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[media] Technical content of TE

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This topic is for the work technical content of the TE.

Current work: GUI

If you want to submit media content for TE which follows this theme - please do this here.

Media might include - textures, models, sounds etc.
General rules:

- Higher polycount and resolution is better then lower polycount and resolution
- Format is irrelevant as long as it is relatively common or can be converted to a common format (blender, maya, 3d studio etc).
- The content posted here is considered under GPL license. Therefore if you post, your work automatically becomes GPLd.
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I was bored, simple as that :tongue:

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Looks very good :). I think that it is a good idea to have something that looks so smooth as GUI, although it also looks very Apple like.
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I like the bright but not too bright colours. I suddenly realise no single transport simulator I ever played has such fresh colours. It's all very readible too.
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My opinion Purno: Be bored more often :wink: .
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Thanks guys :P :))
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Agreed. Lose your social life, get bored, make more UI mockups. :D
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Not to be a killjoy (that's a great UI), but OpenGL/SVG, not PNG, surely?
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benji147460127 wrote:Not to be a killjoy (that's a great UI), but OpenGL/SVG, not PNG, surely?
What do you mean, not PNG but OGL/SVG? Your sentence doesn't make any sense to me :roll:.
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benji147460127 wrote:Not to be a killjoy (that's a great UI), but OpenGL/SVG, not PNG, surely?
Let me try to translate that for all those english speaking people :wink:
benji147460127 should have wrote:Not to be a killjoy (that's a great UI), but shouldn't you use OpenGL/SVG, instead of PNG.
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Or in other words, please use Vector graphics and not static images.
(This way you can zoom the GUI elements without quality lose)
Consindering a 3D Engine is used, thats not a bad idea, I wonder if Cairo is in an usable state...
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Hmm.... why would you need to zoom in at the GUI and such?

I can't really draw with vectors...
I can try to draw some stuffies with either Adobe Illustrator or AutoCAD, but I'm not as talented with that as simple pixel works...

A GUI isn't 3D, right? It's a flat thing on the screen... AFAICT.
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Purno wrote:Hmm.... why would you need to zoom in at the GUI and such?
Perhaps because I run games at 1920x1200 and my little brother runs games at 1024x768?
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Hellfire wrote:
Purno wrote:Hmm.... why would you need to zoom in at the GUI and such?
Perhaps because I run games at 1920x1200 and my little brother runs games at 1024x768?
Well, usually when I pick higher resolution, I do it because I can fit more at one screen. I do it because the GUI windows and such are smaller. Would there really be something against a small GUI (small fonts etc) at a high resolution?
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Purno - if the interface is built of 3d elements, not bitmaps, then it would be the building blocks - eg you would not put an image, but say "shade the polygon this way".

But frankly - we will not escape using textures - alas you want to use a model for each and every icon in the game.

Ivho it would be better to have textures in some ungodly resolution and MIP them into the proper size on the interface.
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I'm not sure this discussion has much relevance, isn't this obviously a prototype? Given you can't just draw working drop down boxes, we're going to have to make them in SVG or whatever later on, but for now this at least shows a concept of style.
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Is there a freeware tool available which can make those vector GUIs and is preferrebly not too complicated?
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Post by benji147460127 »

There is Inkscape, which is Free SoftwareTM, that's very good, and cross-platform, though don't expect it to perform well on windows. I will help you with it gladly if you so ask.

I live in England, so please do not patronise me as a poor miseducated Dutch person when I make a vague attempt to be poetic.

Uzurpator -- I do not intend that the entire UI should be 3D -- but vectors are the way forward: easier to generate mathematically, less space, they look better, they're scalable...

If there is such a large difference in resolution as the one stated, then some sort of zooming function may be called for. Certainly TTD is a bit small at 1280x1024@60Hz on a 17" screen, so I would like to be able to increase the size of the UI to fit me. Vectors permit that.

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benji147460127 wrote:I live in England, so please do not patronise me as a poor miseducated Dutch person when I make a vague attempt to be poetic.
Eh?

Anyway, I would like it if the GUI is scalable, and vector graphics seem to facilitate that quite nicely. I wonder whether Blender models can use vector graphics as textures. :P
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I tried something with AutoCAD, as it's the only vector tool I know how to draw exact arcs and perfect horizontal lines with.
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Guys, I've got news, TRoS will support a scalable GUI. This is done very easily by an ortho matrix, which is already implemented and it would only have to be changed so the GUI will be scalable. This also allows to have a scalable GUI with bitmaps :).
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