GUI for a game, character portrait
I want to design a GUI for a game I am writing. The GUI will primarily be displaying text; I have experience with basic Swing so far. Having carried out a few searches on this forum I have been unable to find anything similar to my enquiry, which is:
My question is regarding advice on how to go about adding a character picture section to the GUI.
A character can be very unusual looking both in skin tone and physique. There are programs like Poser and City of Heroes that allow the type of character morphing that I am aiming for; of course these are massive commercial programs :-(
If what I am wanting to do is extremely advanced, which I think it might well be, I will start with something basic, making lots of static 2D images, parser then to make a picture and then use hotspots, for example:
http://uk.games-workshop.com/spacemarines/flash%2Dpainter/1/
I would like the ability to drag items to and from a character portrait.
A feature not yet is the ability for a character will be viewed from any angle.
Is the Java 3D API Tutorial what I am looking for?
Any advice on where to start looking, and examples would be greatly appreciated.
Regards,
Richard
