Blog Archives

Messing with UI "Themes"

5/21/2024

An hour or two last week
Dug into the theme system used for Godot's UI. In particular using the preset options within the dialogue manager add-on. Changing the colors of text, panels, buttons, and moving around the player choice options slightly. I expect this to require a lot of iteration eventually. Partially because I don't want the entire thing to be this brown. Though also just because 90% of the interactions will be dialogue and text choices so it will need to feel natural and unobtrusive to read and click through. Especially if / when I end up writing too much text for each option.

Added Walls & Doors

5/14/2024

3 hours or so
Added some basic wall sprites to show the intended perspective and then used my Interactable and Talkable components on a new door object so it'd detect and show feedback when interactable. Then just called for a level transition instead of starting a dialogue. Also LeVeL dEsIgN. Added an interior level with a blue NPC, who doesnt enjoy being intruded on.

Walls and New NPC

5/13/2024

Like 30 minutes yesterday
Added some fast, dirty, and ugly walls just to see that I could. Simply sprite and wall collision. Plus added another NPC to the scene and changed my dynamic variables of the label text and modulate color PLUS added a new dialogue file - all to effectively show I could do so quickly and easily. Which I could thankfully :D

Added NPC Icon Feedback

5/13/2024

An hour or two this past Saturday
Moved feedback icon display to NPCs instead of player. Plus added logic to move between a ! indicating new dialogue and an "..." indicating being within dialogue distance.

Interaction Icon and Dialogue Bug Fix

5/13/2024

Several hours sometime last week
Interaction Icon was simple to add since I already had the interaction detection. Bug fix was a pain considering the dialogue system is an add on and has a LOT of complex systems to function. Thank god the creator has a YouTube channel with a variety of update videos. One of which mentioned his use of _unhandled_input. Which fixed my bug of spacebar beginning new dialogues each time I wanted it to advance the current one.