Posted January 23, 2025 by Kaplin86
#modding #minor update #bug fix
Yeah so like i added a index feature to my game.
Because i want replayability and its fun to look at. I just like being able to craft items and have the data stored somewhere, and also knowing what i havent made yet. And due to the lack of any actual wiki for the game, it also allows auto-generating and modded 'wikis' for items to be accessed inside the game. Yeah it works with modded items.
It also has procedurally generated CRAFTING TREES (spoiler warning)
For my procedural graph generation, I decided to go with a node aproach (mostly because it worked the best and im in godot so it works best). What it would do is take the first item, add a node for it with the texture and all, and assign it meta value called xsize, which was predetermined. After that, I check if the item is crafted using 1 or 2 items. If its 1 item, I generate it, put it as a child of the first item, set the position to like (0,-50) ish, and pass in normal xsize. While for 2 items, I create the childs and then I position them equally across the original xsize (which would be "0 - (xsize/2)" and "xsize/2" ), and the passed down xsize is divided by 2.
Then, with the second generation, I basically do the same process. Split the xsize when its 2 children, dont when its 1. Simple. And given how parenting works (in godot atleast), I dont have to do crazy calculations for the X position.
Changes:
- Created the INDEX, basically built in wiki for items you have crafted.
- the index scans both bulletdata and recipe data for items.
- Index also has sorting by ALL properties (modded Items without bulletdata have placeholder damage of 5)
- Crafting Tree Viewer for unlocked index items
- You can now give modded items descriptions for the index using "idesc"
- You can also choose the color for modded converters using "icolor" (with color code in string form)
- Fixed bug where Tutorial UI can carry over between
- Made buttons on map screen actually be aligned
- Modded Items with no bullet data no longer crash the game.
- Mods will now give warnings inside of the mod viewer if they are out of date.
- Mod browser now has the functionality to filter mods based on version, update, or all.
