FreeGameDev

Hey guys. Had an idea for a GUI that controls the display of the HUD much more in depth. Like sliders for Size and Opacity, color settings, etc. Pretty much all the settings I have in my Look 'N' Feel thread. However, a lot of settings use floats as their tag type, and guislider cannot handle float. (at least not very well) It will handle the value, but only the whole, and not the floating point... ie. it will slide from 1 - 5, but 1 - 5 exactly. I wont ever use 1.1 or 4.3, etc.

So, my question, could I somehow trick it into using a float? I had an idea to use 0 - 100 for the min and max, which can be interpreted as percentage, and then link it to the necessary var...but how would I make that var update dynamically as the slider value changed? I don't think I can...

Anyway, thoughts?

[EDIT]
There's always tweaking the source to let it use floats...or just an identical var specifically for handling floats. Like "guisliderf"

This would help me as well, as I am working on an edit GUI, and would like to have a slider to control the transparency of the alpha material.

ZeroKnight {l Wrote}:So, my question, could I somehow trick it into using a float? I had an idea to use 0 - 100 for the min and max, which can be interpreted as percentage, and then link it to the necessary var...but how would I make that var update dynamically as the slider value changed? I don't think I can...

you can do 0-100, but you will need another variable:

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value_min = 1
value_max = 5
guitext $value
guislider var 0 100 [value = (+f (divf (*f (-f $value_max $value_min) $var) 100) $value_min) ]


Note: This code completely untested, fix yourself if necessary. :P
I may look into hacking around cubescript to get something more native working this weekend.

srbs

Thanks for the feedback, srbs. I'll play with this for a little bit and reply back when I can with more information.

If you do happen to look into it, I'd be much obligied if you did share what you come up with :) It could be of great use :)

Success! It took some messing around, and an extra command in the "do-every" parameter of guislider, but thanks to the math provided by srbs, I have successfully tricked guislider!

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hbval = $hudblend
hudblend_min = 0.0
hudblend_max = 1.0
//more vars of the like will all go here

newgui "HUD++" [ //working title
   guiheader "HUD"
   guititle "Configure HUD Display Options"
   guibar
   guistrut .5
   guifont console [ guitext "Master Settings" ]
   guistrut 1
   guifont radar [ guitext "HUD Size:" ]
   guislider hudsize 0 (getvarmax hudsize)
   guistrut 1
   guifont radar [ guitext "HUD Opacity:" ]
   guitext $hudblend // for testing only
   guislider hbvar 0 100 [ hbval = (+f (divf (*f (-f $hudblend_max $hudblend_min) $hbvar) 100) $hudblend_min); hudblend $hbval ]
   guibar
]

It works! Try the slider! :D Thank you for the math setup, srbs :) Wazu, you should be able to implement this in your editing GUI. Just change the vars around.

Something like this:

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vaval = $valpha
valpha_min = (getvarmin valpha)
valpha_max = (getvarmax valpha)

   guifont radar [ guitext "valpha:" ]
   guitext $valpha // testing purposes
   guislider vavar 0 100 [ vaval = (+f (divf (*f (-f $valpha_max $valpha_min) $vavar) 100) $valpha_min); valpha $vaval ]
]

Haven't tried it, but it should definitely work.

No problem!

And have a command to call:

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// (guifloatslider <varname> <holder varname> [<min> <max>])
guifloatslider = [
   guislider $arg2 0 100 [
      vmin = (? (> @numargs 2) @arg3 (getvarmin @arg1))
      vmax = (? (> @numargs 2) @arg4 (getvarmax @arg1))
      if(= $vmin $vmax) [ vmin = 0; vmax = 100 ]
      @arg1 (+f (divf (*f (-f $vmax $vmin) @arg2) 100) $vmin)
   ]
]


srbs