Replace the class letter with icons

Replace the class letter with icons

Atm we have writen out class names everywhere (scoreboard)
or just a lame [E] [R] [G] (like in the squad gui)

why not change it to some nice looking icons like those:




Pros:

Better for new players
Better look than plain text
You can easily see it from the corner of the eye
more self-explanatory

Cons:

Coding
Nobody wants icons?

 

A little refinement on images and you have solid gold there.

 

Yes i know but i made them fast, just to make everyone understand what i mean

 

The icons You posted are far too big
Paste shrinked versions of it, displayed on a scoreboard screenshot.

I think it's good as it is now and I think it shouldn't be changed (but I actually use a linux console for a living...).

 

so do these go in the background of their names?

I would say they all need improvement BUT they're all good starts, but i'd improve all of them.

The grenadier one is the best, but if it were up to me I'd make it less cartoony, more straight.

The engineer doesn't actually get a spanner... I'd make it a calculator or spark or something, I'm not sure, i need more imagination

scout one, some wirecutters? the current one is confusing

rifleman one should be a bullet or rifle.

the idea of icons is good, but these ones need improvement in my opinion

 

You sound like someone that wonders why games dont use ascii for graphic anymore

Background of their names? dont know if that could work but that would save space...

Yes the rocket looks cartoony but its hard to make a stylized shape of a
rocket not looking cartoony.

Yes the engineer doesnt have a spanner but i want to use a icon that even
new players understand on sight what that class does.
A calculator isnt so obvious

Yes the binocular looks retarded. But a wirecutter? hmmm...
I dont want to make a sniper like icon for the scout.

A whole rifle isnt easy to identifiy at small size.
Each team has different rifles so i cant use a standart one...
Bullets look to random i guess and its hard to identify them fast i think

But i try to improve them

EDIT:

[img=http://img218.imageshack.us/img218/3666/lllle0.th.jpg]

Squad hud with icons, yes it looks cartoony and the rifleman icon is dump but
i think you can see what i mean.



New Scout Icon

 

great idea.

5*

 

Those are beutiful...

 

thanks



ok less cartoony and a better icon for the scout.

The new rifleman icon is better but im not satisfied with it.

 

you could replace the crosshair with a Bannana clip

 

Or just a banana. :D

 

Quick! Fire the Bananna-Cannon *foop*

 

I like the idea of class icons in the squad GUI, it makes it much more intuitive than just simple letters.

 

i like the idea too, this and the tech research custom icons. hint hint hint.

 

Good idea, will make the squad menu look a lot better.

 

This is good...another step on the class identifiers theme

 

... peach grenades, so everyone spams "I need BANANAZ"/ "STOP THE FRUITSPAM"
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My problem with ammo as an icon is that it looks to random.
Every class uses ammo.

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Research icons are alot of work, and its hard to imagine a different one
for every damn research we have...

 

How about a picture of a rifle?

edit:: or a musket?

 

I like. High-five!

 

Ive tryed several rifle icons but at that size it always ends with a "line" on a button... thats the problem