sc2-devel

Re: [Sc2-devel] changing NUM_MELEE_ROWS/NUM_MELEE_COLUMNS

[sanjay m. <ma...@us...>]

Well, the problem is that the actual drawable area for the teams is dependant on the sizes of a few of the content files (content/melee/melee.0.png, content/melee/melee.1.png, content/melee/melebkgd.0.png, and content/melee/melebkgd.28.png). When I changed the teams to have 14 like the PC version, instead of 12, I had to resize those images. 

Now it's probably not that much of an issue for, say, the main melee screen, because the size of those boxes can definitely be reworked to be calculated (and can be made smaller). But the save/load and select ship in combat screens have pretty small icons already, and the ship selection part would definitely need to be reworked how that is drawn.

Ideally (and I speak for myself, not the team) it would be nice down the road to be able to just change some number in an xml file and change the sizes of the teams. But, that would definitely require some reworking.

Sanjay

----- Original Message -----
From: Jason Dorje Short <js...@an...>
Date: Sunday, November 30, 2003 3:19 pm
Subject: [Sc2-devel] changing NUM_MELEE_ROWS/NUM_MELEE_COLUMNS

> One thing I've always wanted to do is allow more ships in melee.  I want 
> to be able to use all 25.
> 
> So I tried increasing NUM_MELEE_ROWS and NUM_MELEE_COLUMNS.  Naturally 
> this didn't work too well.  So I worked through the problems.  The 
> gzipped attached patch is my result here.  It is incomplete but allows 
> reasonably good gameplay.
> 
> Of course, I'm sure these values aren't going to be changed in CVS.  But 
> it would be nice if someone could change them and have things work 
> without needing lots of other changes.  The attached plaintext patch is 
> a small step in this direction (but took the most work to find).
> 
> jason
> 

Re: [Sc2-devel] changing NUM_MELEE_ROWS/NUM_MELEE_COLUMNS

[Jason D. S. <js...@an...>]

sanjay madhav wrote:
> Well, the problem is that the actual drawable area for the teams is dependant on the sizes of a few of the content files (content/melee/melee.0.png, content/melee/melee.1.png, content/melee/melebkgd.0.png, and content/melee/melebkgd.28.png). When I changed the teams to have 14 like the PC version, instead of 12, I had to resize those images. 
> 
> Now it's probably not that much of an issue for, say, the main melee screen, because the size of those boxes can definitely be reworked to be calculated (and can be made smaller). But the save/load and select ship in combat screens have pretty small icons already, and the ship selection part would definitely need to be reworked how that is drawn.
> 
> Ideally (and I speak for myself, not the team) it would be nice down the road to be able to just change some number in an xml file and change the sizes of the teams. But, that would definitely require some reworking.

With opengl we could scale the images.  But my approach has been 
simpler: just make the boxes they're stored in smaller, and let the 
drawing library fit them as well as possible.  It's quite playable, 
although as I said it's incomplete.

But the races.h change is something quite different: without this the 
queue code will segfault in a difficult-to-trace way.

If it's possible to change the #defines, it would also be easy enough to 
make them variables loaded from a config file.  But I don't know if 
that's a goal for the near future.

jason

Re: [Sc2-devel] changing NUM_MELEE_ROWS/NUM_MELEE_COLUMNS

[Serge v. d. B. <sv...@st...>]

On Sun, 30 Nov 2003, Jason Dorje Short wrote:
> With opengl we could scale the images.  But my approach has been
> simpler: just make the boxes they're stored in smaller, and let the
> drawing library fit them as well as possible.  It's quite playable,
> although as I said it's incomplete.
Alternative approaches: make the dialog scrollable, or put a number over
the image, indicating the amount of ships of that type.
(only when necessary, to be 'compatible' with the original game).
The latter probably won't be as good as later people could add
lots of types of custom ships.

Serge

Re: [Sc2-devel] changing NUM_MELEE_ROWS/NUM_MELEE_COLUMNS

[Michael C. M. <mcm...@st...>]

On Mon, 8 Dec 2003, Serge van den Boom wrote:

> Alternative approaches: make the dialog scrollable, or put a number over
> the image, indicating the amount of ships of that type.

I'd lean towards scrollable dialogs.  We can't really use OpenGL to do
scaling directly since everything's pixel-based in the engine (we'd use
our own mipmap-based rotozoomer for that), and even then, if the number of
ships gets large enough, it will fall into unrecognizability.

--Michael