Um, have you looked at the Syndicate games? How about a 50/50 split? The left side shows the unmodified body, and the right shows where the mods are. It worked well enough, and it isn''t hard to do.

As for the transparency, it needn''t be difficult to read, depending on the amount of transparency. Maybe the body is partially transparent, while the text uses additive blending?

Merrick

Well, the goal of the trnasparent GUi is to get out of this cluttered screen trend that we have been stuck with for so long.
Now that it''s not as difficult to make transparency effects, you better use it Plus in this case it fits with the theme (futuristic).
The way I was seeing it, it would be a full character stats panel, with location based health (basically, the way I described it for the Simulacres RPG).
When in its reduced form, you would have a little icon in one corner of the screen that would indicate the health in a color coded way (just like the way Starcraft indicates the damage for your units , do you see what I am talking about).
As well, I think you are imagining a nice picture of the body, while I am thinking more of a wireframe drawing. Eventually, when you click on the zone you want to examine, you could "materialize" the body part ?

I really think you could make a simple prototype with either Flash or java-script ... if only my mouse wasn''t so fucked up

Yep, that''s it
I was just thinking about the zoomin'' in thing because you seemed to imply a RPG game, and it''s nice to have plenty of room for stats, graphic details and the like. But I think we understand each other on that one (I guess it''s because it''s only technical).

quote: Original post by Paul Cunningham
Once again, thanks Dave. I think i know the pictures of the human anatomy from the science classes you''re talking about. Usually they are a poster on a wall or something like that i believe. I don''t know how difficult such a system that you''re talking about would be to code. Do you know?

Well, for a 3d coder... no problem
For a 2d guy like myself... well, not so easy. But, it would be cool.

I like ahw''s method too and it would be just as effective.


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