Stereoscopic 3D - Get Mouse Icon Depth or Adjust Global UI 3D Depth?

[Brusalk]

When running in Steroscopic 3D mode with the mouse in software mode the mouse will auto-adjust it's depth to the depth of what it's over in the game world.

This is great and all, but the problem I'm finding is that the UI as a whole just sits right on the screen which makes looking at UI elements quite hard with double-vision resulting from looking "past" the UI.

I'm trying to find a way to adjust the UI to where the mouse is so I'm curious if there's either a way people know of to adjust the whole UI depth, and/or get the depth of the mouse.


Thanks for any help you can give me!

[Deleted]

Technically, frames actually have a Depth property, but as most authors don't run 3D setups themselves, this property is rarely (if ever) used.

As for the UI dynamically adapting its depth to the game world, that won't be possible - the 3D game world isn't accessible to UI code, and there does not appear to be any flag for telling the game to dynamically adjust the frame's depth.

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Didn't see the part about adjusting the entire UI. You could try the following, no guarantees:

/run UIParent:SetDepth(10)

Play with the value until you get something that suits you.

[Brusalk]

Technically, frames actually have a Depth property, but as most authors don't run 3D setups themselves, this property is rarely (if ever) used.

As for the UI dynamically adapting its depth to the game world, that won't be possible - the 3D game world isn't accessible to UI code, and there does not appear to be any flag for telling the game to dynamically adjust the frame's depth.

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Didn't see the part about adjusting the entire UI. You could try the following, no guarantees:

/run UIParent:SetDepth(10)

Play with the value until you get something that suits you.

I was planning on doing something like that, but I was hoping there'd be some way to get the actual depth of the software mouse (as it obviously has to have a depth property somewhere for it to be able to move between near/far settings) so that I could auto-update the depth of the whole UI to match where the mouse was.

That in turn would let me use peripheral vision to see my UI elements without having the super annoying doubling that comes with attempting to see something closer to you than where you're focused. (Which is my main complaints with games).

[Syronius]

I was planning on doing something like that, but I was hoping there'd be some way to get the actual depth of the software mouse (as it obviously has to have a depth property somewhere for it to be able to move between near/far settings) so that I could auto-update the depth of the whole UI to match where the mouse was.

That in turn would let me use peripheral vision to see my UI elements without having the super annoying doubling that comes with attempting to see something closer to you than where you're focused. (Which is my main complaints with games).

Posted a reply to your thread over on WoW-I:

http://www.wowinterface.com/forums/s...191#post281191

'Hey Brusalk! Syronius @ Kilrogg in <Modest> here. You can play with frame depth if you'd like. I believe that's the only parameter available in the API to adjust the 3D position. As far as determining the mouse depth, I don't believe that's possible.


Since all frame objects eventually parent to the main UIParent frame, you can try using the depth parameter on the UIParent frame as follows:

UIParent:SetDepth(value)

Alternatively you can have a mouse tracking system that will change the depth of the UIParent depending on the position of the mouse (probably the best way to do this).


Here's a rough untested script:

local f = CreateFrame("Frame",nil,UIParent)
local scale = UIParent:GetEffectiveScale()
local centerX = ((GetScreenWidth()*scale)/2)
local centerY = ((GetScreenHeight()*scale)/2)
local delayInt = 0.2 -- Delay integer limits update speed


f:SetScript("OnUpdate",function(self,elapsed)
    delayInt = delayInt - elapsed
    if delayInt < 0 then -- After delay has completed run code
    
        local x,y = GetCursorPosition()
        local x,y = (x/scale),(y/scale) -- Adjusts for UI Scaling
    
        if (x < (centerX+200) and x > (centerX-200)) and (y < (centerY+200) and y > (centerY-200)) -- Center of the screen
            UIParent:SetDepth(10)
        elseif (x > (centerX+200) or x < (centerX-200)) or (y > (centerY+200) or y < (centerY-200)) then -- Outsides
            UIParent:SetDepth(1)
        end
        
        delayInt = 0.2 -- Reset integer after running code
        
    end
end)

[Brusalk]

Posted a reply to your thread over on WoW-I:

http://www.wowinterface.com/forums/s...191#post281191

Heya.

Yeah I guess that's probably going to be the best option.


I tried altering the depth of UIParent and it wasn't actually changing the depth when I would the successively call "GetEffectiveDepth" or even "GetDepth" after setting it, while being in stereoscopic mode.


I wish 3d was better supported :P

[Syronius]

Heya.

Yeah I guess that's probably going to be the best option.


I tried altering the depth of UIParent and it wasn't actually changing the depth when I would the successively call "GetEffectiveDepth" or even "GetDepth" after setting it, while being in stereoscopic mode.


I wish 3d was better supported :P

Any particular reason you play with 3D enabled?

[Magally]

Any particular reason you play with 3D enabled?

For fun? Why exactly do you think anyone uses 3D monitors, or watches 3D movies or uses he 3D on a 3DS.