Suggestion: New Default Action (hint: Make it "Dialogue: Player Line")

oxyscythe

In my ongoing crusade to reduce the clicks it takes to do stuff with AC (or to make Chris do it ) I have another suggestion to make:

When you create a new default action, either by creating a new interaction or by clicking new action in the inspector or by dragging out an out node of a node in the action list graph, the action that gets created is Camera/CrossFade.

Now this is not a very commonly used action I don't think. Certainly not as commonly used as Dialogue/Player Line. The amount of times I've done "Create New Action -> Change Action Type -> Dialogue -> Tick Player Line" must rack into the hours by this point. And while it might sound like a nitpicky request all these things mount up.

I am guessing that the camera action comes up first due to alphabetical sorting, but I think usage based sorting or even something like "what action did you create last" would make a lot more sense.

Thankfully usually I copy a speech/player line action always in my clipboard and just keep pasting that in, but sometimes I'll forget and I'll intuitively try to create a new action and then I have to go "oh no, wait...delete, paste...there" (as even doing that takes less time than changing the action type and setting up its parameters)

So...yeah... Dialogue/Player Line for the default newly created action I say!

Xidore

Aha, but your most commonly used action isn't the same for everyone.

Perhaps a selectable 'default starting action' somewhere in a manager window could help instead?

oxyscythe

Sure thing that's even better. I'd be surprised though if that wasn't statistically the most commonly used action? I guess maybe in games like Machinarium where there's no dialogue/player dialogue. But I'd be surprised if those skewed the stats that much? What's your most commonly used action Xidore?

hedgefield

I think what you're asking for already exists - if you go into the AC Actions manager, there is a dropdown there to select which action is the default when you create a new interaction. I have mine set to Dialogue: Play Speech too Hope that helps!

ChrisIceBox

As @hedgefield says: you can change the default Action in the Actions Manager.

oxyscythe

Ah of course it exists already... Should have RTFM

Awesome stuff, cheers guys! Another massive time saver.

Xidore

Hah, Facepalm, I didn't even look myself.

@oxyscythe my game is heavily "cinematic" so probably switch camera (at the moment).

oxyscythe

I see!