Steam Achievements with AC

witheredCrow

Hi, I'm working on getting my game ready for Steam and was wondering if anyone has successfully gotten Steam Achievements to work with their AC game?

I currently have in-game achievements which I use global variables to unlock. I set the variable to "true" when the player gets the achievement. Then when they open the Achievements menu, I check if the var is true or false to turn on/off menu elements. 

I'm using Steamworks.NET, have the game running on Steam and have the Achievement Configuration all set up in Steamworks. 

I'm not a programmer, so I'm struggling a bit with the achievements part. If anyone would be willing to share their custom script for using Steam Achievements with AC, that would be amazing. I'd be happy to give you a shout out in the credits of my game. 

Deckard_89

I'm curious about this too.

witheredCrow

So, I think all that's needed (at least for simple unlock achievements) is to run this bit of code:

using Steamworks;

#if (SteamManager.Initialized) {

SteamUserStats.SetAchievement("ACH_ID");

SteamUserStats.StoreStats();}

#endif

But I'm not sure how to use AC to do that. 

Alverik

ummmm! You could create a custom action, just have a variable for the string AchievementID, then run the code inside the Run() method. you probably want to avoid running the code if the AchievementID is string.Empty and maybe have a try catch in case the AchievementID is incorrect. If I have the time I'll make it myself, but I'm kinda swamped in an AC - VRTK integration right now. I'll probably need to explore steamworks myself, but I don't have the time to read the api right now, if you can post more actions we could try to work them out into AC actions for easier use.

Alverik

Ok, try this AC custom action. The code is untested though, cause I don't have the steamworks plugin yet. Let me know if there are any errors.

witheredCrow

@Alverik thanks for your help! I really appreciate you taking time from your busy schedule. 

I was getting some errors at first and then figured out that I needed to change the code I wrote above to 

using Steamworks;

if (SteamManager.Initialized) {

SteamUserStats.SetAchievement("ACH_ID");

SteamUserStats.StoreStats();}

and that fixed it (removing the "#" before "if" and removing "#endif"). Tested this through the Steam Client and it works You're a life saver, my friend! Hope others will be able to put that to use as well. 

Alverik

Cool, if I can I'll add the script to the wikia this week, else I'll do it when I have the time. Anyway, glad to hear you got it working! Cheers!

Alverik

Right, I added the action to the wikia, anyone interested can find it here. (copy pasting in the wikia was a pain in the ass as usual, lol).

jasong

Hey Alverik,

Thanks for add the code to the wiki! I'm getting some errors though (see below) even though I have the Steamworks.net plugin installed. Not sure if this is related to what witheredCrow mentioned, which I also tried to comb through and fix without much luck. Any help would be much appreciated!

Assets/AdventureCreator/Scripts/Actions/ActionUnlockAchievement.cs(85,43): error CS1010: Newline in constant
Assets/AdventureCreator/Scripts/Actions/ActionUnlockAchievement.cs(89,0): error CS1525: Unexpected symbol `achievements'
Assets/AdventureCreator/Scripts/Actions/ActionUnlockAchievement.cs(89,13): error CS1525: Unexpected symbol `.'
Assets/AdventureCreator/Scripts/Actions/ActionUnlockAchievement.cs(89,19): error CS1010: Newline in constant
Assets/AdventureCreator/Scripts/Actions/ActionUnlockAchievement.cs(91,1): error CS1002: ; expected

Alverik

Weird, check if it was pasted correctly. A bracket may have been missed or something. (here's the code again, I'll repost the code in the wikia just in case too)

using UnityEngine;
using System;
using Steamworks;

#if UNITY_EDITOR
using UnityEditor;
#endif
/* By Alvaro Urrutia Luna (Alverik)
* Custom action to
* Unlock Steam achievements.
*/
namespace AC
{

[System.Serializable]
public class ActionUnlockAchievement : Action
{

// Declare variables here
public string AchievementID = "";

public ActionUnlockAchievement()
{
this.isDisplayed = true;
category = ActionCategory.Custom;
title = "Unlock Steam Achievement.";
description = "Unlocks an steam Achievement.";
}

override public float Run ()
{
//your action:
if (SteamManager.Initialized)
{
if(AchievementID!=String.Empty || AchievementID!="")
{

try
{
SteamUserStats.SetAchievement(AchievementID);
SteamUserStats.StoreStats();
}
catch(Exception e)
{
Debug.LogError("Error while setting steam achievements... " + e);
}

}
}
//end the action
return 0f;
}


#if UNITY_EDITOR

override public void ShowGUI ()
{
// Action-specific Inspector GUI code here
AchievementID = EditorGUILayout.TextField("Achievement ID: ", AchievementID , GUILayout.ExpandWidth(true));
AfterRunningOption ();
}


public override string SetLabel ()
{
// Return a string used to describe the specific action's job.
string labelAdd = "Unlocks an steam Achievement.";
return labelAdd;
}
#endif
}

jasong

Thanks! That takes care of most of the errors. Unfortunately, I get a new one:

Assets/AdventureCreator/Scripts/CustomActions/ActionUnlockAchievement.cs(71,246): error CS1525: Unexpected symbol `end-of-file'

Alverik

Weird, my copy-pasting missed a curly bracket. Sorry. I hate copy pasting, lol. Anyway add a } at the end. (The one in the wikia does have two closing curly brackets after the #endif like it should, so I guess I just got it wrong here in the forums.)

jasong

Many thanks, Alverik! No more errors

So, now I'm running into an issue getting my achievement to unlock. I have one achievement setup in Steamworks with the ID: 1/0. I've done a few tests where I plugged in "0" "1" and "1/0" into the Custom Action, but when running those actions in the build nothing happens, my achievement stays locked. The setup seems pretty straightforward, but I must be overlooking something. Screenshots below:
 

witheredCrow

@jasong try using "ACH_DETOUR" as the ID instead

jasong

That worked! Many thanks witheredCrow!

You guys are the best, hopefully this will help any others who might be just as clueless as me

willoneill

Hey everyone,

Thanks for all your help! Just wanted to resurrect this for anyone else who comes across it with a brief addendum that tripped me up: What witheredCrow mentions in the OP about 'running Steamworks.net' is important. Your AC project will need to have Steamworks.NET installed, or the scripts mentioned here will not work.

You can do so via: https://steamworks.github.io/

After that, it all worked perfectly! Note that the second curly bracket discussed does need to be added as well, though - for some reason it isn't in the wiki edition of the script either...? 

Anyways, you all are indeed the best. Alverik, a shoutout shall be yours.

Alverik

Stupid curly bracket, lol. Anyways, good to hear it helped. I've added the missing curly bracket in the article, it'll hopefully work right away for the next person that decides to use it.

2finger

Hey @Alverik
Your script works great, just tested in these days!

Sorry to bother you but you seems very expert on this, so I was wondering if there is the possibility, with another script, to do the opposite operation, that's LOCK the Steam achievements.
That's for debug testing, so I can create a temporary button with the ActionLOCKAchievement so I can re-lock the achievement I unlocked...
Thanks in any case!
Bye-bye!

2finger

Someone else know the trick? 

jasong

I think this is more of a Steam issue and not something that can be achieved through AC. I could be wrong and someone please correct me if I am.

I never could figure out how to reset achievements when I was debugging my game so I ended up creating another Steam account and testing through that. This means you will have to create another account every time you want to test them again. Not the most elegant solution I know and if anyone has a better solution I would love to know as well.

2finger

Thanks for your answer @jasong !
I asked because I saw a videotutorial here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzMjsSJ0o6E&t=740s

At minute 12:25 the guy set a command called SteamUserStats.ClearAchievement(ID) and the achievement with that ID is reset/relocked... so I think that modifing the current script made from @Alverik could be possible.
Thanks anyway!
Bye!