I think it looks best here: because the squad leader is larger. once you use the hud like 2 times, you won't need RESOURCES. I like the commander Icon, thats pretty. I think the stars look better than the BE and NF icons in those positions would look. looks really nice.
Here one with seperated bars for more oversight. No stars here so you can see how it would look like. I prefer the version with more more room for the squad leader to because it looks nicer Give me a resources icon and i replace it, the one ive found looks very random and is not good identifiable So i think we are close to finish it. The main questions still in the room are: Still to cluttered up? Icon for Commander + Resources Healthbar ok? More Room for the squad leader.
I think that looks pretty much perfect now. As an aesthetic thought, with the HP bars, you could possible bring back the green to go with the red dead bars to alleviate the blue somewhat.
Do you mean i should replace the blue curved thingy or what, sorry i dont understand what you exactly mean. Btw: Two Squad GUI Gimmicks, one old and one new. What do you think? Ok different aproach on the health bars Exactly health in numbers and 3 colors for, green healthy / light wounded (100-80), orange medium wounded (79-30), red near dead (29-0) and a skull for the dead.
I like the ideas but the images are still to bubbly. They are way to close to a cartoon to see this in game.
Ok personal i think its not to cartoony but i think that should the forum decide. I could make a "realistic" hud like with iron bars and stuff brenodi style but such things dont look good if you make them tranparent. I think we need a transparent hud because the minimap takes away a huge part of your screen so every free place is valuably. Here ingame with 50% transparent. We need such strong colors because softer ones disappear if you make them tranparent. I bitchslap everyone to death that whines because its a brenodi GUI and a northern faction weapon.
No, the HUD looks really nice, but the icon you had for tanks looked like bubbles. The weapons kind of have the same effect but not as much as the tanks.
Give me examples of icons u like (not just cyberkuh, everyone) or tell me games in which you liked the icons...
http://img100.imageshack.us/my.php?image=squadmenugimmicksha4.jpg The tanks there, and the airplanes. I don't like any of the icons you use for them, they are just so child looking. I like the style of the GUI, just the icons needs a bit of an update. Something that looks a bit like a tank would be nice, just higher quality of this little one.
AND NOW we come to the core-problem of not childisy icons. We need icons that are recocnizable on every background (you know 50% transparent). Childish stuff is nothing more than reducing something to the major shapes of it. For "adult" icons i need more space for more detail but we dont have enough space. And remember all icons in empires have one or two colors. second one is a 1 to 1 white/grey copy of your gif file
Resource counter should go to right of the commander name, or to the upper-right corner of the screen. Currently it wastes A LOT of space just to display one two numbers.
Atm I think its a good compromise beetween a cleaned up gui and a compact gui. You need the empty space at the "comm name place" for comm with long names. Give me a Resource Icon and i throw away the word. BACK TO THE PROBLEMS: The main questions are: Still to cluttered up? Icon for Commander + Resources Healthbar ok? More Room for the squad leader. Icons to cartoony? This Thread has a lot of views so I guess we have a pretty bunch of lurkers arround here. So go and tell me what you think.
I have to say that I like what I saw in the last post. I like the team symbols next to the Squad, and the new version with the statement Join a Squad if you weren't in one is a good addition. I like the new health bar style, It still has a color scheme to it, and you can easily tell the health of your squad, and looks cool still. Everything is easy to find the first time I look at it after about 2 seconds of looking at the hud, then its just a quick glance to see what I need. I like the skull symbol for dead squadies. To be honest though, the symbol for the tanks and aircraft do look a little cartoonish, and I think you should add a resource symbol to cut down on some the area used by the resource gauge, and I don't think we need 8 digits there. But a symbol would cut that I guess so. Otherwise I like this, and can't wait to see what you do squad skills section of the drop down.
Too Cartoony... Use the engy calc crosshair, scout sabbotage and the rank medals as refrence to what they should look like. (Even though those by themselves do look good; they would fit alot better in TF2 instead of Empires :p)
I like as well, but we could take examples from those achievement award icons in portal, tf2 etc etc and remake them into our own liking As well as that, for those hardcore empire fans, you should allow the game to switch from icons to text in options
