[GD-General] GUI Design

[Chris B. <Chr...@ma...>]

I've been building a GUI for my game but from day 1 have had a design issue I've been ignoring. From the beginning I've coded the coordinate system to OpenGL's bottom left origin. This is a minor pain as I'm the only one who needs to worry about the coordinates in the menu xml files (for now).

The problem however is when I resize the screen everything remains squished in the bottom left corner of the screen. The only ay I can think of solving the problem so it looks 'normal' is to provide some kind of virtual scaling system that the menu is designed against that is then translated in to screen coordinates. For example I could use something simple like 100% equalling the width of the screen, so a box might be 20% wide 15% high at position 5%,5%.

How have you guys solved this problem? My solution presented seems like it'll add a whole lot more math to the GUI to do all the translations for the virtual screen space.

Thoughts?

Chris Brodie


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