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ralphtricky -> RE: New Alpha Graphics Mod (1/10/2010 7:02:08 PM)
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ORIGINAL: damezzi
Panama, I've already changed the fonts to make it cleaner in the normal view. I'll not say it isn't possible to make it still more readable using only black pixels and displaying jaggy edges, but the difference would be very, very small and not worth it. The problem here is the size (in terms of resolution); if you open the numbers.bmp file, you'll see it. I think that the huge view will be used more frequently now, not necessarily because of better graphics resolution, but also because Ralph did a nice job making zoom faster. The first time we zoom in takes a while, but then the zoom becomes much faster and one can zoom in and out with a lot of ease.
The mouse wheel zooms in and out. Also, if you have a 4 button trackball, the extra two buttons may zoom in and out. (I haven't tested it on anything but my ancient trackball.) I eventually want to use a new feature in Windows 7 that allows for better use of small fonts. unfortunately, it's only for Windows 7, so other OS's will have to use the existing bitmaps.
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An easily accessible keyboard hotkey would make things yet more easy. Ralph has already set the space bar to hide and show units, which is something very helpful. Well planed hotkeys are a really nice substitute to a graphical interface. Anyone who learns to work well with hotkeys in any software package will tell you the investment in time (some packages can present a huge number of hotkeys) was worth and some aspects of the graphical interface becomes obsolete.
I agree, but the graphic methods will always remain. I need to change the menu options to show the hotkey alternative sometime, but it will probably be after the patch.
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X.ray, showing units facing is an engine change. I don't know if Ralph plans doing it.
Not for this release. Does anyone know if it's in the wish list? It would be like the attack indicators, but using a different bitmap.
Ralph
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