Ganthrithor
GoonWaffe Goonswarm Federation
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Posted - 2014.11.09 21:10:11 -
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There seems to be an issue with the rendering / layering of context menus: they render transparent, but seem to ignore UI elements that are "between" the context menu and the background. IE, if I have a window open and then bring up a context menu on top of that window, the menu itself shows the background behind it but not the contents of the window that it is rendering "over." It's like looking through a "hole" in the UI. Maybe this was intentional to give you a better view of the background, but it's a little strange looking. Here's a picture highlighting what I'm talking about:
http://i.imgur.com/6kftwDV.jpg
I really, really like the transparency effects, actually. I saw the screenshots in the dev blog and thought animations would be pretty in-your-face and annoying, but in actuality it's pretty... transparent (see what I did there?).
Have you guys thought about retaining the RGB-based UI hue selections? I like a few of the new color templates, but I still think that configurable colors are the right way to go, even if it "complicates" the UI. People can always elect to use a pre-set template if they don't want to mess with their color settings.
Also, have you thought about maybe defining window borders more clearly? When you've got multiple windows overlapping one another, it's sometimes handy to have higher contrast borders so you can easily distinguish between windows. Most modern UIs that do away with defined borders tend to compensate with a drop-shadow scheme. Personally, I find UIs that have neither clear borders nor drop-shadows kind of annoying.
Lastly (for now anyway), I did notice that the neocom icons tended to be difficult to see against bright nebulae. I usually play in nullsec where it's pretty dark, but in Jita those bright, blue-white Caldari nebulae really wash out the neocom and make it very hard to see. I think that icon bar may need a darker background.
Other than that, I think I like the new UI on the whole. I'm not a fan of the icons particularly (I just think they look extremely generic-- like everyone else and their dogs' "modern," flat, monochromatic icon sets these days. They certainly are more easily identifiable than the old icons, though. I think they'll work very well, and at the end of the day functionality is more important than having a unique-looking UI.
Edit: also, you should swap the icons for Journal and People and Places. Currently, "Journal" looks like an address book, while the address book (People and Places) looks like a Journal. #allthenitpicks |