magnomagus said:

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@ThGrypn: When you say along the arc you don't specify horizontal or vertical? If it is vertical I think the tooltips may be a good addition for reading comfort not sitting in the way of having the text vertically displayed as well. If you mean horizontal then i think the tooltips are not needed.

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magnomagus said:

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core.lua, line 5975

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thGryphn said:

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Alright, I prepared another attempt at horizontal faction and class title. This one addresses hopefully all concerns:

1) Faction icons are smaller. Makes for a more comfortable look, rather than cramped.

2) Class icons are also a bit smaller but there is zoom-on-hover action, along with the background-color-on-click highlighting.

3) Background colors are dimmed, now at 80% transparency as opposed to 75%.

4) Best yet: the wheel (and therefore the faction-class buttons) are vertically centered.

5) Both faction and class names can be called from text files.

6) Faction name is centered on the left, class name is centered on the right (with respect to the wheel). All around excellent placement of both, and using capitalized fonts on both definitely helps.

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Skeggy said:

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Besides the fact that it's better to place the class name together with the corresponding class attribute table, that is good way to popularize new classes.
So, my proposal is class name first, then faction name.

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Galaad said:

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Man can't wait this is going to look totally awesome!

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magnomagus said:

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I can live with both possibilities, so you can basically choose the option you want. I think one unified set of txt is preferable, but may require a few desc to be shortened a little.

Improving txt is always easily done later, so they do not necessarily need to be all perfect in the first release.

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magnomagus said:

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there is nothing for me to act upon because water is different on every map, the visual is based on the ambient light (of which there are hundred) and the bottom texture and also whether it is set to reflective or not.

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thGryphn said:

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I think I'll use a unified set of text files. True that in-game descriptions will be longer now but I think it's for the best. The longest descriptions are the advanced and expert Shatter skills (because of the extra Elemental Summoning perk), but I already condensed them considerably, and I'm using a little smaller font for descriptions. So, it should be fine.

On the same note, I'd like to organize all the MMH5.5 descriptions (the text files) into a single location. As you know, now they're literally all over the place. I would just need to edit the Skills.xdb file under GameMechanics/RefTables in order to give references to the newly organized text files. This way, instead of MMH5.5 giving references to H5 files, we would have our own text files. Much easier to manage later on...

I'll do this once you give a go

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magnomagus said:

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@Gidoza: In my case the water looks often much worse in the editor than in game. If possible, please show an in game screenshot of what happens.

EDIT: Alternatively, could you open H55_4P_Scarce for a moment and tell me how the water looks?

@Antalyan: adding the text in text files makes translating easier, but I recommend ThGryphn to keep as much as possible the text files in the original location, since that will make translating even more easy.

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