HUD Proposition (a wish?)

[Jonathan]

english.txt:

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game_menu_wallslength_text		Wall Length:
game_menu_wallslength_help		Length of the cycle walls in meters

game_menu_wallslength_infinite_text	infinite
game_menu_wallslength_infinite_help	Walls have infinite length

game_menu_wallslength_25meter_text	25m
game_menu_wallslength_25meter_help	Walls are 25 meters long

game_menu_wallslength_50meter_text	50m
game_menu_wallslength_50meter_help	Walls are 50  meters long

game_menu_wallslength_100meter_text	100m
game_menu_wallslength_100meter_help	Walls are 100 meters long

game_menu_wallslength_200meter_text	200m
game_menu_wallslength_200meter_help	Walls are 200 meters long

game_menu_wallslength_300meter_text	300m
game_menu_wallslength_300meter_help	Walls are 300 meters long

game_menu_wallslength_400meter_text	400m
game_menu_wallslength_400meter_help	Walls are 400 meters long

game_menu_wallslength_600meter_text	600m
game_menu_wallslength_600meter_help	Walls are 600 meters long

game_menu_wallslength_800meter_text	800m
game_menu_wallslength_800meter_help	Walls are 800 meters long

game_menu_wallslength_1200meter_text	1200m
game_menu_wallslength_1200meter_help	Walls are 1200 meters long

game_menu_wallslength_1600meter_text	1600m
game_menu_wallslength_1600meter_help	Walls are 1600 meters long

game_menu_wallslength_2400meter_text	2400m
game_menu_wallslength_2400meter_help	Walls are 2400 meters long

game_menu_exrad_text			Blast Radius:
game_menu_exrad_help			Destructive radius of the cycle explosions; walls will get destroyed inside this radius

game_menu_exrad_0_text			none
game_menu_exrad_0_help			no destruction

game_menu_exrad_2meters_text		2m
game_menu_exrad_2meters_help		Blast radius is 2 meters

game_menu_exrad_4meters_text		4m
game_menu_exrad_4meters_help		Blast radius is 4 meters

game_menu_exrad_8meters_text		8m
game_menu_exrad_8meters_help		Blast radius is 8 meters

game_menu_exrad_16meters_text		16m
game_menu_exrad_16meters_help		Blast radius is 16 meters

game_menu_exrad_32meters_text		32m
game_menu_exrad_32meters_help		Blast radius is 32 meters

game_menu_exrad_64meters_text		64m
game_menu_exrad_64meters_help		Blast radius is 64 meters

game_menu_exrad_128meters_text		128m
game_menu_exrad_128meters_help		Blast radius is 128 meters

1 meter = 1 GRID_SIZE

[Z-Man]

The units varied a bit during development; I think now walls are one unit high, and I always think of that being approximately one meter. Although you probably would be sitting, not lying, in my two-wheeled vehicle. As Jonathan points out, the length units for cycle walls are explicitly labeled as meters.
But subby is of course right, too. Since everything is supposed to be virtual, there is no real natural unit for length ( perhaps a "bit"? And "qbit" for area measurement? ), and instead of seconds for time measurements, nanoseconds or ticks could be used. I don't mind particularily.

[Jonathan]

So we have two units:
- Size: Meters or not, they are used everywhere in the game and equal to 1 GRID_SIZE.
- Time: Seconds both in reality and in the game (except during a fast finish). Actually the frame time smoothing makes the unit consistently slightly different in one direction (the HUD displays 52-57 fps when I'm getting exactly 60 due to vsync. I added my own framerate calculation using a rolling log as a proof).

[Sabarai]

i think he ment

nice to have another Dutch guy on the forums, and one(refering to jonathan) who can speak english in detail.

You're absolutely right i thought that was clear right away, sorry for the confusion Lucifer, but I tend to use Dutch grammar in English since I just think it's easier .
(Lack can speak English very good as well though, the fact that you didn't recognise that prooves or proves that )

My cheap shot, in case anybody missed it, was that Sab uses so many abbreviations that make his posts nearly nonsensible to me that I don't even read his posts anymore unless they're only one or two lines. "2" and "ur" instead of "to" and "your", you know. That's not English the way I learnt it in class....

Well, I didn't learn it that way either, but else it takes so long writing and i'm used to MSN Messenger and messaging in-game where the number or characters is limited. So when you want to type something, it oughts to be short because else it won't fit...