I'm making a 2D game with different UI elements and one of them is a pop up window that appears when you, for example, select one of the quests.
The pop up and the questboard are CanvasLayer scenes. The problem that I need to solve is only giving the inputs to that pop up window when it is active or else the player can still interact with the rest of the environment while deciding if they are going to accept or not. What's the best approach?
My inputs for now are different TouchScreenButtons and a _input method that's tracking touches to do different things.
Thanks!
#Trying to block all inputs when my pop up window is visible
maiden wave
wild sinew
welp i would like to know too, but per now i made it in the game over screen with a return
locks everything else tho
night shell
If you're using touchscreen controls the normal UI stuff won't work
so i guess you have to set a bool that all the input methods check
and disable the buttons
wild sinew
maybe consider keeping it like this and making the pop up disappear when you ran away too far from the quest giver
floral quarry
Why not just pause the game? You can set your UI to ignore pauses.
night shell
that too
wild sinew
Why not just pause the game? You can set your UI to ignore pauses.
how do you even pause something
maiden wave
Why not just pause the game? You can set your UI to ignore pauses.
Pause the game? And resume when the player selects accept or deny?
wild sinew
please tell me it just exists "pause"
maiden wave
If you could give me more info that sounds like the answer I'm looking for
floral quarry
get_tree().paused = true
maiden wave
lul
night shell
You also need to change the process mode on the popup
maiden wave
But, if the game is paused, will the popup buttons even be clickable?
night shell
otherwise, the game will pause forever
wild sinew
But, if the game is paused, will the popup buttons even be clickable?
i think he said earlier ui doesnt get affected
night shell
No, it does
floral quarry
But, if the game is paused, will the popup buttons even be clickable?
That's why you need to tell your UI nodes to run even while paused
wild sinew
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maiden wave
That's why you need to tell your UI nodes to run even while paused
Can you do that just to one node/scene? Is it in the config of the node?
floral quarry
It pauses everything by default. You need to change the process mode found in the node section of the inspector
night shell
Can you do that just to one node/scene? Is it in the config of the node?
All nodes are set to process_mode inherit by default
so you only need to set the parent node as always run so that all the children always run as well
maiden wave
But, I need them to be paused, so everything must be default, even the root node and the popup node must be always active so it can be interacted with even if the game is paused
Right?
wild sinew
But how do you make It resume after the pause?
maiden wave
But how do you make It resume after the pause?
get_tree().paused = false after clicking? I guess
night shell
yes
wild sinew
Like on the signal of let's say a button pressed?
night shell
yeah u can do that
wild sinew
That's a problem for the future you
maiden wave
Yup, future me hates me
wild sinew
Put the tag solved now in the thread