How to make an object nested in a clip interact with a main project object

[Good_Day]

Hello. I’ve got a bit of a headscratcher.

I am trying to take this “water bucket” object (black rectangle is a placeholder, I haven’t drawn the bucket yet LOL) which is nested within 2 clips…

and make it so that when the player clicks, drags, and releases it over the transparent target box (highlighted below as a clip labeled “fire”) it sets a global variable to true, which will then immediately initiate a sequence I made to put out the fire.

Now, the fire put out sequence and the click and drag mechanic both work fine on their own. It’s just I can’t seem to get the two items, my water bucket item and the transparent target box, to interact. I get constant undefined errors, and I think it’s something to do with how I am attempting to reference the fire clip from within the two clips containing the water bucket in my if(hits()) function.

I’ve always been shaky on understanding how nested clips work… any advice is much appreciated!

Screenshot of the click and drag working fine for funsies:

[StickmanRed]

Hi there! One way I can think of is making a new global variable, named “BUCKET_TARGET_FIRE” or something, and setting it to the “fire” clip, then hit checking against that

[Good_Day]

Like this?

When I try to hit test against it, I just get the errors at the bottom of the console like shown.

TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading ‘absoluteBounds’)
Error: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading ‘absoluteBounds’) on line 57684 in script “update”.
TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading ‘x’)
Error: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading ‘absoluteBounds’) on line 57684 in script “update”.

[StickmanRed]

Like project.TARGET_BUCKET_FIRE = this; if you are in the fire clip

[bob2]

I’m genuinely confused

[Good_Day]

still won’t run, throws those same errors

I think it’s something to do with how I’m trying to exit the clips and refer to the main one but idk how to even go about fixing it…

I think your idea could work if I could somehow resolve that problem.

[StickmanRed]

Oh… are you able to share the project?

[StickmanRed]

Sorry, I couldn’t download it :( But I made a test project, and I’m getting the same error.

The only solution I found that worked is this: var fireClip = project.timeline.clips.find(clip => clip._identifier === "fire") and hit test against fireClip. It just gets the list of clips and looks for the one named “fire”

[Good_Day]

Aw sorry!

Trying to get your solution to work but it’s not cooperating; could you screenshot or share how you did it in the editor?

[StickmanRed]

Hit detecting two clip-levels in is more confusing than I thought… I’m sorry I couldn’t have been of more help

A last resort solution would be to move the hit-detection fully inside the inventory clip.

[Good_Day]

Hey it’s alright! This just seems like one of those weird limit areas of Wick’s capabilities.

Your last resort sounds like a good idea… makes me wonder if I can keep a hitbox permanently present in that inventory clip, but only ever make it interactable with the water bucket icon via a getframe function to verify that the campfire scene is currently active in the main project…

Will report back once I am in front of it again.

[Good_Day]

Alright, the solution worked. I placed the fire hitbox into the inventory clip, and made it so that it “spawns” in (moves from outside of view to inside of view) on top of the fire when the project frame = 4 (the campsite) so as not to block interactables on other screens where it’s not needed.

I then did a normal if(hits) function with the water bucket and it worked as expected!