[DrumsUI] Full Interface (Version 1.0)

N1Md4 · #1 03-26-2010, 09:02 AM

because i do much raiding and in my opinion the raidwindow is a bit huge, is it possible to shrink it a bit?

and hows it going with the option to disable the quick buttons to show up all the time? its a bit hard to click on someone in raid or group window and not click on a quickbutton. for me the only way to click on someone is to click on their health/power bar. for some reason their name isnt working if i click on it to target them.

greetings Nimda

**Drumstix42** · #2 03-26-2010, 04:35 PM

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Originally Posted by N1Md4

because i do much raiding and in my opinion the raidwindow is a bit huge, is it possible to shrink it a bit?

and hows it going with the option to disable the quick buttons to show up all the time? its a bit hard to click on someone in raid or group window and not click on a quickbutton. for me the only way to click on someone is to click on their health/power bar. for some reason their name isnt working if i click on it to target them.

greetings Nimda

I'm open to any suggestion for the raid window. I'm not too sure how I can shrink it too much more. Maybe a few pixels here and there, but gimme any suggestions you think could work.

As far as hiding the quick buttons, I have finished up the code and should have it available this evening or tomorrow, as well as a few other minor updates.

N1Md4 · #3 03-26-2010, 07:33 PM

http://www.eq2interface.com/download...aidwindow.html

this is a pretty nice piece of work. when i went away from profitUI i used razcUI a bit and then found yours and switched instant to yours

but razc has also some good ideads

chriswebstar · #4 03-26-2010, 07:46 PM

What I loved about Razc was the raid window. It's just perfect.

**Drumstix42** · #5 03-27-2010, 12:59 AM

I like the smaller text. Several people have asked for "bigger" health or power bars. So it's hard to find a good medium. I like the overlaying names on the bars, but it would look strange with the overlay buttons.

I'll see if I can find some more ideas to make the window smaller but while still maintaining decent sided elements.

chriswebstar · #6 03-27-2010, 05:52 AM

I don't know about others, but when I say "larger health bar", I simply mean it to be larger than the power bar, for example. Makes it easier for a healer to keep an eye on health, while "dimming" power because you don't care as much about it. I've recently gone back to raiding on my chanter, so I'd value a larger power bar.

Also, the clicky buttons of your UI are fairly big IMHO, you can safely make them a lot smaller. Probably even halve their size.

Some people like big interfaces, some like small interfaces. Pleasing both isn't easy. I'd probably argue that us raiders like small interfaces because we have to keep an eye on lots of information all the time, but we still like to have more than a 2x2 box in the middle of the screen of actual "game"

N1Md4 · #7 03-27-2010, 08:24 AM

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Originally Posted by chriswebstar

I don't know about others, but when I say "larger health bar", I simply mean it to be larger than the power bar, for example. Makes it easier for a healer to keep an eye on health, while "dimming" power because you don't care as much about it. I've recently gone back to raiding on my chanter, so I'd value a larger power bar.

Also, the clicky buttons of your UI are fairly big IMHO, you can safely make them a lot smaller. Probably even halve their size.

Some people like big interfaces, some like small interfaces. Pleasing both isn't easy. I'd probably argue that us raiders like small interfaces because we have to keep an eye on lots of information all the time, but we still like to have more than a 2x2 box in the middle of the screen of actual "game"

^^ this

im playing a raid chanter too but i do not care that much about other groups power, usually 4 chanter or 3 chanter and usually the manaburning wizards yell if their power is gone anyway so i dont care about others power.

i like the idea of having the quickbuttons to dont target and cast stuff on someone but since in DrumsUI i have problems targeting people through raid/group window without clicking a quickbutton or need several clicks to get them i always click on their healthbar and have them targeted by a single click for sure. this is why i would disable quickbuttons for me. and i have the important stuff macroed anyways and on my hotbars to save time rebuffing them. for PUG the quickbuttons are very handy!

another reason not using quickbuttons on raidwindow is, the raidwindow is imho too big at the moment and i placed it on the far right side in middle of screen to have a good sight to the real game so its a bit too far away from my hotbars and watching area (detrimentals etc.) on the 3/4 left side bottom of screen. going to the raidwindow to rebuff someone and search for someone can be a "fail condition" in some fights if you get a curse or something and you dont see it and cast (anashti / miragul as example).

greetings Nimda

PS: im playing in 1600x1200 and i pref smaller stuff. if i play windowed in smallest resolution the raidwindow is the half of the screen (brokerwindow is as big as the whole screen). if i trio i do this... 3 windows in smallest resolution on my 1600x1200 desktop.