small patch - easier to see markers

smoth · Post by **smoth** » 08 Jun 2006, 19:07

SinbadEV wrote:then how do you suggest we decide what color to color the borders of radar blips?

Same thing, inverted colors with a special case made for grey.

mongus · Post by **mongus** » 08 Jun 2006, 21:30

how about "negative" color margin?

looks awesome.

smoth · Post by **smoth** » 08 Jun 2006, 21:42

mongus wrote:how about "negative" color margin?

looks awesome.

said it 2 times already.

SinbadEV · Post by **SinbadEV** » 08 Jun 2006, 22:06

"Negative" as in the color that the I beam mouse cursor? I don't know if that's possible...

smoth · Post by **smoth** » 08 Jun 2006, 23:27

if a value is 254, 254, 254.... which is damn near white... the inverse is 001,0001,001... if a color is 255,000,000 (red) the inverse is 000,255,255 which is teal.

The only exception being greys like 100,100,100 because their invert is 155,155,155... a very light grey.

Dr.InfernO · Post by **Dr.InfernO** » 09 Jun 2006, 00:31

A nice adventure of the series "pimp my spring"!

I like it.

Belmakor · Post by **Belmakor** » 09 Jun 2006, 01:01

smoth wrote:could you just fill in the outlines with a maybe 70% solid color? the faded edges look awfull inside of there.

Like this?

To all those others suggesting weird and wonderful alternatives for outlining (negative colours, black *and* white borders, etc) - I'm too much of an OpenGL newbie to figure out how to do those things at this stage. Doing the black border was quite simple, but it would take a bit more work/figuring out to do the alternatives. I think the black borders at least provide a bit of an improvement and we could be here all day discussing even better solution. Maybe I'll revisit this someday, but for now I'm going to move onto my next little improvement I have on my agenda. If someone else wants to tackle this issue further, feel free :)

Belmakor · Post by **Belmakor** » 09 Jun 2006, 01:25

Another little patch.

submarine · Post by **submarine** » 09 Jun 2006, 10:40

well tbh i dont think all the things mentioned above are really necessary. since im using a self built 0.72 version for aai tests i could check your new markers and imho visibility has been improved a lot - so a black border is enough

good job!

TradeMark · Post by **TradeMark** » 09 Jun 2006, 10:44

What if you make the edges negative color as what the color is inside the edge?
Then black marker would be easier to spot.

Or, what if we could change our marker colors? i dont see any reason why we need to have our team colors in the markers?

edit: oops, someone said about negative already.

NOiZE · Post by **NOiZE** » 09 Jun 2006, 11:38

well it can be handy to see who posted a marker

TradeMark · Post by **TradeMark** » 09 Jun 2006, 13:48

NOiZE wrote:well it can be handy to see who posted a marker

Can you give an example? I have never needed such feature.

It is really annoying to use black markers, because you cant see them well...

I prefer we could change the color, if we want. OR some button which makes all markers/drawings into same color (but only you see them as same color...).

NOiZE · Post by **NOiZE** » 09 Jun 2006, 16:30

Maybe the "Say: blabalbalba" can get a outline aswell?

mongus · Post by **mongus** » 09 Jun 2006, 22:44

Gimped simulation of "invert colors" (filter).

seems rigth, and denotes the marker.

but possible?

smoth · Post by **smoth** » 09 Jun 2006, 23:12

Belmakor wrote:Like this?

200% better thanks :)

Acidd_UK · Post by **Acidd_UK** » 10 Jun 2006, 13:39

Belkamor - that's really nice, thanks.

Mongus - that looks horrible imho - not easier to read at all :-/

NOiZE · Post by **NOiZE** » 10 Jun 2006, 16:37

NOiZE wrote:Maybe the "Say: blabalbalba" can get a outline aswell?

NAG

PenguinMaster · Post by **PenguinMaster** » 12 Jun 2006, 20:22

How do you place markers?

SinbadEV · Post by **SinbadEV** » 12 Jun 2006, 20:58

PenguinMaster wrote:How do you place markers?

`+middleclick or `+doubleclick

http://taspring.clan-sy.com/wiki/Using_ ... ap_Doodles

AF · Post by AF » 12 Jun 2006, 21:08

sinbad that page is far too long for anyone to think about reading it in its entirety.

Break it up into seperate pages and have a menu ro contents page there instead....

Somethign akin tot he AI/AIDev/Strategy/Main page

Spring RTS Engine

small patch - easier to see markers