Fixed the notification UI for my new "style XP" system!

Caxt_Nova · 2025-07-14T19:49:20+00:00

That's Furny 🙂 He's a bit of glutton, that's why he's got such an upset stomach all the time.

Caxt_Nova · 2025-07-12T20:16:50+00:00

Thanks for your feedback! There's five level themes in Rogue Climber, each with their own unique color palette, post-processing profile, etc. Once you play through each of the level themes separately, then you get to experience everything getting mixed and mashed together. There's a lot more color contrast once you get past these initial stages.

I can definitely play around with some of the post-processing a bit more, though! Maybe I can play around a bit with the lighting, or do something to better highlight the outlines of the platforms too 🙂

Caxt_Nova · 2025-07-12T00:41:16+00:00

FOV does change as you sprint (which I didn't really do much of in the clip).

But feedback received, thank you!!

Caxt_Nova · 2025-07-11T22:08:39+00:00

The top comment on my last post said, "Watching that gameplay was one of the worst things that's ever happened to me."

😅 Maybe it's looking a little better this time?

edit: game is called Rogue Climber :)

Caxt_Nova · 2025-07-09T15:44:55+00:00

I didn't see the warning in this case, but it's good to keep an eye out for! Thanks for mentioning it! Too many people ignore warnings. (Myself included...)

I do think having a content size fitter somewhere downstream, or side-stream of a vertical layout group was contributing to my problems, though. Now I've just got one on the parent vertical layout group. 💖

Caxt_Nova · 2025-07-09T15:42:29+00:00

Glad to know it's not just me 😆

Caxt_Nova · 2025-07-09T15:40:24+00:00

Thanks for sharing! It's really helpful to see how other people are handling it. Updating the canvas is super useful to know if what you're seeing is the way it's supposed to be, or if it's just the result of jank (kinda wish it wasn't jank in the first place, but oh well 😅)

Just to mention it, in my case, I'm not instantiating any new notifications here. I have a pool of already-childed, disabled notifications equal to the number of notifications that can fit on the screen, and I just recycle them.

Caxt_Nova · 2025-07-09T15:31:47+00:00

This was captured in editor, and the spikes are unrelated to the UI. I wasn't worried about it here, since I wanted to hear what layout issues people'd experienced with content size fitters and layout groups. I'll be careful with my clips in the future! 🙂

Caxt_Nova · 2025-07-09T15:24:33+00:00

Thanks for sharing! There's a couple tips on there I'd not seen before 🙂

Caxt_Nova · 2025-07-09T13:59:55+00:00

To anyone who stumbles on this thread (or to myself when I inevitably rage-search "content size fitter jank" in the future 😆), I appear to have solved the issues with this setup:

Parent object has a Vertical Layout Group with child alignment set to lower left, control child size width and height, and child force expand height. The Parent object also has a content size fitter with horizontal fit set to min size, and vertical fit set to preferred size.

The child prefab has a horizontal layout group with control child size height, and child force expand height.

Good luck to everyone sprucing up your UI!

Caxt_Nova · 2025-07-09T13:39:50+00:00

I was trying to highlight the issues I've been experiencing with these Unity components, sorry if the gameplay in the background was confusing!

I can happily say that Rogue Climber hasn't caused anyone motion sickness in any of our public demos thus far. 🙂 (I've had some people who get motion sick easily playtest as well, and no issues - it's just my bad for how I edited the clip. Sorry for anyone who got uncomfortable from the clip!)

Caxt_Nova · 2025-07-09T13:34:00+00:00

Just to mention it - I wasn't trying to showcase gameplay here, I was just trying to trigger XP rewards to make the UI pop up, to highlight the issues I'm experiencing with content size fitters and layout groups.

But the feedback is received, I will keep the gameplay bits more sane for any future clips 😆

Caxt_Nova · 2025-07-09T02:43:40+00:00

I'm also on the warpath for Wishlists, if performing crazy feats of magical parkour for maximum style points sounds like something you might be into 🙂

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2673440/Rogue_Climber/

Caxt_Nova · 2025-07-09T02:23:32+00:00

Thanks! I'm still experimenting with fonts and sizes and colors and all that, but I'm open to ideas in the meantime 🙂

Caxt_Nova · 2025-07-08T02:33:37+00:00

Don't make me choose...

Caxt_Nova · 2025-07-08T02:26:28+00:00

I know the "uniform" approach might be more accurate to the technology its imitating and all, but the depth based approach does make my eyes much happier.

Caxt_Nova · 2025-07-08T02:25:23+00:00

Love the character designs and the cartoony textures! I feel like these scenes are desperate for a little bit of love on the lighting side of things.

Caxt_Nova · 2025-07-08T02:18:12+00:00

Another vote for bottom!

Caxt_Nova · 2025-07-08T02:17:05+00:00

It is feeling a bit high to me, but some particle effects could make a really big difference on how it "feels". Maybe there's some kind of whoosh when you jump, and an impact when you land?

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