaseUpdate () (at Assets/AdventureCreator/Scripts/Character/Char.cs:681)
AC.NPC._Update () (at Assets/AdventureCreator/Scripts/Character/NPC.cs:118)
AC.Player._Update () (at Assets/AdventureCreator/Scripts/Character/Player.cs:139)
AC.StateHandler.Update () (at Assets/AdventureCreator/Scripts/Game engine/StateHandler.cs:305)

Help appreciated

Brand new project. Using SamplePlayerFP and cannot jump. Pressing space does nothing. Running and walking work fine.

Layers as follows:
SamplePlayerFP: Ignore Raycast
Physics Ground-check: Default, NavMesh
Character Controller: no layer exclusions or inclusions

Floor (box collider): Default

Unity Axis input set to SPACE.
Have tried setting Unity Active Input Handling to New and Both, but cannot Jump with either.

help appreciated.

Thanks very much.!

I'm started adding voice overs to my game, and now skipping a dialogue line with mouse click also skips the next dialogue line immediately after it shows up. So line 1 shows up, I click, line 1 is dismissed, line 2 shows up for a frame, but is also dismissed and line 3 is shown instead.

I have set Time before can skip to 0.3 seconds, which works great for the first line. This setting is being ignored for the second line because even if I set it to a larger number like 1-2 seconds, it respects it for the first line but the same immediate removal of line 2 still occurs. It does look like that this issue occurs in only one scene, but another scene seems to work fine.

EDIT: I'm noticing one thing - it seems to be that if a character has two lines in a row, then it is not skipped. If a character says one line and the next line is said by another character, then the skip bug appears

EDIT: Fixed - It was because all the characters shared one audiosource for their voices. Giving them their own audiosources as a component in each character prefab fixed it. I'd given them a single source that was a child of the main camera because I wanted all their voices to have equal volume and not be determined by distance from player/camera. Will find another solution for that.

Thank you for your answers.

I have another problem related to saving and loading.

I have a clock puzzle with two separate Animators: one for the big hand and one for the small hand. Each Animator uses an Integer parameter (BigHand and SmallHand) to move through animation states (0 → 1 → 2 → ...).

The current hand values are also stored in Adventure Creator variables.

The problem appears after loading. For example:

I set the clock to 8:30 and save the game.
I continue playing and change the clock to 8:45.
I load the 8:30 save.

After that, the clock becomes inconsistent. Sometimes one or both hands stay at the last position instead of the saved position, sometimes they return to the default position (12:00), and sometimes the hotspot behavior also becomes inconsistent.

It seems that the Animator state and the saved variable values become out of sync after loading.

Is there a recommended way in Adventure Creator to correctly restore Mecanim Animator parameters or Animator states after loading a saved game in a setup like this?

So I'm having an issue where dialogue/sound (specifically the Sound: Play One Shot Actionlist) won't play while paused. I've looked it up here and it seems like AC was unable to play dialogue when paused in the past, so I'm curious if it has changed and if there's a way around it. If not, I'm having the following issue when a menu is played and the 'pauses game?' selection isn't selected for that particular menu (video):
https://drive.google.com/file/d/19cYNRbyBe76u3lO0FXqq0fYA7RXCVc7v/view?usp=sharing

You'll see in the first part, I select a newspaper and it plays a sound, shows a newspaper, and you're able to put it back and move around again. This newspaper is working with a menu that pauses the game. After that, I go on to press a piece of paper on a bulletin board. You can see after I select it, I'm unable to press back (or actually, it looks like the game is technically going back as it unlocks the navigation again, but it won't take down the menu). This hotspot works with a menu that doesn't pause the game. That really seems to be the only difference between the two (and I've tested the other menu by turning off the pauses game and it does the same thing).

Here is the ActionList for the piece of paper hotspot on entering the menu:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1McUMg8RPXaethEgAgKDU-iRkQ2T92vzq/view?usp=sharing

Here is the ActionList for the piece of paper hotspot on exiting the menu:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1CejhlJkoJvCljvo07F2Kn-JNb73GAA9Z/view?usp=sharing

Not sure how to navigate around this... Thanks!!!

I am currently trying to use Objectives as a quest journal. I am wondering if there is a reason why AC uses the state ID for Objective: Set state, but uses the state label for Automatic state-switching.
Some of my objective states have the same label and only differ in their description, which means that I cannot select the correct state in the dropdown menu for All sub-obs complete.

AC: 1.85.3
Unity: 2022.3.62f3

Tic duration: 1
Value increase per tick: 1
Min value: 0
Max value: 35
Run on a loop?: False
Only run during gameplay: True

which is not linked to a global variable.

When I start the timer, leave it to run for 5-6 seconds, then save the game and then attempt to load it, I can see that the Timer is initialized with the stored value (e.g. 6) and then when the Start() method runs it resets back to 0. Is that normal?

I am running Adventure Creator 1.86.1 in Unity 6.3