UI Tweaking: Please Consolidate Modal Buttons
Nifft
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I made a thread over in General to gauge response, and it seems that I'm not alone in wanting some UI tweaks. Here's the old thread:
http://forum.baldursgate.com/discussion/17325/one-modal-button-solving-one-big-bg-ui-problem
BG(1/2) has a lot of different modal abilities which a character can attempt:
- Guard
- Turn Undead
- Stealth
- Detect Traps / Illusions
- Bard Song
These modal abilities share a couple of features:
- You can only do one of them at a time.
- Feedback about the ability is provided in the button itself (highlight around the ability, or greyed out for a Stealth cooldown).
My insight is as follows: since you can only do one of these at a time, you don't need multiple buttons. Let's just have one button for ALL modal abilities. You can switch which modal ability is available just like you switch between quick spells: right click (or long tap) to bring up a list of available modal abilities, pick one, done.
This will be hugely useful to the Cleric/Thief, but it will benefit everyone with more than one modal action, including every plain old Thief.
- - -
In addition, it would be great if the list of modal button choices were soft-coded for each kit, so modders could (ab)use them for various things, like:
- a Bard with two different songs
- a Necromancer who can Turn Undead
- a Cleric of Mask who has Stealth
Thanks, -- N
http://forum.baldursgate.com/discussion/17325/one-modal-button-solving-one-big-bg-ui-problem
BG(1/2) has a lot of different modal abilities which a character can attempt:
- Guard
- Turn Undead
- Stealth
- Detect Traps / Illusions
- Bard Song
These modal abilities share a couple of features:
- You can only do one of them at a time.
- Feedback about the ability is provided in the button itself (highlight around the ability, or greyed out for a Stealth cooldown).
My insight is as follows: since you can only do one of these at a time, you don't need multiple buttons. Let's just have one button for ALL modal abilities. You can switch which modal ability is available just like you switch between quick spells: right click (or long tap) to bring up a list of available modal abilities, pick one, done.
This will be hugely useful to the Cleric/Thief, but it will benefit everyone with more than one modal action, including every plain old Thief.
- - -
In addition, it would be great if the list of modal button choices were soft-coded for each kit, so modders could (ab)use them for various things, like:
- a Bard with two different songs
- a Necromancer who can Turn Undead
- a Cleric of Mask who has Stealth
Thanks, -- N
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