[Work-in-progress] Spectator UI 2.0

aoefan4life · Post by **aoefan4life** » 16 May 2015, 22:12

This is awesome!

iNcog · Post by **iNcog** » 17 May 2015, 07:37

aiz u are a wizard

crjensen4 · Post by **crjensen4** » 17 May 2015, 11:45

Looking forward to seeing it in a stream

zoom · Post by **zoom** » 24 May 2015, 15:44

MAAAAARUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU-HU-HU-HU!

Aizamk · Post by **Aizamk** » 26 May 2015, 01:16

Right, so need some feedback regarding current design and proposed designs.
(All still only available in glorioux 1280x800)

Current design:
[img]http://imgur.com/t50ebuR[/img][img]http://i.imgur.com/t50ebuR.jpg[/img]

Proposed design 1:[img]http://i.imgur.com/2u5la1s.jpg[/img]

Proposed design 2:
[img]http://i.imgur.com/LiS4umO.jpg[/img]

2v2 layout preview (still very much a work in progress):

[img]http://i.imgur.com/0ClPhB4.jpg[/img]

Garja · Post by **Garja** » 26 May 2015, 09:46

Design2 is the best. How did you solve the space problem for units and techs?

Mimsy for President · Post by **Mimsy for President** » 26 May 2015, 10:24

I vote for design 2 as well

Aizamk · Post by **Aizamk** » 26 May 2015, 14:24

Right, I'll go for a variant of design 2 then.

@Garja There should be enough space for everything now because there's 18 slots total for 1v1. If all else fails can just use the tabs system again.

Aizamk · Post by **Aizamk** » 30 May 2015, 02:24

Just a quick design update.

[img style="max-width:100%'" src="http://i.imgur.com/4LAA5dt.jpg"]

k bai

iNcog · Post by **iNcog** » 31 May 2015, 08:06

This is the best design yet, Aiz-senpai.

I'd like to highlight the excellent idea of bringing the civilization flag out of the top right hand corner since that is where the twitch watermark is and you have to look really closely to see what civ the other guy is playing sometimes. As expected of Aiz-senpai, so reliable.

musketeer925 · Post by **musketeer925** » 02 Jun 2015, 15:04

Looks great. I love the color gradients. Is this in-game now or is it a mockup like the last proposed designs?

Also, are you still in need of those .DDTs that I said I could make a script for?

Aizamk · Post by **Aizamk** » 02 Jun 2015, 15:27

musketeer925 wrote:Looks great. I love the color gradients. Is this in-game now or is it a mockup like the last proposed designs?

Also, are you still in need of those .DDTs that I said I could make a script for?

This is in-game, though the design still isn''t finalized. I''ve also added in a scoreboard that saves and reloads the result of games in a series, though you still need to manually update it at the end of every game.

[img]http://i.imgur.com/NVrOJ8I.jpg" style="max-width:100%'" alt=""]

And yes, I am still in dire need of this script of yours, thanks.

Do you need me to compile a spreadsheet of what''s needed or was there some other method of extracting the numbers that I hadn''t known about?

musketeer925 · Post by **musketeer925** » 02 Jun 2015, 15:32

The numbers are in the homecity files, I can easily make it read those. I'll get these to you as soon as I can.

Aizamk · Post by **Aizamk** » 02 Jun 2015, 15:50

That's great, thanks. Is it also possible to have the resource (if applicable) displayed in the top right as well? If that's not too much trouble.

(like how it's coin for merc shipments)

Mirari · Post by **Mirari** » 02 Jun 2015, 17:22

I like the Proposed design 2

musketeer925 · Post by **musketeer925** » 02 Jun 2015, 18:36

aizamk wrote:That''s great, thanks. Is it also possible to have the resource (if applicable) displayed in the top right as well? If that''s not too much trouble.

(like how it''s coin for merc shipments)

Absolutely possible. I take it you would also want things like the infinite and x2 overlays?

Aizamk · Post by **Aizamk** » 02 Jun 2015, 19:31

Yep. Also I'm not sure if you read my post a few pages back, but could you use the TK_[techid].ddt naming convention?

For e.g. TK_898.ddt for 700 food

musketeer925 · Post by **musketeer925** » 02 Jun 2015, 19:49

Will do. Got it about half-written...

Aizamk · Post by **Aizamk** » 02 Jun 2015, 19:56

Well that was fast :praise:

musketeer925 · Post by **musketeer925** » 02 Jun 2015, 20:22

Do you happen to know from the UI files what font and size the numbers use?

EDIT: Nevermind, found something which is probably close enough.

Aizamk · Post by **Aizamk** » 02 Jun 2015, 20:27

It uses Arial Nodrop For Cards 12, which is essentially as it says.

Code: Select all

   <'Font Name="Arial Nodrop For Cards 12">'
      <'param TypeFace="Arial"/>'
      <'param AscentHeight="12"/>'
      <'param Antialiased="false"/>'
      <'param Bold="true"/>'
      <'param Italic="false"/>'
      <'param BackgroundOutline="false"/>'
      <'param BackgroundShadow="false"/>'
      <'param BackgroundOffset="0"/>'
      <'param BackgroundAlpha="0.0"/>'
      <'param SpacingAdjustment="0"/>'
      <'ResolutionOverride ResX="640">'
         <'param AscentHeight="10"/>'
         <'param Bold="false"/>'
      <'/ResolutionOverride>'
      <'ResolutionOverride ResX="800">'
         <'param AscentHeight="10"/>'
         <'param Bold="false"/>'
      <'/ResolutionOverride>'
      <'ResolutionOverride ResX="1280">'
         <'param AscentHeight="14"/>'
      <'/ResolutionOverride>'
   <'/Font>'

I think it's best to use your own judgement on the font size though, so long as it lets the large numbers like 1600 fit and numbers like 1 are visible then that's fine.

musketeer925 · Post by **musketeer925** » 03 Jun 2015, 04:20

Not 100% sure why some of the icons are 128x128 and some are 64x64, but that's what it pulled straight from the game files.

https://onedrive.live.com/redir?resid=B ... file%2crar

Aizamk · Post by **Aizamk** » 03 Jun 2015, 10:14

I'll have a more thorough look when I get back later, but from what I've seen, it's exactly what I needed. Thanks so much for this, it's saved me the trouble of a few days' work! :happytomato:

musketeer925 · Post by **musketeer925** » 03 Jun 2015, 12:59

Excellent. Let me know if anything is wrong. I'm particularly unsure about the IDs, really didn't check whether it was doing them right, but I think it is. Off-by-one would be the most likely issue.

Aizamk · Post by **Aizamk** » 03 Jun 2015, 21:11

The techids seem to match with what I've got down. My only concern is that the font size for the numbers might be too small to be easily seen when the picture is scaled down (though this is only really an issue on smaller resolutions such as my own 1280x800).

Going to have to integrate these into the RMS before I can make any further comments.

EDIT: There's a few things that I've noticed after comparing with the numbers that I have down, which may require a few manual adjustments.

-techid 880 despite granting 1 fluyt has no number 1 assigned to it, even in-game. If possible I'd like a version of it with a 1 overlayed, even though this is not shown ingame. For reference it uses units
avalfluytfluyt_icon_64x64

-your script gave the warchief cards 1236, 1238, 1239 an overlay of -1 (when no number should be overlayed). This isn't a problem, I just exclude those files from the list and have them use the base image paths. (likewise for 1345,1392)

-for some reason there's no output for the techid 1322, the aztec 1k coin card that grants 11 coyotes etc.
-likewise for the dogsoldier cards 1373,1374,1375,1376,1377,1378

-I also carried out a random visual check on tech 1393, and found out that both it and 1394 displayed numbers 1 higher than required (5 cougars instead of 4, 4 grizzlies instead of 3)

-1895,1896 for old han and banner reforms don't have a number but they do have a resource (food) associated with them, which I'd like to be overlayed.
-same for 2346 sepoy rebellion (vills->' sepoys), costs wood

-no output for the sohei mercs 1961, 1962, 1963

-2322 sends a dock rickshaw but displays no number by default- I'd like it to display a 1 for consistency

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That's about it, I've checked all the relevant techs now.

[No rush to get these sorted out, it'll be at least a week until I have a version ready for preliminary testing anyway]

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