Playmaker Forum
PlayMaker Help & Tips => PlayMaker Help => Topic started by: Noise on December 05, 2013, 06:25:11 AM
-
Can I create a splash screen with Playmaker or do I have to use unity scripting ?
Thanks
N
-
What does your splash need to do? Any splash screens I can think of can be done with PM. Either have a separate scene with a 'load level' action or do it with a GUI in the same scene?
-
It is simply to give instructions to the player. I imagine there to be a button at the bottom of the instructions to click for the instructions to disappear and start the game.
-
Sounds simple and straight forward, and easily done with PM.
-
Good stuff, thanks.
Just need how to figure it out now !
-
Something else that I want to do which is very similar to the splash screen is when the player (FPC) walks over a box/cube it activates a GUI which asks questions that the player has to use their mouse to answer.
What I can't figure out is how to disable the mouse so that it can select the answers on the GUI rather than moving the players view.
If you know what I mean ?
-
It depends how you have set up your player controller. You should have option for freezing all unwanted movements of player while in your GUI event. Mouse cursor should still be moving freely.
-
I am very new to this so, if you could elaborate that would be appreciated.
With regard to the FPC, I simply dragged it into the scene - not much other setup apart from that. I don't know how to freeze the unwanted movements of the player - is it done in PM ? I am trying to understand all the actions but none are doing what I need.
-
There should be "Character Motor" script on your FPC, which has check button for "Can Control". If you uncheck that are you able to move your character in the game?
(I don't have much experience with FPC)
-
To disable the mouse, there is a "set cursor" action. You can use this to set the cursor to invisible, or to change it to a custom cursor, etc.
-
I have tried that on the FPC and the box that triggers the event but it doesn't do what I need.
Because I am using a First Person Controller I need the input from the mouse to stop moving the viewpoint and enable the player to use the mouse to click answers on a gui.
I am new to PM and it's great but still a steep learning curve !