Custom Events are very important to my projects allowing all sorts of different triggers and scripts from all over the game to communicate specific information. So, I thought I'd go over quickly how they work.
That red box in the first picture is just a trigger and tag comparison to make sure this script only fires when it is hit by the player. You can read more about that in a previous tutorial, then a cooldown to make sure the script doesn't fire multiple times when the player is entering the trigger once, but that's beside the point of this post. The last block is the important one here, the Custom Event - Trigger block.
I made this script to be flexible, as in applied to multiple triggers that will all need to send different messages to different places, which is why all the important information is in Object Variables. Being object specific, I can change the message and destination for each one without altering the original script. The message the trigger is supposed to send is connected with that orange line, and the destination where it is supposed to be sent it connected with the green line.
In this second picture, you can see the Object Variables in the green box. So, we're sending the message "JokeTrigger" to the the target "DungeonKeeper" which is my scene manager.
The blue box is the receiving portion of the script in DungeonKeeper. Custom Event - Arguments is listening for a specific phrase, in this case "JokeTrigger" to be sent to it, and it will only fire the script when it receives this message. Throwing it all together, when the player hits a certain mark, a random joke is told, and with the use of Custom Events, we can have lots of those marks all around the scene all sending messages back to the main controller.
Thanks for reading. This script-bit is pulled from Tire Fire Rally. If you want to see more, go add the game to your wishlist. Either way, come back later for more jank script tutorials.
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