Roadmap: Interface Cleanup

A little update on where this change is going. I present the new items interface:

Notice crafting, equipment, and full inventory are all in one panel. As you visit stores or open your shipping container, those inventory areas are added to the area in the upper right corner in the same style as the inventory. It will scroll vertically as you display a lot.

The odd tooltip behavior currently in the game is gone. It loads in a nice AJAXy way when you hover over an item, though you get the item's name instantly. It also caches the description on a per item basis, so you only have to load it once.

The vertical red bar is your actions bar. Different icons show up there when you select an item, and that's how you use/drop/buy/steal/etc. stuff. Click on the Hooch in your inventory at you get the drop, crafting, and use buttons. Do that while you're in a store and the sell button shows up (and its tooltip displays the sell price). As before, holding shift while you click generally means "do this to all of them".

For crafting, you can click on the crafting buttons for selected items, or just CTRL+click on each item and tool to stack them into the crafting area at the bottom. Crafting otherwise works the same as before, but the CTRL+click scheme should speed up those investigative crafting sessions substantially.

I'm still working on it (obviously), but you can see what I'm doing with it.

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I didn't notice this before...but is that a bowling ball in the character's inventory???

I think I've experienced this deja vu before...
 

I'll get to work on a smoke bomb graphic for you...

I think I've experienced this deja vu before...
 

The new inventory management is finished and being tested. Getting close!

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I've got combat fully functional with the new navigation, and for a bonus the code now fully supports alternate attacks. Burst fire is the first to be implemented (I'll modify the M-16 to take advantage), but the way I've set it up we'll be able to have any number of attack modes. This opens up the door for martial arts, etc. As discussed earlier, you'll change attack mode with the "W" key.

Each mode has its own cursor that appears over your target when you point at it. The cursor also changes for movement (a pair of feet where you can walk, a "no move" graphic for blocked areas, a search graphic for searching the area you're in, etc.)

As it stands, keyboard movement is gone, as there were complications with having both mouse and keyboard movement. I might be persuaded to put it back if you guys feel it is necessary, but personally I'm liking this way much better.

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Those of us with laptops (OK...me) prefer the keybord moving.  The touchpad is a bit tricky when it comes to using it to move around.

If coding for both is to tricky, then I'll try to learn to use it.

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I'm very, very close to done:

I have a small adjustment to the combat code to better handle combat modes (including burst), a little bit of help file work, and then I'm going to do a round of testing before I upload the whole thing.

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Sam should be happy, I've made adjustments to keep keyboard movement in the game. Rejoice!

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