Simple Inventory System

[hushed prairie]

I created a flexible inventory “minecraft style” to manage items, equipment, and resources in your games.

It’s fully usable and stable, and I’m currently using it in the games I’m developing. if you try it out and share any feedback to help me improve it, I’d really appreciate it ❤️

Link to itch.io: https://juananzzz.itch.io/simple-inventory-system

[hushed prairie]

Preview:

Please read the documentation if you plan to use it.

[hushed prairie]

Version 0.5

-Bug fixes.
-You can now create custom item effects. Right-click an item to activate its effect.
-Improved the example scene.

Here’s a screenshot of a game I’m making using my own inventory system:

[compact siren]

@hushed prairie my game is a VR game so how are people going to be helping from this if it's on VR game

[hushed prairie]

What?

[compact siren]

my game is a VR game so how are people going to be helping from this if it's on VR game

[hushed prairie]

I don't understand you

[compact siren]

What are you talking about when I'm simply saying this for people who have VR games if they want a simple inventory system how is this going to help

[hushed prairie]

Explain clearly your question instead of spamming nonsense.

[compact siren]

Okay well are you going to say something

[vocal shard]

I am curious, I see an issue with shift click for two functions... Is that linked to canvas/active window element, or is it oversight. If I shift click an item to say equip and it goes to stash or vice versa

[hushed prairie]

The shift+click logic isn’t tied to the canvas, it’s controlled by public InventoryState InventoryState; in the InventoryManager script.

That state decides whether the item is equipped, sent to the stash, or handled by other logic. I'm going to send you a short document that explains how I made it work and how you can modify how you want.

Thank you for the feedback.

There’s probably a better way to do it, but this is the solution I came up with.

[vocal shard]

I likely won't use it, but it's nice to see people working on individual systems for implementation, I'll read through the documentation and offer feedback. Have you considered a manager script that decides whether you have the inventory or stash open for what the shift click does

Another way you could do is click and it opens up a panel to the left or right that says 'equip, inventory, stash' and each is a button

[hushed prairie]

Yes! I made similar logic for testing, but for this project I wanted to create something very customizable for each user who wants to use it, so that’s why I went with this approach.

[vocal shard]

I designed a save system I'm currently working on that once it's finished you'd only need to change what you want it to save and it will handle the file management, but sometimes too much customisability offers pitfalls as in let's say I try to create another state would I have to add that to every single file etc

Also consider a switch statement for the state, you could enum and switch based on whether it's inventory, merchant, stash, etc and when it detects the enum and right click, it sends the item

[hushed prairie]

Yes, using a switch statement would probably be better. I’ll keep that in mind and look for a way to integrate something by default if, for example, the stash is detected as open or something like that.

Also I would like to know more about yout save system

Because the saving and loading part seems really complicated and tedious to me.

If you have a link to your project, I’d love to check it out when it’s ready.