V1 Feature Request: Interaction Preview Distance

[alberttheprince]

• The interaction "preview" distance is not settable, causing an issue where the user never sees the "preview" for the interaction point. In V1, you could mark when the interaction preview appeared and when it was interactable.

For example, this allowed a user to preview all interactions in an area before displaying the prompt. Now you have to know something is interactive before interacting with it. Also, when a user is in a car, you have issues previewing interaction points because the preview is set universally.

[DemiAutomatic]

its hard to really allow for a defined preview distance since there is no longer a single parent container for a group of interactions, instead there are interact options and they get grouped together dynamically based on context. the individual options have authority over themselves and have no parent.

if script a added an option to an object and had the "preview distance" set to 10, and script b added an option that had a preview distance of 5, one of those will have to be overwritten for every option added in that context.

[Manason]

Could we add an optional preview distance override setting per option then?

The current preview distance is derived from the option level distance, right?

[DemiAutomatic]

the current preview distance is derived from a couple limiting factors depending on the context. for example, coord based interactions are almost entirely limited by this

and other contexts are limited by that as well, but entity processing has a shortened distance to help with performance as well

so only after the process distance has been fulfilled will the config distance take effect

the only way this makes sense for an option level argument is if maybe the highest value from all the options for that valid option group is used

[Manason]

Using the highest value, or just allowing for an override might make sense. The use case here is for garages, where we want the player in a vehicle to be able to see the garage from a good distance away.