Fray Log: Selection Interface

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Feb 6 2009, 6:02 pm
Unit selection and interfaces are two of the most important features in a well designed RTS game. With that said, Fray will not be lacking in these departments.

Fray currently has some basic interfaces and unit selection. Clicking and dragging the mouse will let you select a large group of units. Clicking a single units will select it or deselect it. Double clicking a unit will select all of the same type of unit within range. Not only that, but you can hold the CTRL button to single click units one at a time without the old units deselecting, or deselect one unit at a time.

When you select units, their portraits along with their health bars are displayed on the interface. The type of information displayed depends on how many units you have selected. If you have more than one unit selected, you will get a list of the units. If only one unit is selected, you will get more information about that unit such as its damage and armor.

Upon selection, commands the unit or group of units can do are displayed on the interface which can then be clicked by the player to tell the units what to do.

Here is a new screenshot of some of the new features:


The area where the units are displayed on the interface is a very important area. The information displayed here will change based on what the player is doing. Currently only multiple unit selection and single unit selection interfaces are displayed here, but later on, building information, training queues, and more will also be displayed here.

Here are the two selection interfaces currently added:


So what is with the red outline around the map? Well, the background is red temporarily so it sticks out to be better viewable when editing the interface. But the one pixel outline around the map is reserved for hopefully a new BYOND feature that was recently suggested. What feature? Client mouse procs being called from interface components. Why? Hopefully so when the player moves their mouse to the edge of the screen, the screen will move in that direction. But the desired effect can only happen if those new features are added, so we'll see.

Please note that the graphics shown above are temporary art and all information is subject to change.

Be sure to join the group to stay up to date about the progress of Fray. There is much more to come!
Feb 6 2009, 7:49 pm
Looks like the development is going great. Hopefully that feature will be aded to Byond. ^_^

Asfar as the current placeholder art..
Invest in a good artist, It will -really- make a diference in the end.
Feb 6 2009, 8:00 pm
What feature? Client mouse procs being called from interface components. Why? Hopefully so when the player moves their mouse to the edge of the screen, the screen will move in that direction.

I would prefer it if controls had a param specifically for each thing, rather than have the client procs called. That way, for simple things, you could use the .winset() param.
Feb 6 2009, 8:16 pm
Tayoko wrote:
Looks like the development is going great. Hopefully that feature will be aded to Byond. ^_^

Asfar as the current placeholder art..
Invest in a good artist, It will -really- make a diference in the end.

Looking for a good one. No such luck yet.
Feb 7 2009, 12:04 am
Wow, development looks great. You've already started with some good art. Really liking it.
Feb 7 2009, 12:54 am
Got a good start going, no doubt it will be good. (I mean come on Iccusion Games made it, I heard those guys kick ass)
Feb 7 2009, 2:27 am
What feature? Client mouse procs being called from interface components. Why? Hopefully so when the player moves their mouse to the edge of the screen, the screen will move in that direction.

There's already something like that.

I'm sure you can adapt it to your game.
Feb 7 2009, 4:39 am
Erm Incussion entertainment whenever I try to log into seika it gets stuck on initializing interface how do I get in or clearthe error it does that with some other BYOND games too.


Thanks
Feb 7 2009, 1:39 pm
Andre-g1 wrote:
What feature? Client mouse procs being called from interface components. Why? Hopefully so when the player moves their mouse to the edge of the screen, the screen will move in that direction.

There's already something like that.

I'm sure you can adapt it to your game.

That would work if the entire game screen was the map, but you have the interface at the bottom of the screen and making it so the map moves down when you mouse over the bottom of the map will cause problems when you just want to get down to the interface without moving the map.

Not to mention you'd have to worry about the exact location of your mouse in order to scroll down.

With a tiny one pixel area around the entire screen, you can simply move your mouse as far as you can in one direction and it will scroll that way. It would work perfectly.

Thanks for the suggestion, though.
Feb 7 2009, 3:43 pm
Looking good, Aakio.