>So I should at least find a way to display the current
>shield state & score.
>
>At the moment, this seems to be the minimum I _need_ to
>display and it seems it's already the maximum _can_
>display :-)
Heh, been down that road....
I wouldn't worry about the flicker in the radar, it does look like you mean't to do that....
IMHO - I wouldn't sacrifice any "key display area" (Radar or main viewscreen) for anything less than more "key display area". That is, I wouldn't decrease the size of the radar unless it mean't increasing the size of the main viewscreen (and vice-versa).
Fuel can be indicated as a bar in a scanline or two directly above/below the main view or the radar. As can the status of other things (Uh, heat, I believe you mentioned). Star Trek Strategic Simulator does this... If you can fit things to the left/right of the radar that's cool but I don't think you need to (The display looks good as is)
Do you really have to have the score onscreen at all times? Could you just display it between waves? (ie: Yar's Revenge). If you do need to display the score, you could
use a 5 scanline font (maybe less?) but it's still going to disrupt a pretty big chunk of your display. I dunno...
Chris...
Looking good, btw!
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