UI bug?

[Midivar]

Hi,

I haven\'t played the tech demo much, but sporadically over the years, and it\'s become pretty. However, something has puzzled me what seemed like an UI bug.

I play the game at 1280x1024, full-screen, and the group of buttons on the left of the screen (those that can be resized) seem to be weird. The bottom buttons are cut in half. Is this known and am I just being annoying by posting about it?

[DaveG]

If you can find the little arrows in the upper left, you can right click on those to change the toolbar mode.  (vertical, horizontal, V shape)

[Midivar]

Yeah, I had figured that one out. But it\'s still not right, somehow. I should post screenshots, but I\'ll get more into Planeshift soon as it seems a lot more playable this time around.

If I just could get used to the controls that is...

EDIT: I forgot to mention that the font is too big. It gets cut off at the bottom as well. Is this related? And is there a fix? Now I really have to post a screenshot, I guess.

[DaveG]

Yeah, a pic would help.

[Midivar]

Okay, here\'s your screenshot. Don\'t know what\'s going on here, but it should be self-explanatory. You can also see that I\'m in the Death Realm and that it\'s basically too dark to find my way. I\'ve fallen down and I am unable to get out now.

http://www.mentation.nl/pics/shot01.jpg

[Bereror]

Midivar,

Right-click on the arrow that shows/hides the toolbar. This will change the style of the toolbar and hopefully fix partly missing buttons (did for me).

[Midivar]

Hmm, I haven\'t tried that yet, as far as I know. I did drag the little square at the bottom-right to change the size and that didn\'t help. I\'ll try this. In the meantime, I hope this report has helped, but I\'m sure it was already known. Hope you can fix it!

And then we have the matter of the font in the menus. As you can see the letters are too large to fit.

[Bereror]

Originally posted by Midivar
And then we have the matter of the font in the menus. As you can see the letters are too large to fit.

The user interface seems to be optimized for 800x600 display and the software tries to scale fonts for other resolutions, but the result is not as good as developers expected.

You can play with the prefs.xml file in the data directory. Look for the tag and change the size attribute. You can also go into the data/gui directory and modify chat.xml and infowindow.xml.

Whatever you do, make sure you have a backup copy of the original files and if your game stops working, do not blame me

[acraig]

The user interface seems to be optimized for 800x600 display and the software tries to scale fonts for other resolutions, but the result is not as good as developers expected.

Yes, that is quite correct.  It scales up and down for 640/480 and 1024x768.  In *most* cases it does ok but there are some areas where it doesn\'t do the best job.

A GUI engine re-work is in the plans whenever I can figure out the best way to do it.

[Midivar]

Great to hear. I have a 19\" TFT screen, and play my games on 1280x1024. I\'m sure that all these issues will eventually be fixed later on in the future. I really want to see this project succeed, whether I will decide to play it or not! You know how it is, with time constraints.