Well, crap. Am I the only one who actually likes the new (official) UI?
I wasn't impressed at first, but the more I look at it, the more I like it. I'm even liking the gold border, which surprises me.
Assuming that it will be moddable and customizeable, based on this thread I expect that we'll see the modding community do some even nicer things with it. But I actually really like it now. A lot.
Well, crap. Am I the only one who actually likes the new (official) UI?
I'm with ya! It's not perfect but who can expect it to be? Besides I thought for a long time that they were gonna keep it at BG2 UI, and I was gonna kill myself so I'm happy now c:
Well, crap. Am I the only one who actually likes the new (official) UI?
It's growing on me. The OP already said that the "pause" button with the clock gearworks was not going to look like that.
The screenshot doesn't shock me as much as it does some other people, because I've already seen and used a blue interface, as per the mod I posted about earlier.
I still think that portrait borders would be a good idea. And I don't think brown-on-gold is a very appealing color scheme.
But, I think that the width of the dialogue window is irrelevant, since any line of text that can possibly be displayed is not going to be any wider than that, unless you want to see paragraphs of text in a single line, which would give most people a headache, which has also been brought up, together with the invocation of newspaper and magazine columns to remind us of that trope.
And as has also been brought up, we are seeing a screenshot from weeks ago that took weeks to win approval from the Skeksis executives who hold the licenses to our beloved.
I think we should give Cam and Phillip and their party a break, and for AO's sake, stop posting stuff that might generate negative buzz! Do you want to see future attention to the IE engine and to the BG and IWD and PS:T stories or not? In the contemporary marketing climate of all business, internet buzz matters, a lot.
We should be focusing more on supporting our own community, who now have champions who have actually won an epic quest of wresting legal licensing rights out of "the Suits", and less on being whiny, nit-picking goblins and gremlins, who will wind up sabotaging their own interests.
Well, crap. Am I the only one who actually likes the new (official) UI?
I'm sure most of us think its ok, we're just getting neurotic waiting for more screenies.
I wonder if the lack of new screenies has anything to do with the negative buzz generated by all the goblins and xvarts in here? One of my pet peeves is people who cry "troll" to anyone who disagrees with them, but I am starting to think that this project could be defeated by trolls, which sadly include a lot of people who are supposed to love the game.
< casts Fireball at the goblins, xvarts, and trolls who are destroying Faerun without even understanding what they are doing >
I think that what this thread has demonstrated is the importance of customization. If the new UI will support anywhere near the level of customization that's being shown here, I call that a win.
Think I may as well throw my 2c worth in. I quite like, I like how they've kept the original layout of the UI unlike a few of the pictures a few others have uploaded, I like the blue and gold, I think together its a nice blend of the familiarity of the original UI and something nice and new. On the other hand I think the right hand bar is too cramped, especially compared to the left and bottom bars and I agree the text box is a bit too small. More importantly, lets see the other shots!! Where are they? (I'm soooooo impatient!)
@belgarathmth You are so funny, because me (and some others) post some screens, we kill the BGEE project ?... But in reality, in french BG community, at least 80% of the players are shocked by the blue GUI.
In BG2-tweak-pack, there is a cosmetic component for give to the commoners a mediaeval colors on their clothes (mostly variance of brown), personnaly i don't use it, but imagine the reaction of the guy who use this component when he saw the blue GUI ?!...
You can repeat in all your comments that you like the original GUI, that changes nothing, for most of the players this blue is inappropriate for a game like BG.
@belgarathmth You are so funny, because me (and some others) post some screens, we kill the BGEE project ?... But in reality, in french BG community, at least 80% of the players are shocked by the blue GUI.
In BG2-tweak-pack, there is a cosmetic component for give to the commoners a mediaeval colors on their clothes (mostly variance of brown), personnaly i don't use it, but imagine the reaction of the guy who use this component when he saw the blue GUI ?!...
You can repeat in all your comments that you like the original GUI, that changes nothing, for most of the players this blue is inappropriate for a game like BG.
blegarathmth's point: You are generating negative buzz by overanalyzing a screenshot and picking it apart. Kerozevok's counter-argument: But the blue looks awful. The blue. Oh man, the blue looks SO bad.
Seriously, I think blegarathmth is over-reacting a bit too but do you *honestly* consider that a worthwhile response? You literally made no counter at all, you just called him "funny" and gave him a statistic you came up with on the spot.
(Keep in mind I don't like the blue either. I just don't like your bloody attitude.)
New, high resolution GUI. The Graphic User Interface (GUI) has been completely unhardcoded, thus making it possible to overcome its inherent limitations in terms of resolution. Beamdog / Overhaul Games are currently working on a brand new, high resolution GUI drawn by BG:EE's Art Director Nat Jones and fellow artist Madoline Bee, which will be customizable / moddable to a generous extent (some limits still apply due to the original BG code's resilience to Cameron Tofer's attacks; hopefully, Cameron will manage to find a silver-coated machete with which to treat the old code post-ship, further expanding the GUI's customizability).
Though I understand what it says, I dont know what it means.. :-p
Does it means that we players can customize it?? it will easier for modders to mod it? both?? not clear...
Yeah, that's clearly stating the GUI will at least be moddable. Great news! Whether players can choose GUI 'skins' in-game, or make various adjustments such as to interface colors, textures, borders, layout, etc., remains to be seen.
@Kerozevok could you please point me to this research which shows that 80% of the players doesn't like the blue GUI?
I’m curious because first you wrote that French players were shocked by this color, then that players don’t like it. I’m very interested how sample was constructed and what was actual question asked to respondents ;/
I'm also very curious about the extent of this moddability. Will it simply be easier to change the appearance of the GUI (which was already possible, but complicated, as far as I understand), or will it even be possible to edit it's functionality...?
@Rhulqdahr well It’s not that easy to have a representative sample. If poll isn’t obligatory some people (for example those who doesn’t care much about colors) might be less likely to participate – then results would be biased ;/
But hey, research has been done already because @Kerozevok told us an actual number ;p
@Rush_that_speaks Rather than to be sarcastic, use your brain only 5 minutes, what's the GUI color of these games : BG1, BG2, IWD1, IWD2, PST, TOEE, Arcanum, Arx Fatalis, Morrowind, Oblivion, Dragon Age... Blue ? Green ? Yellow ? No, because these colors are inappropriate with a "medieval universe".
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Assuming that it will be moddable and customizeable, based on this thread I expect that we'll see the modding community do some even nicer things with it. But I actually really like it now. A lot.
The screenshot doesn't shock me as much as it does some other people, because I've already seen and used a blue interface, as per the mod I posted about earlier.
I still think that portrait borders would be a good idea. And I don't think brown-on-gold is a very appealing color scheme.
But, I think that the width of the dialogue window is irrelevant, since any line of text that can possibly be displayed is not going to be any wider than that, unless you want to see paragraphs of text in a single line, which would give most people a headache, which has also been brought up, together with the invocation of newspaper and magazine columns to remind us of that trope.
And as has also been brought up, we are seeing a screenshot from weeks ago that took weeks to win approval from the Skeksis executives who hold the licenses to our beloved.
I think we should give Cam and Phillip and their party a break, and for AO's sake, stop posting stuff that might generate negative buzz! Do you want to see future attention to the IE engine and to the BG and IWD and PS:T stories or not? In the contemporary marketing climate of all business, internet buzz matters, a lot.
We should be focusing more on supporting our own community, who now have champions who have actually won an epic quest of wresting legal licensing rights out of "the Suits", and less on being whiny, nit-picking goblins and gremlins, who will wind up sabotaging their own interests.
< casts Fireball at the goblins, xvarts, and trolls who are destroying Faerun without even understanding what they are doing >
Yeah ... that was way too much fun. Looks like a lot of work but most of it was just copied and pasted from older work
Oh and here are the portraits, from left to right they're roughly (ahem) Shar-Teel, Xzar, Safana, Viconia, Charname and Imoen.
More importantly, lets see the other shots!! Where are they? (I'm soooooo impatient!)
Maybe if we're lucky BGEE will be able to accommodate custom-UIs.
Something is wrong on this screen, can you find it ?
http://nsa30.casimages.com/img/2012/09/10/120910091912627470.jpg
In BG2-tweak-pack, there is a cosmetic component for give to the commoners a mediaeval colors on their clothes (mostly variance of brown), personnaly i don't use it, but imagine the reaction of the guy who use this component when he saw the blue GUI ?!...
You can repeat in all your comments that you like the original GUI, that changes nothing, for most of the players this blue is inappropriate for a game like BG.
Kerozevok's counter-argument: But the blue looks awful. The blue. Oh man, the blue looks SO bad.
Seriously, I think blegarathmth is over-reacting a bit too but do you *honestly* consider that a worthwhile response? You literally made no counter at all, you just called him "funny" and gave him a statistic you came up with on the spot.
(Keep in mind I don't like the blue either. I just don't like your bloody attitude.)
You agree with blegarathmth when he says that I am a xvart, a goblin or a troll, but you're shocked because I say he's funny ?
You are also a funny guy.
Does it means that we players can customize it?? it will easier for modders to mod it? both?? not clear...
I’m curious because first you wrote that French players were shocked by this color, then that players don’t like it. I’m very interested how sample was constructed and what was actual question asked to respondents ;/
But hey, research has been done already because @Kerozevok told us an actual number ;p
They liked those colors in medieval times. Especially green and yellow, easy to dye ^_^