Krayy
6th October 2009, 21:37
Hi guys,
Here's a chance for world-wide fame and fortune...well, okay, no fortune, and fame only within the world of LFS, but fame none the less.
The background:
After some discussions with Tim NL and fire_optikz, there is a lot of interesting deveopment going on, and I have a few "grand plans" for my own Lapper servers, that could seriously benefit from a common look & feel to make Lapper more appealing. One bugbear for me is that each contributors buttons look & feel completely different, and that causes me to either shy away from using a particular plug in or just get confused.
The challenge:
Design a GUI look & feel that can be easily adapted and used by other Lapper admins so that Lapper looks "integrated". Some guidelines to follow are:
It should be able to support a tab bar to access multiple screens of information
Text colours should be visible when the game shows darker and lighter backgrounds
Text should be easy to read at any resolution (ie not too small - except for the tabs)
It should be able to be configured for different languages
The entire interface should not overwrite any LFS race buttons
It can include infobars on top and bottom of screen
Add/minus buttons should act the same way as LFS (ie when using a plus button, right clicking increases a numeric by 5, left by 1)
Let your imagination run (not too) wild and let's see what we can come up with. Winner gets a beer next time they are in New Zealand :nod:
Here's a chance for world-wide fame and fortune...well, okay, no fortune, and fame only within the world of LFS, but fame none the less.
The background:
After some discussions with Tim NL and fire_optikz, there is a lot of interesting deveopment going on, and I have a few "grand plans" for my own Lapper servers, that could seriously benefit from a common look & feel to make Lapper more appealing. One bugbear for me is that each contributors buttons look & feel completely different, and that causes me to either shy away from using a particular plug in or just get confused.
The challenge:
Design a GUI look & feel that can be easily adapted and used by other Lapper admins so that Lapper looks "integrated". Some guidelines to follow are:
It should be able to support a tab bar to access multiple screens of information
Text colours should be visible when the game shows darker and lighter backgrounds
Text should be easy to read at any resolution (ie not too small - except for the tabs)
It should be able to be configured for different languages
The entire interface should not overwrite any LFS race buttons
It can include infobars on top and bottom of screen
Add/minus buttons should act the same way as LFS (ie when using a plus button, right clicking increases a numeric by 5, left by 1)
Let your imagination run (not too) wild and let's see what we can come up with. Winner gets a beer next time they are in New Zealand :nod: