Comments

• ChrisIceBox

  November 2025

  Thanks for the feedback.

  Also, the objective related actions in actionlists cannot target sub-objectives properly at the moment.

  I'm open to suggestions, here.
• Klabautermann

  November 2025

  Sure, let me make it specific. My perfect solution would look like this:

  • hierarchical list for objectives. Sub-objectives are children of their parent objective in the list itself, without the detour with categories.
  • add numbered condition for sub-objectives to trigger parent objective (you need three out of five)
  • Put all the options for automatic state switching (inlcuding the new one above) into a check and a set action. Like a manual state switching as a counterpart to the automatic one you can define in the objective, to perform the checks/sets whenever you need them instead of automatically as soon as the player completes them.
  • an action to start (all) sub-objectives. Equivalent to the tick box in the objectives at the moment
  • NEW: An action to change the objective's description OR tie the description to the objective's state. Or both.
    Use case: "Talk to the townspeople" when the objective starts, "I talked to the townspeople. Those stupid buggers did not know anything" when it ends.
• ChrisIceBox

  November 2025

  This custom Action will start all objectives within a given category:

  #if UNITY_EDITOR
  using UnityEditor;
  #endif
  
  namespace AC
  {
  
      [System.Serializable]
      public class ActionAutoStartObjectives : Action
      {
  
          public int categoryID;
  
  
          public override ActionCategory Category { get { return ActionCategory.Objective; }}
          public override string Title { get { return "Auto-start category"; }}
          public override string Description { get { return "Starts all objectives in a given category."; }}
  
  
          public override float Run()
          {
              Objective[] objectives = KickStarter.inventoryManager.GetObjectivesInCategory (categoryID);
              foreach (Objective objective in objectives)
              {
                  if (KickStarter.runtimeObjectives.GetObjectiveState(objective.ID) != null) continue;
                  KickStarter.runtimeObjectives.SetObjectiveState (objective.ID, 0);
              }
              return 0f;
          }
  
  
          #if UNITY_EDITOR
  
          public override void ShowGUI ()
          {
              if (KickStarter.inventoryManager == null)
              {
                  EditorGUILayout.HelpBox ("An Inventory Manager must be defined to use this Action", MessageType.Warning);
                  return;
              }
  
              categoryID = KickStarter.inventoryManager.ChooseCategoryGUI ("Category:", categoryID, false, false, true);
          }
  
          #endif
  
      }
  
  }
  

  This component will let an Objective state fulful it's "All Sub-objectives Complete" requirement with a set-number of completed sub-objectives:

  using System.Collections;
  using System.Collections.Generic;
  using UnityEngine;
  using AC;
  
  public class SpecificSubObjectivesComplete : MonoBehaviour
  {
  
      public int categoryID;
      public int numToComplete;
  
      void OnEnable() => EventManager.OnObjectiveUpdate += OnObjectiveUpdate;
      void OnDisable() => EventManager.OnObjectiveUpdate -= OnObjectiveUpdate;
  
      private void OnObjectiveUpdate(Objective objective, ObjectiveState state)
      {
          if (objective.binID != categoryID) return;
  
          Objective[] fellowSubObjectives = KickStarter.inventoryManager.GetObjectivesInCategory(objective.binID);
          ObjectiveInstance[] allCurrentObjectives = KickStarter.runtimeObjectives.GetObjectives();
  
          // Auto-change on complete
          if (state.stateType == ObjectiveStateType.Complete)
          {
              int numComplete = 0;
              foreach (Objective subObjective in fellowSubObjectives)
              {
                  if (subObjective == objective) continue;
                  if (KickStarter.runtimeObjectives.GetObjective(subObjective.ID) != null && KickStarter.runtimeObjectives.GetObjective(subObjective.ID).CurrentState.stateType == ObjectiveStateType.Complete)
                  {
                      numComplete++;
                  }
              }
  
              foreach (ObjectiveInstance currentObjective in allCurrentObjectives)
              {
                  if (currentObjective.Objective == objective) continue;
                  if (currentObjective.CurrentState.LinkedCategoryID == objective.binID)
                  {
                      if (numComplete == numToComplete && currentObjective.CurrentState.AutoStateIDOnAllSubObsComplete >= 0)
                      {
                          KickStarter.runtimeObjectives.SetObjectiveState(currentObjective.ObjectiveID, currentObjective.CurrentState.AutoStateIDOnAllSubObsComplete);
                      }
                  }
              }
          }
      }
  }
  
• Klabautermann

  November 2025

  Thank you! Exceeding expectations, as always.
• Klabautermann

  September 28

  Hi @ChrisIceBox,

  with some tinkering, your scripts and some inspiration from the wiki I got my objectives workflow going.

  One more suggestion though:
  Objectives should also have a "label (if not name)" field like almost everything else. There are many features where you need to display objective names, and different ways how to achieve that - for example via an inventory box set to objectives.
  However, they show the name which I use in my technical actionlists and scripts to refer to these objectives.

  I dont want to put "Quest: Füttere die 13 Braunbären" as a technical objective name, but neither do I want "Q_bears" to be displayed in the objective list.

  So a different label than name would really come in handy.
• ChrisIceBox

  6:01AM

  Thanks for the suggestion, I'll give it some thought.