WIP : A more newbie friendly GUI selection mode

[Azim-Palmer]

Intent

• Make it easier for people less intimately familiar with the game (like me) to find the right units in the selection panel.

Notes

• code is very WIP, the intent was to do just enough work to enable posting several variations of the icons and ask devs & community to help land on a design, then implement
• has an option in the Selection GUI
• default icon size has been changed, ( uniticon_size.value) - this will need to be reverted
• construction borders on builders isn't present

[sprunk]

The screenshot doesn't seem to show the icons in the selection panel but in the main worldview instead?

[Azim-Palmer]

The screenshot doesn't seem to show the icons in the selection panel but in the main worldview instead?

That's just an existing option I have enabled. You're right the icons aren't also on the selection panel which would be nice to help assist learning the relationships there

[sprunk]

Does this mean this line is incorrect and shouldn't say "and icon"?

Zero-K/LuaUI/Widgets/gui_chili_selections_and_cursortip.lua

Line 440 in 0e43272

desc = 'Show additional information on selected units, such as name and Icon',

[FrequentPilgrim]

This was the prototype screenshot I thought showed the most promise in terms of unifying the Selection Panel, Factory Build Panel, and the Icons used when zoomed out.