Global Unhandled Examine?
Hi Chris, asking in tech q's first and if it's not possible, perhaps a good suggestion for a feature request?
I'm using 'Context Sensitive' input, so left-click = use, right-click = examine.
I'd like to have a Global Unhandled Examine, where an Asset File ActionList plays a 'Shrug' ActionList that plays an animation of the player character shrugging.
I could manually go through each hotspot that doesn't have an 'Examine interaction' specified, and make sure it's running a 'shrug' ActionList, but because each of my Hotspots in each scene uses 'Interaction Source: In Scene' because each Use interaction is usually scene-specific, there doesn't seem to be a way of separating out the scene or asset file source for Use and Examine - it's either/or for both Use and Examine using a Scene ActionList for source, or both use and Examine using an Asset File ActionList for source.
So, I could specify a scene-based 'Shrug' ActionList to each scene, but I'd need to create one in each scene but would like to avoid duplicating where possible, and still would prefer a 'catch all' for Hotspots that don't have Examine Interactions defined.
I really like the ability to specify Global ActionLists for Unhandled Inventory Combine, Give and Hotspot, and have ActionLists that run 'Variable: Run Sequence' actions for each of them that run through a list of responses.
But also a Global Unhandled Examine option would be great to point to an Asset File ActionList for all Hotspots that don't have Examine Interactions defined.
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Thanks for detailing the use-case for this - I'll give it some thought!
The best way to handle this would be through a custom component, as you can then control other settings such as the player action, or extend it to ignore certain Hotspots etc.
I've added this to the AC wiki here:
https://adventure-creator.fandom.com/wiki/Unhandled_Examine_interactions
Hi Chris - ah amazing, thank you, I love it - works great!
I haven't tried making it global yet, I realised I have some scenes I actually don't want the player to animate, but even just having this as easy as making a Prefab and then dropping it in the scenes I want, is fantastic! 🙌
Also, a bonus having the additional options you included for the player to 'Turn to Face' (as well as others like 'Walk to Marker') - I thought it maybe wasn't working but all I needed to do was add eg a 1 second 'Engine: Wait' at the start of my Shrug ActionList, and then the player first looked at the object I clicked on that had the Unhandled Examine, and then did the animation - perfect, thanks so much 🙏