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Title: FF7: Overlay for to replace menu and box
Post by: Kaldarasha on 2014-10-29 11:59:18

It might be a stupid idea but isn't it possible to put over the game an overlay like steam does it with the games?
'Why would I want this?' you might ask. Well the idea behind it is simply to have a full controllable menu and box system, which is also easier to modify and is independent from the framerates of the game (at last I believe an overlay has its own frame limiter). Also text files would be unified in one location, which makes translations or alterations to the text a lot easier and the use of different fonts would bring in some life to the game, too.
My ideas for it:
For the field:

• Creating text boxes which are connected to models on field like in ff9 (if we can read out the current position of the npc plus a z axis value to place the box near the head)
• advanced text effects like size deformation, shake effects, etc

For battle:

• A 60fps menu while the game run in its default 15fps
• Maybe more possibilities to modify the look of the menu

For the menu:

• Maybe we can create a new start screen. I do like it how it does look here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yeFXbKahOc0#t=326
   not the buster background but the music is quite nice and the setup is pretty much what SE is currently doing for there new games
• for the menu itself would be a texture interesting instead of these gradient thing we currently have. This looks quite the way I would like it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0Ska_uTr0g#t=146

I surely haven't thought about all the problems, which might be there, but this is only an idea to hopefully inspire a talented person to investigate the real possibilities of this. The main problem I see is to eliminate visual of the default box and menu system.

Btw. a fully customizable menu would give me the option to change FF7 materia system to an interesting materia job class system.

Title: Re: FF7: Overlay for to replace menu and box
Post by: D a r / < F a L L on 2014-11-06 10:29:53

Il be trying the menu style... Il see what I can do with my hands :)

Title: Re: FF7: Overlay for to replace menu and box
Post by: Kaldarasha on 2014-12-17 11:19:38

Quote from: D a r / < F a L L on 2014-11-06 10:29:53

Il be trying the menu style... Il see what I can do with my hands :)

 :-[
Tottaly forgot to respond. ::)
Dunno if this would help:
http://developers.overwolf.com/overview/