It is probably related to the resolution you play in and the text size. I like to see the fidelity in the map art so I scale my game down to 1440 x 900 on my 1920x1200 24", and I find the width of the item description too large. If I were to play at 1920x1200 and increase the font size, I probably wouldn't feel this way since the item description window wouldn't be ~85% of my window width, but closer to 65%.
I'm in love with this ui... thanks a lot for your time and effort. Something is wrong with the screen for dead companions though... maybe it's the same with effects like fear, stun, etc... wasn't able to check right now...
I can think about if it can be done better, but I don't mind how it is done currently.
Well, I can understand that. It's your mod, after all. Though the difference in font size between charname for Priest and Wizard spells should probably be fixed regardless?
The Dead/Stunned companions screen is wrong. You need to press F11 and drag the box around the whole of the inventory screen (to prevent you accessing the character whilst they are incapacitated.
Also - @Pecca I fixed the colour issue. I had copied an old UI.menu inside an override folder into the same folder as my character saves. This was overriding the override folder in my main directory. (I hope that makes sense.... and it is VERY interesting).
Okay, I identified the difference, I'll include the fix in the next update. I removed these buttons because I don't use them, they were just taking space. Obviously this mod would tremendously benefit from customization, but at this moment it is what it is.
Ah, thanks, that works fine for the buttons in the right menu, but for the left menu, you changed the position so that the other buttons now overlap it. After tweaking it a bit, I decided that since they're all sorta menu buttons, it's nicer to just group them up:
Would it be possible for you to format the buttons in the bottom left, so that those seeking to enable them only need to remove the comment indicators, rather than messing with the position. It's not very intuitive how to get them to appear properly without moving the other icons.
Really like this. My only complaint would be the screens that are pressed way up at the top of the monitor instead of centered, like shops & inns, etc... it looks like an error and isn't proper visual design.
Really like this. My only complaint would be the screens that are pressed way up at the top of the monitor instead of centered, like shops & inns, etc... it looks like an error and isn't proper visual design.
Great work! Love this on an ultrawide screen.
It is a reported bug. Hopefully, it gets fixed soon.
nice tweaks. Are you planning to change the worldmap screen too? Maybe it's just me but I vastly prefer the way it worked in patch 1.3 (no confirmation button and red shaded animation instead of useless "destination unreachable" text that bloats the look of the map).
nice tweaks. Are you planning to change the worldmap screen too? Maybe it's just me but I vastly prefer the way it worked in patch 1.3 (no confirmation button and red shaded animation instead of useless "destination unreachable" text that bloats the look of the map).
I was messing with it in the 2.0 beta and it didn't work well, but I can give it another try. It's really bad in its current state.
Edit: I don't think I can change anything within the map area, unfortunately.
@Dee I would like to restore worldmap to its v1.3 state. But this is a bit of a code that defines world map: map
{
area 13 195 1000 564
worldmap
action
"
worldMapScreen:OnMapMouseDown(eventXCoord,eventYCoord)
"
actionDbl
"
worldMapScreen:TravelToSelected()
"
actionDrag
"
worldMapScreen:OnMapMouseMove(eventXCoord,eventYCoord)
"
}
I don't see much I can do with that (though I'm new to this .menu and lua bussiness so it's very likely I'm missing something).
@Dee, we are talking about worldmap, not local map (current zoom out feature seems nice to me, although "area map background" switch should be off by default, imo). In patch 1.3 the worldmap worked like in vanilla engine. In patch 2.0 there were several design changes and I think none of them improved the functionality: - you need to click on the icon and than click travel button to move into area which just wastes time, - the screen now uses white boarder icon which was previously unused (frame 4) for the above functionality, which look bad to me, - whole red shaded animation (frame 5 up to the end of bam cycle) is no longer used at all, instead we see "destination unreachable" text (this was a tooltip before), which is excessive when you have bam frames in gray and red shading for your disposal, - travel times which are not really important are now always visible on the map itself instead of via tooltips, - there is a black space below the map now (no matter what map size you set via wmp file) that don't have any purpose (?).
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btw. SoD worldmap icons have been saved into BAM v1 format (no support for alpha channel transparency and all icons in the file limited to 256 colors) instead of v2 (PVRZ based) which broke the look of them (empty pixels inside icons and quality hit due to color loss). Example: http://i.imgur.com/7AmFaKm.png Although this one is a bug, so I will make a ticket regarding it on Redmine.
Really like this. My only complaint would be the screens that are pressed way up at the top of the monitor instead of centered, like shops & inns, etc... it looks like an error and isn't proper visual design.
Great work! Love this on an ultrawide screen.
It is a reported bug. Hopefully, it gets fixed soon.
@Traycor That is quite easy to fix, assuming I understood the problem correctly. search for STORE_ and change the align center top to align center center for the follwing STORE_BUYSELL, STORE_IDENTIFY, STORE_DONATE, STORE_ROOMS, STORE_HEALING, STORE_DRINKS
Really like this. My only complaint would be the screens that are pressed way up at the top of the monitor instead of centered, like shops & inns, etc... it looks like an error and isn't proper visual design.
Great work! Love this on an ultrawide screen.
It is a reported bug. Hopefully, it gets fixed soon.
@Traycor That is quite easy to fix, assuming I understood the problem correctly. search for STORE_ and change the align center top to align center center for the follwing STORE_BUYSELL, STORE_IDENTIFY, STORE_DONATE, STORE_ROOMS, STORE_HEALING, STORE_DRINKS
The bug is the gap between the top bit and the bottom bit, in v1.3 it was one element centered on the screen, not two elements with a ton of space between them.
I think the STORE_CHOOSER has to be separate from the actual store else clicking it would force it to change itself. Also, with different resolutions defining the right place is tricky.
If you make the STORE_* change from 'top' to 'center'... You can then change the alignment of the STORE_CHOOSER bar up to the bottom of your main store window.
Not a nice way of doing it admittedly...
I'm not a graphics expert at all but that STORE_CHOOSER bar would then just need a little tinkering with...
PS - If you do it manually make sure to visit each kind of STORE to ensure all the CHOOSER buttons are moved (eg Donation, Identify, Rooms ... etc)
The math to center the store screen properly is this (with both elements aligned center top, change the Y coordinate): Upper panel: ([Y coordinate] - 710) / 2 Bottom panel: ( ([Y coordinate] - 710) / 2 ) + 598
You must adjust all buttons and labels with these values too.
I think the STORE_CHOOSER has to be separate from the actual store else clicking it would force it to change itself. Also, with different resolutions defining the right place is tricky.
If you make the STORE_* change from 'top' to 'center'... You can then change the alignment of the STORE_CHOOSER bar up to the bottom of your main store window.
Not a nice way of doing it admittedly...
I'm not a graphics expert at all but that STORE_CHOOSER bar would then just need a little tinkering with...
PS - If you do it manually make sure to visit each kind of STORE to ensure all the CHOOSER buttons are moved (eg Donation, Identify, Rooms ... etc)
As this is currently a confirmed bug that Beamdog's tracker says is in the works, I will hold off on fixing it myself.
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Less width, easier to read.
Also - @Pecca I fixed the colour issue. I had copied an old UI.menu inside an override folder into the same folder as my character saves. This was overriding the override folder in my main directory. (I hope that makes sense.... and it is VERY interesting).
Also, it seems your UI removes 3 buttons from the interface:
Would it be possible for you to format the buttons in the bottom left, so that those seeking to enable them only need to remove the comment indicators, rather than messing with the position. It's not very intuitive how to get them to appear properly without moving the other icons.
Great work! Love this on an ultrawide screen.
Edit: I don't think I can change anything within the map area, unfortunately.
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Leaving a concept by 861129 from codex for inspiration
http://oi39.tinypic.com/yfkuq.jpg
The local area map's "zoom out" behavior may be hard-coded, although that doesn't necessarily mean it can't be changed.
map { area 13 195 1000 564 worldmap action " worldMapScreen:OnMapMouseDown(eventXCoord,eventYCoord) " actionDbl " worldMapScreen:TravelToSelected() " actionDrag " worldMapScreen:OnMapMouseMove(eventXCoord,eventYCoord) " }I don't see much I can do with that (though I'm new to this .menu and lua bussiness so it's very likely I'm missing something).
- you need to click on the icon and than click travel button to move into area which just wastes time,
- the screen now uses white boarder icon which was previously unused (frame 4) for the above functionality, which look bad to me,
- whole red shaded animation (frame 5 up to the end of bam cycle) is no longer used at all, instead we see "destination unreachable" text (this was a tooltip before), which is excessive when you have bam frames in gray and red shading for your disposal,
- travel times which are not really important are now always visible on the map itself instead of via tooltips,
- there is a black space below the map now (no matter what map size you set via wmp file) that don't have any purpose (?).
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btw. SoD worldmap icons have been saved into BAM v1 format (no support for alpha channel transparency and all icons in the file limited to 256 colors) instead of v2 (PVRZ based) which broke the look of them (empty pixels inside icons and quality hit due to color loss). Example: http://i.imgur.com/7AmFaKm.png
Although this one is a bug, so I will make a ticket regarding it on Redmine.
That is quite easy to fix, assuming I understood the problem correctly.
search for STORE_ and change the align center top to align center center
for the follwing STORE_BUYSELL, STORE_IDENTIFY, STORE_DONATE, STORE_ROOMS, STORE_HEALING, STORE_DRINKS
If you make the STORE_* change from 'top' to 'center'... You can then change the alignment of the STORE_CHOOSER bar up to the bottom of your main store window.
Not a nice way of doing it admittedly...
I'm not a graphics expert at all but that STORE_CHOOSER bar would then just need a little tinkering with...
PS - If you do it manually make sure to visit each kind of STORE to ensure all the CHOOSER buttons are moved (eg Donation, Identify, Rooms ... etc)
Upper panel: ([Y coordinate] - 710) / 2
Bottom panel: ( ([Y coordinate] - 710) / 2 ) + 598
You must adjust all buttons and labels with these values too.