Thief 1/2 style weapons + items cycle

New Horizon on 18/6/2005 at 19:01

This is rather odd and I'm shocked at myself for not thinking of how to do this sooner.

In the current Minimalist Retro Hud, the weapons and items slide in from the side on the X axis.

I bolted out of my dream last night...a completely non Thief related dream and the word Z axis was in my head. I felt like such a fool.

At any rate, here is what I did. I placed all the weapon and item windows on top of each other in the T3UI.ini settings and then I gave all of them, except the current weapon/ item a z position of -4000.

This places all the previous and next weapons so far away that it looks like they're popping into place just like the original games. Looks slick.

Example:

Quote:

[NextNextItemWindow]
Type=T3InvItemWindow
Pos_X=155.5 ;140
Pos_Y=124
Pos_Z=-4000
Active=VISIBLE
InventoryItemWindow=InventoryItemWindow
ItemTextWindow=ItemTextWindow
BackgroundWindow=ItemBackgroundWindow
;GlowWindow=ItemBackgroundGlow

[NextItemWindow]
Type=T3InvItemWindow
Pos_X=155.5 ;140
Pos_Y=124
Pos_Z=-4000
Active=VISIBLE
InventoryItemWindow=InventoryItemWindow
ItemTextWindow=ItemTextWindow
BackgroundWindow=ItemBackgroundWindow
;GlowWindow=ItemBackgroundGlow

[CurrentItemWindow]
Type=T3InvItemWindow
Pos_X=155.5 ;140
Pos_Y=124
Active=VISIBLE
InventoryItemWindow=InventoryItemWindow
ItemTextWindow=ItemTextWindow
BackgroundWindow=ItemBackgroundWindow
;GlowWindow=ItemBackgroundGlow

[PreviousItemWindow]
Type=T3InvItemWindow
Pos_X=155.5 ;140
Pos_Y=124
Pos_Z=-4000
Active=VISIBLE
InventoryItemWindow=InventoryItemWindow
ItemTextWindow=ItemTextWindow
BackgroundWindow=ItemBackgroundWindow
;GlowWindow=ItemBackgroundGlow

[PrevPrevItemWindow]
Type=T3InvItemWindow
Pos_X=155.5 ;140
Pos_Y=124
Pos_Z=-4000
Active=VISIBLE
InventoryItemWindow=InventoryItemWindow
ItemTextWindow=ItemTextWindow
BackgroundWindow=ItemBackgroundWindow
;GlowWindow=ItemBackgroundGlow

Quote:

[PrevPrevWeaponWindow]
Type=T3InvItemWindow
Pos_X=36 ;61
Pos_Y=124
Pos_Z=-4000
Active=VISIBLE
InventoryItemWindow=InventoryItemWindow
ItemTextWindow=WeaponTextWindow
BackgroundWindow=ItemBackgroundWindow
;GlowWindow=ItemBackgroundGlow

[PreviousWeaponWindow]
Type=T3InvItemWindow
Pos_X=36 ;61
Pos_Y=124
Pos_Z=-4000
Active=VISIBLE
InventoryItemWindow=InventoryItemWindow
ItemTextWindow=WeaponTextWindow
BackgroundWindow=ItemBackgroundWindow
;GlowWindow=ItemBackgroundGlow

[CurrentWeaponWindow]
Type=T3InvItemWindow
Pos_X=36 ;61
Pos_Y=124
Active=VISIBLE
InventoryItemWindow=InventoryItemWindow
ItemTextWindow=WeaponTextWindow
BackgroundWindow=ItemBackgroundWindow
;GlowWindow=ItemBackgroundGlow

[NextWeaponWindow]
Type=T3InvItemWindow
Pos_X=36 ;61
Pos_Y=124
Pos_Z=-4000
Active=VISIBLE
InventoryItemWindow=InventoryItemWindow
ItemTextWindow=WeaponTextWindow
BackgroundWindow=ItemBackgroundWindow
;GlowWindow=ItemBackgroundGlow

[NextNextWeaponWindow]
Type=T3InvItemWindow
Pos_X=36 ;61
Pos_Y=124
Pos_Z=-4000
Active=VISIBLE
InventoryItemWindow=InventoryItemWindow
ItemTextWindow=WeaponTextWindow
BackgroundWindow=ItemBackgroundWindow
;GlowWindow=ItemBackgroundGlow

ascottk on 18/6/2005 at 19:19

I hate it when you have ideas when you're trying to sleep. This map I'm working on keeps spawning ideas so I had very little sleep the previous two nights.

BTW, thanks for your work, NH :thumb:

New Horizon on 18/6/2005 at 19:24

Quote Posted by ascottk

I hate it when you have ideas when you're trying to sleep. This map I'm working on keeps spawning ideas so I had very little sleep the previous two nights.

:D I almost got out of bed to go try it out in the middle of the night but eventually convinced myself to wait until the morning.

Quote:

BTW, thanks for your work, NH :thumb:

It's a pleasure to contribute in any way I can. :)

SneaksieDave on 18/6/2005 at 22:11

Will definitely be implementing this. Of all the changes to my hud that I like, the cycling is one thing that I didn't manage to get to my liking, as it kept causing problems.

Thanks NH

New Horizon on 18/6/2005 at 23:14

Quote Posted by SneaksieDave

Will definitely be implementing this. Of all the changes to my hud that I like, the cycling is one thing that I didn't manage to get to my liking, as it kept causing problems.

Thanks NH

No problem my friend.

SneaksieDave on 18/6/2005 at 23:54

The inventory/weapon thing has been as much of a bane to me as getting custom sound to work (before the new .exe).

I applied your changes and it works great. So I think to myself, "it's time to get rid of those frigging gears for once and for all." FORTY FIVE minutes later I still can't get them gone. The closest I got was commenting out the ActorVisibleName_Normal line, here:

[ItemBackgroundWindow]
Type=ActorWindow
Active=VISIBLE
Pos_Z=50
Rot_Yaw=16384
ActorVisibleName_Normal=ItemGear

But while that does remove the inventory gear, it also makes the inventory items/weapons miniscule in size (perhaps pushed far back?). I've tried changing the Pos_Z values in multiple places to no avail. I'm sure if I had another 10 hours I might scratch the surface, but does anyone know the nature of fixing this? How is the ItemGear thing anchored to the damned inventory item?

New Horizon on 19/6/2005 at 00:06

Look no further. ;)

Quote:

[ItemBackgroundWindow]
Type=ActorWindow
Active=NOT
Pos_Z=50
Rot_Yaw=16384
ActorVisibleName_Normal=ItemGear
Scale_X=0
Scale_Y=0
Scale_Z=0 ;*adding the scale settings will render them gone.

Quote:

Same thing for these windows to get rid of the lock pick hud.

Quote:

LockpickHud

[LockPickHUDWindow]

Height=80
Scale_X=0
Scale_Y=0
Scale_Z=0

[LockPickHUDToolWindowStage]
[LockPickHUDToolWindowPick]
[LockPickHUDStageWindow1]
[LockPickHUDStageWindow2]
[LockPickHUDStageWindow3]
[LockPickHUDStageWindow4]
[LockPickHUDStageWindow5]
[LockPickHUDStageWindow6]

SneaksieDave on 19/6/2005 at 00:14

Quote:

;*adding the scale settings will render them gone

Damn! I did that for the lockpick hud, but didn't think of it for this.

Thanks again. :)

New Horizon on 19/6/2005 at 03:25

Quote Posted by SneaksieDave

Damn! I did that for the lockpick hud, but didn't think of it for this.

Thanks again. :)

Just added the new hud settings to Minimalist 1.4. Never thought I would figure it out. It's really hard to believe how far the project has come in the last year.

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