Need advice - where to start to show game in continue

[jeanmichelbouchard]

Hi,
My camera is above the table. I'd like the game to show all the time on the screen and have the scores at the top of the screen, instead of showing a photo in background of the score. Do you have an advice about where to start looking in the code or how you would do it? Have you tried it already and dropped the idea because of performance issues?
Thanks,
Jean-Michel

[swehner]

There shouldn't be any performance issue - I think the chip will handle the video preview without issue.
You'd have to do the following at least:
Change the preview size by adding this to your conifg.py file (adjusted to your resolution)
camera_preview = "-p 0,0,1920,1080"
That should show the preview fullscreen.

The problem is that the screen layout for scores is not really confgurable, and has two modes: normal and overlay_mode (small counters top right). You can modify the counter size and position in normal mode here:
https://github.com/swehner/foos/blob/master/foos/ui/ui.py#L324-L333

There are some other components that would have to be changed, but that shuld be a start...