Inventory System v1.13 available

It’s been a while, but it was worth the wait. The latest version of the Inventory System is now available, with a long list of features, improvements, fixes, and documentation. This time the focus is on multiplayer. Let’s cover the features first:

• Added a GGNetworkManager with pluggable strategies for ENet and WebSocket
• Added a Multiplayer Interaction demo that works with ENet or WebSocket via the GGNetworkManager.
• The Multiplayer Interaction demo can either trust the client for character movement or handle all movement server-side.
• Added audio theme support to the inventory manager and inventory transfer UI
• The main tour now has a fullscreen toggle button
• The SimpleInventoryPersistence component now also supports JSON
• Added a tabbed inventory UI
• Added an inventory item filter strategy to allow for per-inventory item configuration without relying on the inventory access policy
• Added ability to cancel pending contexts to the access manager component
• GGUIManager now spawns new dialogs centered on screen
• Added GameUI demo
• Added access manager policy group logic for “any” and “all” combination of access policies.
• Added dynamic inventory serialization strategy, which serializes item types and defers serialization of each item to the item’s script.
• The multiplayer storage box reflects its open/closed state based on open access manager contexts.
• The interaction demo now has a team-based access policy to show off team-based access.
• The interactor/interactable components now have enter/exit range signals for proximity detection
• The Inventory UI exposes ScrollContainer modes
• The inventory UI now supports custom icons via theming
• The multiplayer interaction demo character can browse their own inventory with TAB, or access other objects with E
• The multiplayer interaction demo allows players to drop items individually, or collectively as loot bags
• The multiplayer interaction demo’s dropped “loot bags” have expiration timers
• The multiplayer interaction demo supports spawns random lootable chests
• The multiplayer interaction demo supports saving and loading multiplayer games for the host
• Added simple inventory drag-and-drop strategy that only swaps items

Bug fixes:

• The abstract inventory controller implements get_item() for correct mouse, focus, and dnd signaling
• Access manager cleans up await handlers, game UI concurrency locking
• Access manager type hint correction when syncing with all clients
• Access manager passes nonce, game UI rework to manage dialog state
• Corrected a GGInteractor2D regression
• Basic actions guide doc link correction
• Rebuild inventory lookup table when assigning contents property
• Click-to-pickup drag-and-drop strategy allows dropping while quantity modifier key is held
• Inventory controller’s inventory_resized signal passes slot count
• Corrected GGInventoryTransferStackingStrategy’s transfer_item_to_inventory quantity handling
• Correction to main tour inventory actions
• Correction to crafting; status UI shows crafted item until idle
• Default action strategy only follows mouse focus when slot is focusable
• Drag-and-drop correction: Don’t allow the same item stacking on itself
• Drag-and-drop pickup with half-modifier correctly picks up 1 item from a stack of 1
• Drag-and-drop strategy uses drag data’s actor property for client-side “preview” permission check
• Drag-and-dropping item onto itself correctly restores control modulation
• Ensure inventory is valid before refreshing slot
• focus_control default focus gdmaim annotation
• Single-dialog interface Game UI corrections
• Game UI cleans up dialog if object vanishes
• Handle inventory component’s stacking_strategy not set
• Handle invalid drag and drop data on client after inventory is yanked
• Handle multiplayer client leaving with open access context
• Handle item transfer within inventory
• Correctly update character label per Interactor signal
• Inventory controller refreshes UI if inventory property changes
• Inventory no longer erroneously sends contents to clients when host opens context
• Multiplayer interaction demo visibility per peer works for all peers
• Prevent duplicate game UI menus
• Sequencer track properly builds LUT by calling parent ready method
• Set theme for the WebSocket demo inventory manager
• Transfer strategy stacking fix
• Miscellaneous type hints and code doc blocks

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