Tagged:  HUD

By Mak, September 20, 2016 5 Design, Dev

Here we have a 32px character height font in a 256 x 256 texture atlas, being rendered at various point sizes (9.0 through 18.0) in a virtual display size of 1024×768, with an actual physical screen resolution of 1600×1200. Already,… Read More »

By Mak, June 29, 2016 Comments Off on Visual tweaks;it’s all about the speed! Design, Dev, General

I’ve been back visiting the unpleasant Bugland this past week or so, and also tinkering with some visual effects; velocity markers and course tunnels. Velocity Markers have two tiers; HUD markers which are projected by the ship-board systems, and ‘real’… Read More »

By Mak, March 25, 2015 Comments Off on Mini Update : Buttons Design, Dev, General

Another progress update on the GUI work of late… The Local Map is in place, and it’s inspired some more design choices which I’ll reveal when I get them in place in a video to show it all off. So far… Read More »

By Mak, January 31, 2015 2 Dev, General, News

I’m finally trying to get back into the dev-seat, again. So without belabouring the point… onward with the post! I made a small tweak to the HUD scanner, so now contacts are scaled based on their overall ‘presence’ in the scene…. Read More »

By Mak, July 20, 2014 Comments Off on Galactic Map UI – WIP Design, Dev, General

Finally, I’ve been able to capture video with FRAPS. No idea how, it just ‘”worked” so I grabbed a quick sequence of the Galaxy Map to show it’s current state of play whilst I could! I was rushed I’m afraid,… Read More »

By Mak, September 28, 2013 Comments Off on UI, UI… Design, Dev, News

Ah, it has taken a while – yes. There have been a few dead ends which I traveled down. Well, let’s say I didn’t like what I saw when I got there at least. But now, it is done. 3D,… Read More »

By Mak, August 24, 2013 1 Dev, General, News

Good evening, the news today is – there is no news. More or less 🙂 The “day job” has soaked up all possible time and energy of late, and my work on the UI has led to a couple of… Read More »

By Mak, June 25, 2013 1 Design, Dev, General, News

I wanted to flesh out the core UI I have in my head, and see if it would produce any major challenges – as (from a code point of view) it’s needlessly complex 🙂 From the players point of view… Read More »

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