RE: [Cosmos2-design] Screen shot

[Ben K. <ben...@it...>]

I am using Bitmap strips now so I can plug in another strip easy enough  ,
this is much quicker. I attach these to a weak reference so the system can
clean them up on machines with low memory when they are not in use. I dont
really have the time for this but if someone is interested in doing better
stars and planets that would be great.

I have done stars and planets so far . I still need to do Stellar Objects eg
Nebula , black holes etc . These images like the Nebula in the screen shot
are files at this stage , I have 4 ok Nebula and 4 bad ones.  I do like the
Stars with the  lens flare comming out better  mainly because the Stars I am
using require very close trimming so they look good when superimposed on
Nebula. At present they look pretty bad when on a light Nebula . With Flared
stars we could trim them very close so we dont get the black ring .

Attached are the strips I am using

As you can see the Planet one needs a bit of work , most of the small images
are too small. ( Note I have most of these as large pictures) They
correspond to

Rocky ( the small and medium one are not good)
Venesian
Terrestrial - Earth Like
Organic
Martian
Desert
Water
Ice
Brown Dwarf ( very hot huge gas Giant - almost a star)
Gas Giant
Sub Gas Giant ( a bit smaller like Uranus)
Gas Planet
Asteroid

I think for the Planet strip  a larger Res might be usefull as well eg 64
bits . The images in the shot are shrunk  which is fine for such small
images but I will have to enlarge it for some shots.

Ben



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>
> Looks pretty good Ben. The message bar is transparent, see got
> that. I liked the
>
> other stars though that I saw before which had some streaks
> coming out of them.
> Are you going to try to implement any more graphics in the
> interface at this
> time?
>
> dana.
>
> Ben Kloosterman wrote:
>
> > Here is the default map view so far view at 1024 *768.  (scan levels are
> > turned of eg with full information) .
> >
> > Objects of note
> > Message box - The message box appears at the bottom and is transparent
> > except for the text . This can be hidden allong with the Empire
> view bar on
> > the left.
> > Grid Lines - Can be turned of  , but are usefull .
> >
> > Control Bar on the left is used for Navigation and changing the
> map mode .
> >
> > An empire and race has been loaded ( though I have not done the
> Empire bar
> > yet as I will do this after units) . The system view shows
> planets ( red for
> > too hot , green for good , blue for too call). This only has one Panel .
> > When viewing ships a 2 and 3rd panel will show which are used
> for the target
> > and orders.
> >
> > I am now moving onto displaying units and moving units.
> >
> > Any comments ?
> >
> > Ben
> >
> >
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