Question for Devs(Not about multiplayer or anything like that)

Recursion · September 2017

I'm aiming to create a unity android app simulating The PDA but as a tablet. Hopefully It'll be able to be used as a perfectly ordinary operating system(Launching apps, That sort of thing), so, Could I have permission to use the PDA design and name? I'll release the app free of charge, With no in-app purchases, and a little page giving full credit to you and with a link to the main Subnautica website.

Kouji_San · September 2017

You could contact the devs using the info their about page, might get a quicker and more targeted response: https://unknownworlds.com/about/

Recursion · September 2017

Kouji_San wrote: »

You could contact the devs using the info their about page, might get a quicker and more targeted response: https://unknownworlds.com/about/

I'd rather ask them on the forums.

Kouji_San · September 2017

Fair enuf, summoning our overlord @Obraxis

AnomalyDetected · September 2017

In all honesty, I would download that. It'd be awesome to have a "PDA" i'd even make a custom frame for my tablet to make it look like a PDA.

Recursion · September 2017

AnomalyDetected wrote: »

In all honesty, I would download that. It'd be awesome to have a "PDA" i'd even make a custom frame for my tablet to make it look like a PDA.

It wouldn't be a PDA like in the game, as that one booted in emergency mode, I'm just going to create what I think a PDA that booted normally would be like, but I'm going to keep things like the inventory and ping manager(The data bank entry tab will also come Pre-loaded with all the subnautica data bank entrys)(Though don't worry, I'll try to keep the main feel )

AnomalyDetected · September 2017

Recursion wrote: »

AnomalyDetected wrote: »

In all honesty, I would download that. It'd be awesome to have a "PDA" i'd even make a custom frame for my tablet to make it look like a PDA.

I would too. I feel the great tablet case coglomerates are missing out on great things.

Best part? PDA is such a simple exterior design.

Recursion · September 2017

AnomalyDetected wrote: »

Recursion wrote: »

AnomalyDetected wrote: »

In all honesty, I would download that. It'd be awesome to have a "PDA" i'd even make a custom frame for my tablet to make it look like a PDA.

I would too. I feel the great tablet case coglomerates are missing out on great things.

Best part? PDA is such a simple exterior design.

I just edited that post, so Just to everyone else, No, you won't find me talking about the great tablet coglomerates.

Kouji_San · September 2017

Maybe Apple will steal the design some day

Recursion · September 2017

@Obraxis , Please, Grace this thread with your presence!

Recursion · September 2017

While We're waiting, I might as well take suggestions. Any suggestions for the PDapp, @Kouji_San , or @AnomalyDetected ?

DaveyNY · September 2017

Now, if only it had these kinda graphics on it...

AnomalyDetected · September 2017

Recursion wrote: »

While We're waiting, I might as well take suggestions. Any suggestions for the PDapp, @Kouji_San , or @AnomalyDetected ?

Idea:

Create a theme that has the PDA interface.

I know that's what you planned, but listen.

What if you added a a, first of all, blue background, but with that kinda PDA feel to it.

Then add a bar at the top, like how the actual PDA has, and make it so you can set the name. Have it so when you switch pages, it switches what part of the bar your on.

Idk if this is even possible, but it would make it FEEL like subnautica.

Stay swimmin' my friend.

Recursion · September 2017

AnomalyDetected wrote: »

Recursion wrote: »

While We're waiting, I might as well take suggestions. Any suggestions for the PDapp, @Kouji_San , or @AnomalyDetected ?

Idea:

Create a theme that has the PDA interface.

I know that's what you planned, but listen.

What if you added a a, first of all, blue background, but with that kinda PDA feel to it.

Then add a bar at the top, like how the actual PDA has, and make it so you can set the name. Have it so when you switch pages, it switches what part of the bar your on.

Idk if this is even possible, but it would make it FEEL like subnautica.

Stay swimmin' my friend.

That actually would make switching the tabs so much easier, Because unity only supports rectangular buttons, and the only way you can make the rhombus buttons is to buy a $35 asset from the asset store. I was also going to have several prefab tabs(Inventory(It'll show your apps, but you can also rig it(If you're on a camping trip) to show what's in your backpack(but you have to input it all manually)), Pings(It'll literally be a map you can save various points on), blueprints(I don't even know What I'm doing for this one. maybe the app store), @DaveyNY maybe a science tab, A data bank entry tab(I'm going to make some algorithims so that you can save a page online and it'll be saved in the data bank(or if it's on a fandom wiki, the text will be saved)), A log tab(Showing the latest news?), and a photo tab(Showing, you guessed it, Photos), and I was going to make it so that you could add or decrease the number of tabs you had on your PDA(You could even have multiple of one), so that you could fully personalise it. So your tab idea would make that a whole lot easier to implement. Thanks.

Kouji_San · September 2017

Would be neat if you'd have the VOX in there somehow

AnomalyDetected · September 2017

Kouji_San wrote: »

Would be neat if you'd have the VOX in there somehow

Idea:

Make an optional button in the app to play some PDA alerts. Maybe some of the random Dialogue or a few other lines.

nesrak1 · September 2017

Recursion wrote: »

Because unity only supports rectangular buttons, and the only way you can make the rhombus buttons is to buy a $35 asset from the asset store.

I wouldn't recommend using unity for gui only applications...
But then again, what do I know? Bethesda uses unity 4 (way after unity 5 was released) for their pipboy app with a flash wrapper

Recursion · September 2017

AnomalyDetected wrote: »

Kouji_San wrote: »

Would be neat if you'd have the VOX in there somehow

Idea:

Make an optional button in the app to play some PDA alerts. Maybe some of the random Dialogue or a few other lines.

Actually, that could be a thing on the science tab.

Obraxis · September 2017

You will need to email charlie [at] unknownworlds.com to seek permission I do believe.

Recursion · September 2017

Obraxis wrote: »

You will need to email charlie [at] unknownworlds.com to seek permission I do believe.

@Obraxis , thanks for the info. So, just to make sure, I should put in this email address:"xxxxxxxxxxxxxx"?
Never mind the xses. I messed up bad.

Kouji_San · September 2017

Recursion wrote: »

Obraxis wrote: »

You will need to email charlie [at] unknownworlds.com to seek permission I do believe.

@Obraxis , thanks for the info. So, just to make sure, I should put in this email address:"charlie@unknownworlds.com"?

Yep charlie [at] unknownworlds.com, which is Charlie @Flayra Cleveland, co-founder of UWE (along with our main man @Max Mcguire)

We tend to do the [at] thing to avoid spam. But hey, his email is probably all over the internet in the creepy hand of spambots already

Recursion · September 2017

He said Yes! I'll move this discussion over to a different thread.

Soul_Rider · September 2017

Recursion wrote: »

That actually would make switching the tabs so much easier, Because unity only supports rectangular buttons, and the only way you can make the rhombus buttons is to buy a $35 asset from the asset store.

@Recursion try the script in this thread, it's free, and with a little tinkering, works in the latest versions of Unity...

https://forum.unity.com/threads/none-rectangle-shaped-button.263684/

I've posted the script below..

using UnityEngine;
using UnityEngine.UI;
 
[RequireComponent(typeof(RectTransform))]
[RequireComponent(typeof(Image))]
public class RaycastMask : MonoBehaviour, ICanvasRaycastFilter
{
    private Image _image;
    private Sprite _sprite;
 
    void Start ()
    {
        _image = GetComponent<Image>();
    }
 
    public bool IsRaycastLocationValid(Vector2 sp, Camera eventCamera)
    {
        _sprite = _image.sprite;
 
        var rectTransform = (RectTransform)transform;
        Vector2 localPositionPivotRelative;
        RectTransformUtility.ScreenPointToLocalPointInRectangle((RectTransform) transform, sp, eventCamera, out localPositionPivotRelative);
 
        // convert to bottom-left origin coordinates
        var localPosition = new Vector2(localPositionPivotRelative.x + rectTransform.pivot.x*rectTransform.rect.width,
            localPositionPivotRelative.y + rectTransform.pivot.y*rectTransform.rect.height);
     
        var spriteRect = _sprite.textureRect;
        var maskRect = rectTransform.rect;
 
        var x = 0;
        var y = 0;
        // convert to texture space
        switch (_image.type)
        {
         
            case Image.Type.Sliced:
            {
                var border = _sprite.border;
                // x slicing
                if (localPosition.x < border.x)
                {
                    x = Mathf.FloorToInt(spriteRect.x + localPosition.x);
                }
                else if (localPosition.x > maskRect.width - border.z)
                {
                    x = Mathf.FloorToInt(spriteRect.x + spriteRect.width - (maskRect.width - localPosition.x));
                }
                else
                {
                    x = Mathf.FloorToInt(spriteRect.x + border.x +
                                         ((localPosition.x - border.x)/
                                         (maskRect.width - border.x - border.z)) *
                                         (spriteRect.width - border.x - border.z));
                }
                // y slicing
                if (localPosition.y < border.y)
                {
                    y = Mathf.FloorToInt(spriteRect.y + localPosition.y);
                }
                else if (localPosition.y > maskRect.height - border.w)
                {
                    y = Mathf.FloorToInt(spriteRect.y + spriteRect.height - (maskRect.height - localPosition.y));
                }
                else
                {
                    y = Mathf.FloorToInt(spriteRect.y + border.y +
                                         ((localPosition.y - border.y) /
                                         (maskRect.height - border.y - border.w)) *
                                         (spriteRect.height - border.y - border.w));
                }
            }
                break;
            case Image.Type.Simple:
            default:
                {
                    // conversion to uniform UV space
                    x = Mathf.FloorToInt(spriteRect.x + spriteRect.width * localPosition.x / maskRect.width);
                    y = Mathf.FloorToInt(spriteRect.y + spriteRect.height * localPosition.y / maskRect.height);
                }
                break;
        }
 
        // destroy component if texture import settings are wrong
        try
        {
            return _sprite.texture.GetPixel(x,y).a > 0;
        }
        catch (UnityException e)
        {
            Debug.LogError("Mask texture not readable, set your sprite to Texture Type 'Advanced' and check 'Read/Write Enabled'");
            Destroy(this);
            return false;
        }
    }
}

There is also a link to a $15 asset in that thread if you want to buy one.

Recursion · September 2017

Soul_Rider wrote: »

Recursion wrote: »

That actually would make switching the tabs so much easier, Because unity only supports rectangular buttons, and the only way you can make the rhombus buttons is to buy a $35 asset from the asset store.

@Recursion try the script in this thread, it's free, and with a little tinkering, works in the latest versions of Unity...

https://forum.unity.com/threads/none-rectangle-shaped-button.263684/

I've posted the script below..

using UnityEngine;
using UnityEngine.UI;
 
[RequireComponent(typeof(RectTransform))]
[RequireComponent(typeof(Image))]
public class RaycastMask : MonoBehaviour, ICanvasRaycastFilter
{
    private Image _image;
    private Sprite _sprite;
 
    void Start ()
    {
        _image = GetComponent<Image>();
    }
 
    public bool IsRaycastLocationValid(Vector2 sp, Camera eventCamera)
    {
        _sprite = _image.sprite;
 
        var rectTransform = (RectTransform)transform;
        Vector2 localPositionPivotRelative;
        RectTransformUtility.ScreenPointToLocalPointInRectangle((RectTransform) transform, sp, eventCamera, out localPositionPivotRelative);
 
        // convert to bottom-left origin coordinates
        var localPosition = new Vector2(localPositionPivotRelative.x + rectTransform.pivot.x*rectTransform.rect.width,
            localPositionPivotRelative.y + rectTransform.pivot.y*rectTransform.rect.height);
     
        var spriteRect = _sprite.textureRect;
        var maskRect = rectTransform.rect;
 
        var x = 0;
        var y = 0;
        // convert to texture space
        switch (_image.type)
        {
         
            case Image.Type.Sliced:
            {
                var border = _sprite.border;
                // x slicing
                if (localPosition.x < border.x)
                {
                    x = Mathf.FloorToInt(spriteRect.x + localPosition.x);
                }
                else if (localPosition.x > maskRect.width - border.z)
                {
                    x = Mathf.FloorToInt(spriteRect.x + spriteRect.width - (maskRect.width - localPosition.x));
                }
                else
                {
                    x = Mathf.FloorToInt(spriteRect.x + border.x +
                                         ((localPosition.x - border.x)/
                                         (maskRect.width - border.x - border.z)) *
                                         (spriteRect.width - border.x - border.z));
                }
                // y slicing
                if (localPosition.y < border.y)
                {
                    y = Mathf.FloorToInt(spriteRect.y + localPosition.y);
                }
                else if (localPosition.y > maskRect.height - border.w)
                {
                    y = Mathf.FloorToInt(spriteRect.y + spriteRect.height - (maskRect.height - localPosition.y));
                }
                else
                {
                    y = Mathf.FloorToInt(spriteRect.y + border.y +
                                         ((localPosition.y - border.y) /
                                         (maskRect.height - border.y - border.w)) *
                                         (spriteRect.height - border.y - border.w));
                }
            }
                break;
            case Image.Type.Simple:
            default:
                {
                    // conversion to uniform UV space
                    x = Mathf.FloorToInt(spriteRect.x + spriteRect.width * localPosition.x / maskRect.width);
                    y = Mathf.FloorToInt(spriteRect.y + spriteRect.height * localPosition.y / maskRect.height);
                }
                break;
        }
 
        // destroy component if texture import settings are wrong
        try
        {
            return _sprite.texture.GetPixel(x,y).a > 0;
        }
        catch (UnityException e)
        {
            Debug.LogError("Mask texture not readable, set your sprite to Texture Type 'Advanced' and check 'Read/Write Enabled'");
            Destroy(this);
            return false;
        }
    }
}

There is also a link to a $15 asset in that thread if you want to buy one.

Thanks, but I'm using @AnomalyDetected 's idea with the bar.

Question for Devs(Not about multiplayer or anything like that)

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