Kind of hard to tell when the image is so small.

Click to enlarge? Did you miss that?

If the bigger picture's too small, sorry. That's the biggest I can make it without exceeding the size limit for my file host.

--Vito

There was no need for a full screen, if you were just showing an interface. So, maybe you should've just used Dream Seeker's built in function.

Mysame:
- A hud like that, with all those tabs?

What do you suggest? I am working on moving as much as possible from the commands to the HUD. What's still in the tabs is player info, combat skills, equip/unequip commands, drop commands, and HUD spell management. I really can take at least one tab off that.

Well, I can take the "spells" tab off in favor of a button. I can put on a button that lists my spells. The "Communication" tab can go, most of that is already on the HUD, and the rest is easy.



Mysame:

It seems like you've spend more time on the Admin hud than the player hud.

Those black squarish shapes are filled in by spell icons for quick-cast, usually. When I screenshot that, I had no newed to cast spells immediately, so I forgot to set the spells. I'll put up another screenshot with some tabs removed and spells in place.


--Vito

"<center>"???

--Vito

Vito, first I'd like to say that even though I've been around here since `99, I'm generally not a Byond games player, and my opinion will vary from what others have to say.

I don't have a problem with tabs. You can have 100 tabs for all I care, as long as none of them are non-essential. In other words, things like inventory, spell lists, etc... Things that do not need to be accessed but every so often while playing the game. If your game requires that a spell be clicked, however, then that's a problem. As long as to cast a spell or use a skill, you don't have to switch tabs, then I say having them is no problemo. It's arbitrary for some of these guys to complain, "Too many tabs!" unless they've played your game and find that they are spending way too much time switching between them. Sure, having all those tabs doesn't look so pretty.

Suggestion: There should be a "Main" tab that houses all the necessary info for normal game use. When you want to access your character sheet or inventory, you can always temporarily switch tabs, but as long as the game can be played mostly from this Main tab, you should be fine. Mocing all essential commands from the other tabs into either the map screen or the Main tab would be the idea.

As far as aesthetics go, since I don't have much experience with all the Byond games that are out there, I can't rate your art job. Speaking of which, it would be real nice if some vets could post links to games that have A++ interfaces where ideas could be gleaned from.

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I think that the only thing that should be in the tabs is information and non-urgent (non-combat) commands, such as equip, HUD management, etc. That's what's in those tabs. Anyway, I just cut down on unnecessary tabs, combining them and putting things on the HUD.



I've got another screenshot, showing what those little black squares do:

(Click image to enlarge)


--Vito

http://img238.imageshack.us/img238/1183/mydesktop2ii.png

Yea, sure can't make a big enough file...

how? It lets me only put up 1028 KB or less... The big version is 3000+kb.

--Vito

Bring commands and communication and display together. Also, drop all the <center>. It saves up enough room for a bigger screen size with more hud-abilitys.


man thats confusing maybe he should learn how to explain things