Posted April 15, 2024 by PestoRavioli
Another low hanging easy peasy update today. So previously, I just had my 'stats' choice from the start menu pop up a dialog box. Today, I made a proper status screen. Basically, I created a 160x144 background image. This contained all the text for the menu so I didn't have to eat up the limited 52 character limit. I then placed an actor so you'd see your 'portrait' and then a bunch of background text boxes to display values from variables. All in all, easy peasy. I don't know if I can figure out how to get things right/left aligned. That will probably bug me so I may at some point tweak the stats menu. I feel like doing the values under the headings probably won't fit nicely.
To do the dev work, i basically said when menu option == 2 from the start menu script, then save the current scene to the stack and change the scene to the new status menu scene. I then binded the a/b/sel/start buttons to load the previous scene on the stack. I don't think this will cause any out of memory issues, but we'll eventually see i guess.