How to Create Tutorial that Waits for Event
Posted: Mon Feb 06, 2017 8:41 am
This post describes one way to create a tutorial conversation that waits for a key press. The Tutorial Example scene demonstrates a similar but slightly different approach.
The requirements for this tutorial conversation are:
1. At a specific dialogue entry, wait for the player to press the Left Arrow key.
2. Give the player the option to hide the dialogue panel by clicking a "Let Me Try" button.
Example Scene: TutorialHideDialogueExample_2017-02-05.unitypackage
Here's how I set it up:
1. First, I created two inactive buttons named "Left Arrow Button" and "Let Me Try Button":
2. Left Arrow Button is positioned off screen and is invisible (the color's alpha is zero). It has a UI Button Key Trigger that listens for Left Arrow. When clicked, it runs a sequence that sends the message "LeftArrowPressed" to the sequencer:
The sequence "None()->Message(LeftArrowPressed)" means do nothing ("None()"), and when you're done doing nothing send the message "LeftArrowPressed" to the sequencer.
3. Let Me Try Button isn't a response menu button. It's just a regular button. When clicked, it deactivates itself and the Dialogue Panel:
4. The dialogue entry node has the Sequence show below:
The first two lines activate the special buttons I created (Let Me Try Button and Left Arrow Button).
The last two lines wait for a sequencer message "LeftArrowPressed". When it receives this message, reactivates the Dialogue Panel (in case Let Me Try Button deactivated it) and deactivates Let Me Try Button.
The requirements for this tutorial conversation are:
1. At a specific dialogue entry, wait for the player to press the Left Arrow key.
2. Give the player the option to hide the dialogue panel by clicking a "Let Me Try" button.
Example Scene: TutorialHideDialogueExample_2017-02-05.unitypackage
Here's how I set it up:
1. First, I created two inactive buttons named "Left Arrow Button" and "Let Me Try Button":
2. Left Arrow Button is positioned off screen and is invisible (the color's alpha is zero). It has a UI Button Key Trigger that listens for Left Arrow. When clicked, it runs a sequence that sends the message "LeftArrowPressed" to the sequencer:
The sequence "None()->Message(LeftArrowPressed)" means do nothing ("None()"), and when you're done doing nothing send the message "LeftArrowPressed" to the sequencer.
3. Let Me Try Button isn't a response menu button. It's just a regular button. When clicked, it deactivates itself and the Dialogue Panel:
4. The dialogue entry node has the Sequence show below:
The first two lines activate the special buttons I created (Let Me Try Button and Left Arrow Button).
The last two lines wait for a sequencer message "LeftArrowPressed". When it receives this message, reactivates the Dialogue Panel (in case Let Me Try Button deactivated it) and deactivates Let Me Try Button.