Add drop shadow or bg to menu text

charlieg · Post by **charlieg** » Wed Mar 19, 2008 9:12 pm

The 0.5 planet navigation menus are scrumptious but somebody forgot to put their usability hat on before finishing them. Ya'see, white text looks great on dark colours, but not all the planet screens are pure dark colours. In fact, some of them are positively bright with almost-white areas.

So there I am trying to navigate a base and, oh wait, some of the areas are hiding in white. White text, white backdrop, can't see them. Damn, I'm lost, and my mummy is back in Sol oblivious to my galaxy spanning adventures so it looks like I'm going without dinner tonight.

Seriously though, white text -> either drop shadow or put a box around it with a dark fill.

Post by **ace123** » Sat Mar 22, 2008 10:22 am

I believe we added a slight transparent background (alpha transparency value of 0.1 or 0.2) behind all text rendered.

There might be a config variable to set this, but you should at least see some shading in a rectangle shape unless your monitor gamma is way off.

bgaskey · Post by **bgaskey** » Sat Mar 22, 2008 2:42 pm

Also, you can right click to move your mouse among different points of interest in the base interface.

Shark · Post by **Shark** » Mon Mar 24, 2008 1:20 am

bgaskey wrote:Also, you can right click to move your mouse among different points of interest in the base interface.

Wouldn't the tab key be a better choice in this case?

bgaskey · Post by **bgaskey** » Mon Mar 24, 2008 8:53 pm

Wouldn't the tab key be a better choice in this case?

For some reason base interfaces don't take keypresses atm. buying and selling cargo would be much easier if it were hot keyed, but only the mouse interacts with the python base interfaces.

vodalian · Post by **vodalian** » Tue Mar 25, 2008 3:21 am

In my opinion, the bases really lowers the quality of this game. To me, this game would be more enjoyable and probably even more immersive if those retro looking low quality static images that you have to endlessly click through were replaced with just a simple text menu. You could also point the camera at the station/planet from a distance and use that as the background. But that's just my opinion.

Post by **ace123** » Tue Mar 25, 2008 5:43 am

Actually, they do now take keypresses... I suppose it should be easy to add this.

bgaskey · Post by **bgaskey** » Tue Mar 25, 2008 8:26 pm

I'd take a look at it but my spring break was last week