Quest Board Implementation?

Krixus

Thanks, so I did end up repurposing the "Research Tree" to give quests, I didn't realize that research items could be quests, so it is basically the closest thing to a "Quest Board" menu of sorts. I do have a few issues though that I was hoping you could clarify:

The "Quest Board/Research" menuscreen uses a "Research (List View)" menu part. My use for this research menuscreen is purely used to distribute quests, the problem though is if there are no quests left, eg. there is only one quest available, and you accept it, if there are no quests/research items left, this error occurs.

ArgumentOutOfRangeException: Index was out of range. Must be non-negative and less than the size of the collection.
Parameter name: index
System.Collections.Generic.List`1[T].get_Item (System.Int32 index) (at <73ac12a12f9a4ebca156b41ddce95fbe>:0)
GamingIsLove.ORKFramework.UI.Parts.ResearchMenuPart.ShowItems (System.Boolean openFocused) (at <2663ded18c674b1ea8396f3860f21e83>:0)
GamingIsLove.ORKFramework.UI.Parts.ResearchMenuPart.ShowTrees (System.Boolean openFocused) (at <2663ded18c674b1ea8396f3860f21e83>:0)
GamingIsLove.ORKFramework.UI.Parts.ResearchMenuPart.Refresh () (at <2663ded18c674b1ea8396f3860f21e83>:0)
GamingIsLove.ORKFramework.UI.Parts.BaseMenuPart.RefreshMode () (at <2663ded18c674b1ea8396f3860f21e83>:0)
GamingIsLove.ORKFramework.UI.MenuScreen.Tick () (at <2663ded18c674b1ea8396f3860f21e83>:0)
GamingIsLove.ORKFramework.MenuHandler.Tick () (at <2663ded18c674b1ea8396f3860f21e83>:0)
GamingIsLove.Makinom.Maki.FireTick () (at <955d655a7cd74acb870624fe58df3a08>:0)
GamingIsLove.Makinom.MakinomHandler.Update () (at <955d655a7cd74acb870624fe58df3a08>:0)

After the error occurs, if you open up the menuscreen again, Research Tree Box UI shows, the other elements of the menuscreen don't show at all, it just breaks entirely. Is it not possible to just have things display as "empty"? Eg. even if there are no research items, why can't it just display it as empty, or somehow show an image that shows "No Research Items/Quests etc" available, rather than just breaking the menuscreen?

Edit: After this error occurs, if you bring up the same menuscreen then close it, like with a close key, after that I can't seem to bring up my other menuscreens with input keys, everything basically just breaks.

Krixus

gamingislove

In "Detail Box Settings", the "Start/Cancel Research Button", can you please add a setting to allow this message popup to show on its own, instead of over the menuscreen? Eg. closing the menuscreen, then hit accept, starts the research, cancel returns to the menuscreen etc. This would make the UI behavior consistent with other "Start/Confirm" messages, similar to what you kindly added in for the save/load confirm questions. I'd greatly appreciate it, if you could somehow add this to this menuscreen too please. Currently, it just makes the UI a bit inconsistent.

Krixus

gamingislove

Again, in the "Detail Box Settings", I don't see any settings to allow me to directly display the Quests icon. Whereas in "Research Item Box" settings, when you define a button there is a separate "Item Content Layout" section, that allows you to display text and icon directly associated with the quest/research item. Because of that, I can display the icon of the quest in the button.

However in the details section, I've added a large image texture component, as the section is quite large so I purposely have a larger image to fill in some of the empty UI space. The plan was to actually use a texture, rather than a sprite. That way I would essentially have "two icons" defined/associated with each quest which would allow the appropriate information to be displayed in the UI.

Currently I can only display the <description> of the related quest. Doing <icon> doesn't really work since it is a text icon and that formatting isn't the same either.

So yeah, is it possible to display the icon of the quest (defined texture not sprite though) in the "Details Box" section? I want to display it just above the <description> text code of the quest. Like in the content section, if I define a sprite/texture then it will use the appropriate component and fill up the empty UI space and be placed above the text, the problem though is the image is just a general image and isn't directly associated with the quest, so the image doesn't change when you cycle through and view all the different quests.

Krixus

gamingislove

Is it possible to change the "Short Name" of a specific research item on the specific combatant via schematics, aka the player? The reason I am asking such a peculiar question is because in the Item Content Layout for the button you can define in "Research Item Box" settings, I am using that button to display "key" information about the quest, and one such piece of information is the "Gold Reward" of the quest.

It's essential to display it at the button so that the player can quickly see the reward rather than having to click on each research/quest item to see.

Since it is just a research menuscreen that adds quests on research item completion, I'm not sure if there is a way to display the reward of the actual quest. That's why I just opted to manually type it in via the short name of the quest itself.

Issue: However, I also want to make the quest reward amount dynamic, factors will influence how much gold the player gets. Since it is dynamic, I need a way to update the text, eg the "Short Name" of the research item. I know you've updated the "Set Combatant Name" node to allow this, but I am unsure as to how I would go about in "selecting" the research item first in order to get all this to work.

gamingislove

1) I think this is the same bug someone else already reported and should be fixed in the next update.

2) I'll look into it.

3) You can add a more detailed or specific display using HUD elements (via Add HUD in the Content of the details box).

4) No, you can't change the name or short name of a research item.

Krixus

gamingislove

Thanks for that, still got some problems with 3).

3a). In the "content" section of the details box, I've enabled "Add HUD", then defined the HUD. It doesn't display the quest image though I'm also not quite sure how to set this HUD up. Is the type of the HUD that is going to display the quest image added via "Add HUD", going to also be a "Quest" type HUD or is it just an "Information" type HUD?

3b). I've tried both Quest and Information HUD types, no luck. As for the actual HUD setup, I tried just using a premade one, ORK Framework > HUD > Quest >Quest (for prefabs). I used this one because I don't know of any other UI component that can display the "quest's image"? I thought "Use Content Icon" within the "HUD Quest Text Content" component would display the image.

No luck, can you please further explain how to actually set this up? While by now I'm a little more familiar with how to set up ORK 3's UI, this still baffles me.

3c). I am also unsure as to where this HUD would show up, I don't see any formatting options. I thought it would display above the <description> text code.

Krixus

gamingislove

4). What about changing the content of "custom content" defined in research items via a schematic? Because instead of displaying the quest reward payout as the "short name", I could also display it as "custom content". The question though is whether or not I can change this value during runtime. Otherwise...everything would be static and I wouldn't be able to influence the reward, eg setting up difficulty options for quest reward payout.

Krixus

gamingislove

2). I have another instance of these "popup" questions. This time it is in the "Shop Layouts", the "Buy/Sell Question" message popup. Can you also please add an option here to only display the message popup when it triggers?

gamingislove

3a) It can be any type of HUD - it'll simply use the HUD's prefab for those template uses.
What's the setup of the HUD's prefab for displaying the image?
Generally, you can reference the quest HUD tutorial for displaying quest content in a HUD.

3b) When you say quest image - are you refering to the quest's icon, right?
That should be displayed by this setup. However, your HUD Quest Text Content component is set up to only show quests that are available (i.e. not yet added to the player's quest list) or active, e.g. inactive quests are not displayed.

3c) The HUD is added to the UI box according to it's main content component (UI Content component). In the default setup it's added as a child object of the UI content component's game object - the rest is handled by layout components of your UI (like with any other content that's added, e.g. buttons).
When using HUDs to add content to inputs (e.g. buttons), it's handled by the input's UI content component.

4) Custom content can't be changed.
Generally, you can use variables to display changing content, since using a variable text code will simply replace it with the current value of the variable.

2) I'll look into it.

Krixus

gamingislove

3b). Originally what I actually wanted to display was another "defined image" that was directly related to the quest that was currently being displayed but not actually the quests icon, eg. a "secondary" image. Like the quest icon would be a generic icon which would be related to its general "quest type" and then the "secondary" image, would be an image directly associated to the quest, especially since there was text under it.

So, after giving it some thought, I realized that in the "Details Box Settings" of the "Research (List View)" menupart, you have the option to define a "Portrait".

Question: So my question here is just asking if my setup is correct as I haven't done something like this yet and using portraits.

I've defined a new portrait type just for quests and then in each individual quest, I have defined a "sprite/image". This would allow me to define a "secondary" image that could be linked to each individual quest but also not have to be the "quest icon".

Then I defined the portrait type in the research menuscreen.

As for the actual UI prefab, I just took the "image" gameobject that was originally going to display the quests icon and I added a "UI Portrait" component to it, then defined that as the sprite. That then allowed me to define it as the portrait in "Portrait Content/UI Box" component.

So yeah, now I'm displaying the portrait of the quest in the place where the quest icon would have been, but now I can display two types of images that are directly associated to the same quest.

Is this the correct way to set this up, eg. regarding uses portraits in the research menuscreen etc.

gamingislove

3b) Portraits are the way to go if you want to add other images than the icon.
The setup looks correct - just make sure that the image component you now use for the portrait is no longer referenced by whatever other component it was used before (most likely a UI Content component).

Also, you don't really need to define an extra portrait type for quests (unless you want to) - portrait types come into play if something has multiple portraits to be able to display them, e.g. a combatant having different portraits for different states (healthy, poisoned, etc.) or emotions (happy, sad, normal, etc.) or a quest having multiple images you want to show.

Krixus

gamingislove

3b). Great, thanks a lot for confirming. Regarding the "references", I did have a case actually the "Main Content" UI box, which has the "UI Content" component, was still referencing the "Portrait Image" as a sprite as well. Then what happened was when I first opened the menuscreen, the placeholder image (white image) was first shown, then when I clicked on another research item and then clicked back, the define "portrait" image would show instead. Is this the type of issue you be expecting as in still having it referenced? Just wanted to double check as I removed the old references and I didn't see it appear again.

gamingislove

3b) Most likely - the issue is that multiple parts try to set the content of that image, so depending on what's displayed this can turn out differently.