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PlayMaker Help & Tips => PlayMaker Help => Topic started by: RobotGoggles on January 07, 2019, 02:13:30 AM

Title: Making a prefab instance flash[SOLVED]
Post by: RobotGoggles on January 07, 2019, 02:13:30 AM

Been spinning my wheels about this a lot and it seems like it should be simple to do, but I can't figure it out for the life of me:

I'm just trying to make the characters in my game flash when they take damage.

Issue #1 is that each character consists of several objects in a hierarchy, so if I change the material on the object level I would need an action for each object that makes up the character, and I can't even use the "get child" function easily since some of the objects are nested within the hierarchy.

Issue #2 is that the characters are instanced and are very often on screen with other clones, so If I flash the material, everything with the material will flash.

Any suggestions would be swell.

Title: Re: Making a prefab instance flash
Post by: ... on January 08, 2019, 09:54:53 AM

That's fucked up.

Is there a way to make a "hit event sender" for each object that makes up the character that will send "hit" event to a "flash manager" who will send the "flash event" to all children that need to flash?

Title: Re: Making a prefab instance flash
Post by: RobotGoggles on January 09, 2019, 02:28:48 AM

That totally worked! I just put a simple fsm on each objects and then sent the event to all children. A lot cleaner than I was expecting