I am implementing dialogue and want it where the user cant control the player when dialogue enters the scene tree, what is the best way to go about that when my movement inputs are not in the _input function while still keeping the idle animation for the player HELPPPP
#What will be the best way to disable user input
fickle apex
polar tree
you can stop any of the processes using set_process(false), set_input_process(false), etc
you can also have a variable holding the game state and just just the input logic if certain state is current
final hazel
A common way is to have a "is_paused" boolean variable in an autoloaded script, and then in your process function you simply don't handle any input if that variable is true. Useful to also pause enemies, bullets, etc
opal stone
i have a signal bus set up and use a pause signal, that calls a function that does
get_tree().paused = true
It also hides some UI elements and sets a global variable that is checked in a few places where the node is set to always process. though thats a bit hacky, i should just be checking the .paused
I then have a bunch of UI elements set to "Always" process, so that they run while the game is paused.
Lets me still use inputs and processing where i want it, and whenever i need to have the game pause somewhere else in my code i just connect to the signal bus and send a pause signal
I have a similar arrangement for resuming the game