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• ddstarderg

  December 14

  OK I figured it out!
  If anyone wants to have the same behavior here's how you do it

  First, you want to set your Inventory Menu's Appear type to "Manual"

  Then you want to create a new UI Element (I call it Inventory Activator) and set its appear type to "During Gameplay" so that it only shows up during gameplay, this menu should on top of your screen or wherever you want the cursor to be in to keep the inventory open and it should consist in just an Image that you can make disable when you're done testing so it doesn't actually appear

  Then you'll want to create two actionlists, one to show the Inventory and one to Hide it, these are simple one action action lists that use Menu > Change State > Turn On/Off Menu

  Finally, create this script and attach it somewhere in your Inventory Activator

  using AC;
  using UnityEngine;
  using UnityEngine.InputSystem;
  
  public class ActivateInventory : MonoBehaviour
  {
      [SerializeField] private RectTransform triggerArea;
      [SerializeField] protected ActionListAsset showInventoryActionList = null;
      [SerializeField] protected ActionListAsset hideInventoryActionList = null;
  
      private bool isInside;
  
      void Update()
      {
          if (Mouse.current == null)
              return;
  
          Vector2 mousePosition = Mouse.current.position.ReadValue();
  
          bool nowInside = RectTransformUtility.RectangleContainsScreenPoint(triggerArea,mousePosition,null);
  
          if (nowInside && !isInside)
          {
              isInside = true;
              Debug.Log("Showing");
              showInventoryActionList.Interact();
              // KickStarter.menuManager.GetMenuWithName("Inventory").TurnOn();
          }
          else if (!nowInside && isInside)
          {
              isInside = false;
              Debug.Log("Hiding");
              hideInventoryActionList.Interact();
              // KickStarter.menuManager.GetMenuWithName("Inventory").TurnOff();
          }
      }
  }
  

  You'll need to assign triggerArea to your activation zone boundary and the two action lists you created to other two properties

  If done correctly the inventory menu should show when you move your cursor into the top of the screen and dismiss when you leave the area, make sure the area you created is tall enough to hold your inventory screen

  I initially tried to call TurnOn and TurnOff on the menus using the menuManager but it had a lot of problems I couldn't solve, using the actionlists works perfectly