gameState cutscene for timeline

cemleme

Hello Chris,

is there a way to distinguish gameState cutscene when a timeline plays or when there is an active speech?

ac gamestate returns cutscene for both of them and I am trying to run an animation only on dialogues but not on timeline

thanks

ChrisIceBox

If your Engine: Control Timeline Action has Wait until finish? checked, and at least one of the Timeline's tracks is bound to a character, then OnCharacterEnterTimeline and OnCharacterExitTimeline events will be triggered for that character at the beginning and end of the Timeline's playback.

You should be able to use this to determine the difference, e.g.:

using UnityEngine;
using UnityEngine.Playables;
using AC;

public class TimelineChecker : MonoBehaviour
{

    bool isInTimeline { get; private set; }

    void OnEnable ()
    {
        EventManager.OnCharacterEnterTimeline += OnCharacterEnterTimeline;
        EventManager.OnCharacterExitTimeline += OnCharacterExitTimeline;
    }

    void OnDisable ()
    {
        EventManager.OnCharacterEnterTimeline += OnCharacterEnterTimeline;
        EventManager.OnCharacterExitTimeline += OnCharacterExitTimeline;
    }

    void OnCharacterEnterTimeline (AC.Char character, PlayableDirector director, int trackIndex)
    {
        isInTimeline = true;
    }

    void OnCharacterExitTimeline (AC.Char character, PlayableDirector director, int trackIndex)
    {
        isInTimeline = false;
    }

}

cemleme

this doesnt work if I dont have a character on a track right?

in that case should I put a dummy character on a track and leave it empty?

thanks

ChrisIceBox

Yes, that would be a good workaround for the above script.

But if you know which Timeline you want to check for, you can instead just read the PlayableDirector component's state value:

PlayableDirector myDirector;
if (myDirector.state == PlayState.Playing)
{
    //
}