Flux wrote:great stuff!
i hope you share the code when done!
btw, how did you get those image button element thingy?
does irrlicht got that implemented now?
i haven't seen it anywhere in irrlicht..
Yeah Irrlicht has the ability to put images on the button. ( IGUIButton->setImage() ).
I didn't want to use that though. For one thing, you can't set an image for the scrollbar buttons.
By using the skin, all the buttons can have images and all the images can be animated. Normally, when you press a button, there is a normal image, and a pressed image, which is only two frames of animation. With this skin, when you press a button, there is the normal image, and then the pressed image is actually 8 frames of animation. It looks a lot nicer when pressing the button. It feels more like they are being pushed.
I started using
Emil Halim's TAnimatedSpriteSceneNode to do the actual sprite drawing and image scaling, but his code doesn't work when rendering anything in 3d mode along side the 2d stuff. In otherwords as soon as you do:
scm->addCameraSceneNode()
scm->addTestSceneNode()
the skin becomes broken
. Unfortunately that makes the GUI pretty useless, IMO. It looks good, but you ONLY get GUI.
I've started rewriting the drawing code so that it doesn't use the TAnimatedSpriteSceneNode. Things look good, but I still have a bit of work to do.
I plan on releasing my code and button images for free (public domain) as soon as i get it working in 3d mode. The background images of the windows are not mine, however.
Speaking of releasing, where should I release this stuff? I had a hard time just finding a place to put the screenshot, which I ended up stuffing into an old orphaned project of mine.
nice!
