Passive animation for inventory element button?

Spruss

Early'ish in my game, the player is handed a map from an NPC. The map now appears as a permanent button element in the inventory UI (not an inventory item). I'd like to have the map blink as a passive looping animation until the player clicks on it for the first time, then it stops blinking. How do I get an inventory element button sprite to animate?

Spruss

The inventory source is AC.

ChrisIceBox

Tricky. For a regular Button element, you'd normally need to rely on the Unity UI source option, and then use Animation to control its Image sprite.

Animated textures otherwise are limited to cursors. It might be possible to define a new Interaction icon, give it an animated texture, and then use a custom script to reference that texture, updating the Button's background with it. Try this:

using UnityEngine;
using AC;

public class AnimatedBackgroundTexture : MonoBehaviour
{

    public int cursorID;
    public string menuName;
    public string elementName;
    private CursorIcon icon;

    void Awake()
    {
        icon = KickStarter.cursorManager.GetCursorIconFromID (cursorID);
    }

    void Update()
    {
        var element = PlayerMenus.GetElementWithName(menuName, elementName);
        var animTex = icon.GetAnimatedTexture (true);
        element.backgroundTexture = animTex;
    }
}

Spruss

I don't see any animation options for textures on the Interaction icon. Does this mean the approach is not possible or am I missing something?

ChrisIceBox

What is your AC version? You should find an "Animate?" option appears underneath once an Interaction icon has a texture assigned.