Next steps and improvements

Next thing I wanted to do was some kind of introduction to the player.

In my head, some text had to appear in the middle of the screen. I had some implementation already with the Conversation class and such, but I wanted to be able to make that cool transition with the Tweeners. If you can do it with the movement, why not with some text?

So, as I'm using TextMeshPro, I made a class called TextMeshProAnimationExtension.cs following the theme of the tutorial.

TextMeshProAnimationExtension
using System.Collections;
using System;
using UnityEngine;
using TMPro;

public static class TextMeshProAnimationExtension
{
  public static Tweener ChangeColor (this TextMeshProUGUI t, Color32 change)
   {
       return ChangeColor(t, change, Tweener.DefaultDuration);
   }

   public static Tweener ChangeColor (this TextMeshProUGUI t, Color32 change, float duration)
   {
       return ChangeColor(t, change, duration, Tweener.DefaultEquation);
   }

   public static Tweener ChangeColor (this TextMeshProUGUI t, Color32 change, float duration, Func<float, float, float, float> equation)
   {
       ColorTweener tweener = t.gameObject.AddComponent<ColorTweener> ();
       //Vector 4 vs Color necesito cambiarlo
       Color coloraux;

tweener.startTweenValue = t.color;
       coloraux = change;
tweener.endTweenValue = coloraux;
tweener.duration = duration;
tweener.equation = equation;
tweener.Play ();
return tweener;
   }
}


    Vector4Tweener.cs

  ColorTweener.cs
using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;
using TMPro;


public class ColorTweener : Vector4Tweener
{
   TextMeshProUGUI textmeshPro;

   void Awake ()
{
textmeshPro = gameObject.GetComponent<TextMeshProUGUI>();
}

   protected override void OnUpdate ()
   {
       base.OnUpdate();
       textmeshPro.color = currentTweenValue;
   }
}



    ConversationController.cs

if (pos == ShowCenter)
         {
           text = obj.gameObject.GetComponentInChildren<TextMeshProUGUI>();
           text.color = new Color32(255,255,255,0);
           obj.panel.SetPosition(pos,false);
           transition = text.ChangeColor(new Color32(255,255,255,255), 1f, EasingEquations.EaseOutQuad);              
         }
         if (pos == HideCenter)
         {
           text = obj.gameObject.GetComponentInChildren<TextMeshProUGUI>();
           transition = text.ChangeColor(new Color32(255,255,255,0), .1f, EasingEquations.EaseOutQuad);
           // transition.completedEvent += obj.panel.SetPosition(pos, false);
         };    (...)


To call the new Tweener and make the text appear and dissappear. Hope it helps!

Hey Aiden, I tested your code for moving the cursor in the unity editor inspector window and it's awesome.

While I tried to implement it, I ran in a few issues, I wanted to share:

1.) Admin : As far as I learned the convention for public properties is to start with an uppercase letter. The convention is not followed in the tutorial blogpost, nor in the git. If you could confirm it'd be awesome, a sI am not that great with conventions - but also my IDE was screaming name convention violation.

so this means in the script Tile.cs

'public vector 3 center...'should be 

we can use a lambda expression for the block constructor, and also have current uppercase BoardCreatorInspector.cs

2.) Aiden, I think you forgot to mention that we should make Point pos in the BoardCreator.cs to public, in order to access it in the inspector script

However after thinking about it I also thought to introduce a public property like this would do the trick and be more elegant so I changed 'pos' back to a serialized field and went with this solution instead:

3.) Aiden: I also think we generally can remove the UpdateMarker(); function from the Keycode.J and Keycode.K switch cases, just updating it a single time outside the switch statement

After the minor changes in the Board Creator and Tile script my full BoardCreatorInspector.cs script currently looks like this (just a lil bit cleaned up):

using UnityEditor;
using UnityEngine;

[CustomEditor(typeof(BoardCreator))]
public class BoardCreatorInspector : Editor
{
   public BoardCreator Current => (BoardCreator)target;

   public override void OnInspectorGUI()
   {
       DrawDefaultInspector();
       if (GUILayout.Button("Clear"))
           Current.Clear();
       if (GUILayout.Button("Grow"))
           Current.Grow();
       if (GUILayout.Button("Shrink"))
           Current.Shrink();
       if (GUILayout.Button("Grow Area"))
           Current.GrowArea();
       if (GUILayout.Button("Shrink Area"))
           Current.ShrinkArea();
       if (GUILayout.Button("Save"))
           Current.Save();
       if (GUILayout.Button("Load"))
           Current.Load();
       if (GUI.changed)
           Current.UpdateMarker();

       Event e = Event.current;
       
       switch (e.type)
       {
           case EventType.KeyDown:
           {
               switch (Event.current.keyCode)
               {
                   case KeyCode.LeftArrow:
                       Current.Pos = Current.Pos + new Point(-1, 0);
                       break;
                   case KeyCode.RightArrow:
                       Current.Pos = Current.Pos + new Point(1, 0);
                       break;
                   case KeyCode.UpArrow:
                       Current.Pos = Current.Pos + new Point(0, 1);
                       break;
                   case KeyCode.DownArrow:
                       Current.Pos = Current.Pos + new Point(0, -1);    
                       break;
                   case KeyCode.J:
                       Current.Grow();
                       break;
                   case KeyCode.K:
                       Current.Shrink();
                       break;
               }
               Current.UpdateMarker();
               break;
           }
       }
   }
}