Phalanx^α - Some ui gfx tweaks - vol 0006

[vitku]

Hi

I tought I could share some results of my ufoai skinning excercise dubbed "Phalanx^α".  

All files under original UFO AI license (GPL/CC/etc) or (if created completely by me) released to the public domain

Screenshot of vol 0006:
http://sange.fi/~vtakanen/skezhbook/ufoai/phalanxA-0006.jpg

Sources:
http://sange.fi/~vtakanen/skezhbook/ufoai/geo_menu_0005.svg
http://sange.fi/~vtakanen/skezhbook/ufoai/geo_alpha_icons_0006.svg
http://sange.fi/~vtakanen/skezhbook/ufoai/geoscape.ufo

TGA's:
http://sange.fi/~vtakanen/skezhbook/ufoai/geo_menu.tga
http://sange.fi/~vtakanen/skezhbook/ufoai/geo_alpha_icons.tga

If I have more rain check days like this - I might continue polishing the consept.

[misiek]

Nice to see, that someone is playing with modding gui. Maybe some ideas could be incorporated into base game?

Have you seen this? http://ufoai.ninex.info/wiki/index.php/Proposals/New_UI

Maybe you could try to make such ui or use some ideas from it?

[vitku]

Thanks for the link.

I think I saw that while skimming trough the wiki. "The new UI" is somewhat too trekkie for my taste. But I could make SVG:s for identical icons and similar color scheme - even if I stay with my 45 degree corners instead of round ones.

Are the UI component locations defined in code, or in property files?

[Kildor]

UI layout is described in \ufoai\base\ufos\ui folder, it is scripted and can be altered without touching the source of the game.

[vitku]

Made some icons in spirit of the new UI and some tweaks on icon positioning/hover.

I'm still pretty new to the .ufo's but they seem to be pretty easy to use. Are the constants like LAYOUTALIGN_RIGHT documented somewhere (no matches on wikisearch)?


 

[geever]

Made some icons in spirit of the new UI and some tweaks on icon positioning/hover.

I'm still pretty new to the .ufo's but they seem to be pretty easy to use. Are the constants like LAYOUTALIGN_RIGHT documented somewhere (no matches on wikisearch)?

Documentation of menuscripts can be found here but that part may not yet written as I see. Layout is a very new feature. Basically it says the menu renderer to array the nodes (widgets) somehow. It's optional, you can use pos and size instead. In some cases a layout is more flexible.

About your menu: I don't really like the sidebar. The icons are nice but the background.

If you could help us recreating the NEWUI images and making the missing ones that would be cool!

-geever

[vitku]

Is there a way to know if a map_overlay is active in a .ufo script?  Cvars do not seem to contain any info on the subject.

[bayo]

Sure, it should be a cvar. Cvar used with button enabling/disabling overlay.

[vitku]

at least its not visible with the command cvarlist

Code: [Select]

$ diff ufo1 ufo2
...
193c102
<         snd_music            "van_geoscape"
---
>         snd_music            "karlmacklin_geoscape"
287,289d195

Only difference I see in cvarlist of the two situations (overlay on, overlay off) is music. And I bet thats a lucky accident.

I have some new icons and a totally new layout - I'll post them if I manage to fix the overlay issue. Maybe its doable with "buttons"?

[misiek]

I have some new icons and a totally new layout - I'll post them if I manage to fix the overlay issue. Maybe its doable with "buttons"?

Great I'm waiting to see it

Hey, maybe you can join force with bayo and work on official ui?

[korsarekb]

good? very good. it's nice! and ongoing in the same spirit. I am set up it

[joe davis]

The new gui looks like it will look nice.  I would like to repeat a request someone else made, for a textentry in equipment.ufo to change the actor, or employee name like you have in hire.ufo.

And ran across ui node behaviours which may answer:

I'm still pretty new to the .ufo's but they seem to be pretty easy to use. Are the constants like LAYOUTALIGN_RIGHT documented somewhere (no matches on wikisearch)?

Maybe this will help?: http://ufoai.ninex.info/wiki/index.php/UI_node_behaviours

[steven444]

thanks guys for the informative post