I'm planning to create some kind of "procedural" system for GUI graphics which in Kaduria's case are mainly window and gameview graphics. There isn't many graphical elements which is fine, because I try to change them to procedural versions rather than loading them from image data.
There are two ways to do this, easy and hard. In easy version you have some kind of graphical template which has colors you then replace with the actual color palette. In hard version you create the graphics by programming it.
It's possible to use both styles and that's something I'm probably going to do. For windows it could be easy to use the existing glyph data as a template and only create new versions for each color. If there were different kind of fonts then it would be better to create windows graphics that can scale to the font size, but in Kaduria the font is (hopefully) going to stay the same size to the release.
The procedural part in this case is mainly color. It's then easy to adjust colors to create better looking graphics, because color is important especially in GUI. Later it can be also possible to create different kind of color themes and even give the players an option to change colors as they wish.
I think my main goal for this month could be the GUI, because some things are still unfinished and when you have the GUI ready it's one less thing to worry about.
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