Speedometer with Rotating needle (Gen2)

[SolarPortal]

[epsilonion]

Looking good there...

[SolarPortal]

Thanks

[planetX]

Cool...

Haven't tried the new GUI system yet, but I've heard that is gonna be awesome... I have to say that the old one is still great, as I'm web designer and feel really comfortable with html/css, but I'm looking forward to test the new one. Is there any documentation about it? what's the difference? I was peeking a couple of weeks ago but could not see anything.

Not sure if you were asking for a design, if so, I can try something... the thing is that you don't need to show both digital and analogic speedometers in one, but you could try with a tachometer instead, that's how I did it in my old racing project, here you can see it in action: https://vimeo.com/106731293

Or maybe you need the whole dashboard?... ^^

[SolarPortal]

Thats good to hear that there are users still comfortable with the scripted html/css system which still exists in the GUI Editor. It is split into 2 different workflows with different layouts so older gui files can still be edited and new coded ones created.
The Visual GUI does not have all the features of the coded system yet, but it is moving forward and has much still to do on it before i would say its completed.

Yes, the tachometer is a good idea if having a digital speed readout. In the video, it was done that way just to check if it matched up

We would be happy if someone would have a go at an analogue speedo, but it would also be good to have a few different designs on one sheet for different styles e.g. analogue speedo, tachometer with digital readout etc...

Not sure how a whole dashboard would fit, i personally havent seen a game with a full dashboard lol

[planetX]

[StarFire]

Skylines cars can have gears / manual transmission so that could be easily added, now car stats that could be interesting

That speedo image looks nice
Would be nice to have a few for different types of vehicles both realistic and sci-fi.

[SolarPortal]

That speedo looks really good.

[planetX]

[StarFire]

That futuristic design looks very interesting, sure we can get it to do it someway

[SolarPortal]

Sounds good!

As for the lcd display, i have been thinking on the best way of doing this and having an image for each stage would be possible without any performance loss only Video memory loss for the images to be loaded, not that they are big though..
I will have a look at an animated texture set for GUI after the current core upgrade which should only take a couple weeks.. lots of shader changes lol

For 3D effect, if the textures are setup with the perspective, then it should look possible. But i will have to try the rotations again as for the needle rotate, we are rotating on the z axis and when i tried 45 degrees on the x, i only saw 1 line, but perhaps it was the backface i was looking through. So tilting into the screen might not be that hard lol We will have to see haha

First though is the core rendering upgrade to latest source which is making a few changes to Gen2.

Look forward to seeing some speedometers.


Edit: Not sure if it would be quicker to add the animated texture to be seperate textures or atlased. Which would you prefer to use. An atlas would not use any more memory, but the shaders would have to be tweaked to use the new uv coords of certain size gaps.

e.g. particles use a set of textures atm instead of an atlas so the controller already exists.

[planetX]

[epsilonion]

Cool...

While your working on the GUI editor do you think you will be working on the RTT (render to texture) so you can render say game stats or power grid usage on a monitor in game?

I.e. walking into a bathroom and a mirror above the sink, a camera captures you infront of the sink and sends the image to the mirror on the wall..

been able to display a GUI in mid space would be useful for VR as well as you do not want GUI's to close or it strains the eyes (nor to far away) so you can do a GUI in say not foreground and not background, this usually provides the best results in VR.

[SolarPortal]

@planetX, yes, it would be simpler to add individual textures in to do the task, but if there is time - then i will add the atlas version also, so there is a choice of both as the GUI system can already use the atlas texture which can contain all the components of the HUD but it is not animated. Plenty to expand on, but the first to be added will be individual textures so its like the animated particles

@epsilonion, RTT's for the GUI are planned for minimaps for example using orthographic camera that can attach to player and be in the sky looking down, it could also render using lower lods for more performance, or use visibility masks to not display the world and use a texture of the world instead. Then there will be Rtts for standard meshes. e.g. computer screen showing a security camera footage with post fx. All this is still to be done in Gen2, but it will be added. Just need to create an easy way of creating RenderTextures for end users because they can be complex at times

We do have Local Cubemaps coming in the next few versions of skyline which allow reflections based on cubemaps warped to camera views to look like good reflections taken from inside the room as mirroring is always slow. Then there is just rendering a cubemap from a point in the scene like what existed in Gen1.

[planetX]

Ok, so I've made some variations, hope you like them.

Simple speedo, both analogic and digital:



Digital speedo + tachometer:



The "full dashboard"...



Gauges are standalone components, so the combinations are endless...



Cheers!

[StarFire]

They look great

[SolarPortal]

Awesome.. Great looking defaults for skyline

[planetX]

[SolarPortal]

it shouldnt, its an event, so should just work... will have to pull my demo up to see how i did it again lol

Edit: Have you tried the tonumber() or tostring() approach... in the lua.
Edit: The rotate is still working in the editor, so i imagine something is wrong with the lua script.

the set attribute just passes the property through like id, name etc...

[planetX]

[SolarPortal]

the rotate was a custom command we wrote into the GUI core so we could take that rotation value and multiply that by the transform matrix on which the GUI is rendered, basically, rotate the quad on screen rather than rotating texture.

So, it was a custom attribute that we added manually. Its the only one though other than the "pivotx" and "pivoty" that have been added. the pivots are used to affect the point at which the image is rotated around, so you can get it bottom center etc...

[planetX]

Got it, thanks for the info!