World of Diving News

JohannThis week I've converted lots of smaller systems to the new UI system:

- Radial selection (which you use to select tools and gestures)
- In-game menu
- Console messages (like 'A player has joined the game')
- The player level bar in the main menu
- The customization loading circle animation
- The fps counter
- The mission editor (lots was already converted because it works with the tile system)

These systems could be converted fairly quickly because a lot of elements were drawn using the tile system, which was already converted. Also, a lot of utility functions have been added to make a lot of conversions easier to do.

Vertigo is closing for christmas and new year, so you'll hear from us again after that. Happy holidays to all of you!

Johann:First of all; this week there was an update of the beta. The update features a new Unity version, which supports the latest oculus runtime (SDK 0.8).

I've been converting some more in-game user interface elements this week. I've managed to convert all of the objective views for all of the objective types. These are the views you get when you're in an objective.

The first type of objective view is the preparation view, which you get when you start an objective. It shows you the name and type of the objective you are starting, and a skippable countdown to make sure all players in the session are ready to start the objective.

The second type is the 'in progress' view. This is the view you open with the F1 key. It shows you your current objective progress and, in multiplayer games, the progress of other players.

The third type is the objective completed view. It is opened when an objective ended and shows you whether you completed it successfully or not.

The last type of objective view is the result view. This is only opened in multiplayer sessions, and is designed to let you wait until all players are ready with the objective. It shows you the objective status of each player.


Richard:This week I did some research on dynamic sea and floating objects behavior:

Calm sea:

Some move waves:

Stormy ocean... the boat has some difficulties staying afloat :)

Not sure if i would go diving in this weather ;-)

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