Fri, Apr 11th 2008, 15:13
Screens of Screens
Fri, Apr 11th 2008, 15:13
Some stuff on display this week, but most of the real progress
is, naturally, in the background. I made some sweeping design
changes to the economic model. For the better, I think. Details?
You'll just have to wait.
Apart from that, I "finished" a couple menu screens. Sadly, as
awesome as I was convinced my UI system is, I've discovered that
it still takes a while to put the elements together. However,
it's lightning quick to make changes afterwards, so it's not a
total loss. Also, the mini-map was an awful monster to wrangle
with; I just want to throw that out there.
I encountered a bit of an issue with Lua when mixing "integer"
and non-integer math. Fortunately, once the cause was discovered,
it only took a few small fixes to get everything working again.
Thanks go to Kildorf
for helping me get to the root of it.
The done-for-now options screen:
The still-very-much-a-work-in-progress galaxy screen:
I'm quite satisfied with this week's work, even if I don't have
a whole lot to show for it here. Here's hoping for another solid
update next week!
