3 Small Requests for A Realm Reborn

[PEANUT]

This is what it should be, yes. A single common theme and color palette for all UI elements.

Right now the 2.0 UI has a futuristic style for the unit frames and health/resource bars with neon colors and sharp edges, a steampunk-metallic look for the map and minimap with yellow-gold colors, and a stock/modern UI with rounded edges and monochrome gradients for the chat menu and inventory/craft menus. It's kind of an eyesore.

It looks blue, but I think thats dark grey. Either way blue/grey w.e you should just be able to make it w.e color you wanted from a Config menu or whatnot. I think the menus in general should look more pretty ^^

[Alhanelem]

It looks blue, but I think thats dark grey. Either way blue/grey w.e you should just be able to make it w.e color you wanted from a Config menu or whatnot. I think the menus in general should look more pretty ^^

Other people might prefer a more utilitarian/minimalist appearance. They can't please everybody. They can have some options but too many options and you start to have a feature creep problem where stuff either doesn't get finished or gets delayed and delayed and delayed as they think of more things to add.

at any rate, I think the menus look fine. a nolstalgic style is cool but not really necessary in the end.

[Starlord]

Like this?

Looks blue to me... -.- hehe.

[KaMuiSouZou]

Like this?

Final Fantasy's usually allow menu color customization with blue always being a choice, if not the default, so I hope this blue version makes it into the final game as an option along with the default grey. Although I'd welcome more, I'll be happy with just these two at least.

When I use a gamepad I'm usually right next to my keyboard anyway, but you're suggestion could be useful. However, more than adding shortcuts to the gamepad, what I'd really like is an option to automatically hide names with the scroll button...

I am thinking the event tab in the chat log will have npc dialogue. Least, that's what I hope. I think I recall a dev response saying we would be able to get npc dialogue in the chat log somehow, but don't really remember...

[Len]

Like this?

The glare off the screen must be misleading you, because that's the standard gray. [x]

[Alhanelem]

The glare off the screen must be misleading you, because that's the standard gray. [x]

That's not gray. it's blue. No amout of glare (which is only visible in one small spot on the screen) could change that to be not blue. It definitely looks different from some of the earlier images we've seen, which suggests they've either switched to a different color or you can customize it.

I even used ColorZilla's eyedropper on that image over the game windows. Everywhere I click that isn't a piece of text or some nonbackground object is primarily blue (meaning there is more blue than red or green- the actual color is more "purplish". here are some color samples for your enjoyment:
rgb(71, 63, 112)
rgb(71, 57, 113)
rgb(45, 44, 78)

If that was "gray" the three numbers would be much closer to eachother.

[Len]

That's not gray. it's blue. No amout of glare (which is only visible in one small spot on the screen) could change that to be not blue. It definitely looks different from some of the earlier images we've seen, which suggests they've either switched to a different color or you can customize it.

I even used ColorZilla's eyedropper on that image over the game windows. Everywhere I click that isn't a piece of text or some nonbackground object is primarily blue (meaning there is more blue than red or green- the actual color is more "purplish". here are some color samples for your enjoyment:
rgb(71, 63, 112)
rgb(71, 57, 113)
rgb(45, 44, 78)

If that was "gray" the three numbers would be much closer to eachother.

It's gray, Nancy Drew.

Have you seen a single promotional image besides this one with a blue user interface?

[Gokulo]

This is basically the same UI just with changed color and the response to the blue-UI request.

[Wolfie]

This is basically the same UI just with changed color and the response to the blue-UI request.

I think functionality wise and the layout for the 2.0 UI is great.

I just don't like the completely mismatching colors and themes. It's not really a huge deal if they don't get to it, but at the same time, re-skinning the UI should not be a huge undertaking either.

[Pseudopsia]

I wouldn't want these by default. However, giving the option to customize it yourself would be good if it's not already there.

I do like the new chat bubble, the text is very clear to read.