Floating (Frozen) Menus
cap March 29th, 2014

Hi,

 

Do you have any tips for making static wade app objects (i.e. menus, UIs) while using camera zoom and world coordinates pan? I tried defining a menu function and adding a position attribute (like sg_misc_stuff did in Laberinto, @sg_misc_stuff thanks!), but directly tracing back the camera zoom and pan movements in order to keep the menu static. The problem with this approach (without using onResize like sg_misc_stuff did) is that one can notice the lag in the wade objects when zooming and paning. 

 

Could you share another strategy? Maybe something as easy as and "except"? thanks!

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Gio March 29th, 2014

You can (and probably should) put your UI objects on a separate layer. Say that you put them all on layer 5 for example (choose a low number so that they appear in front of other objects). 

 

Then you must tell WADE that you want layer 5 to be static, and not move or scale when the camera moves. So somewhere near the beginning of your init function, you can do this:

wade.setLayerTransform(5, 0, 0);

Hopefully it should be as simple as that :)

cap March 29th, 2014

Great thanks! I had it all upside down and did really not see see wade.setLayerTransform(layer, 0, 0) for making layers static coming...

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