Comic Signs
Signs are designed to be used to inform the player of basic game mechanics in a tutorial level, or give hints later in the game.
The signs automatically adjust their backboard size to match the content and the content scales itself to fit within a dictated maximum size.
This allows designers define the area around the signs to be kept clear and stop geometry intersections, without having to check every single configuration or when localization happens and the word lengths are likely different.
The signs meshes also have some special customisation options, like extending arrows, thickening linkages and extending features.
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Sign in a level in typical usage. These were intended to be part of the tutorial, informing the player of game mechanics.
Signs with different backboard meshes showing their particular special abilities. Abilities are controlled via blueprint properties, written into CPD values the shader can read to manipulate mesh verts.
Image showing the UV sets of one of the sign meshes, what part of the mesh the uv set affects and how they are affected.
Signs can be linked. They are still a single object with a special mesh with appropriate UV sets for two signs and an adjustable link between them.
Sighs have different modes that allow them to constantly face camera (Billboard), be fixed in the world or even double sided.
Image showing the same sign with different content adjusting automatically to match it.
Using the standard UMG text fields, symbols can be inserted easily to the signs content area.