Sneak-peek: WP Rendering In UI Space + Right-click to Share
Added 2021-07-13 11:15:16 +0000 UTCHey everyone!
In this preview I mainly want to show you something that might not look that different, if you don't pay close attention, but will actually positively impact the user experience enormously. Have you noticed how the text attached to the in-game waypoints, for example distance or the waypoint name, is "glitchy" at times, especially on lower scales? Well, I'm solving this issue pretty much completely.
In-game waypoints are currently rendered in the world-view space, very similar to how entity labels/name tags are rendered. This means that the final image of a waypoint on the screen is affected by a lot of variables, e.g. FOV effects, view bobbing etc, and it's almost impossible to make the in-game waypoints not ever get distorted. This would require for the waypoints to stick to the screen pixel grid and have visually strictly integer scaling. That is why I am moving the in-game waypoint rendering to "UI space". Waypoint icons and text labels will now look clean and readable no matter what scale you chose and what effects affect the game world projection. The first attached screenshot shows the default/auto scale configuration, which now has waypoint names enabled by default, and the following ones show you what it looks like with everything at the scale of 1. There is some unavoidable distortion when getting very close to the waypoints due to them getting visually bigger on the screen (perspective), but it's not significant and is worth the function that emulating the scaling effect of perspective provides.
Another thing that I'm going to add very soon is waypoint and location sharing directly from the world map screen. The last 2 screenshots showcase just that.
Feel free to let me know what you think!
Thank you very much for your continuous support!
