Dialogic - 1.3

[coppolaemilio]

Dialogic v1.3 - Save me some time

General Editor Stuff

• Builtin documentation [Jowan-Spooner]
  • Added a button to open the documentation from the nav bar
• The plugin has now Editor-translation support and some labels are translated to Chinese [magian1127]
  • Added some initial Spanish translations
• Replaced the default /addons/dialogic/Dialog.tscn node with a proxy that creates a dialog using the Dialogic.start function instead of the raw node. This will make it easier to update from version to version since the instantiated node will not be changing a lot from version to version. This also moved and renamed the previous /addons/dialogic/Dialog.tscn to /addons/dialogic/Nodes/DialogNode.tscn and the dialog_node.gd is now called DialogNode.gd to be more in line with the rest of the project
• CanvasLayer Argument (Dialogic.start()) added to the CSharp Class
• Creating new resources will automatically start the renaming of it
• New plugin icon! It should now display at its proper scale depending on your rendering scale

Timeline Editor:

• A modular Custom events implementation [Jowan-Spooner]. Learn about them [here](./Events/Custom Events/CreateCustomEvents.md).
• Added a preview image on the portrait picker, so it is easy to know what sprite or scene you are selecting. Thanks to EmmaH for the idea and Jowan-Spooner for the implementation
• Added Voice Line support for Text and Question Events [RedXGames]. Learn how to use it here.
  • Added option to use a certain region of the audio files [KvaGram]
• Partial support for undo and redo [Jowan-Spooner]
• Better light/custom theme support for the timeline editor [Jowan-Spooner]
  • Changed the Selected Event Style to only have blue borders and not change event color [Jowan-Spooner]
• Adding an extra space at the end of the timelines so it is easier to drag and drop new events
• After selecting a conditional, the input field of that event will be selected
• Updated UI of the AudioPickers [Jowan-Spooner]
• Automatically scrolling to newly created events when you click on a create event button [Jowan-Spooner]
• If no characters are present in the current project the character picker is hidden and a prompt was added in the Character join and Character leave events to create one [zaknafean]
• Copy Timeline Name will now return the full path to that timeline

Theme Editor:

• Updated Audio Settings [Tim Krief]:
  • you can now select audio for typing, text completed, next event, button hover and button selecting
  • Attention: Old typing audio will have to be redone!
• You can now set the position of the buttons relative to the screen (Top, Bottom, Center, Left, Right)
• You can now set the choice buttons to be aligned horizontally or vertically
• More range for dialog text speed [zaknafean]
• A default theme is created on new projects [zaknafean]

Ingame Behaviour

• ATTENTION: Rework and improvement of the saving system.
  This includes some breaking changes. Learn all about the new system and how to transition here.
  • A visual novel template with a working menu is being made. You can find it here.
• Dialogic.start() will now use paths for specific timelines. A fallback is in place, but specificity is preferred. For instance: Dialogic.start('my-timeline') will search any timeline with that name; Dialogic.start('/chapter-1/my-timeline') will open the timeline namde my-timeline inside the folder chapter-1.
• If the text is too big for your dialog and you see a scrolling bar, you can use the up and down keys to scroll [Jowan-Spooner]
• Rework of the character name coloring (using Regex now) [Jowan-Spooner]
  • Regex name compiler now properly escapes special characters [zaknafean]

Export

• Removing requirement to manually configure resource export (No need to add .cfg, .json to your export settings anymore) [LuRomao]

Other Stuff:

• Renamed the plugin entry point script from dialogic.gd to plugin.gd so it better describes what that file does
• Removed the need to use a DialogicSingleton. This causes some slight changes to saving and loading. Learn all about the new system and how to transition here.
• Deleted some legacy documentation files
• Adding a warning if you are trying to set or get a variable that wasn't defined

Bug-fixes

Editor

• Fixed the DialogNode Inspector Timeline Open button issue
• Fixed a reference bug that prevent the duplication of Themes

Game

• Changed the default cursor shape that was weird in MacOS
• Dialogs only start typing after the fade-in animation happened
• Fixed a bug that performed the fade-in animation before setting the proper theme
• Fixed a bug that prevented to use the global input setting when selecting option buttons

New Contributors

@quentincaffeino https://github.com/coppolaemilio/dialogic/pull/445 @LuRomao https://github.com/coppolaemilio/dialogic/pull/396 @AhNesh https://github.com/coppolaemilio/dialogic/pull/458 @magian1127 https://github.com/coppolaemilio/dialogic/pull/470 @KvaGram https://github.com/coppolaemilio/dialogic/pull/481 @TimurBahadir https://github.com/coppolaemilio/dialogic/pull/512 @GimmiRuski https://github.com/coppolaemilio/dialogic/pull/560 @SimonLammer https://github.com/coppolaemilio/dialogic/pull/573 @tradfursten https://github.com/coppolaemilio/dialogic/pull/570

Full Commit Changelog: coppolaemilio/dialogic@1.2.5...1.3

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