Archaic Journal for BETA 5.5 - Improved background to match Mage Book/Priest Scoll: The stock journal background was too dang bright so I made a drastic change. Hope you all like it.
Going to be packaging and testing BETA 5.5 tonight for release tomorrow! After 5.5 release you can expect to see 6.0 with the silver-blue button set sometime in early 2013.
@Archaic Personally I would prefer something more like this
I love your work but something that looks more like a contained window rather than one coming from the top of the page just looks better to me. Obviously this is a cut and paste job, but I feel that the the connection to the top of the page looks off somehow. I guess I just prefer a complete border around the whole thing.
I'm not too keen on the character's at the top. It's not a big thing, how often do you look at the load screen. I'm partial to a more colourful scenic option.
@cryocore - It may look better however there are many other variables to take into account: scaled and non-scaled settings limit design layout significantly. Making too many changes to window height and location creates a lot of design problems throughout the whole GUI. I've looked into it but ultimately I had to find a middle ground that works for everyone including: resolutions and scaled settings. Thanks for your feedback.
@Porcelyn - I may look into a more colorful alternative in a later release. Thanks for your input.
It is such a big relief having larger font for my non-saled 1920x1080 resolution. So much easier to read and the testing has been going great. I've been able to work out a few more bugs for the Bigger Font Mod and tweak it a bit before release with BETA 5.5.
@Coriander@CoM_Solaufein - I'm wondering if you can help me. Keep in mind I'm new to BG modding. Is there a way to add/move a button and its function from one window to another in a .chu (DLTCEP)? I can't seem to figure it out.
I'm guessing the function of the button is generated by the engine itself and thus hard-coded which leaves me no options to move/add it elsewhere? Thanks for your help.
@archaic I'm no modding expert, but from my own messing about i'm almost certain that kind of thing would be in the exe file, in the .chu file there is no information stored about what should happen when a button is clicked (e.g. set this variable, load this screen, change this colour) which leads me to believe all of that information must be in the exe. Without something like TobEx i'm not sure you could get the engine to do what you wanted.
@Archaic Yeah, the button functionality is totally hard coded. We're still going to work on a different UI system to allow more flexibility but it's going to be a while.
If everything goes well with the installer setup and testing then I will have BETA 5.5 available for download in the next few hours. Archaic Custom Inventory 1.1, New Journal, Mage Book, Priest Scroll, Save/Load Screen, Bigger Font Mod, and a variety of additional GUI tweaks. I'm sure I've forgotten a slew of other additional updates that I've applied along the way...many that you might not even notice.
The first page has been optimized for a cleaner viewing experience. Shorter page length with spoiler tags and easy navigation links to quick jump to each section of the page. Let me know what you think. Thanks for the suggestion @MurrayConfederacy.
Instalator lacks of preview images in it. I had to open this topic and check each options manually. BTW, few screenshots doesn't work. Can you reupload them? Thanks for this Christmas gift
@Etamin - You sure are hard to please. All screenshots should load/work just fine. I updated downloads with screenshots for your convenience. Merry Christmas!
Those 3 don't open for me. I'm not kind of man who easily praise others and i think it's not what you want. Constructive opinion is in my opinion better than "OMG, it's so good, i luv you, your my god " I noticed that you unified fonts in Record tab and tabs headlines and i appreciate this - looks much better. Marry Christmas to you too
EDIT: Links in this post now work, but when clicked in yours they dont O_o.
@Etamin the links work fine the issue is at your end. You say you dont "easily praise others" but showing some gratitude for the effort @Archiac has put in is hardly out of place. Just a little gratitude you know.
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The stock journal background was too dang bright so I made a drastic change. Hope you all like it.
Personally I would prefer something more like this
I love your work but something that looks more like a contained window rather than one coming from the top of the page just looks better to me. Obviously this is a cut and paste job, but I feel that the the connection to the top of the page looks off somehow. I guess I just prefer a complete border around the whole thing.
@Porcelyn - I may look into a more colorful alternative in a later release. Thanks for your input.
I'm guessing the function of the button is generated by the engine itself and thus hard-coded which leaves me no options to move/add it elsewhere? Thanks for your help.
I have feedback - the first post is so damned long. Is it possible to put the images in spoiler tags?
http://img252.imageshack.us/img252/6045/enhancedinventory20scre.jpg
BG Start Screen -Sword Coast 2:
http://imageshack.us/a/img707/2936/bgstartscreenswordcoast.jpg
Main Menu Screen - Sarevok:
http://imageshack.us/a/img252/9479/mainmenusarevok.jpg
Those 3 don't open for me. I'm not kind of man who easily praise others and i think it's not what you want. Constructive opinion is in my opinion better than "OMG, it's so good, i luv you, your my god
I noticed that you unified fonts in Record tab and tabs headlines and i appreciate this - looks much better.
Marry Christmas to you too
EDIT: Links in this post now work, but when clicked in yours they dont O_o.