[pythian] Re: CODE, PHASE2 - GUI

  • From: "kk" <krauspe@xxxxxxx>
  • To: <pythian@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2002 10:11:45 +0200

Audio

* Volume -> Slider
* Back -> Button -> Configure

I would add also:

* Quality -> button (or pulldown combobox) 3 states: 44kHz, 22kHz, 11kHz
* Use Hardware 3D -> checkbox (this may cause the sound engine not to work
properly if you haven't DirectSound isntalled
* Use A3D -> checkbox (this may crash the system)
* Use Reverb -> checkbox (will try to use hw support, if not available - it
will turn on DSP software support)

Video

* Texture Filter Quality - listbox - nearest, linear, anisotropic
* Texture quality - 2state button maybe 32bit/16bit ???
* Texture resolution - slider percentage (100% - original resolution (e.g.
256x256),  50% scaled texture (e.g. 128x128)
* Use multitexturing - checkbox (for tweaking)


What do you mean under movie - a engine real-time rendered scripted map or a
prerendered movie file (e.g. divx)?

And for the credits... we could also make something like a party (scripted
map). Models textured with the photos of the team members would walk around
and celebrate in a middle sized level with streets, houses, trees, (mirrors
;), animated water and such things.
The engine would first automatically show each team member in some order
with some blend in/out transition effects between each member (into black).
It would show some text (e.g. name) for each member and finally iot would
show a cool monument in the city and run the final text (thanks etc)....we
could even allow the player to walk and roam throught the map himself.. he
could do so if the credits already ended (this will be automatical) or if he
stopped the automatical show... Anyway... even if he isn't in  automatical
show mode, the names (text) will be shown for each member... and a cool
alpha blend in / out could be also used for this... What do you think?
It is something like the house of lara in tomb raider series but made into
credits. No enemies, no weapons, no magic, just walk around.

We may also add some training grounds - using bots or whatever

To server part we should also add port setting. (Add server) and auto ping
button. There should be also a button which would automatically list all
available servers on internet in case we made a master server (the servers
would register themselves at the master server if it not disabled by the
server admin, Normally it would be enabled).

We should also add some chat rooms (based on irc or our internal system).

-kk

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