Re: [Help-liquidwar6] Visual tuning of the floating HUD

[Timothy Anderson]

Christian, will transparency in bitmaps be supported in LW6? I read
someone ask the question and I don't remember the answer.

Thanks,

Tim

On 10/7/09, Christian Mauduit <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Wed, October 7, 2009 3:31 pm, Kasper Hviid wrote:
>> On the other hand, maybe them Linux guys would find it more amusing to
>> toy with gl-floating-const.xml themselves, rather than having some
>> pre-defined choices..
> Yep. I think we should just figure out how to set up one or two huds that
> work well and look good out of the box, then let ever-tweakers set them to
> their needs. Want I want to suggest by providing 2 huds (floating +
> tactical) is on one hand address the two different needs "I want something
> light" and "I want to see everything possible", and on the other hand
> prove, by an example, that the game is somewhat versatile.
>
>> dude, I can't get it to work!
> Good catch. There's one more parameter: hud-color-auto in hints.xml.
>
> Example command line:
> ./liquidwar6 --hud-color-auto=false --hud-color-frame-bg=#ffffff
> --hud-color-frame-fg=#000000
>
> It's in hints.xml for it's not a direct property of the map, rather a...
> "hint" ;) sort of a meta information on how to load the map. By default
> it's true but if set to false then values from style.xml will be used.
>
>> I thought it was an error, when the HUD toggled between percentage and
>> some strange negative number. But the number of deaths is vital
>> information, so it makes sense.
> I hesitated to display both the percentage and the frag count together,
> but after all I thought it was starting to get too much information for a
> "light" hud. I played like this and founds out it was playable that way.
> Most information is available graphically anyway. If you have a high
> percentage the circle is big and teams are sorted by frag counts (best on
> the left).
>
> Christian.
>
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