#pyqt

A reminder for all of you that I do indeed program things for a living.

Feburary 23, 2024 • Friday

I revised a little bit of my PyQt notes, hoping to make more progress tomorrow.

I've decided to just look up free courses out of my knowledge base on the internet and read them like encyclopaedias like I used to in my childhood with actual encyclopaedias lol. I love acquiring knowledge.

I unearthed a premade planner that I got as a gift for my 17th birthday, covered in fungus (eek) so I had to fix that. I used it to plan my daily things and its a lot easier to have it on paper rather than trying to remember it all.

Hoping for more productivity tomorrow :)

🎧 So it goes — Taylor Swift

A recent project of mine has been a little RPG game in Unity (more to come on this,) and one of the big parts of developing a game with lots of content like an RPG is dealing with absolutely humungous amounts of ✨Data✨

One such source of spicy, spicy data is Dialogue - I'm a big fan of games like Stardew and Harvest Moon, where talking to NPCs reveals their character, their personality, etc. It's immersion breaking when an NPC start spurting repetitive dialogue, so I've set up a system where there's dialogue that's event driven, conditional and very varied.

But, with so much dialogue, there's a lot to get bogged down by, and I want a nice lil interface I can use to write my dialogue, without writing it directly into a json file.

So - Dialogue Crafter is a little standalone app I'm working on using PyQt in Python, which lets me load up my dialogue data and edit it in (what will eventually be,) a node based format - I can connect dialogue in chains, add choices and branching dialogue, and organise dialogues by character, by season, by purpose, by relationship level with the talker, the list goes on.

Even in it's rough and gnarly state (note the papyrus header) it's been a big help for parsing dialogue and visualising all that data.

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