Dialogic 1.X Character game position

[PuteraSinuraya]

From the picture above, there is a lot of empty space on the screen's left and right hand corner, and I want to take advantage of these empty spaces. However, I don't know how to modify the exact position that a sprite will occupy. At the moment all the 5 positions mainly occupy the center of screen.

Any help?

[PuteraSinuraya]

Oooh, this is the responsible code isn't it?
Now I want to increase the number of positions from 5 to 7, do you have any tips on how to do that?

[coppolaemilio]

I don't remember at the moment how the code it's set up, but I'll try to refresh my memory and let you know 😅

[zaknafean]

We're currently experimenting with some 'lost' code from another contributor that may help your situation. Can you try replacing that function with

func move_to_position(position_offset, time = 0.5):
    var reference = get_viewport().get_visible_rect().size
    var positions = {
        'left': Vector2(-2*(reference.x/7), 0),
        'right': Vector2(2*(reference.x/7), 0),
        'center': Vector2(0, 0),
        'center_right': Vector2(-(reference.x/7), 0),
        'center_left': Vector2(reference.x/7, 0)
        }

And letting us know if it works for you?

[zaknafean]

This should now be merged into the Dialogic 1 branch. You can grab it here since 1.5 still isn't ready for the asset store yet.
https://github.com/coppolaemilio/dialogic/tree/dialogic-1

[PuteraSinuraya]

Hang on, what do you mean when you said it has been merged into dialogic 1 branch? Did you mean dialogic has been updated to include the feature that I just requested?

I am using Dialogic in conjunction with Godot-Spine. Because of this, I also edited/modded my Dialogic 1.4.4 to suit my project needs (such as the json file extension problem that spine-godot has). I much prefer to modify my current dialogic if there is only small changes in the latest version of dialogic.

[zaknafean]

Ya, we updated Dialogic 1 branch to include the fix you requested.

But the code that was added is here. Then ya, replace the code you found above with this.

func move_to_position(position_offset, time = 0.5):
    var reference = get_viewport().get_visible_rect().size
    var positions = {
        'left': Vector2(-2*(reference.x/7), 0),
        'right': Vector2(2*(reference.x/7), 0),
        'center': Vector2(0, 0),
        'center_right': Vector2(reference.x/7, 0),
        'center_left': Vector2(-(reference.x/7), 0)
        }

[PuteraSinuraya]

I have tried the code. It runs..., but I was asking how to increase the number of position slots from 5 to 7. Ideally, there would be 2 new position slots like "center_left2" and "center_right2".

[zaknafean]

Adding the slots is pretty easy technically, you could extend that code to do it well enough by following the pattern provided. Updating the UI to select them easily is a much more involved task however. Definitely out of scope for me tonight. I can look up the relevant scenes tomorrow to at least point you in the right direction

[PuteraSinuraya]

Thank you. Second thought I am quite happy with five slots.