Character Screen

[Elhoim]

I know, it´s the old character screen with a facelift. But if ain´t broke, don´t fix it

Suggestions are welcome, as always.

 

[Jasede]

Looks good to me. I think a horizontal stat bar is a bit questionable, but oh well. Also, personally, I hate white fonts.... I prefer dark green on black. But that's just because I am light sensitive.

Good work!

One flaw, but not your fault: "Mad scientists"!? WTF? VD, cut that modern crap out. Scientists weren't called scientists in the old ages; the scientific method developed veeery slowly.

 

[OverrideB1]

I tend to agree: if it ain't broke...

 

[The Idiot]

That background texture feels overused.

 

[spacemoose]

background just around the numbers should be darker.

 

[Elhoim]

I think a horizontal stat bar is a bit questionable, but oh well.

VD likes it that way

That background texture feels overused.

Maybe, maybe not. It´s only used in the dialogue and alchemy screens, and in the main gui. The other option would be marble, but it doesn´t work well with text. And I won´t add another one, for the sake of consistency between screens. Or maybe I will. We´ll see

background just around the numbers should be darker.

Good sugestion. Will do that in the fine tuning stage.

 

[Claw]

Jasede is right; it ought to be "mad alchemist" or some such.

Besides that, I never tire of pointing out that Dodge, Block and Critical Strike are, by definition, Combat Skills.

 

[Greatatlantic]

The General Skills section is a bit to "Busy" for my eyes. Maybe using a thinner font would help, but the bright white causes the block to blur before my eyes. Maybe moving some of those skills to Combat would help reduce the "white block" effect. Or, maybe having them take up an entire screen would be better.

Other then that, just looking at all the stats and reputations makes me very excitted about the game. I play for that stuff.

 

[Jora]

Besides that, I never tire of pointing out that Dodge, Block and Critical Strike are, by definition, Combat Skills.

The combat skills could just be renamed to weapon skills.

 

[Amasius]

Besides that, I never tire of pointing out that Dodge, Block and Critical Strike are, by definition, Combat Skills.

Maybe they should be renamed to Weapon Skills. The screen looks very good, especially compared with the original screen. Impressive work Elhoim.

 

[Elhoim]

The combat skills could just be renamed to weapon skills.

That´s a good idea. VD?

About the font, wait till we get ingame. Right now these are PS prototypes, and the text will be handled by the game, so it will end up looking different.

Well, here is one with a different background. I think it´s better. What do you think?



Number 1 or Number 2? Which one do you like more?

 

[Major_Blackhart]

Drop the mad scientist. Other than that, I've no worries.

 

[Claw]

The combat skills could just be renamed to weapon skills.

That´s a good idea. VD?

I don't think so. I wanted to keep my post short and to the point, but I said before that much like what Greatatlantic said I find the General Skills column crowded and aesthetically it would be an improvement to move some skills to the unused space under Combat Skills.
Besides, I'd prefer an overview of all combat skills over only all weapon skills.


I'd like to add that responding to my complaint with "just rename the left column" is on the intellectual level of an ESFer. Semantics aren't the point.

PS:

Number 1 or Number 2? Which one do you like more?

3.

 

[Jason]

The second one is better. I prefer having less detail in the background.

 

[Elhoim]

I don't think so. I wanted to keep my post short and to the point, but I said before that much like what Greatatlantic said I find the General Skills column crowded and aesthetically it would be an improvement to move some skills to the unused space under Combat Skills.
Besides, I'd prefer an overview of all combat skills over only all weapon skills.

I'd like to add that responding to my complaint with "just rename the left column" is on the intellectual level of an ESFer. Semantics aren't the point.

I tought you remembered what VD said a long time sho when you pointed that combat skills should be together

Perhaps renaming combat skills to weapon skills (which is more logical since it´s only about weapons and their synergies) and adding a small column under it called combat skills with those three skills would do the trick.

 

[Claw]

I remember it, but it never started to make sense.

Besides, do you remember my reply?

 

[Fez]

The second one is better, but listen to Claw and move the Dodge, block and critical strike to combat skills. That should balance out the two columns a bit more.

 

[Elhoim]

The second one is better, but listen to Claw and move the Dodge, block and critical strike to combat skills. That should balance out the two columns a bit more.

That´s not my call, but I agree it makes more sense. Anyway, there you go:



It´s a quick WIP, disregard any unpolished details.

 

[callehe]

i don't think it is necessary to keep the world UI at the bottom in the character screen, why not get rid of it and leave some space to fill out the char screen with some fancy art, patterns, ribbons, marble heads or whatnot. right now it looks way too clinical.

maybe make the skill description box bigger and fit in some fitting artwork in there a la fallout, if the artist has time and is willing, that is.

 

[Elhoim]

i don't think it is necessary to keep the world UI at the bottom in the character screen, why not get rid of it

Why not? Just because I like it.

 

[callehe]

well, i don't. now conform to my wishes you pointy headed UI builder you!


jokes aside, it's your call but i think it just takes up space and you can't do anything with it, i reckon better then, to create a little more space for some artistic freedom. with more space it'd also be possible to scale things up a bit.

 

[Fez]

That third one is much better. The move helps. If you hide the UI at the bottom that doesn't do anything then you have more room to display the Character screen and add or move around things for that instead.

 

[sheek]

Looks good to me...

All I'd say is that the 'stat effects' info looks a bit clumsy. I would have it show up at the bottom (where the alchemy desc is) when holding the cursor over the stat in question instead of on the page.

 

[Major_Blackhart]

3rd looks prettiest by far. That suits me just fine.

 

[Fez]

The last suggestion by sheek would work well too. The player would be used to waving the pointer at things for descriptions and that way it looks neater.