Are there any good tutorials for creating a menu to handle selecting which character to play as? e.g. for picking your character at the start of the game (Or, alternatively, just for selecting which party members are in your active group or not.)
I'm trying to figure out how to do a carousel of full-body shots of the potential characters that you can cycle through (with the ones that are not unlocked blacked out), with stats and descriptions to one side. But I haven't created a menu like this before and wouldn't mind a few references or a little help.
In ORK, you could either use a Choice type dialogue for selecting stuff, or e.g. have an event ineraction on each of the displayed characters that start the selection process (e.g. adding the combatant to the player group to display the stats and showing some dialogues to confirm/select stuff).
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1. Can the options be listed horizontally instead of vertically? (seems like this can be done by setting the GUI boxes settings for choices to position instead of list and custom choosing the positions)
2. Can the options be represented by images instead of text, and can those images change depending on whether they are the currently selected one?
3. Is there a way to set it so the currently selected choice always moves to the top of the list?
4. Is there a way to include a portrait that changes based on the currently selected one in a log type menu?
2) Images can be used, e.g. just set up an icon for that choice, or use text codes to add an icon/image. Different image if it's selected is not possible, though.
3) No.
4) No.
Also, a log menu doesn't really allow you to choose anything and just displays information - so you can't really have any character selection results from that.
Something you could do would be setting up an event with a series of dialogues. Based on what you selected in a dialogue, you could display it again with the previously selected choice using a different image (#2) and having it on top of the list (#3). Displaying the info for that selected choice can be done by showing another dialogue (before showing the choice dialogue again), using type Message and disabling Wait.
Make sure to use a Close All Dialogues node when selecting a different choice (and at the end of the event) to close the dialogues that are kept open.
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Also I realized after posting that that log type menus weren't really what I was going for. It'd have to be more like a combatant group menu, or group selection menu. One of those can be used to let the player pick who is a member of their active battle group right?
You can also use a Combatant Selection Dialogue node, which uses selected data. You'd first add combatants that should be available to selected data, the dialogue will store the combatant of the selected choice into another (defined) selected data for further use in the following nodes.
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First, use Select Combatant nodes to add combatants to a selected data key (e.g. combatants could be on actors that are already in your scene, via Add Combatant component, or added to the player group).
Next, use a Combatant Selection Dialogue that display the combatant form that selected data key and stores the selected one in a different key.
Afterwards, use the selected combatant in other nodes, e.g. to join the active player group.
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