In-game GUI

[Gawian]

Well here my in-game GUI and well I wanted to know what people thought of it so give me opinions (I know the health and magic bars don't fit :? )

[Andrew]

I like the transparent Menu. The hotkey bar is bland though.

[Dark Echo]

Make the hotkey bar transparent, dont make the hotkeys transparent though and it would look a lot better.. So far so good mate.. I like it.. :wink: Really goes well with the other menus..

[Vans]

Things are way too big and take a lot of space

[Gawian]

well the menu closes so theres some space there but I see what your saying I changed the Hp and Mp bars and I like them alot more and I also I'm between two styles one takes less space and it looks nice but the other seems to match better any way opinions please....
style 1


style 2

[Vans]

whats with that giant photoshop shape down there? it looks ugly to me ¬¬

[Leighland]

http://images.google.ca/images?hl=en&q= ... ages&gbv=2

That happens to be the symbol for the Quebec flag (which is where i was born), among other things.

[Gawian]

I don't know could really think what to put for a menu button you click the center one it brings up the menu you see above it, click the one on the right hides the tool bar click the one on the left it hides the whole gui, im open for suggestions as to a better menu button

[halla]

Some reason your images wont ever load for me

and vans I dont think I have ever saw you say a nice thing to someone

[Vans]

and vans I dont think I have ever saw you say a nice thing to someone

Maybe cause u dont do good things?

[Anthony]

I think it looks very nice, I like how you did the HP/MP bars, haven't ever seen that before. But maybe I would suggest shrinking the Quebec symbol even a bit more than in the style 2 and maybe make the menu appear when you press esc or something? I would give it a 9/10 . And Vans, you never do say anything nice... Ever .

[Vans]

you never do say anything nice... Ever .

check all my posts and then talk, if u dont know me then shut up

[Tony]

whats with that giant photoshop shape down there? it looks ugly to me ¬¬

Well well, doesn't everything look ugly to you? If your going to say something is ugly then tell him how to make it better, otherwise just don't say anything at all.

[Andrew]

The symbol's pretty big, and takes up a lot of space. You may want to make it smaller.

[Robin]

You did know that having it alpha blending like that is impossible unless yo want a laggy DX7 game or create a hybrid / full DX8 engine?

[Gawian]

which part robin?

[Matt]

Your menus.

Is he even using MS at this point or vbGORE?

[Vans]

Vans, say something constructive.

I did

[Gawian]

No that screen shot is not an actual in-game, I should have said so if that was unclear right now I have no idea what I'm going to use for a base source, but if what my mock-up is showing isn't possiable how can I make it so it would work in a mirage or mirage spin off engine?

[Andrew]

From the layout it looks like it would do well in Spodi's vbGORE

[Robin]

No that screen shot is not an actual in-game, I should have said so if that was unclear right now I have no idea what I'm going to use for a base source, but if what my mock-up is showing isn't possiable how can I make it so it would work in a mirage or mirage spin off engine?

As I said, you would need to add some DX8 capabilities.

DX7 does support alpha blending, but it is slow, resource eating and looks poor.

At one point I just had the base client with spells added over the top on DX8 polygons so I could alpha blend them and stuff.

[Gawian]

Hmm does vbGORE support DX8? If not is it a pain to convert mirage to DX8? If it is I don't know if I'd rather spend the time/money to convert mirage to DX8 because i hate vbGOREs map editor

[Vans]

Constructive = suggesting ways to resolve issues..

You were being more confrontational than constructive.

On a scale from 1 to 10 (1 being confrontational, and 10 being constructive) I'd give you a 3.

He actually asked for opinions not for critiques, and I said my opinion

[Robin]

Hmm does vbGORE support DX8? If not is it a pain to convert mirage to DX8? If it is I don't know if I'd rather spend the time/money to convert mirage to DX8 because i hate vbGOREs map editor

It's not hard to convert.

If you know Mirage pretty well.

You just gotta work hard at making it easy for developers because of texture sizes and what not.