| form_d_k | Date: Monday, 02.06.2014, 22:58 | Message # 1 |
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| Hi, Space Engineer! I have some suggested changes I was wondering if you'd consider.
To context.cfg:
- Could you make it where music entries were top-most & contained contexts child entries?
- Could you add a "Simulation" context for tracks that, regardless of whether or not the user specified contextual music, would play at any time during simulation?
- Could you add a file path entry?
I imagine these changes would look like this:
Music AstroPilotInvertedWorlds {
Filepath("\music\AstroPilot - Inverted Worlds.ogg")
Contexts ("MainMenu" "Galaxy")
}
This would make it easier (for you or other users) to add new music & give context flexibility.
Also, UI features could be offloaded to config files:
- UI config file would contain entries for menus/menu items, windows, popups, message boxes, buttons, etc.
- Child entries to describe element position, optional image, size, styles, color, etc.
- UI entries would specify events you make available to them, such as OnClick, OnHover, OnSelect, OnDisplay, OnStart, OnExit, etc.
- UI entries would specify functionality that you make available to them, such as PauseSimulation/UnpauseSimulation/ExitSimulation, PlaySound, DisplayUI_Item/HideUI_Item, etc.
- The user config file could have an entry to a UI config file, which would allow easy swaps to different skins/UI types.
- Instead of loading the config file, read from it dynamically.
This would have several advantages, such as letting you easily update the UI, see changes immediately in-game, & allow users to customize UI.
Thanks for such a great simulation! 
Edited by form_d_k - Monday, 02.06.2014, 23:03 |
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| Enki | Date: Sunday, 22.06.2014, 17:38 | Message # 2 |
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| I agree. This is an interesting idea. 
"If you arrive at a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong." - Ayn Rand
"It may be that our purpose on Earth is not to find God, but to create him." - Arthur C. Clarke
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