[HOWTO] How To: Monitor Conditions in Custom Quest Conditions

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Tony Li
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[HOWTO] How To: Monitor Conditions in Custom Quest Conditions

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When writing a custom quest condition, the condition may not be true as soon as the condition's quest node becomes active. Here are 3 ways to check for quest conditions that may become true after the quest node has become active:

1. Listen for messages from the message system. See MessageQuestCondition.cs for an example. In StartChecking(), it calls MessageSystem.AddListener(). In StopChecking(), it calls MessageSystem.RemoveListener().

2. Register for some C# event from your own code. See CounterQuestCondition.cs for an example. In StartChecking(), it registers with the counter's changed C# event. In StopChecking(), it unregisters.

3. IQuestTimer. Either of those ways above are preferable. But if you can't do either one, you can implement the IQuestTimer interface. In StartChecking(), call QuestTimerManager.RegisterTimer(). In StopChecking(), call QuestTimerManager.UnregisterTimer(). Every 1 second, Quest Machine will run the condition's Tick() method. You can check conditions there. See TimerQuestCondition.cs for an example.
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