Chat Text Bubbles over Player Characters?

[MicahZerrshia]

They already addressed this and said it was a no go iirc.

But I mean if your eyesight is not good and your peripheral vision cannot pick up text scroll so you know to look at your chat box, which is the only way I can process the chat box being in the corner as being an issue, one solution to this would be to create that 4th chat box we can use, set it to just show say yell tell etc. adjust the font size and color to how you want it, turn background transparency to 100% then just place it somewhere more central on your screen so you can see everything in real time without having to move your eyes. The ways in which we can change and adjust the UI in this game are almost endless.

And if it's hard to see 1 msg or name amongst what has to be a crazy amount of players and spam bots on your server compared to mine if it takes you more than a few seconds, much less 10 minutes to find 1 name in the mix, floating text is not going to help that, esp in super crowded areas where those spam bots are just going to create even more clutter even if you have distance turned on, esp considering how long their msgs can be. I mean if you are near anyone advertising their fc or an rmt pushing their wares, even on the smallest text setting their msg is going to take up a significant portion of your screen's real estate. Also considering how fast they would have to disappear to prevent your game from coming to a standstill in crowded areas, it would be difficult to read anything but a brief "hello how are you" anyway.

I have a separate box just for chat so I don't miss anything and it works beautifully. Although it keep it in the corner anyway since I can rely on my peripheral vision to see when a msg pops up and its easy to glance down to read. But if your eyesight is bad, this may help.

[BrachyXIV]

They already addressed this and said it was a no go iirc.

But I mean if your eyesight is not good and your peripheral vision cannot pick up text scroll so you know to look at your chat box, which is the only way I can process the chat box being in the corner as being an issue, one solution to this would be to create that 4th chat box we can use, set it to just show say yell tell etc. adjust the font size and color to how you want it, turn background transparency to 100% then just place it somewhere more central on your screen so you can see everything in real time without having to move your eyes. The ways in which we can change and adjust the UI in this game are almost endless.

And if it's hard to see 1 msg or name amongst what has to be a crazy amount of players and spam bots on your server compared to mine if it takes you more than a few seconds, much less 10 minutes to find 1 name in the mix, floating text is not going to help that, esp in super crowded areas where those spam bots are just going to create even more clutter even if you have distance turned on, esp considering how long their msgs can be. I mean if you are near anyone advertising their fc or an rmt pushing their wares, even on the smallest text setting their msg is going to take up a significant portion of your screen's real estate. Also considering how fast they would have to disappear to prevent your game from coming to a standstill in crowded areas, it would be difficult to read anything but a brief "hello how are you" anyway.

I have a separate box just for chat so I don't miss anything and it works beautifully. Although it keep it in the corner anyway since I can rely on my peripheral vision to see when a msg pops up and its easy to glance down to read. But if your eyesight is bad, this may help.

I have found NOTHING about developers addressing Chat/Text bubbles would you mind directing me to this?

Yes, it's hard to read names following messages especially when a lot of people are talking and you have to double check to see the name attached to the rest of the message. I would love for this Roleplaying game to have character stalking, not a Text Log.

[MicahZerrshia]

I have found NOTHING about developers addressing Chat/Text bubbles would you mind directing me to this?

Yes, it's hard to read names following messages especially when a lot of people are talking and you have to double check to see the name attached to the rest of the message. I would love for this Roleplaying game to have character stalking, not a Text Log.

I'm not digging for it either. Yoshida does so many interviews with so many different media outlets every year that it is hard to find very specific answers about topics that are not really something the community at large wants or the game needs and therefore are only addressed offhandedly if that interviewer happens to ask about it directly for whatever reason.

[BrachyXIV]

I'm not digging for it either. Yoshida does so many interviews with so many different media outlets every year that it is hard to find very specific answers about topics that are not really something the community at large wants or the game needs and therefore are only addressed offhandedly if that interviewer happens to ask about it directly for whatever reason.

Well that doesn't help to this argument. The closest to a quote I could find was someone saying they addressed it during the BETA, you know.. 1.0 when rendering the game at all was an achievement.

[Iscah]

I'm not digging for it either. Yoshida does so many interviews with so many different media outlets every year that it is hard to find very specific answers about topics that are not really something the community at large wants or the game needs and therefore are only addressed offhandedly if that interviewer happens to ask about it directly for whatever reason.

Well that doesn't help to this argument. The closest to a quote I could find was someone saying they addressed it during the BETA, you know.. 1.0 when rendering the game at all was an achievement.

Scroll up. Rongway already posted the relevant interview (from October 2020) hours before you had this conversation about how you don't know where to find the interview.

[BrachyXIV]

Scroll up. Rongway already posted the relevant interview (from October 2020) hours before you had this conversation about how you don't know where to find the interview.

You mean the one I also replied to? where they talk about more icons for your permanently placed name tag and what can be drawn on it? Which has nothing to do with Chat Bubbles popping as that is already a thing happening on NPCs?

[Iscah]

You mean the one I also replied to? where they talk about more icons for your permanently placed name tag and what can be drawn on it? Which has nothing to do with Chat Bubbles popping as that is already a thing happening on NPCs?

It does have something to do with chat bubbles because they are likewise, as was highlighted in the quote, "a 2D interface element displayed based on a character’s 3D coordinates, which is more resource-intensive than it may seem".

It happens sparingly on NPCs in pre-programmed situations, and they've allowed for whatever system resources that needs, but that doesn't automatically mean they can let it work freely for players as well.

[MicahZerrshia]

Well that doesn't help to this argument. The closest to a quote I could find was someone saying they addressed it during the BETA, you know.. 1.0 when rendering the game at all was an achievement.

No, this was during shadowbringers. But again I am not searching for it just to prove it to someone on the forums. I was just trying to provide some feedback, you either take it or you don't. But don't expect to see this anytime soon, if ever, for multiple reasons that have been laid out for you.

[Mattgamerff14]

I have found NOTHING about developers addressing Chat/Text bubbles would you mind directing me to this?

Yes, it's hard to read names following messages especially when a lot of people are talking and you have to double check to see the name attached to the rest of the message. I would love for this Roleplaying game to have character stalking, not a Text Log.

I totally agree. like in wow ppl talk with speech bubbles above there head and it totally works in that game, why can't it work here