Re: [Speed-dreams-devel] Discussion on the OSGGRAPH HUD

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Hi all,
totally agree that this needs discussion now so that Gaëtan doesn't need
to rework his stuff later, but also pointing out that this is intended for
after the next release and hopefully we will also be including the new
menu system by then.

> 1/ Which information/figures should we display ? How ?

Same information as now, just nicer graphically. I too like 'F1 2012'
clean style.

> 2/ Should we make a highly customizable HUD ?

At present the individual items are floating to positions locked to either
the corner or center of a screen edge. It would not be too hard to have
those change dynamically, but I would question whether that's worth it.

The should 'play nice' when the screen is scaled or split screen is enabled.

>
> 3/ Shall we implement it directly using OSG features, or should we use
> CEGUI ?

Without looking in too much detail, I would think that CEGUI might offer
nice tools to produce 'clean' graphics. I had previous looked to see how a
simple text box can be given a tilted/turned 3D look with just a simple
parameter.... hard to code this sort of thing ourselves.

Of course OSG might have all the primatives needed.


> Maybe we should also ask to users via forum (simon's idea)?

There's a list of games (why aren't we on it???) here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_simulation_video_games#Racing_simulation

We could maybe select a few (say 5) with different styles, pull some
screenshots and run a simple poll on the community forum.

Simon.