📅 Date: Feb 28, 2025

🔹 Focus: Building & Refining the Shaman Dialog Experience for Level One

🔍 Goals for the Session

• Implement a modern dialog system for character interactions
• Fix Shaman character appearance issues in Level One
• Create an immersive conversation interface with dynamic responses
• Design a smooth text input experience for player responses
• Add visual impact effects for Shaman wisdom moments
• Ensure graceful transitions between dialog states

📌 What We Accomplished

✅ Fixed Shaman Appearance – Resolved path issues causing the Shaman character to load incorrectly or not appear at all in Level One.

✅ Auto-Fading Dialog System – Implemented an automatic fade-out feature that gracefully dismisses the modern dialog 2 seconds after text finishes displaying.

✅ Added Impact Effect Design – Created concept for a subtle "wisdom impact" visual effect that radiates outward when the Shaman delivers profound advice.

✅ Improved Dialog Positioning – Fine-tuned the "Press Enter to continue" text location, moving it up by 15 pixels to prevent overlap with the dialog box border.

✅ Optimized User Interface Spacing – Reduced the gap between the Shaman's question and player input field by 20 pixels for a more compact and visually pleasing layout.

✅ Smoother Transitions – Increased the dialog transition duration from 300ms to 1200ms (1.2 seconds) for a more cinematic feel when dialogs appear and disappear.

🛠 Challenges & Solutions

❌ Issue: Shaman character failed to appear consistently in Level One, with browser console showing 404 errors for the character asset.

✔ Solution: Fixed the asset loading path in the preload sequence and implemented better error handling with a placeholder if the image fails to load.

❌ Issue: Bottom dialog wasn't automatically fading out after text finished displaying.