quartz/InventoryFlow.md at cli · Signal-K/quartz

Ideas:

• Mods can customize where and how the inventory behaves (inc hotbar)
• Mini inventory for things from citizen science (input and output based on ml stuff)
• Different item types:
  • Augmentations (Permanent Potions)
  • Consumables (Potions, Food)
  • Weapons
  • Building/Decor
  • Construction (Redstone-type)
• In main scenes (aka non-sandbox mode) there's 5 slots, but only four are visible at one time (augments are seen in the inventory UI, not the hotbar)
  • Scroll through each slot to see every item you have in that category
  • Only 1 weapon
  • Only the required construction/building blocks required
  • Up to 5 potions and 5 consumables
  • Extra items are dropped off in storage systems (underlying integration with Minecraft Redstone?)

Setup:

• Four hotbar slots (to begin with)
• Each underneath the Unity.UI Canvas GameObject
  • Slot (#) (# = number, starting at 1) for the hotbar slot
  • Cross (#) for the drop cross (click the cross icon next to the slot to drop the item)

New script (Inventory.cs):

using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;

public class Inventory: MonoBehaviour {
	public bool[] isFull; // Array to see if there is already an item in the inventory slot
	public GameObject[] slots; // Pair the item the player picks up to a given inventory slot
}

• Set the Size of Is Full and Slots arrays in the Unity inspector (attach the script Inventory.cs to the player game object) to the number of items required (this can also be modified by scripts depending on the scene)

How it works

• All the objects that can be picked up are instantiated as GameObjects in the Unity hierachy
  • These include Health, Health #, Sun, Sun #, Food, Food #
  • Each instantiation of each object type (e.g. Health 1 vs Health 2) can be represented by different images even though they behave the same way, due to the script attached to them.
  • The script attached to each object, Pickup.cs, has two public GameObject parameters → itemButton (the item itself, which is stored in Assets/Prefabs/Butons/<#Button>) and the Effect → Assets/Prefabs/Effects

Changes I've made