fix: adds control node to ESCGame for UI that must be populated, along with Escoria-only UI methods; this helps to avoid display issues on startup

addons/escoria-core/game/core-scripts/esc/esc_room_manager.gd

@@ -113,7 +113,6 @@ func change_scene(room_path: String, enable_automatic_transitions: bool) -> void
 			var game_parent = escoria.game_scene.get_parent()
 			game_parent.remove_child(escoria.game_scene)
 
-		#escoria.game_scene.hide_ui()
 		room_scene.add_child(escoria.game_scene)
 		room_scene.move_child(escoria.game_scene, 0)
 		room_scene.game = escoria.game_scene

addons/escoria-core/game/core-scripts/esc_game.gd

@@ -31,6 +31,9 @@ export(float) var mouse_tooltip_margin = 50.0
 export(EDITOR_GAME_DEBUG_DISPLAY) var editor_debug_mode = \
 		EDITOR_GAME_DEBUG_DISPLAY.NONE setget _set_editor_debug_mode
 
+# The Control node underneath which all UI must be placed.
+# This should be a Control node and NOT a CanvasLayer (or any other type of) node.
+export(NodePath) var ui_parent_control_node
 
 # A reference to the node handling tooltips
 var tooltip_node: Object
@@ -421,3 +424,26 @@ func show_crash_popup(files: Array = []) -> void:
 	yield(crash_popup, "confirmed")
 	emit_signal("crash_popup_confirmed")
 
+
+# *** FOR USE BY ESCORIA CORE ONLY ***
+# Hides everything under the UI Control node.
+func escoria_hide_ui():
+	if ui_parent_control_node != null and not ui_parent_control_node.is_empty():
+		(get_node(ui_parent_control_node) as Control).visible = false
+	else:
+		escoria.logger.report_warnings(
+			"esc_game.gd#escoria_hide_ui",
+			["UI parent Control node not defined!"]
+		)
+
+
+# *** FOR USE BY ESCORIA CORE ONLY ***
+# Show everything under the UI Control node.
+func escoria_show_ui():
+	if ui_parent_control_node != null and not ui_parent_control_node.is_empty():
+		(get_node(ui_parent_control_node) as Control).visible = true
+	else:
+		escoria.logger.report_warnings(
+			"esc_game.gd#escoria_show_ui",
+			["UI parent Control node not defined!"]
+		)

addons/escoria-core/game/escoria.gd

@@ -172,6 +172,9 @@ func _notification(what):
 # Usually you'll want to show some logos animations before spawning the main
 # menu in the escoria/main/game_start_script 's :init event
 func init():
+	# Don't show the UI until we're ready in order to avoid a sometimes-noticeable
+	# blink. The UI will be "shown" later via a visibility update to the first room.
+	escoria.game_scene.escoria_hide_ui()
 	run_event_from_script(start_script, self.event_manager.EVENT_INIT)
 
 

addons/escoria-ui-9verbs/game.tscn

@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ bg_color = Color( 0.6, 0.6, 0.6, 0.5 )
 script = ExtResource( 5 )
 main_menu = NodePath("ui/main_menu")
 pause_menu = NodePath("ui/pause_menu")
+ui_parent_control_node = NodePath("ui/Control")
 
 [node name="dialog_layer" type="CanvasLayer" parent="."]
 
@@ -143,15 +144,6 @@ margin_bottom = 200.0
 size_flags_horizontal = 3
 size_flags_vertical = 3
 
-[node name="hover_stack" type="Label" parent="ui"]
-margin_left = 1085.0
-margin_top = 2.81912
-margin_right = 1283.0
-margin_bottom = 107.819
-__meta__ = {
-"_edit_use_anchors_": false
-}
-
 [node name="main_menu" parent="ui" instance=ExtResource( 7 )]
 visible = false