Implement a GSG_Entity class for things in the world, and GSG_UIElement for UI things

[zaphodb2002]

I've already had to write this bit of code a few times, so probably we need this as a superclass function.

[zaphodb2002]

Well, maybe not at the node level. Let's see what we actually need to do here.

[zaphodb2002]

Basically, I guess, what we need is to classify things based on how and when they should be paused.

• Menus should never be paused.
• Entities in the world should be paused when game is paused manually, and during combat
• Players and the currently active enemies should not be paused when in combat, but should be paused when player pauses manually

Okay, so 3 levels of pausing. Or, two levels of pausing with players and active enemies excepted on one.

[zaphodb2002]

So basically we can make it so that Entities can be paused and UIElements cannot. I will still need to account for exceptions in Entities but this is a good base anyway.

[zaphodb2002]

Actually, regarding the pausing, I can just change the process mode on the top level UI object and everything below will inherit that. For now that legitimately might fix 99% of the issue. Still will have to handle the combat pausing stuff but I can theoretically just change those things at runtime.