UI Discussion

[FLOZi]

Infocard design:

http://imgur.com/n3dX0ut

[Anarchid]

This going to replace the semitransparent thingies at bottom?

Reiterating stuff from our testrun: i'd love a permanently visible right-side-of-screen bar for ordering stuff, arranged vertically, starting with a pictogram for order submission and followed by an accordion or tab switcher for unit classes and then individual icons.

Entire thing could ideally be no fatter than 5% of screen width (if talking about wider ones popular now).

[Nemo]

Cool! Are there already keyboard commands for enabling/disabling weapons? Clicking tiny buttons when trying to micro quickly is really annoying, as I'm sure you know.

Is turning weapons on/off a major part of gameplay (guessing heat management)? If heat is going to majorly screw up a unit's abilities, perhaps also fade in some color behind the mech outline to indicate ability-limiting amounts of heat.

[smoth]

Doable easily floz. Do you guys want me to use that mech image?

[FLOZi]

Cool! Are there already keyboard commands for enabling/disabling weapons? Clicking tiny buttons when trying to micro quickly is really annoying, as I'm sure you know.

Is turning weapons on/off a major part of gameplay (guessing heat management)? If heat is going to majorly screw up a unit's abilities, perhaps also fade in some color behind the mech outline to indicate ability-limiting amounts of heat.

Haven't written the toggling weapons at all yet (They are already limited by heat, ammo, jamming... )

@Smoth: Not sure quite how Spiked wants those to work, all uniform or custom outlines for each from renders.

[Anarchid]

You could probably hijack the ZK icon builder to generate wireframes images cheaply and en masse.

Bonus point is that a model change afterwards will not require any 2d art update, either.

[smoth]

@Smoth: Not sure quite how Spiked wants those to work, all uniform or custom outlines for each from renders.

That isn't a problem but it could be an issue to do it for every 'mech/loadout. ESP at zoom for the collapsed group view thing. May be easier to do a generalized form, IE for tanks, mechs with arms, mechs without arms and so on. Then again, I don't know if it would be THAT big a deal to at least to a graphic for each mech base frame.

How many different mechs?

[FLOZi]

Currently 34 mechs but that includes variants.

If we went with a uniform mech outline they can all have arms iirc (even if they don't look like arms, they have weapon mounts which are called arms internally and take damage).

[smoth]

Whipped this guy up earlier to avoid any artist butthurt about using the old card image.

[FLOZi]

Guess I should finish up the leg damage code >_>

[smoth]

Progress etc.

[FLOZi]

Recent advances

[smoth]

Things left:

Ammo
heat
weapon offline/online toggle(is this implemented?)
weapon disable enable colors(unsure how to know what is disabled)

[FLOZi]

[02:01:06] <smoth> he is storing a string not a table ...

If that's a reference to maxammo in customparams, that's because customparams can only be strings. Use this to convert:

Code: Select all

local function StringToTable(input)
	return loadstring("return " .. (input or "{}"))()
end

Weapon toggle isn't implemented yet. For weapon disabled, I guess something like Spring.SetUnitRulesParam(unitID, "weapon_disabled_" .. weaponID, whyDisabledCode) where whyDisabledCode indicates if it was turned off, heat, blown off etc

[PicassoCT]

Smoth - could your shadder- show damaged parts?

[smoth]

removed art based on concept drawing.

[smoth]

ammo works.
heat is next.

[smoth]

I really like the alert that shows when the unit is about to explode.
The moment a unit gets hot the portrait starts to glow. As it gets closer and closer to exploding(150% heat, or excess_heat of 50 as it is known internally) it flashes danger and the little caution line as well :)

I am not sure if you want to have the card auto hide or clear on unit death..

either way, doing a backup before I go to the store.

[smoth]

I cannot figure out how to login to checkin and CBA to use commandline. Anyway, flozi, give this a whirl and let me know.

Cheers!


Changes:
outline added to healthbar, lance tab and ammo text
added support for vehicles, now shows a tank icon.
commented and cleaned up a bunch of stuffs
card is hidden until a unit is picked in lance view! yay!

have fun!

[PicassoCT]

I am not sure if you want to have the card auto hide or clear on unit death..

either way, doing a backup before I go to the store.

Do the electric snowstorm