Good Evening guys! So I am working on my Metroidvania and one of the main mechanics in my game is the player being able to transform into various different forms (10 to be exact) so eventually I plan on implementing a menu for the 10 different forms and the player will be able to assign 3 of the 10 forms to the ui buttons (example below)
As you can see in the lower left hand corner I have the Wolf, Bear, and Panther (these are the only forms I have coded so far so I am just attempting to test them) so I have many questions and I am struggling on figuring out where to start. I have got the buttons working on click no problem. My questions are as follows
Is it possible to assign a texture to a button via code? If so can I link a bool from my PlayerStateMachine script to said texture (example: The panther texture on the panther button I want linked to my inPantherForm bool and when the button is clicked the player will go into panther form) Is there another way to do this? Am I overthinking things?
Here is a simplified breakdown from my devmap document
- Implement placement of transformation
buttons - Implement a base material that will change depending on what spirit form is assigned. Make textures for each spirit form 10 in total
- Add functionality to buttons to change the player into corresponding spirit forms When the button is clicked again the player will go back to base form
- Implement functionality for assigning the various spirit forms to the buttons from a menu (havent made yet) . Think Megaman X4
Here is my code for my TransformUIController
using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;
using UnityEngine.UIElements;
public class TransformUIControl : MonoBehaviour
{
public Button TransformButton1;
public Button TransformButton2;
public Button TransformButton3;
public GameObject player;
Player thePlayer;
PlayerStateMachine players;
void Start()
{
var root = GetComponent<UIDocument>().rootVisualElement;
TransformButton1 = root.Q<Button>("TransformButton1");
TransformButton2 = root.Q<Button>("TransformButton2");
TransformButton3 = root.Q<Button>("TransformButton3");
thePlayer = player.GetComponent<Player>();
players = player.GetComponent<PlayerStateMachine>();
TransformButton1.clicked += TransformButton1Pressed;
TransformButton2.clicked += TransformButton2Pressed;
TransformButton3.clicked += TransformButton3Pressed;
}
void TransformButton1Pressed()
{
Debug.Log("Transform 1 has been pressed");
}
void TransformButton2Pressed()
{
Debug.Log("Transform 2 has been pressed");
}
void TransformButton3Pressed()
{
Debug.Log("Transform 3 has been pressed");
}
}
I do hope I explained things properly I had a really hard figuring out how to word the question if there is any confusion or needing more clarification let me know!
Kindly,
Harpoaian
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