A Dialogic 2 Progress Report

[Jowan-Spooner]

Alright at #1000 I made a small progress report so here is one for #1500!
Keep in mind that 2.0 is still in alpha and some things might still change.

First of all, we've come a long way since then. So here are some of my favorite new features that were added since then:

Premade Layouts with Layout customizer

The new layout system is much more flexible, but that came at the cost of it being less accessible. The new premade layouts greatly help with this making small customizations very easy again. Also I hope they will enable the community to share cool premade layouts with each other! Dialogic 2 will likely ship with at least 3 or 4 premade layout scenes.

New user interface

The interface has seen many iterations since the last report.

• New quick-access sidebar similar to the script editor
• New event connection lines
• New Small buttons mode
• New "main editors" for variables, glossary and layout

A text-based editor

A new text editor allows writing timelines in a text format IN dialogic. What makes this especially powerful is the auto-completion and syntax highlighting!

Dozens of smaller features and improvements

Many smaller things have been worked on too. For example expression support for the variable event and conditions, more text effects, even more support for extensions, a in-editor start-page, more flexible text speeds, advanced portrait containers and much more.

More stability and cleaner code for a soon to be beta

Most work however has gone into getting towards a stable state and a code-base we are happy with. We're not quite there but certainly getting close.

So let's hope we reach a beta-stage in the coming weeks!

I hope you've enjoyed this little report. Right now we will focus on some more internal testing and polish, but once dialogic 2 goes beta, we would be very thankful for your help in testing it. So see you then ;)