RE: [GD-Consoles] selector patent

[Jamie F. <ja...@qu...>]

personally, i found it very irritating :) options were pretty cryptic.

jamie

-----Original Message-----
From: gam...@li...
[mailto:gam...@li...]On Behalf Of
Mickael Pointier
Sent: 20 February 2003 09:59
To: gam...@li...
Subject: Re: [GD-Consoles] selector patent


Brett Bibby wrote:
> I would like to implement a "menu" selector on consoles in such a way
> that the choices appear in a circle so they can be directly selected
> with an analog controller or dpad without scrolling.
> [...]

Recently, the best implementation I saw was in NeverWinter Nights where you
can select all possibles actions on yourself or on some item by using this
kind of radial menu.
It even handles submenus. When an option will access a submenu you see the
new menu in small version, the main menu then fade out while the small one
replace it. You can get back to the previous level menu by simply clicking
without moving (select the center).

Works very well.

Funny the didn't use it for game parameters :)

    Mike




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