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• ChrisIceBox

  March 14

  Hotspots require a collider surrounding their boundary to be clickable, and needs to be positioned in world space, rather than screen/canvas space.

  I'm not sure why the use of RenderTextures is making Hotspots unclickable, however. Are your RenderTextures being played on a mesh that has a collider? Removing the collider will allow raycasts to go through it.
• TayannaStudios

  March 14

  No, they're not being played on a mesh with a collider, but they still aren't clickable.
  
  Is it not possible at all to have them work with screen/canvas space?
• ChrisIceBox

  March 15

  Hotspots are not designed for UI. But if there is no collider present, it sounds like the issue is something else.

  If you enable the AC Status box, is the game state listed as "Normal" or "Cutscene"?
• TayannaStudios

  March 15

  It's listed as 'Normal.

  I've figured out that it's NOT the RenderTextures or the video UIs that are causing the issue, but rather a Unity UI that appears which allows the player to choose where they wish to travel to (screenshot below). There are no raycasts blocking anything and the menu it's on it set to not pause gameplay etc.

  

  It's worth noting that the inventory at the top isn't interfering with the hotspots either, it's just the 'location select' menu.

  There are no blocking actionlists running or anything. The hotspots just refuse to be accessible in-game if that 'travel' menu is on-screen. Below are the settings for that menu:

  

  I've tried disabling the Canvas Group in case that was blocking it but that didn't make a difference, apart from making the buttons unclickable.

  I think I'd be able to use standard hotspots instead of using them in a UI if I can just figure out how to make them work while that menu is on-screen.
• TayannaStudios

  March 15

  If there was a way for the player to drag and drop inventory onto Unity UI buttons, this would also be an option if I couldn't get the hotspots working.
• TayannaStudios

  March 16 edited March 16

  UPDATE: I fixed the issue above and got the hotspots to be seen - it was an issue with a UI panel which I replaced with a generic GameObject and that seemed to fix that problem.

  I only briefly got them working though if I set both the Main and AC camera to Orthographic but that just messes up the positions of the hotspots on different aspects (I can't lock the aspect ratio as the game supports 21:9 so 16:9 videos will play on 21:9 on aspects with no borders at the top and bottom) and if I have them set to Perspective then the hotspots seem to glitch and can be interacted with ANYWHERE on the full game screen, no matter where they're placed in the game scene.

  I have all my UIs working perfect on all aspect ratios except the hotspots as they can't be 'pinned' with the usual Rec Transforms that Unity UIs have.

  I think my best bet going forward would be to find a system where I can drag and drop inventory items onto transparent Unity UI elements and have them react in the same way a hotspot would, but I've absolutely no idea how to do that. Can I somehow link them to an AC script that takes care of inventory interactions?
• ChrisIceBox

  March 16 edited March 16

  I've figured out that it's NOT the RenderTextures or the video UIs that are causing the issue, but rather a Unity UI that appears which allows the player to choose where they wish to travel to

  This will be a case of the Menu's RectTransform boundary covering the screen. If the mouse if over a Menu's boundary, clicks to the gameplay scene will not be registered.

  Can I somehow link them to an AC script that takes care of inventory interactions?

  Add an InventoryBox element with the following properties:

  • Inventory box type: Container
  • Max number of slots: 1
  • Click behaviour: Custom Script
  • When slot is empty: Clear Content

  Then link it to a UI Button, and attach the script below, filling in its Inspector with the Interaction data:

  using UnityEngine;
  using AC;
  
  public class ContainerInteractions : MonoBehaviour
  {
  
      public SimpleInteraction[] interactions;
      public ActionListAsset examine;
  
      void OnEnable()
      {
          EventManager.OnMenuElementClick += OnMenuElementClick;
      }
  
      void OnDisable()
      {
          EventManager.OnMenuElementClick -= OnMenuElementClick;
      }
  
      private void OnMenuElementClick(Menu _menu, MenuElement _element, int _slot, int buttonPressed)
      {
          if (!KickStarter.stateHandler.IsInGameplay()) return;
  
          if (_element != null && 
              _element.GetObjectToSelect(_slot) == gameObject)
          {
              if (KickStarter.playerInteraction.IsDroppingInventory())
              {
                  foreach (var interaction in interactions)
                  {
                      if (interaction.inventoryID == KickStarter.runtimeInventory.SelectedItem.id)
                      {
                          interaction.actionListAsset.Interact();
                      }
                  }
              }
              else if (buttonPressed == 1 && examine) examine.Interact();
          }
      }
  
      [System.Serializable]
      public class SimpleInteraction
      {
          public int inventoryID;
          public ActionListAsset actionListAsset;
      }
  
  }
  
• TayannaStudios

  March 16

  Thanks, Chris! I've done that but am unsure about how to check which inventory items have been used on the button?

  Looking at the script, I'm presuming once attached to the button it should give me options to select the inventory item's ID and the actionlist to run, but those don't show. It just shows the script as below:

  
• TayannaStudios

  March 16

  Also, would this still work with a general click without an inventory item that would run an "examine" actionlist?
• ChrisIceBox

  March 16

  Try it now.
• TayannaStudios

  5:04AM edited 5:29AM

  Thank you SO much, Chris, you're a life-saver! It works perfectly! I'm now trying to figure out how to have it handle unhandled inventory items. I'm thinking there's an 'else if' involved somewhere? I'm useless as scripting