Welcome back, everyone. Well, we are starting a new series of videos here. This whole selection of videos is going to be how to create a black magic menu. By that, I mean how do we swap out which active black magic skill our character has. I currently have open in front of us the version of the project that I made in preparation for teaching this course. So this is an older completed version of the project.

I'm just going to jump in and play here to show you what we are going to be building and how it's going to function. Before I show you the menu, I'm just going to collect my fireball ability. And I'm going to collect our electro spark ability. And I'm going to hit excuse me the black magic menu button now to bring it onto the screen. There you can see it and now you can see If I use a w a s and D keys, I can highlight which particular black magic skill, I want to slot up into my HUD. And as you can see, as I am toggling between them in the upper right, the HUD is changing as well.

So if I release the button, the menu button which is currently bound to the zero key while I have electro spark activated, it will select that is my black magic menu. So on and off, we got a little animation going on there. And I can swap out which is my active black magic skills. Pretty cool. Okay, so with that I'm going to exit out of this older version of the project. Sure, I'll save that.

And what you see in front of you is the version of the project that we are working on together. And all we want to accomplish in this one is to import some assets that are necessary to construct our black magic. menu system. Now we do have a lot of things imported already that we're going to make use of things like our fireball texture here, blood loss, arctic blast, etc. What I want to do though is bring in two new ones that you should find attached to this video lesson in your course outline mine are currently sitting in this folder. The two assets I'm talking about are this arrow texture and this highlight texture named accordingly.

So with that, I'm going to select both of them. And I'm going to left click and drag them down into my content Metroidvania textures folder. Once you see that plus symbol, you can release left click and there they have been imported again, some of these backgrounds look a little janky. So if you just double click on the texture, you can set the texture group to be UI and save that and then when you exit out of there, it should cure your ad. Dina's going to do the same for the highlight as well texture groups that that's UI and save that. Alright guys well that is what is in store for this whole black magic menu a series of videos.

All I wanted to do in this one is show you what we're going to build and import those two textures. We will see you guys in the next video