Variables comparison tooltip

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Hello there.
I would like to add a usefull feature to my hack and slash game.
I would like a tooltip to show the player what’s the differences between two object/items.
For example the player has a sword +5 power in his hand and another sword +8 power in his inventory. (power is objects variable)
If the +8 sword is clicked i would like a tooltip showing :"+8 power (+3) "so the player know the gain/loss with new items.
In addition items can have multiple “bonus” like +power,+ dexterity, +vitality. So the tooltip must be able tho show multiple comparisons at once.

I don’t want a final answer but maybe some hints to help me because it seems it will be rather complicated to achieve
Thanks in advance and sorry for my poor english

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It depends on where you decide to store all of these data.
I think that overall it should be pretty obvious how to make a popup like that. All requirements are easily broken down into simple tasks:

How do I make a popup when hovering an item?

  • How do i make something when hovering an object? The cursor over object condition.
  • How do i make something appear? Create an object.
  • How do i make something when no longer hovering the object? Inverted cursor over condition.
  • How do i make something disappear? Delete the objects that compose that thing.

How do I display the power of an item?

  • How do i display a number in the screen? Text object.
  • How do i store the score of an item? An object variable could work.
  • How do I get an object variable as text for the text objei? Object.VariableString(variable name)
  • How to get the object variable of the object that’s hovered? Object picking - let’s get the value of the object after the “cursor is hovering” condition so that GDevelop knows to get it from that object.

Etc…

GDevelop is a visual scripting based engine - while you do not have to learn a programming language, you still have to learn problem solving and logic. Try to break down a project in smaller and smaller pieces if logic, until you can map basically an event or expression to every logical step.

Remember: Divide to conquer :wink:

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