Draenei UI

[Moderator]

14:33, 1st Oct 2014
Kwaliti:

While some parts could've been masked to hide the fact that you were reusing certain elements, it's pretty much in working and acceptable condition.

 

[Misha]

Unrefined and unadapted.. could you ask a bigger artist to touch it up into a war3-like feel? oO

also, not many peeps notice, but war3 UIs also have some slight perspective that draws the players eyes to the middle of the screen

 

[knight26]

also, not many peeps notice, but war3 UIs also have some slight perspective that draws the players eyes to the middle of the screen

Which is the biggest problem when making a U.I, and the reason there's just about a few good ones out there. Nice notice Misha

Also, I'm just curious if the 'diamond pillars' are freehand, not that it matters in a U.I, just curious. Those seem nicely done.
Edit: I'd suggest removing the small diamonds from the top menu, they feel rather off. I'd also suggest an overall darker color.

 

[Kyrbi0]

I give kudos to anyone willing to attempt the difficult task of making a good custom UI; it's not easy.

Looks like a great start; good luck on improving it!

 

[Wa666r]

Unrefined and unadapted.. could you ask a bigger artist to touch it up into a war3-like feel? oO

also, not many peeps notice, but war3 UIs also have some slight perspective that draws the players eyes to the middle of the screen

Well, I did mention my mediocre skill. If any would be wiling to help me out, sure.

Nice catch, I hadn't noticed.

Also, I'm just curious if the 'diamond pillars' are freehand, not that it matters in a U.I, just curious. Those seem nicely done.
Edit: I'd suggest removing the small diamonds from the top menu, they feel rather off. I'd also suggest an overall darker color.

Those are not freehand, but they do look nice. I thought as much about the small diamonds. Darker colors for the bright purple Draenei. I could give it a shot.

I give kudos to anyone willing to attempt the difficult task of making a good custom UI; it's not easy.

Looks like a great start; good luck on improving it!

Thank you. This version alone took me a while.

 

[Sunreaver]

Just love this bro 5/5

 

[UlithiumDragon]

Hands down 5/5! This is absolutely PERFECT for the project I'm working on!

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This site and its sister site (WC3Campaigns) really are super-exclusively-strict on what you resource moderators "approve"... I honestly don't understand WHY a fully-functional working model needs to be changed to meet your EXTREMELY high-quality standards in order to be "approved" (and it seems to me that a lot of your "requested" changes amount to nothing more than personal taste, since a lot of the time something like 9/10 posters give the model you're asking to change upwards of 4-5 star ratings). It's not like making these things is IN ANY WAY EASY, and very few people have the skills, the time, and the patience required to make these resources. Why are you guys such harsh, unrelenting judges of other people's artwork?

"...Unrefined and unadapted...war3-like feel..." You said nothing with these words that would tell the artist exactly WHAT you think he/she needs to change to meet your standards...

"...war3 UIs also have some slight perspective that draws the players eyes to the middle of the screen" While I have noticed that, I still couldn't even BEGIN to tell you what causes that effect. Unless you can name some key aspects that cause this visual effect, it's functionally impossible for any artist to fix this without INSANE amounts of trial-and-error testing.

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Just some thoughts, but I do sort of get why a lot really good modders seem to have pulled out and deleted their works from the sites over the years, which is really sad...

(Also, show me ONE OTHER Draenei UI, because there aren't any...)

 

[GywGod133]

:/ Im confuse in your border
maybe I will give 2/5

 

[knight26]

Hands down 5/5! This is absolutely PERFECT for the project I'm working on!

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This site and its sister site (WC3Campaigns) really are super-exclusively-strict on what you resource moderators "approve"... I honestly don't understand WHY a fully-functional working model needs to be changed to meet your EXTREMELY high-quality standards in order to be "approved" (and it seems to me that a lot of your "requested" changes amount to nothing more than personal taste, since a lot of the time something like 9/10 posters give the model you're asking to change upwards of 4-5 star ratings). It's not like making these things is IN ANY WAY EASY, and very few people have the skills, the time, and the patience required to make these resources. Why are you guys such harsh, unrelenting judges of other people's artwork?

"...Unrefined and unadapted...war3-like feel..." You said nothing with these words that would tell the artist exactly WHAT you think he/she needs to change to meet your standards...

"...war3 UIs also have some slight perspective that draws the players eyes to the middle of the screen" While I have noticed that, I still couldn't even BEGIN to tell you what causes that effect. Unless you can name some key aspects that cause this visual effect, it's functionally impossible for any artist to fix this without INSANE amounts of trial-and-error testing.

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Just some thoughts, but I do sort of get why a lot really good modders seem to have pulled out and deleted their works from the sites over the years, which is really sad...

(Also, show me ONE OTHER Draenei UI, because there aren't any...)

I understand how you feel about it, having a resource rejected due to it being insufficient can be a harsh feeling. But to this day, I've not seen a moderator who has abused their power OR given poor judgement.
And to be honest, 2D art resources aren't hard, time consuming -- yes, but not hard.
The creator seemed very approving of the above suggestions, maybe because he knows he can do better to make this even better?.

 

[jopi]

well, as I didn't ever try to make a UI myself, don't take it too serious.

what bothers me most is the very plane border of the UI, the classic wc3 UIs are not that straight. Orcs and Undead have spikes, NE have leaves and Human have this wall structure. You could bring some variation in it, it still can and has to be tiled to some point, obviously, so the UI fits together. You also could drop the 'whole in purple' idea. Just look at Shattrat city in wow (you could go with brown rock and purple crystals as eye-catchy highlights). Get some inspiration from the draenei buildings in WoW, especially now that WoD is coming and it brings the undestroyed/uncorrupted Shattrat and even temple of karabor (black temple). Also at the moment there is still a lot of empty, black space (top UI between the resources, and on the inventory hider).

Nevertheless I really like what you did so far, and hope you will still work on it as it has the potential to become an even more awesome UI, and something many of us were and will be in need for^^.

 

[Misha]

unrefined means that your UI is not having a unifying theme.. i'm just seeing a bunch of purple-ish 'surface', connected to a bunch of Pink crystals.. what if, instead, it were to have a similar design like the walls of Exodar, even with some magical pink 'circuitry' that i've noticed here and there in that place, then the big pink crystals could be used well with the rest..

Unadapted means that it really does not have that cartoonish war3-like feel to it, highlights are not exaggerated, shadows neither, and i'm not sure how much an UI and a.. say, building, differ in shadows and highlights, but to me they look kinda the same, and you could try to make it similar..

and lastly, the effect that draws the eye to the center of the screen is simply perspective, with a 'vanishing point' being straight in the center, or in the case of an UI, whichever point would point to the center when you assemble all 4 images in the UI, but that is a thing of art and drawing

I hope that i have been constructive now, and i'm not discouraging you, but really, if you create something like an UI, you should have a few things in mind that will make it extremely useful even if it isn't perfect..

 

[Sellenisko]

Not bad. But definitely need more work and time. There are plenty of things that need to be finished or redone. But it is a good idea to finally create draenei UI.

 

[Argos]

I really like it. It's not completely perfect, but i think it deserves a good rating.

 

[A Void]

this gem needs more polishing! 4/5 [Good job, now we have a decent new UI] +rep

 

[UlithiumDragon]

I really like it. It's not completely perfect, but i think it deserves a good rating.

I honestly don't get their gripping - it fits the Draenei theme EXTREMELY well. Maybe they're complaining because it has too much going on everywhere? I guess it's a lot less subtle of a UI than all the vanilla ones, but honestly: the Draenei are both extravagant and "alien" architects. They don't create their structures, weapons, etc. that looks anything like "normal" human architecture.

If you take a good look at every building from the vanilla races, you can link pretty much every single one to real life examples of architectural styles. You can't do that with the Draenei. I wonder if this is just stupid human nature - people shunning things they don't understand...

 

[Ujimasa Hojo]

Ah yes. The UI, one of the most overlooked part of making melee races. May I ask if this is Cut, Copy, and Paste though? Even if it were, I'd still back this for approval given the exemption clause for good ones.

 

[Argos]

I wonder if this is just stupid human nature - people shunning things they don't understand...

Did i say that it's ugly or something? Did i offended you in any way?

Then why the hell youre assaulting me? I said my personal opinion, it's very interesting UI, but there can be some little changes. Otherwise i gave it 5/5 for your information. Now chill down.

 

[UlithiumDragon]

Did i say that it's ugly or something? Did i offended you in any way?

Then why the hell youre assaulting me? I said my personal opinion, it's very interesting UI, but there can be some little changes. Otherwise i gave it 5/5 for your information. Now chill down.

Sorry, that was a miscommunication error on my end! I can see how this may have been interpreted negatively, but I was trying to agree with you that it deserves a good rating, nothing more, and then rambled on trying to rationalize why people may not like it, which was a comment directed at no one in particular...

I also didn't look carefully enough at who I was quoting off of - I saw the "War of the Clans" signature and thought you were the author... n.nU

Again I'm very sorry, I was in no way trying to insult you or anything! :3

 

[UlithiumDragon]

On a different note, the only two things about the UI that are bothering me a bit are the single diamond that's hanging over the unit portrait window, and the background image on the unit inventory ( it stands out far too much).

Anyways, it's still FAR better than having to use the boring Human UI! :]

 

[Lord_Marrowgrath]

Wooow. Very good 10/10! +rep

 

[stan0033]

man this looks great :O

 

[Thanotos 0mega]

Is this going to get put into your Draenei map?

 

[Wa666r]

Is this going to get put into your Draenei map?

Already is.

 

[Thanotos 0mega]

Already is.

YAY! Pretty U.I.

 

[salihmezzi]

i like draenei good work

i like it

good work!!

 

[Argos]

Sorry, that was a miscommunication error on my end! I can see how this may have been interpreted negatively, but I was trying to agree with you that it deserves a good rating, nothing more.

Everything is fine

Thanks for explanation, i thought it was direct answer on my quote.

 

[Eagle XI]

I look at the UI and see too many black spaces, they are everywhere, fe. look at between the elements at top row, there is nothing connecting them to each other forming a whole design.
Secondly you seem to have decided on use of a single thematic element and color for the whole ui(gems and pink), i can recommend to use more than just one, look at default UI's and other artist's works. Also approved on what this guy said:

(you could go with brown rock and purple crystals as eye-catchy highlights)

10/5 because of pink, would "rant" again

 

[sarumanthecursed]

Amazing!!! I hope you add one to all your races

 

[Templassassin]

i love draenei = i love this!!!! 5/5

10/5 if you change the icon of argus (too mainstream and IMO its not fit with de UI)
you can change it with somthing like

<-- that

 

[Midasowski]

Good job This Ui looks good

 

[Splub]

Very Nice! I love it!

 

[D1vergent]

Looks nice.

 

[Legal_Ease]

Approve! We need more UIS! Nice work!

 

[Spellbound]

It's nice work, but it can use some polish. I'll commend you for consistency and effort though, having made a couple of UIs, I know the amount of work that goes into them, so good job on that.

Here are a few things I think would make your UI better:

1. remove the gems on the top bar. They may look good when you were designing it, but all it does in-game is be distracting from more important elements (like the resources). If you absolutely want to keep them, I suggest shrinking their size and placing them between button at the bottom of the bar to create some sort of pattern that's subtle and won't be in-your-face whenever you look at the top bar. Also the bar should be one continuous element, not separated into segments with gems b/w them. It's distracting

2. I like the idea of using the draenei logo for the time indicator, but colour-wise, it's not consistent. I suggest using dark-purple, preferably with a metallic texture (altho the texture might not be necessary bc of the size of the image). Alternatively, you could make it blue with a rough-carved crystal texture. If you need inspiration on a time-indicator that doesn't fit the ordinary mould, check out Queenlands UI.

3. the dialogue frame doesn't connect to the gems. Extend them so that there isn't a gap.

4. While there's nothing wrong with your inventory cover, just having a logo there is a bit... meh Check out the Blizz UIs (and even some of them on Hive) and you'll get an idea. It could be anything from a different bunch of crystals or maybe a Naaru engraving on dark marble, etc.

5. I love what you did for the portrait window. That said, the minimap has this weird white outline to it? I recommend you remove it.

6. Finally, the borders. Idk if you've noticed, but UI borders tend to have perspective to them, so it would be better if you could give it some kind of depth.

Do these (or some) and I guarantee your UI will look better.

Do you have any other elements like spell effect circle and custom cursors in mind?

 

[LXFTW]

How Do You Exactly get this onto your warcraft 3

 

[Spellbound]

This tutorial has the paths to implementing a custom UI http://www.wc3c.net/showthread.php?p=976391

 

[daverave1212]

Looks a little bit copy pastish, try to change the borders into something less repeating
Those crystals also aren't very well shaded imo

 

[One punch man]

Awesome Draenei UI

 

[Warseeker]

It is an Epic Draenei UI!

 

[PandaCraft1989]

Where would we assemble it to be split into parts?

 

[Wa666r]

Where would we assemble it to be split into parts?

Huh?

 

[SadOnix]

Can someone give me a Hint what have changed with Small UI Buttons ? Everything else is clearly obvious. What kind of buttons are getting smaller with

• UI\Widgets\Console\Human\Human-console-buttonstates2.blp