Graphical User Interface. A term used to describe the tools available to the player to interact with the game.
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how to keep a GUI on-screen without moving or resizing it according to camera movement
Hey i'm trying to make a GUI lib with SFML, and everything's done except one problem: Making the Interface stay still even when the camera moves or zooms in/out.
This would be easy to fix if zooming ...
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Should I use XNA or Unity to build a video game? [closed]
My friend and I are planning to make a video game (like Slender) where the character is stuck in a building, when lightning strikes, and the lights go out and your objective is to find the back-up ...
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How should I connect objects when using the MVC paradigm?
This has been confusing me for the past week as I am trying to make my first actual game. It's only my 2nd year learning Java so I am really trying to learn how to program like a professional ...
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zoom to cursor calculation
I want to be able to zoom in and out of the map using the scroll wheel. I want to zoom towards the cursor like google maps does but I'm completely lost on how to calculate the movements.
so far, all ...
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Looking for a GUI library for OpenGL, or tips for my own (MetroUI)
I am making an OpenGL graphics accelerated FPS, and I need to find a library to handle GUI correctly. My current GUI handler just wont do!
Yes, as in the title says, the UI of the game is Metro ...
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OpenGL and Java user interface architecture/comunication [closed]
I'm working on the UIs for a turn based tactical rpg made with Java and LWJGL.
I'd like to make a set of "dynamic" UIs similar to those of the game Torchlight 2. I would like to know if there are any ...
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Should I be worrying about limiting the number of textures in my game?
I am working on a GUI in XNA 4.0 at the moment. (Before you point out that there are many GUIs already in existance, this is as much a learning exercise as a practical project). As you may know, ...
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Separating UI and logic in Objective-C at iOS based Games
How to separate UI and logic in Objective-C based mobile games?
To develop games, I use Cocos2d library.
I need a good reference to separate my UI code from game logic code.
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Using Nifty GUI with Slick2D
As seen here NiftyGUI has it's own GameState classes, I want to know if for adding UI to one state of my game I need to make that state NiftyOverlayGameState or still a BasicGameState but to add a ...
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Can't use the hardware scissor any more, should I use the stencil buffer or manually clip sprites?
I wrote a simple UI system for my game. There is a clip flag on my widgets that you can use to tell a widget to clip any children that try to draw outside their parent's box (for scrollboxes for ...
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Inventory View Screen
Looking to create an inventory screen in Unity, and trying to think of the best way to do it.
My current line of thinking is having a few rows of squares for inventory items that are drag and ...
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How to make a simple HUD with no library
I am writing a simple game in c++ using opengl in a windows system.
I have the scene and I need some informative text to appeared to the left top/bottom of the screen
I am printing these messages ...
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How can I prevent clicks from going through a GUI.Box?
I have a GUI.Box that I slide in from the side of the screen. How can I prevent mouse interaction from going to any objects under it (another GUI.Button for instance, or for that matter an ...
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Clutter for game GUI
I'm pretty new to game development, having only written a simple 3d game for a class project, but I'd like to get started on a bigger project.
I'm writing an MMORPG to run in both the browser (WebGL) ...
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Slick & NiftyGUI. Nifty initialize exception
I found my self into trouble when trying to run a Slick game with a Nifty Game State.
This is the code:
@Override
protected void initGameAndGUI(GameContainer container, StateBasedGame game)
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way to implement a menu -pratical
i do my first game and already read alot about design strategie, programming style, design .. and so on
theoretically it works perfect but in practice i dont know if i do thinks "right"
i have three ...
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Is it possible to overlay EditText box on a GLSurfaceView on Android?
I am trying to add a "PlayerName" box on top of a opengl menu background, is this possible? I've tried various layouts, but they don't seem to allow an EditText box to appear on top
What is the ...
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Is jButton in Java suitable for a Game GUI?
Recently I have encountered the issue of trying to add a GUI into my game using Swing. The game will randomly & infrequently flash the jButton or Swing component when I add it to my jFrame. I'm ...
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XNA GUI: Creating a 'scroll pane' widget
I'm trying to create a simple GUI system and am currently stuck on how to implement a textarea with a scrollbar. In other words, the text is too large to fit into the view area. I want to learn how to ...
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Application toolkits like QT versus traditional game/multimedia libraries like SFML
I currently intend to use SFML for my next game project. I'll need a substantial GUI though (RPG/strategy-type) so I'll either have to implement my own or try to find an appropriate third party ...
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Creating a checker board in C# winform
I am using the PictureBox class to create a checkerboard, and it not really working all that well. I've created the loop:
PictureBox[,] squares = new PictureBox[10,10];
for (int i = 0; i < ...
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Resources on expected behaviour when manipulating 3D objects with the mouse
In my animation editor, I have a 3D gizmo that sits on the origin of a bone; the user drags the mesh around to rotate the bone.
I've found that translating the 2D movements of the mouse into sensible ...
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Developing user interface [closed]
i am beginner in graphic development and have no experience with it, i only developed always with standard win controls.
Now i want to create interface in c# for my sports management simulation game, ...
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Resources on GUI library API design?
I've tackled this topic maybe a dozen of times, but each time I write a GUI library, at some point I look at it and see that it's badly designed (from a programmers point of view). I've looked through ...
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How to make a gui button follow a path after a touch?
I would like a button in my gui menu to follow a specific path if we selected it, I am wondering how I could do it: if we touch the button, then it can only move on the specific path, it is an arc ...
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Is it possible to skin Qt 4.5 such that it has a 'game-like' interface?
Is it possible to skin Qt 4.5 such that it looks less like an application framework but more of a game? I guess this probably means replacing the canvas, the title-bar and the artwork of the various ...
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Does XNA have a built-in GUI library?
Does such a thing exist or do I have to code one?
My project needs textboxes, buttons, input capture, timings for "press and hold keys" and so on. These are quite standard for a GUI library but hard ...
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Deciding when to switch focus between UI elements
I've been coding a simple logic game recently and there is a UI decision that has been bothering me.
Since certain blocks of logic are going to be used across many levels (e.g. logic to reverse the ...
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Informing GUI objects about screen size - Designing
I have a problem with designing classes for my game which I create.
In my app, there is:
class CGame which contains all the information about game itself,
e.g. screen width, screen height, etc. In ...
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How to add text box in slick2d?
I wanted to let the player rename the character of my game. So I thought that making a text box and when he clicks the ok button, the text inside the text box will make it to a string and render it on ...
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What's the recommended way of doing a HUD for an android game?
Basically the question is in the title.
I'm creating a RTS game and I will need buttons like attack move / attack ground, etc. I am not using any engine.
When people do games in OpenGL for android ...
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Nifty popup fails to register
I'm new to Nifty GUI, so I'm following a tutorial here for making popups. For now, I'm just trying to get a very basic "test" popup to show, but I get multiple errors and none of them make much sense. ...
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Events Driven Library XNA C#
Language: C# w/ XNA Framework
Relevant and Hopefully Helpful Background Info:
I am making a library using the XNA framework for games I make with XNA. The Library has a folder(Namespace) dedication ...
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Unused frame(window) management
I'm rewriting my game now using software designing patterns and want to do the code, most correct I can. While implementing MVC(Model View Controller) I got a question which I would like to discuss or ...
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UIToolkit VerticalScrollable dont hide when is moving
im experiencing a weird bug with the Vertical Scroller (mainly in iOS, but even in the Editor): when a vertical scroller is still "moving" (so when it'snt totally stop) it's impossible hide this ...
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Framework to implement an in game gui editor
I need to do an in game gui editor. The game engine has his own widgets elements and I don't want a gui library that substitute it.
The most difficult task is the implementation of the functionality ...
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Keeping crosshairs & GUI onscreen - SFML
I read this question, but didn't understand the implementation suggestions with SFML on C#.
For example, right now I'm just trying to make sure that the mouse crosshairs stay onscreen constantly. I ...
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A good model for a GUI system? [closed]
Not necessarily a question of deep thought, but more of to ask opinions of what people think about my GUI system.
Currently I have an abstract class "Control" which is used for GUI elements (Labels, ...
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How to adjust GUI to screen resolution ?
I've created a GUI for my XNA game and now I'm stuck with a problem. My GUI element positions are designed for a max resolution of 1920x1080, and if I try changing it to 640x480 they disappear from ...
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GUI.Button inside GUI.Window not responding
I am trying to do some GUI work with unity but am having some issues.
I call a window with this code:
fortuneRect = GUI.Window(0, fortuneRect, fortuneWindow, "Your future");
and inside the window ...
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Can threads be used to run resource consuming methods without -ever- freezing UI?
Until recently I was sure that running expensive operations in threads can prevent UI freezing, but now I'm not.
Is it not guaranteed that a threaded operation will not hog the main thread's ...
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How do I prevent dynamic GUI elements from overlapping in Unity?
I'm working on a birds-eye-view for our Unity3D game world, where each point of interest has a label hovering above it. The problem is that sometimes they overlap, although there is more than enough ...
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Resizing a dynamically resizable widget with a fixed aspect ratio?
I've been trying to figure this out for hours. It is a bit tricky to explain but I'll try to explain it.
I'm making a game where I have a Window with 3 panels in it. The 3 panels must always be ...
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Unity3D GUILayout Window Wont Show Components
I am fairly new to Unity, but picking things up quick. This is actually one of the first problems I have come across that has me stumped.
I am trying to print a good amount of components onto my GUI ...
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Buffer System For Items
I am going to reference this image of what I want to accomplish in JavaScript.
This is the Diablo buffer system. This question may be a bit advanced (or possibly not even allowed). But I was ...
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How to make smooth animations
Say I want to write a card game. I have a hand of cards and I want to be able to draw a smooth animation of a card moving from the hand to the table. I am looking for suggestions on how to elegantly ...
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Unity GUITexture or GUIText not showing up
Currently I've got a little 2.5D platformer with the camera tracking the player. Now when I go to insert a GUITexture or GUIText game object into the scene, it comes up absolutely fine in the Editor ...
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Most effective way to build a lobby application for a game?
I'm trying to steer clear from "which technology should I use" and more of "what aspects of tool s should I look for to make this easy". What is the rest of the industry doing? Web stacks? I'm trying ...
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Best approach for Event driven UI
Had an idea for a modification to a game, however the core functionality heavily involves UI, and the API for the mod is event based.
The player will have there own custom data object, so I know one ...
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How to efficiently render resizable GUI elements in DirectX?
I wonder what would be most efficient way to render the GUI elements.
When we're talking about constant-size elements (that can still be moving), the textures' atlas seems to be good.
But what with ...
