Settings screen in mobile game

Chris99

Hi,

I am wondering how best to implement a settings screen. From what I have read there are two options 1. Have a separate scene and call change_scene 2. Implement it using a Control node in the game scene and pause the current play

I am hoping to call this from my main menu and from within the game scene. As I understand things 1) would cause the game scene to be unloaded, and 2) would mean I had to duplicate the UI in two different scenes.

Am I missing something?

Chris

Chris99

Okay, after digging around in the docs a bit I found https://docs.godotengine.org/en/3.1/tutorials/misc/change_scenes_manually.html and I think option 3 using Node.remove_child(Node) should do the job.

Whilst knocking up a title for a makeshift settings screen I have come across the problem of getting a title for the page. I have tried a Label, but the text is tiny. The only solutions I can find require adding a dynamic font. Is there someway of resizing text that does not require adding your own fonts?

Calinou

Is there someway of resizing text that does not require adding your own fonts?

The built-in font is in a bitmap format, so there is no way to resize it (unless you scale the Control, but it'll look blurry).

Chris99

@Calinou - Thanks for the response. Dynamic fonts it is then.

As for my earlier scene changing question @TwistedTwigleg 's answer at https://godotforums.org/discussion/comment/28123#Comment_28123 pointed me in the right direction.