UFO:Alien Invasion

Technical support => Feature Requests => Topic started by: ghosta on August 22, 2008, 01:53:26 pm

Title: Aircraft/UFO Status window
Post by: ghosta on August 22, 2008, 01:53:26 pm

What do you think about a Status Window after klicking a UFO or Interceptor.
Containing information like speed, direction, height, size,...
With some sort of "blueprint" of the UFO as graphical improvement. Something like you can see in StarCraft:

This has nothing to do with destroyed engines or something. The pictures should only indicate how damaged the UFO or Interceptor is after a fight.

The picture is made out of segments with green, yellow and red lines and they get exchanged when the unit gets damaged.

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Title: Re: Aircraft/UFO Status window
Post by: BTAxis on August 22, 2008, 03:32:35 pm

We were just planning to do an HP bar. We could color it depending on the value though.

Title: Re: Aircraft/UFO Status window
Post by: Malick on August 22, 2008, 04:33:19 pm

I believe a colored HP bar should do, at least for me.
But having a bit more info on an aircraft when you click on it would be nice, like its name, class, picture, picture and name of its pilot, so on...

Malick

Title: Re: Aircraft/UFO Status window
Post by: BTAxis on August 22, 2008, 04:54:02 pm

See the mockup on the wiki:
http://ufoai.ninex.info/wiki/index.php/Proposals/New_UI

Title: Re: Aircraft/UFO Status window
Post by: ghosta on August 22, 2008, 05:33:25 pm

Quote from: BTAxis on August 22, 2008, 03:32:35 pm

We were just planning to do an HP bar. We could color it depending on the value though.

Hm, the question is where to implement it. On the interception screen HP bar would be quite cool, but I was thinking about clicking a UFO on the geoscape and there would be a little image more atmospheric.

Title: Re: Aircraft/UFO Status window
Post by: ghosta on August 22, 2008, 06:48:38 pm

Something like this next to some information

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