Menu system

[StarFire]

Awesome works like a charm, old skool smoke and mirrors
Great work

[SolarPortal]

Great work! Fake it til you make it

Shadows are probably not working due to the Transparent floor. If its using the alpha smooth, then shadows dont work on it.
Although, it might not cast shadows correctly but may recieve them.

Try turning cast shadows off on the floor and see if that helps

[planetX]

Thanks buddies, it wouldn't be possible without your support.

Depending on the alpha level and the floor's material settings, hard shadows appear sometimes... but I understand that this setup is not easy to manage due to weird meshes and materials, plus that I have no idea what I'm doing most of the times, so I'm not going to dig more on this at the moment, at least until lights and stuff are completely developed. Fake shadows are coming!

I have to populate the menu with all the pages and functionalities, but I'm already thinking on the save/load profiles stuff and, of course, no idea where to start... what would be the best approach? Do you have any good example to store data?

I think I've said this before, but I have to say it again: I really love this engine, everything is so easy... it's just awesome.

There's however something that really piss me off at the moment, which is the fact that none of the code editors (lua, rml, rcss) uses a monospaced font... I can deal with Verdana, but coding in Green Arial Italic is a PITA. I know that you're working hard in more important features and not sure how hard is to change the font, but maybe you could consider to include this in the next update?

Cheers!

[SolarPortal]

[planetX]

Wow, that's a great example! Thank you very much, I can't wait to put my hands on it.

[StarFire]

Ok on the font PITA

I have managed to hunt down the syntax highlighter and have made a change or two (no more italic!):

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Do you have a fav font/size? Then we could give it a try for you;)

[StarFire]

Just nailed the font family:

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This is Font : "Inconsolata" so now can change to any preferred font for you.

[StarFire]

Looking good now

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[planetX]

Ohhh... this is like a dream made true.

Try "Consolas", that's my favorite one. Not sure about the size, maybe 11pt?

[StarFire]

Pleased this will make you happy

Will give "Consolas" a try and the last image is at 11pt

[StarFire]

I personally prefer the "Inconsolata" font as it looks more modern, what do you think? We can go with either
Here an image with "Consolas" @11pt:

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[planetX]

Hi, take the one you like more, the important thing is the monospacing. Inconsolata looks good to me too.

Having all the elements in the same font would be great too, that would make the code more readable. Since you are messing with it, I'd suggest to darken a lil bit the comments in the rml editor, they are really hard to read ATM.

Thanks for taking the time with this.

[planetX]

Made some progress on the menu, playing with cameras and smooth positioning...

Q: Is there any way to adjust the start/end distances of the fog through script?

[SolarPortal]

ahh, i want to see it but the broadband wont let us watch a video until later lol
Im not sure if the fog is passed through yet, if not its a quick one to add in

As i mentioned in another topic, we will be doing an interim release to get some of the newer changes out before the upgraded core as there has been some complications on the upgrade and a few horrid errors caused.

Will try to fit the fog in

[StarFire]

Updated the comment to be a bit darker for you and also added mono-spaced font to the rcss files too

This will be in the next update for you

[planetX]

Hi, thanks for replies... no rush with the update, I definitely can wait.

Hope you solve you connection problems soon!

[SolarPortal]

Finally watched the video and nice work! Camera transitions are working great.

[SolarPortal]

[planetX]

Awesome! Thanks a lot!

[planetX]

Hi, one question: How can I get the screens coordinates of a 3d object? I want to attach the lock sprite to the car...

And I'm getting weird colors in the text, I want the orange you can see in the circle at the bottom right but I get a light yellow... any clue?

[SolarPortal]

[planetX]

[SolarPortal]

[SolarPortal]

ok, found some strange results.

if you are using a png with 16 bit depth, then the texture is not loaded with SRGB causing the colour to be incorrect.
Whereas if you load a png with 8 bits, then the color matches extremely closely.
This is your best best for now using images. Will check font now and edit this post when done.

I might also remove the SRGB on texture load and do it manually in the shader instead to ensure all texture bit depths are supported.

If you test with these 2 files, then you will see what i mean:

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[planetX]

ok, I just set the css property "position: absolute;" and it worked, so that was the problem. Also changed to loadFromTemplate to avoid issues. Thanks for the suggestion, it would take ages to figure out myself.

The orange in the images looks fine (you can see it in the video)... it is just the text.