Artwork needed for Camera Input: Hands

[terracoda]

Over in #491, we are working out the words to describe how customize the hand movement.

Here's how I currently have it described

Customize hand movement.
[ ] Flip camera view of hands between frontal and horizontal views
[ ] Flip hand operation between mirrored hand control and opposite hand control

Here are some sample hand drawings

Sample hands from https://all-free-download.com/free-vector/download/free-vector-hands-human-hands_38058.html

Then connect a natural looking hand with the sim's hands... (working on an example)

[terracoda]

These are not very good. Just tryin to get an idea across for frontal camera view with the hands
Directly mirrored, or

Opposite hand control

[terracoda]

@emily-phet, could you elaborate on what you have in mind for a graphic?

[terracoda]

Maybe we need a sim screen in front of the human hands?

[zepumph]

This is blocking publication of the sim. What are the goals here?

[terracoda]

Personally, I don't think this should block publication as long as the text is understandable.

[terracoda]

Here's a rough idea with a screen in front of the hands.

[zepumph]

It isn't clear to me what artwork you are interested it. What size generally do you want this? Is it an icon? Something for the options dialog as well as the website if we were going to filter on it/put it next to sims that supported it? Perhaps the "screen" portion of it should be general and not sim-specific. Like two hands and a blurry screen background or something. If you were trying to have an image showing how RAP works in the options Dialog, then my ideas are not the direction to go.

[terracoda]

I hadn't considered a blurry screen. That's an interesting idea.

And actually, it needs to be very simple - iconic in nature and ideally black and white. I was just using the image from the home screen button because I can't seem to draw.

Ideally, a screen on an angle with hands in front would be good.

[terracoda]

Is this better @zepumph

Camera Input: Hands
With "cameraInput=hands" use your hands to move the sim's Left and Right Hands.

Customize hand movement
[ ] Flip camera view of hands between frontal and horizontal views

[ ] Flip hand operation between mirrored hand control and opposite hand control

[terracoda]

I think we may need better images of the hands, but I think we are getting closer to simple and iconic.

[terracoda]

Another options for

[ ] Flip camera view of hands between frontal and horizontal views

[terracoda]

@emily-phet and @zepumph, assigning to you both for comment.

[terracoda]

I like the original order now, too. Mirrored ot not mirrored - frontal vertical view or over-the-top horizontal view.

Camera Input: Hands
With "cameraInput=hands" use your hands to move the sim's Left and Right Hands.

Customize hand movement
[ ] Flip hand operation between mirrored hand control and opposite hand control

[ ] Flip camera view of hands between frontal and horizontal views

[emily-phet]

@terracoda Did you reach out to @Ashton-Morris about this? If not, I can ask him if he could put something together quickly for this when I have some afternoon meetings with him. JB is out so we'll have time for that.

[Ashton-Morris]

I am going to brainstorm and try to come up with some ideas.

[terracoda]

Thanks @Ashton-Morris, I forgot to reach out to you.

[Ashton-Morris]

I have tried with some various perspectives. What do you all think?

[terracoda]

These look way more interesting than the ones I hacked together.

I personally like the straight-on perspective as I can see the letters there the best.

[emily-phet]

I like the straight on perspective, or the upper left one in your comment above.
Let's have the sim hands look like the hands in the sim RAP, and distinguish them from the representation of the real human hands.
Also - if the dimensions of the screen could be narrower, that would be great. Right now it looks more like a TV than a computer screen to me.

[terracoda]

The one in the upper left was my second favourite

[Ashton-Morris]

Update: I have made it more like a monitor a bit. Also added the Sim hands.

Should the sim hands be intentionally red still or do you all think black and white only would be best?

[zepumph]

Since we have such good progress here, I'm going to mark this as blocking to keep the conversation going.

In terms of adding this to the controls themselves:

• We could make this a radio button group where the icons are the UI.
• We could add like a "double arrow" swap to the icon and keep the flipping checkbox
• We could highlight the "selected" icon when checked, and grey out the other.

@terracoda what are you thinking about the above icons?

@terracoda what are you thinking about the final form of the preference.

[zepumph]

Next steps here from a conversation with @emily-phet:

1. We like a "toggle" style icon UI, something like Color Vision or Balancing Act:

3. Create heading for the UI. Something like "Flip hands up/down" and "Flip hands left/right"
4. Do we need additional onscreen text in addition? @emily-phet and I aren't quite sure. This is a question for @terracoda, if so, then we need to figure out how to attach that to the heading/icon combo.
5. Solidify the images. I think that we should work with @Ashton-Morris to solidify the design and then we can give the idea to @mariahmaephet.

[zepumph]

Alrighty!

How's this?

I have a preference to keep things sim-independent. But I'm happy to keep this of you'd prefer. These options live best in common code, and not in RAP (other sims will likely want to implement features to flix these dimensions).

Let me know what you'd like to do.

[emily-phet]

Looks great!

I agree - it would be ideal if this info was general, but we struggled with that. So let's go with this.

[zepumph]

Alrighty. To cherrypick: The three commits above that aren't in Quad.

[terracoda]

Yep, looks great!

[zepumph]

Cherry picked and ready for confirmation in the new version.

[KatieWoe]

The control checkboxes are reversed in RC.2. The Y axis box switches direction and the x axis box switches hands. This is the opposite of what is described.

[zepumph]

Yes thanks. Let's pick this up and cherry pick it in #538. Everything here is done as far as I know. Thanks all!