New UI Project

[zturtleman]

After merging cgame and ui vms, I'd like to create a new UI (possibly along side q3_ui and team arena ui — I'm really tempted to scrap them after new UI is good enough to replace them though).

Goals

• Support Quake 3, Team Arena, RTCW, and ET (including demo versions) — using existing media.
  • (Game theme/layout would be chosen at compile time.)
• Separate menu structure and items from theme/layout, so it's easier to change them separately.
• Allow each player to open and navigate menus in-game at the same time.
• Improve game controller support (easier navigation, don't require a keyboard or mouse)
• Improve touch screen support (touchable HUD-elements, larger-less clustered UI?)
• Design for handling TV overscan.

Possibly

• Integrated HUD editor (item placement / toggle visibility)?

Team Arena, RTCW, and ET use non-free menu files to define the menus. I cannot legally redistribute modified versions to add splitscreen support and new settings as far as I know. So, a new UI is the only way they will get splitscreen stuff in menus.

[zturtleman]

Not entirely UI based, but better next map control would be nice.

Ideas:

• Option for auto map rotation (going through all maps for current gametype)? -- Turtle Arena does this by default, in game VM.
• Option to queue maps for play? -- Q3 servers typically do this using multiple "vstr"s and nextmap commands.
  • Could use this method for random order too.
• Make it easier to choose map after an offline match (Example: "Replay", "Change Map", "Exit to Menu".)?
• Add an option to let people vote for next map at end of network game (similar to Quake Live and Mario Kart DS)?