Author: Carlos Reid

Posted on: 03/27/2025

Problems:

When I opened up our project today, I noticed new buttons and a different style layout for the Pause Menu. Starting off the Pause Menu and the Accept Shadow widget were off screen towards the right. Not a hard fix though as all I had to do was center the anchors for both. However, there was one widget that was giving me a huge problem and that was the Team Slot widget which was also off screen. 

The way this widget is accessed is through the pause menu and clicking the Team button. I decide to anchor it down to the bottom center of the screen. 

Something peculiar happened though, instead of the expected outcome of it now appearing on the bottom of the screen it still stayed in that same position off screen to the top left. After finding a solution for that, another problem I am having is that different widgets on screen keep overlapping when expanding the screen size. Specifically, the TutorialPrompt, PauseMenu, and TeamSlot were all overlapping each other.

Solutions:

After a long period of trial and error with widget and anchor placement, I decided to do some investigating in the PauseMenu button click itself. It turns out I was looking at the wrong widget the entire time. I'm still looking for clarification on why it acts this way, but it seems like TeamDisplay is the widget that controls the placement of TeamSlot. 

Not that I am on the correct widget I was able to anchor to bottom center and now the Team Slot widget is correctly placed on the bottom and no longer off screen. That problem is now fixed for the time being.

Now when it came to the overlapping of widgets issue. There was a temporary solution I came up and it seems the problem with this is only half solved for now. The quick fix I did was to have the tutorial prompt disappear when the pause menu is open, also when the resume game button is clicked then the tutorial prompt would reappear. This is a temporary fix because the overlapping issues isn't solved yet, but having all the widgets not active at the same time makes it look better. Unfortunately, the TeamSlot still overlaps with the pause menu, and I am looking for a solution to that bug.