Can we talk about Green UI?

[Danth]

Originally Posted by Ivory [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Here's the thing...most people didn't play f10 in the "totally classic semi transparent black boxes of boring".

I love that old UI too, but it is problematic on modern monitors. You cannot stretch it to widescreen without screwing it up somehow, for one. Even getting any kind of implementation to work right at all on Titanium requires some fairly technical, user-initiated /viewport commands (can't do it automatically with any known process) beyond the knowledge or ability of many users. P1999's admins were quite insistent that they want classic-as-practical EQ, but classic-as-practical EQ that'll work well on modern hardware.


Danth

[Coridan]

Originally Posted by Ivory [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Here's the thing...most people didn't play f10 in the "totally classic semi transparent black boxes of boring".

Yea, having a "classic feeling recreation" isn't 100% classic...BUT it is a LOT closer to the CLASSIC FEELING than these black boxes.

THIS is classic UI..... what people remember of EQ....not a cold black box found in some obscure 2ndary mode.....but classic late 90's roleplaying design that tried to draw the player in with a more comforting design.

Even if the "true classic UI" isn't possible....AT LEAST give something SOMEWHAT along those lines. Capture the feeling...not just shrug and go "well, not possible, so let's go for this 2ndary mode that looks ugly"

It's absolutely killing the feel of a classic EQ experience.


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LOL what? I was playing since June 99, I figured out F10 ui in about 2 days everyone used F10, people who didn't got made fun of. Running the stone ui on a 14" monitor in 640x480 you basically saw nothing lol. Hitting F10 was amazing.

[Mblake81]

Originally Posted by Coridan [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

LOL what? I was playing since June 99, I figured out F10 ui in about 2 days everyone used F10, people who didn't got made fun of. Running the stone ui on a 14" monitor in 640x480 you basically saw nothing lol. Hitting F10 was amazing.

I am not defending the guy you are responding to but just responding to your post. I used the stone UI up until the start of Kunark. So did the people I played with, no one made fun of anyone using the UI that I recall. IIRC my computer puchased in 2000 using the Gforce 256 would lag a bit when toggled to full screen.

You saw everything in the periscope that you seen toggled to full screen. It was the same image but larger. IIRC that is why periscope view existed in the first place. Despite it being the same image it wasn't so intensive on your computer, the stone UI didn't move around on screen.

[soronil]

Originally Posted by Mblake81 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

You saw everything in the periscope that you seen toggled to full screen. It was the same image but larger. IIRC that is why periscope view existed in the first place. Despite it being the same image it wasn't so intensive on your computer, the stone UI didn't move around on screen.

Exactly. traditional graphics pipeline first calculates the world in "world space" and then translates it to "screen space" where many operations are done by pixel. Less pixels, less calculation. The stone UI would be over 2x faster than full screen UI, which was a big deal for in-era hardware.

[loramin]

Originally Posted by Xer0 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

if people are getting offended by the fact that some people aren't 100% thrilled by the current iteration, that's a personal problem on them.

Do you even remember what you wrote?

Originally Posted by Xer0 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

That being said, the current UI is garbage. The farthest thing from Classic that I can possibly imagine. In fact it calls to mind my time during Luclin.

That was your very first post in this thread. You seriously think that if the volunteers ... who spent (collectively) hundreds of hours working on this new UI, doing their absolute best to make it as classic as possible, even though everything in Titanium was fighting them on it ... think that's rude, that they have a personal problem?

Really?

[aaezil]

Imagine feeling as entitled as OP

[deezy]

Originally Posted by aaezil [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Imagine feeling as entitled as OP

[Pogi]

Originally Posted by aaezil [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Imagine feeling as entitled as OP

Guaranteed the OP is a millennial Bernie supporter.

[whitebandit]

Originally Posted by Pogi [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Guaranteed the OP is a millennial Bernie supporter.

guys.... lets not discriminate. I am a Bernie supporter and i too think OP is a whiner, GreenUI is life.

[deezy]

nobody is stopping you from submitting your own ui changes. i would welcome them.