JCInventory, Grid based jigsaw Inventory for your projects

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@Staggerlee;337574

hey **thankstipscom **, thank you so much for the detailed review.
I think its really honest and fair, reading it really made my day!

There are a few work arounds for this,
i think the issue is that your widget is higher in the **ZOrder **then JcInventory.
JcInventory is designed to go at the very front of a view port, when **JcUserInterface **Widget is not showing is has no collision so it wont cause any problems.
**JcUserInterface **widgets entire canvas (that fills the entire view port) has collision when the inventory is active so thats how JcInventory detects items OnDrop()

I personally find widget collision to be confusing sometimes because its 2D and very layered.
i like to imagine it like this; when an item is dropped or clicked, imagine a ray trace firing into a stack of paper, and one of those pieces of paper is **JcUserInterface **JcInventory.

The easiest way to test this theory would be to expand the ‘Add to view port’ nodes in your Hud that spawn the widgets and change there Z orders accordingly. Also, make sure you turn collision off widgets that don’t 100% need it.

Thanks for the quick reply once again!
I do already understand the Zorders. I wish I didn’t because I spent a bunch of time trying to make it so my hud items stop interferring wtih the inv system! but with no luck. I’ve tried making the inv system priority over everything. and all other widgets the furthest back, but the backpacks always appear under my minimap and I cant grab them easily etc… I had gave up on it initially and figured I’d come back to it but forgot, so it’s not a zorder thing.

however: I had no idea there was “collision” on widgets at all. I guess because I never used mouse cursor in game before. It’s not actually called collision in the widgets, its under Visibility, hit test invisible is the setting that makes it appear as art and not interact-able.

That resolved the issue. Learn something new every day… Thanks!