M.I.S.E (Milorad Interactive Slides Engine)

Just working on bugtesting and minor fixes and feeling out how what I’ve built and trying to optimise stuff, trying to get rid of all the compiler warnings (the auto one got rid of 12) and I got rid of like 9 with the help of the godly rust compiler
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I’m also making a demo vn for the ship and I put in a bunch of nice pictures I took

I have done a lot of minor cleaning up work Like:

fixing menu spacing

correcting background scaling

and made a gitlab repository of like an hour of frikkking with git WHY IS GIT SO CONFUSING IT’S LIKE TRYING TO FIGURE OUT SEGFAULTS IN C++

yeah the menus are heaps better now initially to save time I just made left-centred text 20px from the left edge, but now I do it as a fraction of the screen’s width to make it scale with text size better

fixing background scaling was a little odd to do but I figured it out - the issue was that I was assuming the picture was a 1:1 square instead of the actual resolution of the image.

It certainly took a while but I have functional saving!

It saves the game’s state with what slide it is on and some other things too.

There was no lack of challenges making this, getting the image to save and load was one of the biggest things, figuring out when to load and save it and accounting for there not being a save there and preventing crashes took the most time

Next, I button this project up and ship it! (or get distracted)

I’ve started working on a in-game pause menu that will allow you to quit, save and load your game I’ve also added a bunch of functions and stuff to make my code a bit cleaner it’s been quite easy doing just menu stuff just takes a while trying to line everything up nicely. I’ve also added a checkbox for fullscreen in the settings.

I’ve done a super duper cool quit animation for M.I.S.E. where the window scales down and gets smaller whence you close thy gayme

I am also working on a demo game that ships with M.I.S.E. that describes the software and gives a small demo story

Quit menu and config file toggleable text gradient for the menu and text box. Text gradient using config file was pretty easy as it’s just true / false. Quit menu didn’t take too long as it’s just a box that says yes / no when you click Quit on the main menu.

I procrastinated trying to get the gradients look look smoother with random noise, ended up removing it because it was drawing like 700,000 pixels with RNG and made the menu run at like 3 - 10 fps lol.

I also added a credits part of the main menu that reads out of ./data/credits.txt and displays the credits on screen, the slider from the last devlog has competition now!

I now have made text appear on screen like it’s being printed out, making that really threw up a fight because of newlines taking up two characters in an array and only listing as one (I think) that has lead to me counting every \n in the text and compansating for it.

I have made a settings menu for setting the text speed with the world’s worst slider

trying my best to get characters showing up on screen, it has been surprisingly difficult as I have to load in each character, expression and what the expression is titled, I then have to match the right one to the one that is requested in the text input in the slide file almost there though :3

got an options menu going!
for example clicking Option One sends you to slide 1 and clicking Option Two sends you to slide 2, both what is displayed on-screen and what slide it sends you to are configurable using the slide .txt file
now I just have to make it look nice :/

kinda funny not really needed but makes everything look so much nicer (see code snippet), almost got the selection UI going to!

finally got multiple text within a slide working, I’m now starting on a selector that lets the user choose how they want to continue the story UI coming in the next devlog

Much pain… almost got lots of text and multiple text going it works but resets to the start every time you try to go to the next slide then once it goes back you go through it again then lets you continue by one more slide :(

I have made the menu UI a bit nicer and added proper image cropping for backgrounds instead of just stretching them, I also now have the starts of a UI for the in game text box

Much news! I have added loading text, characters from a slide file and a title and background for the main menu, file decoding is surprisingly easy once you get the hang of it and learn that you must never read out-of-bounds!

just starting to work on my visual novel engine, so much file reading! I have a config file that set window width and height and provides a list of slide files, each slide will contain dialogue, backgrounds, foreground images and other stuff