Devlog 7/26/26
I've got a better list of progress this week!
After struggling with the walking/running player animations, I was able to finally make them functional. There's a small issue, probably only noticeable because I'm looking for them, but I've added it to my "Would be nice, but not necessary" list to fix.
The toolbar is now functional. It can be scrolled, items can be selected, items can be used, and it updates accordingly with inventory changes. I also added hotkeys to it, and they work cooperatively with the mouse wheel (so it's not jumping around if you flip between which you use).
I made sprites for 2 test crops and their seeds (Inventory icons only) to start creating the farming system. Also sprites for 1 test weapon and 3 ground/plot variations.
I began setting up the system to create where crops can be planted - I can now 'paint' boundaries where it is usually allowed, which will update if certain kinds of objects are placed inside it so that plot creation will be blocked, even if inside the correct boundary. I intend this to be more useful later, when things can spawn rather than be placed by me.
The grid can sense where you're hovering and retrieve the selected square if inside the planting boundary and within the player's reach. This was a slight pain since I'm aiming for isometric, so it's not evenly-sized boxes, and that also means creating a sorting system for me to use isn't as simple. I may have wanted to slam my head a few times over the course of that day .
Logic for tools are in place. Basic Hoes and Watering Cans can be fully used. Test seeds can be planted and the logic is there to cycle through them (without the correct sprites for the stages or a time system, yet).
Basic logic put in for single-press and long-press actions which triggers correctly, just don't have any actions for the long-press defined yet. I've been starting to look into better ways to gather and, more importantly, share art references. It seems like google docs is one of the best ways I can find that is both free and which can be commented on, but I don't want to plug in art or photos there, especially if it's not even mine. Would love recs, if anyone has any!
