New update that will absolutely, positively not surprise any of you. We are no longer doing the overlay GUI. I have just finished compiling, building, and linking CEGUI(Crazy Eddie's GUI) into our project. Ogre already supports CEGUI so there is nothing we have to do on the side, and it already has support for scrolling lists and other tools that we need. Truthfully, we should have used this library to begin with, but stupidity and curiousity took over and we decided to use something new.
Naturally, I don't have much to talk about because the past few days have been filled with frustration from the Overlays, deciding on whether or not to switch to CEGUI, and then lots of frustration with getting CEGUI to work. Despite my past experience with this library, I, naturally, had troubles building and compiling. Next time I promise to have pictures of a semi-awesome GUI, or atleast the makings of one. Hopefully I will have that working by Wednesday so that you devout fans will have something to gawk in awe at.