Week 6

18: Adding an inventory system

Add inventory panel

• Add it to interface layer
• Open chat box script, click menu, export, select all, copy, close script
• Add script to inventory panel, menu, import, paste
• Change textfield text to “INVENTORY”
• Replace “when I receive message” with “When key I pressed” and remove “Set text”
• Play game

Repositioning inventory Change offsets

19: Items in the inventory

Disabling inventory with i key

• Add “if else”, if visibility = false, do activate blocks, else do deactivate blocks

Adding health potion icon to inventory

• Place new health potion next to inventory panel
• Add script, when level starts, disable physics, add tag “health potion icon”

• Edit inventory script
• Add set instance health potion icon to first instance tag health potion icon

• Duplicate set x and y position blocks for health potion icon positioning constantly

• Play game to see how it’s positioned

• Error! Because “when level starts, find health potion tag” is happening before “add tag”.
• On health potion icon, replace when level starts with when created

• Play game again

20: Inventory item text

Functions for visibility instead

• Put them in functions
• Add visibility for health potion icon

Textfield for item count

• Copy paste the same blocks for the first textfield with some tweaks
• Change textfield by creating new var called textfield health potion count
• Set number health potions to 0

• Constantly position the count textfield

⚡ Bonus Activities ⚡

Bonus 8.1: Uploading your own images