Examine Component
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What's the expected benefit of the feature you are requesting?
An enhanced examine function.
will help with narrative storytelling (notes, maps, journals, etc)
will help interaction ( examine could uncover game clues)
versatile enough to be used for other things (short cutscenes), character closeups, action shots (i.e a hand grabbing an object)
jump scare? (ghost or ghoul fills screen)
Describe the solution you'd like
An optional component that is launched by the examine function.
When the player examines a prop, inventory item, hotspot, character or any interactible object, a short custscene occurs
- display an enhanced view of the object
- display additional information
examples are a map, a note, a close-up of an inventory item, detail about a character or a hotspot.
this feature could be implemented as a POPUP in the gui.
for an inventory item, it should not be bound to a specific room but rather to the engine scope.
the component, to be versatile, should have:
- a sprite
- a text box that can be resized as an overlay or a seperate description
- an animationplayer
- an audiostreamplayer (for sound effects or narration)
- methods to turn on, turn off, fade in, fade out (sort of like a cutscene)
- var counters (viewcount, etc)
Screen.Recording.2024-10-15.201051.mp4
Hi @CoreMegalithium . Thanks for taking the time to create the feature request (and adding a video showing the expected result).
We could provide devs a specific type of popup with such structure so it can be called from anywhere in the game (we already have a function to do so: opening a Popup by its script_name property).
Soon, we'll focus on improving the UX related to adding GUI components. We'll likely provide a way to create popups, and adding one for this type of mechanic will be easy.