Crafting UI (Preview)

Hi!

Here's the first look at the crafting UI and some main explanations of how this system is going to work:

• Crafting UI is available when you open the Interface and you are not interacting with containers or traders.
  
• Crafting recipes are categorized by type like medical, electronics etc.
  
• On the crafting panel, when you press individual "type buttons" those will open a list of crafting recipes that are categorized to that specific type.
  
• You can hide all the recipes (if visually distracting) by pressing the hide icon (left button).
  
• Each crafting recipe is modular, it can have multiple different requirements and multiple different end results.
  
• Some crafting recipes have "Vicinity" requirements, meaning they can be only crafted if you are near that vicinity element.
  
• Currently there's 3 vicinity elements: Fire source, Common Workbench and Electrical Test Bench.
  
• Fire sources are needed for certain cooking related crafts, common workbenches are needed for more difficult crafts that cannot be done "on-the-fly" and electrical test benches are needed for certain electronic repairs, oscilloscopes (lore related) and military radio elements.
  
• Each recipe will highlight the specific vicinity requirement if there is one, however most crafts like improvised bandages and such, won't have any vicinity requirements.
  
• When you are doing a vicinity based craft, the vicinity icon will turn green in the crafting UI (bottom right) when you are near that source.
  
• Once you start a vicinity based craft, the upcoming crafted item will be spawning as a 3D-object to the vicinity target, for example cooked soup will be placed on the fire source for boiling or something like sawed-off shotgun will be spawning on top of the workbench. You can pickup the spawned item once the craft time is finished.
  
• In terms of crafting time, each recipe has a custom craft time and once the craft timer is running, you can't use the required items in your inventory (they will be highlighted yellow).
  
• Some crafts will also require tools like Multitool and some repairs like restoring the weapon condition will require weapon cleaning kits and so on.
  
• Once the craft time is finished, the required highlighted items will get removed from your inventory but if there was a tool requirement, the tool will remain and the new crafted item spawns to your inventory (if not vicinity based).
  
• Currently I didn't want to create any XP or crafting level related additional requirements, because first I need to see how this system will play out with the current requirements (tools, vicinities etc.)
  

Like mentioned before, I'm currently missing all kinds of crafting related items, so this system is going to be a bit "under used" until I have those items in the game.

For the next dev build, I will be making some basic crafts available, placeholder vicinity elements and few new items, so you can test this functionality.

Let me know what you think about this UI implementation and the overall idea :)

-Antti (Developer)