Feature Request: Enable/Disable Game Object

OllyMUK

Hi

Can you add an action to the list please? Under Object it would be great to have an Enable/Disable action that can take a parameter for the GO name.

Currently you can use the Call Event action which works but you can't pass it an Interaction parameter.

Thanks

Olly

ChrisIceBox

Disabling a GameObject causes its references to become lost e.g. when loading a save-game file. It's too easy for newcomers to break things this way, so I'd prefer to keep it outside of AC's official Actions.

A custom Action could do this, however:

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

namespace AC
{

    [System.Serializable]
    public class ActionTemplate : Action
    {

        public GameObject obToAffect;
        private GameObject runtimeObToAffect;
        public bool enable;

        public override ActionCategory Category { get { return ActionCategory.Object; }}
        public override string Title { get { return "Enable or disable"; }}

        public override float Run ()
        {
            if (runtimeObToAffect) runtimeObToAffect.SetActive (enable);
        }

        #if UNITY_EDITOR

        public override void ShowGUI ()
        {
            obToAffect = (GameObject) EditorGUILayout.ObjectField ("Object:", obToAffect, typeof (GameObject), true);
            enable = EditorGUILayout.Toggle ("Enable?", enable);
        }

        #endif

    }

}

A tutorial on incorporating parameters into custom Actions can be found here.

OllyMUK

Would a more "AC Save Friendly" method be to just move the object in to the far distance of the scene somewhere ?

ChrisIceBox

That would be the easiest approach, yes. If the performance of it being enabled but hidden isn't an issue, I'd recommend that as a general workflow.