Duplicating Interactions?

oxyscythe

Is this unsupported?

I've been duplicating some interactions to try and speed up my workflow, as it does take a while to set them up and in this case I have a bunch of very similar ones (same ActionLists just different parameters in each action), but I noticed that once I started making changes to the duplicates, these changes also applied to the previous duplicates as well as the source interaction.

So to make it clearer let's say I have InteractionA and InteractionB which I created from scratch then I duplicate InteractionB twice and rename the new ones to InteractionC and InteractionD. If I now go in and edit some parameter in an Action of InteractionD this will be mirrored in InteractionC and InteractionB

So it's almost like they're references rather than cloned copies.

I also tried creating a new interaction and then just copy pasting the interaction component from the source interaction. Even that way of doing it demonstrated the same behaviour which I thought was quite weird.

Xidore

I had the same sort of question. Chris answered it here:

http://www.adventurecreator.org/forum/discussion/682/what-game-objects-can-you-safely-duplicate-ctrl-d#Item_3

When you copy the actual action elements from within the ActionList Editor you should not find the problem though.

ChrisIceBox

@Xidore is right - it's a workaround that has to be there basically because of the way Unity handles lists of ScriptableObject within MonoBehaviour.  Right-clicking within the ActionList Editor will let you select all Actions to copy at once, so it's hopefully not too much of a pain - but there is a reason for it.

oxyscythe

Awesome, as long as there's a way to do it, that's perfectly fine, cheers guys

vozer

Is there any possibility that this will change to being able to duplicate right in the hierarchy anytime soon? 

Maybe a copy button in the game editor?

cheers

humaldo

Hmm, isn't it already possible, at least with cutscenes? I duplicated a lot of cutscenes recently, without problems.

edit: Yep, just tested it, duplicating interactions in AC 1.47 works!

ChrisIceBox

It's true - this was seen to a couple of updates ago.