Status Bar improved GUI

scott · Post by **scott** » November 30th, 2005, 4:18 pm

The outlines may have helped users see the color of the status bar over many different types of backgrounds.

-> What i might be working on · Post by **Eleazar** » December 1st, 2005, 5:28 pm

scott wrote:
Eleazar wrote:Excellent! That's the way to make everyone happy.
If you try this you're dumb. If you manage it, you're brilliant.

I'm not keen on the shrunk bulb, but if it's necessary, then it'll do.

Maybe i'll go for NOT making most reasonable people of good will annoyed at the change.

Anyway i had forgotten to take into account the "crown" (Leader icon) my tiny "bulb" won't work with that. Fortunately i have a better idea that takes care of it. Will post soon...

That blue icon that floats in the air above some "hero" units whose death equals loosing the level... Is that an official thing or just something some campaign developers have added? I've only seen it when the "hero" unit didn't have custom graphics.
My new idea would present that information in a different way, and i'd like it to automatically appear with all units who's death=defeat. (weather or not they have custom graphics)

scott · Post by **scott** » December 1st, 2005, 7:48 pm

The blue hero icon is something Turin and I cooked up trying to have it be normative in the user campaigns. It is accomplished manually by applying an overlay to each hero unit as it's created. We can certainly adapt to whatever you decide on.

Post by **Darth Fool** » December 2nd, 2005, 5:38 am

Eleazer: these look great, especially with the idea of having -8,-16,-24 colors for xp. post some rgb values and the base energy-bar graphics and I will put this in the game.

-> What i might be working on · Post by **Eleazar** » December 2nd, 2005, 2:04 pm

Darth Fool wrote:Eleazer: these look great, especially with the idea of having -8,-16,-24 colors for xp. post some rgb values and the base energy-bar graphics and I will put this in the game.

I'll mix them up this weekend (probably)
I'm also thinking of making a "bulb" icon distinction between "I've used up my MP, but can still attack" and "I can't move or attack."
Do-able?

Post by **Jetrel** » December 2nd, 2005, 2:09 pm

Great work, gentlemen.

Post by **Darth Fool** » December 2nd, 2005, 5:28 pm

Eleazar wrote:
Darth Fool wrote:Eleazer: these look great, especially with the idea of having -8,-16,-24 colors for xp. post some rgb values and the base energy-bar graphics and I will put this in the game.
I'll mix them up this weekend (probably)
I'm also thinking of making a "bulb" icon distinction between "I've used up my MP, but can still attack" and "I can't move or attack."
Do-able?

yes. It shouldn't be too much coding.

Post by **Noyga** » December 2nd, 2005, 9:13 pm

I tested semi transparent HP/XP bar here is a ingame screenshot with 60% opacity :

(note that the selected skeleton in the foreground has solid bars).

I think semi transparent bars are interedting since they don't totally hide the graphics behind.

For those who would like to test with trunk, it is patch #485 (with 50% opacity, which is IHMO a little too transparent... 60-70% seems great.
I added a comment that explains how to change it in the code).

guest · Post by **guest** » December 3rd, 2005, 1:07 pm

Noyga wrote:I tested semi transparent HP/XP bar here is a ingame screenshot with 60% opacity :

Nice.

-> What i might be working on · Post by **Eleazar** » December 3rd, 2005, 2:23 pm

Noyga wrote:I tested semi transparent HP/XP bar here is a ingame screenshot with 60% opacity....

i like it. I'm surprized at how well you can see the bar, and the unit behind it. I also has the advantage of making the selected unit more distict without the foot halos.

toms · Post by **toms** » December 3rd, 2005, 6:46 pm

Can you make it with a little bit shading on the side?
Then IÃ‚Â´d like it even more

-> What i might be working on · Post by **Eleazar** » December 5th, 2005, 2:53 am

I think these numbers will work for the *P bars.
I'm still playing with some ideas for how to set up everything else...

Health bar:
33,225,0
170,255,0
255,255,0
255,175,0
255,0,0

XP bar:
255,255,255
150,255,255
0,205,205
0,160,225

AMLA bar:
230,170,255
180,135,245
160,100,255
115,15,215

toms wrote:Can you make it with a little bit ahding on the side?

Have patience. One thing at a time.

Naeddyr · Post by **Naeddyr** » December 5th, 2005, 11:42 am

I would also like to suggest a quick idea: at the end of fights between units, the health of those units could be shown in a clearer fashion - eg. with floating numbers of some sort (though I can't think of any game, hextrategic or JRPG that does it that way). Possibly the health of battling units could be shown in a clear fashion beneath their feet - and thus, floating damage figures could be seen as being detached from the HP-floater below.

dtw · Post by **dtw** » December 5th, 2005, 9:14 pm

Can the recall/recruit stats also be updated to use the formatting now used in the status bar GUI, please

Post by **turin** » December 5th, 2005, 11:15 pm

dibblethewrecker wrote:Can the recall/recruit stats also be updated to use the formatting now used in the status bar GUI, please

And the dialogue for debug-creating a unit.

Basically, every time a description of a unit's stats is used.