Xodius Studios Blog #8 Action Menu, Loading Screen, Notification UI, and Hall of Fame

 

Xodius Studios Blog #8

Action Menu, Loading Screen, Notification UI, and Hall of Fame

Author: Kanitha Charoenpanich
Published: 04/21/2023 10:00

The Problem:

This week I attended Hall of Fame in person. I attended every day and met the inductees at Hall of Fame. I attended many game industry panels and attended meet and greets. I was given a lot of advice and knowledge from those in the industry. I also attended the Career Fair, I met Alejandro Garcia-Turon of GhostPunch Games. I also had the honor of attending the Induction Ceremony Live in the Full Sail Live building. 
I am having issues with the loading screen. I think maybe it is because of how the other members are loading in the levels or there is an issue with the amount of time that the level is taking to load in. The loading screen is still in progress I hope to finish by tonight for the build. The notification UI had an issue with the text being pushed off to the side, I am not sure if it is a padding issue or an alignment issue. The action menu is now popping up correctly, I previously had an issue with binding. I hope to implement the action menu buttons tonight but if not they will be added soon. 

Photo 1 - Notification Tray Anchor Change

Photo 2 - Action Menu Code

Problem Solution:

  The solution I got for the notification was to change the justification to center and it fixed it to a degree. There is still a weirdly large spacing between the words and the image but now the text is not cut off or off of the UI background. 
Photo 3 - Fixed Notification UI

The solution for the action menu was a simple and painful fix. I just had to change the class types in the inventory slot BP to the action menu BP and the data is now correct. This fixed the null issue and the issue of the action menu not popping up when the item is selected in the inventory menu.
Photo 4 - Fixed Issue with Action Menu


Photos 5 - Action Menu Overlay

Photo 6 - Loading Screen Code

Photo 7 - Loading Screen when loading into the game

HALL OF FAME: SUPERNATURAL





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