Author Topic: Dev Diary  (Read 2875 times)

Grenville

  • Administrator
  • Jr. Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 91
    • View Profile
Dev Diary
« on: September 04, 2018, 09:54:31 pm »
Figured I'd start posting here and there on progress & what I'm up to so that you can see things moving forward.

Added support for multiple monitors today (tying the game to a specific display & moving it via options in-game), and improved the way the game handles resolution.

Also moved back to the old "blue glass" buttons on a lot of the screens.

« Last Edit: September 04, 2018, 09:58:18 pm by Grenville »

Share on Facebook Share on Twitter


Grenville

  • Administrator
  • Jr. Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 91
    • View Profile
Re: Dev Diary
« Reply #1 on: September 04, 2018, 10:02:06 pm »
I'll add the new home screen in here also. Not finished yet, but Newspaper is removed and has a full calendar instead now.

Schods

  • Newbie
  • *
  • Posts: 25
    • View Profile
Re: Dev Diary
« Reply #2 on: September 05, 2018, 03:37:54 am »
Just my OCD happening, but could you move the line on the ladder 1 up on the front page so it has the top 8 above the line?

Grenville

  • Administrator
  • Jr. Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 91
    • View Profile
Re: Dev Diary
« Reply #3 on: September 05, 2018, 06:46:02 am »
Just my OCD happening, but could you move the line on the ladder 1 up on the front page so it has the top 8 above the line?

Haha yep, thanks mate. Still some tidy up to do there on both the ladder and the calendar (getting aligned at the top etc). Good eye though - that'll be helpful, cause the UI isnt my strong suit

Grenville

  • Administrator
  • Jr. Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 91
    • View Profile
Re: Dev Diary
« Reply #4 on: September 05, 2018, 08:42:40 pm »
Tidied some more screens up today & starting to work in the Player detail tooltips for every grid (image attached).

Menu hook and base page for free agency is added - now figuring out how this thing will look.

Grenville

  • Administrator
  • Jr. Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 91
    • View Profile
Re: Dev Diary
« Reply #5 on: September 06, 2018, 01:51:33 pm »
Some solid progress on Free Agency today - turns out its a pretty sizeable task, but coming together slowly.

Full contract negotiation UI is brought down into the player profile & working
Offers now tracked on the player & persisted to XML (survive save/reload as expected)
Offers also tracked per club & isplayed for players club on the main FA screen

Next up will be work around the AI side of things - having players decide on contracts. Having AI clubs offer them.
Need to be able to Modify/Delete offers.
Restricted FA matching process still to come + AFl granted compensation picks.
Will also look at obfuscating the offer values into ranges as we discussed (i do like that approach)
Like Like x 1 View List

Grenville

  • Administrator
  • Jr. Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 91
    • View Profile
Re: Dev Diary
« Reply #6 on: September 10, 2018, 11:48:04 pm »
Slow week so far - what time I've had has been spent bogged down in the AI logic for Free Agency. Slow going, and l=not a lot to report but progressing.
Like Like x 1 View List

Grenville

  • Administrator
  • Jr. Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 91
    • View Profile
Re: Dev Diary
« Reply #7 on: September 13, 2018, 07:21:56 am »
Took a break from Free Agency stuff and spent the day yesterday working on the home screen & calendar in particular.

Ugly as it was, the more i thought about it, i really liked the functionality of the old calendar and wanted that on the home screen. Clicking on any day in the future to sim to that point, clicking the matches to see result detail, or previews - all feels like it belongs front & center as a key navigation tool.

Has been challenging, migrating all that into the home screen to fit alongside the messages and ladder - much less screen real estate to work with. Fitting match info in those little calendar cells without being so small that they're unreadable. I'll rely on rich tooltips - similar the the new player rating popups on grid row hover -to show match results from the calendar and will end up with short, clickable links: EG Adel Vs Freo, or Adel Def Freo. Likely a few more days worth of work left here.

DanielLaneDC

  • Newbie
  • *
  • Posts: 3
    • View Profile
Re: Dev Diary
« Reply #8 on: September 14, 2018, 07:57:16 am »
For what it's worth Grenville, I used to click on the day on the Calendar all the time in PC2010, but ever since PC2011 introduced that whole news / ladder / inbox / week view I've pretty much always used the "Next" button to cycle from the Friday -> Monday -> Friday, etc.

When you click on the Calendar in 2011 I tend to miss the news paper articles, which I enjoy reading. Especially the ones about "This club has x" or the match previews and results and the records and stuff. Really nice touches those.

Grenville

  • Administrator
  • Jr. Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 91
    • View Profile
Re: Dev Diary
« Reply #9 on: September 17, 2018, 07:18:58 am »
Pretty big weekend just gone - between my Wife's 40th Saturday, and recovery Sunday I only managed a handful of hours work. Got some more of the calendar done, but that's about it.

I mentioned on Bigfoot and to a couple of you that BigAndStudios started following me over there. Most likely just keeping tabs on things, but this is the most likely road to a full 3d matchday if there ever is one, so found it interesting.
Like Like x 1 View List

Grenville

  • Administrator
  • Jr. Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 91
    • View Profile
Re: Dev Diary
« Reply #10 on: September 18, 2018, 08:21:11 am »
More work on the Calendar last night. Is funny how little things end up being a time sink - wiring up the gamecontroller's datechanged event to the new calendar, and having it smoothly move the highlight onto the next day had me caught up for hours.

Thinks looking pretty good now though and should be ready for a screenshot in the next few days. Old calendar will be completely gone, and all that functionality moved into the new calendar on the homescreen (where the newspaper was). Came up with the idea of scaling up a day on mouseover yesterday and have that mostly working (trying to fit a lot into a small space is still proving tricky).
Like Like x 1 View List

Grenville

  • Administrator
  • Jr. Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 91
    • View Profile
Re: Dev Diary
« Reply #11 on: September 18, 2018, 03:17:48 pm »
ok, here's what i ended up with at the moment. zoom is nice and smooth on mouseover (as you run your mouse across a calendar row, the days zoom in/out smoothly).

Font has to be painfully small to fit in there, but with the zoom whats the feeling - usable & ok?

Notes:
- scale transform on mouseover is 1.5 times. Making this bigger is trivial & interested in thoughts on whether zoom should be greater or less?
- i know about all the injuries. will look at that in time
- scores are out of whack due to random players in team lists at present.
- images have to be less than 512kb to attach in the free forum
Like Like x 1 View List

Grenville

  • Administrator
  • Jr. Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 91
    • View Profile
Re: Dev Diary
« Reply #12 on: September 18, 2018, 06:21:28 pm »
Not sure if i showed this off before, but early on in PC2012 development I introduced the notion of a depth chart. From an AI list planning perspective its very useful, but also got integrated into the club display in a couple varieties - one view allowing players in multiple roles, the other restricted to their primary role.

I polished it up today and i think now is pretty close to what we'll see in PC2019
Like Like x 1 View List

Grenville

  • Administrator
  • Jr. Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 91
    • View Profile
Re: Dev Diary
« Reply #13 on: September 24, 2018, 09:26:42 pm »
Pretty busy weekend and didnt get a lot of time for development. I've started to look at some options for hosting & might look to get a coming soon page up in the next few weeks. Try to drive a little organic search traffic and get the word out that a new version is in the works.
Anyone here is handy with html/layouts let me know
Like Like x 1 View List

Grenville

  • Administrator
  • Jr. Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 91
    • View Profile
Re: Dev Diary
« Reply #14 on: October 02, 2018, 06:33:13 pm »
Been a slow week development wise, a few hours here and there but no major progress to report. Have a mate staying here from Australia, and heading to Vegas next week. After that this will settle down and expect to see regular updates resume. Timing is good though - trade week will wrap up and I can get squads imported.
« Last Edit: October 02, 2018, 06:39:44 pm by Grenville »
Like Like x 2 View List