A new screenshot approaches!
PhillipDaigle
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Hi friends.
We got approvals for 11 more screenshots today. Here's one.
The clock in the lower left is being worked on as we speak, with fancy new animated graphics. Look for more screenshots soon, perhaps somewhere on the internet.
Edit: I was foolish and uploaded it to Imgur, which has a habit of resizing images. Now it should be visible in glorious full size.
We got approvals for 11 more screenshots today. Here's one.
The clock in the lower left is being worked on as we speak, with fancy new animated graphics. Look for more screenshots soon, perhaps somewhere on the internet.
Edit: I was foolish and uploaded it to Imgur, which has a habit of resizing images. Now it should be visible in glorious full size.
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My birthday is the 17th , this comes out the 18th , so Happy B'day to me
Look-- @PhillipDaigle even put a picture of himself in the character portraits. Puh-LEEZE.
Looks great!
That's what I heard XD
Two things I'm not very pleased about:
- why that blue background for the UI and the brown/gold icons? It's strident and clashy and looks worse than the old background / icons;
- the portraits for the new NPCs look watered down compared to the original ones which are more sharp and colorful. Not possible to make them more alike thematically? We do know Neera, Rasaad and Dorn joined the fun with BGEE, there's no need for their portraits to yell it at us from the side of the screen at every glance.
Its kind of hard to make any change to the game because there will always be people wanting the original.
That being said, I think the GUI's skin is fully and (relatively) easily modifiable, so making it grey shouldn't be too much of a hassle.
Golden stuff was totally there in vanilla BG1, on the other hand.
Something like http://ylilammi.com/misc/bgee_ui_changes.png
But I like what I see anyway.
Dang... @AndreaColombo you are fast, I thought I was going to follow @Tanthalas
The pipe on the right side being modified is something that is very likely to happen, I don't think the battle log box change is likely to happen.
Apart from the clock still being worked on, IMO the UI golden line from top to bottom on left side should end at the same point as the one on the right and have the same style.
18th September still seems so far away!
Will be searching the net for the rest of the screenshots during the days to come before release.
- portraits look kind of strange without some additional borders (they were present in the original UI). IMO they are too close together now and everyone knows that Xzar doesn't like when others touch him or are too close to him;
- there is no border where the bottom bar of the UI connects with the right side bar thus making it look, again, strange. That's because the stone pattern of the bottom bar differs slightly from the pattern of the right side bar;
- the dialogue window is a bit smaller than the original when minimized, now we can't even see two full lines of text but one and about two thirds of the second one.
As I said, overall it looks very promising, just needs some minor tweaks. Also a question: I noticed that the font in the dialogue window is different, will it be possible to choose a font from a set of available fonts and/or pick the original ones?