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
I got everything up on crates.io so now it works as a publicly downloadable rust library through cargo and I fixed up the barren wasteland that was my README.md
I have added a tab bar for switching between different menus and stuff works well enough like most stuff in this lib it’s just for basic use
I’ve now done a text input box, it uses macroquad’s default UI input box and wraps it up nicely
I’ve now added a slider, it was fairly easy to do as I’ve written similar already for the list.
after a bit more work than the other UI elements have been I have made a list! you give the function a Vec X pos Y pos width height and then you’re done! also the UI element has a scroll bar and buttons to move through longer lists.
I have now done a loading bar, a cool thing to note is that this bar can actually be any width you like! I wanted to make this as a library to make simple and effective UIs that can easily and quickly be implemented without hastle of setting up many variables, most buttons / UI elements just return a boolean of if they are triggered
Introducing the checkbox! the tick is kinda wonky but I’ll make it look better later, the functionality is still there
I have made a working button click and all, I am now going to start doing a checkbox
