CHANGELOG.md

v0.9 - House keeping

• Video: https://youtu.be/pL0RWVmlM6g

• Moved Dialog.tscn to the root of the addon so it is easier to find.

• Added a link to the documentation from the editor

• Refactored a lot of the code and continued splitting the main plugin code into smaller pieces.

• Rewrote most of the saving and branching systems.

• New tool: Glossary Editor

  • You are now able to write extra lore for any word and Dialogic will create a hover card with that extra information.
  • You can create strings and number variables.
  • You can access to those variables from the Dialogic Class: Dialogic.get_var('variable_name')

• In game:

  • Portraits changes are reflected in-game.
  • Many small improvements.

• Theme Editor:

  • New default asset: Glossary Font
  • Added new options to customize the glossary popup

• Timeline Editor:

  • Added categories for the events.
  • Color coded some of the events in the same category to avoid having a distracting rainbow in the timelines.
  • Conditional event working, but only with "equal to". More conditions coming later.
  • Renamed the End Branch file names to match the name of the event. This will break the conditionals you have, but this is the time for making breaking changes. Sorry!
  • New Set Value event. Change the current value of a glossary variable inside a timeline. This will reset when you close the game, so a saving system will have to be added on the next version.
  • New Emit Signal event. This event will make the Dialog node emit a signal called dialogic_signal. You can connect this in a moment of your timeline with other scripts.
  • New Change Scene event. You can change the current Scene to whatever .tscn you pick. This will happen instantly, but in the future I'll add some transition effects so it is not that abrupt.
  • New Wait Seconds event. This will hide the dialog and wait X seconds until continuing with the rest of the timeline.
  • Created independent Character and Portrait picker for reusing in event nodes.
  • Portrait picker added to Text Events and Character Join events.
  • Text Events text editor vertical size grows witch each line added.
  • Text Events now properly create a new message for each line inside the text editor.
  • Text Events Line count are now displayed next to the preview text when folded.
  • Re-adding the End Branch event just in case you removed the end and you want to add it again in the timeline.
  • Renamed the Copy Timeline ID right click menu option to Copy Timeline Name since you now have to use that to set the current timeline from code instead of the ID.
  • Fixed several bugs that corrupted saved files
  • Thanks to mindtonix and Crystalwarrior for your first contribution on the choice buttons

• New Dialogic class. With this new class you can add dialogs from code easily:

  var new_dialog = Dialogic.start('Your Timeline Name Here')
  add_child(new_dialog)
  

  To connect signals you can also do:

  func _ready():
      var new_dialog = Dialogic.start('Your Timeline Name Here')
      add_child(new_dialog)
      new_dialog.connect("dialogic_signal", self, 'signal_from_dialogic')
  
  func signal_from_dialogic(value):
      print(value)

v0.8 - Dialog enters the game

• Video: https://youtu.be/NfTyRrsdB1I
• Moved the theme editor tool icon to the left
• Theme Editor:
  • Added a color background as an option
  • Reduced the vertical size needed to show all options
  • Style your choice buttons! (Color, background, etc...)
  • Better default support for unchanged styles
• Timeline Editor:
  • Moved the event buttons to a new column
  • When creating a Question two Choice events and a End Branch event will be added automatically
  • Added a warning for Choice events on the root level of indentation
  • Disabled unfinished events
  • The Change Timeline event tells you your current timeline (this is for going back to the start)
  • New Close Dialog event. This event closes the dialog whenever it is called.
  • When renaming a dialog the popup's text field is already selected and focused.
• In game dialog:
  • You can now select the current timeline from the inspector without manually copying the timeline id.
  • Change timeline event is now working
  • Audio event can play sounds
  • Character join (left, center and right) working
  • Focus in and out of portraits when speaking
  • Character leave events working
  • Basic question/answers support
  • Better scene resizing and position
  • Button styles

v0.7 - Looking good

• Video: https://youtu.be/wREIVj55eBM
• New plugin tab icon
• Removed legacy files
• From the theme tab you can now:
  • Pick the default text color
  • Set the shadows and shadow offset
  • Select your own fonts (.tres)
  • Set background and next indicator images
  • Choose an action to trigger the "next" event
  • Preview changes in a dialog
  • Change text speed
  • Set text margins
• Characters tab
  • Added context menu
  • Moved the Remove Character button to a context menu
  • You can open the working directory
• Timeline tab
  • Added context menu
  • You can remove timelines now
  • Right click no longer renames timelines, to do so you have to use the new menu
  • You can open the working directory
  • You can copy the timeline ID

v0.6 - Character portraits

• Video: https://youtu.be/okWYt_yGKNI
• Splitting the main script into smaller pieces
• Characters
  • Characters welcome screen when there are 0
  • Different display name
  • Autosave enabled on characters
  • Character portraits
  • Added Default Speaker setting
• Events:
  • Text block now has a portrait dropdown

v0.5 - Indentation Magic

• Video: https://youtu.be/mrTyWy2TJOM
• Added new events:
  • Choice
  • End branch
  • Change Timeline
• You can now drag and drop events in a timeline
• Made new icons for the editor tabs
• Added some tooltips
• Restructured the events node structure to add indentation
• Changed event default colors

v0.4 - Dialogic

• Video: https://youtu.be/Hf_gywa6vZE
• Changed how the main editor works, instead of being a graphedit it is now an event timeline.
• Renamed the plugin to Dialogic. Thanks to Òscar for always knowing how to name things.
• Moved all data to .json files
• Broke the addon for working. Nice :)

v0.3 - Using Resources

• Video: https://youtu.be/PzzOE4LbGAo
• Removed requirement for global.gd and characters.gd autoload scripts.
• Added DialogResource and DialogCharacterResource resources to create a cleaner way of specifying dialog content
• Added icon to the existing dialog node.

v0.2 - Adding Characters:

• Changed text speed to fixed per character instead of total time span
• New character support
• Added portrait to characters
• Created the fade-in effect
• Curly brackets introduced for character names.

v0.1 - Release

• You can watch the presentation video here https://youtu.be/TXmf4FP8OCA