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Lestavol96 days ago (1 edit) (+1)


For me I don't see any black bars.

I'm just saying that I think it's weird that the UI elements are not separated so you get text in between the buttons like this, and it's not a good user experience. Furthermore, you can't see the mouse pointer here, but in this screenshot I'm having my mouse hovered on on of the button selection and sometimes they will be highlighted and selectable, sometimes they don't (like in this screenshot).

Edit: Just saw your edit and I wasn't playing it in fullscreen either.

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Haxking96 days ago

I guess this is a consequence of developing solo, you can't pick up on bugs like these. This is how its meant to be displayed. I'm not really sure what's going on and how to fix it.

Anyways, big thanks for coming back to try again!

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Lestavol96 days ago(+1)

I saw you were using Godot, are you using a HBoxContainer to line up the UI elements, or are you simply using a Control node own position to place them around the screen?

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Haxking96 days ago (1 edit)

Yeah I'm using the position... I should've read up on how to properly use Controls before making this.

What I should've done was put all the UI at the bottom in a singular vBoxContainer, right? Or am I still wrong?

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Lestavol96 days ago(+1)

Yes, you should use a HBoxContainer to line up your different elements when you want to display them horizontally. It prevents these things from happening when you try to display your elements with different screen sizes and resolution etc. Godot has very good UI capabilities, and I have heard experienced users enjoy working with them a lot more than other game engines, but it is a whole can of worms and something to be learned. I'm not that good at it myself yet (as evident in my own entry).

It's ok, it's not the end of the world, and after all the main purpose of these game jams is to learn these things so you become better in the future.

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Haxking96 days ago(+1)

I really appreciate the help. You don't understand how helpful this is (though it's something I should've learnt before anyways). Thank you a lot once more. I'll probably fix this game later using proper practices.

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