NEW UI WIP, Misha's Request.

AL0NE · Nov 20, 2011

Try turning the dragon on the time indicator into the brownish color of the rest time indicator part. perhaps you're thinking to turn the color later but i just cant wait. lol

MiniMage · Nov 20, 2011

AL0NE said:
Try turning the dragon on the time indicator into the brownish color of the rest time indicator part. perhaps you're thinking to turn the color later but i just cant wait. lol

Actually, I thought that the clash was interesting. I was thinking about making its tail continue full cirlce around it to look sort of like oroborous. But I'm not sure how to make it work without looking weird as hell. XD

RiotZ · Nov 20, 2011

AL0NE said:
Try turning the dragon on the time indicator into the brownish color of the rest time indicator part. perhaps you're thinking to turn the color later but i just cant wait. lol

That.

And you'll notice the tail seems to stop dead like this ---| so it looks cnp'd.

MiniMage · Nov 20, 2011

xRiotZx said:
That.

And you'll notice the tail seems to stop dead like this ---| so it looks cnp'd.

Art, like any story, should not be worked on without any material or concept to work with. XD
I mean, I thought it looked better with the dragon there rather than without it. Then I just had to figure out what to do with it.

Remember the leaves when I first introduced it? It was also cut off for a while. XD

RiotZ · Nov 20, 2011

MiniMage said:
Art, like any story, should not be worked on without any material or concept to work with. XD
I mean, I thought it looked better with the dragon there rather than without it. Then I just had to figure out what to do with it.

Remember the leaves when I first introduced it? It was also cut off for a while. XD

Yes I did notice.

I am just informing you of it. Changing the color would be very good too.

MiniMage · Nov 20, 2011

xRiotZx said:
Yes I did notice.

I am just informing you of it. Changing the color would be very good too.

What about making it like.. made out of gold? Or would that just look weird? XD

RiotZ · Nov 20, 2011

MiniMage said:
What about making it like.. made out of gold? Or would that just look weird? XD

No no, just make it the same color scheme as the rest so it looks normal.

MiniMage · Nov 20, 2011

xRiotZx said:
No no, just make it the same color scheme as the rest so it looks normal.

Hm, gotcha. Well, Idonno if I actually wanna change the texture of the dragon though. Anyhow, tinkered a little more. Added chains making it look like the UI is hanging from the top of the screen. ;D
Will try and get working on the oroborous idea once I find some fancy reverence to go on that looks cool. Well, that or just making it look like a dragon is resting on the orb. XD

Was bored and added the sleeping dragon version. I think the oroborous idea wont really work. XD

Here's an edit adding the whole non parchment concept in here just for those that didn't like it. Enjoy

After some talk that made me unsure, I chopped it up and tested the parchment ingame. ;D

Damn, this is getting big. After multiple tests with the parchement ingame, I have come to the conclusion that you guys were right and made a non-parchement version.

Deleted member 157129 · Nov 20, 2011

Where are the sources?

MiniMage · Nov 20, 2011

shiiK said:
Where are the sources?

Right-o. Adding the other ones from before to simplify it for me later on.

Frame constructed using these.
http://www.123abc.cz/download/grafika/heroes-of-might-and-magic-5-1.jpg
http://www.gamestar.hu/apix_collect...-of-the-east_20080131155329_2221_original.jpg

The tiny thing to the right of the mini map and the origin of the possibly to be deleted parchment. We'll see how that goes.
http://fc02.deviantart.net/fs51/f/2009/290/5/a/Gothic_UI_by_TKingArt.jpg Edit: It has been confirmed, the parchment is gone.

New inventory icon.
http://fc06.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2010/216/1/0/Game_Interface_by_cseec.png

Time Indicator
http://fc09.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2010/216/b/b/page_draft_by_cseec.png

The tiny chain that holds the time indicator.
http://th00.deviantart.net/fs70/PRE/i/2010/216/7/e/Sicilia_by_cseec.png

While I am at it. Intended to manipulate this to serve as the inventory blocker, but I'm not a 100% sure I'm going to use it. We'll see about that as well.
http://www.skill-capped.com/images/videos/class_video_placeholder.jpg

The dragons, leaves, ect.
Default WC3 Human UI
Default WC3 Night Elf UI
Default WC3 Undead UI

That's about it.

Googlieeyes · Nov 21, 2011

looks good imo

I liked the first backpack icon but thats just me xD and I think whitish/crystaly leaves may have been cool too. just ideas.

Kno_Mad · Nov 21, 2011

looking good, I like the latest clock idea, it works well! (although, personally, I still think you should replace the night-elf leaves with dragon scales; but I understand they are hard to find, so yeah....)

if you are going to incorporate shades of brown in the UI (the leaves, the map thing and some of the stuff at the top), don't you think that backpack would look better shaded brown not grey? (and maybe if it is 85%/90% of its current size?)

re: size: its just that everything around the backpack is very fine textured (looks like drawn with a fine pencil) and then the bacpack is kinda boldly textured (looks like drawn with crayons). [get what i'm saying?]

re: colour: i just think brown would look better!

also, check the border above the 'send map signal' button. there is a little bit missing!

keep up the good work mate

PROXY · Nov 21, 2011

Is it only me or is your ingame screenshot extremly squeezed? (Good seeable at the peasent icon, way to squareish than it is normaly)

otherwise, looks good, I like the non paper version better.

RiotZ · Nov 21, 2011

You need to lose the parchment. It looks better without it in game, (I'm guessing).

MiniMage · Nov 21, 2011

PROXY said:
Is it only me or is your ingame screenshot extremly squeezed? (Good seeable at the peasent icon, way to squareish than it is normaly)

otherwise, looks good, I like the non paper version better.

You mean stretched? Yeah, I got a big computer screen. Actually, I got two, But I cropped out the other screen because otherwise it would be too long imo. XD

xRiotZx said:
You need to lose the parchment. It looks better without it in game, (I'm guessing).

You need to read my replies. Didn't you see that I wrote that after much testing ingame that I dropped it? XD

Edit: Problem?

Excuse the size, I was too lazy to crop away the other screen. So, since the two screens combined was too big, the auto resizing of this site squeezed it down somewhat. You can see that the transparency is all the way down on the screenshot of the left screen. Anyhow, apparently the idea to have it a clean style, thus, transparency all the way to the bottom, around the map.. It's not going to work. It's only transparent on the upper part.

RiotZ · Nov 22, 2011

MiniMage said:
You mean stretched? Yeah, I got a big computer screen. Actually, I got two, But I cropped out the other screen because otherwise it would be too long imo. XD

You need to read my replies. Didn't you see that I wrote that after much testing ingame that I dropped it? XD

Edit: Problem?

Excuse the size, I was too lazy to crop away the other screen. So, since the two screens combined was too big, the auto resizing of this site squeezed it down somewhat. You can see that the transparency is all the way down on the screenshot of the left screen. Anyhow, apparently the idea to have it a clean style, thus, transparency all the way to the bottom, around the map.. It's not going to work. It's only transparent on the upper part.

Much better. <3

MiniMage · Nov 22, 2011

Well, I suppose it is. I did major work on centering the whole thing. After realizing how much the parchment had messed up. Misha preferred the non-parchment though.
I'm not sure what Pharaoh thinks about this but yeah. But Pharaoh wanted the same as Misha, so I suppose it's okay anyhow. Also, it's not drastic changes here, just small ones.

You forgot to answer the question though.

These areas need to be filled because my original idea didn't pan out, meaning I need something to fill the gap. Any ideas?

I also started tinkering a little with the inventory blocker. My idea is this. Chains attached to a shield, which itself has a lock on it. It's pretty vague, but if I find an artist.
I'll most likely give him or her this picture and allow him to do as he or she pleases. XD

SexyZwonne · Nov 22, 2011

Ver 0.85 is... Pure awesomness! :vw_love:

Although.. It is only my humble opinion that the Globe/thing (it is in the center+top position of the UI) has too much information on it..

Edhel-dur · Nov 23, 2011

Edit: Nvm, didn't check 8 pages later.

Googlieeyes · Nov 24, 2011

You might want to put a dragon on the top left side. I can see one of those laying down ones fit there or maybe on the top right (talking about the minimap) not sure about the rest.

Bugz · Nov 24, 2011

Nice work

, i have been looking after this for quite some time.

_lycan · Dec 31, 2011

there are lots of maps with no Ui because they just can't find a fitting Ui so if you upload the first one that has no theme. (also upload golden and maybe a green/blue/red ones
almost all maps would have a small size Cool looking ui that fits all maps.

Blood Raven · Jan 21, 2012

wow, that's great man! will you upload it?
looks like a mix between "The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim", "LotR game" and "Heroes V of might and magic" UIs and looks great!
GJ on it, +rep as follows when i see something amazing and awzum

MiniMage · Jan 21, 2012

Well, I suppose I'll upload it eventually. I'm kinda preoccupied with my Goblin Warlock and its demon form though.
However, if I could I could find someone to help me with the model I would technically be able to get back on working on this sooner, complete and and finally upload it.

MiniMage · Jan 23, 2012

The recent post from Blood Raven got me back to working somewhat with the UI again. Filled two of the gaps, might need some fixing though, evening them out and balancing up as a whole.
Anyhow, exported cinematic textures for frostmourne and used that to fill the gaps.

Kam · Jan 23, 2012

Looking good. Don't you need to add boxes for the resources on the upper right? I also think this would look good to the left of the portrait box: http://pictures.linkmesh.com/dragons/images/balaur.jpg

MiniMage · Jan 23, 2012

Actually, no, not really. I'm skipping them as a stylistic choice. In game the feel is akin to Heroes of Might and Magic. I like that feeling.
If I get complaints from others once uploaded, I could always add it though, wouldn't take long.

MiniMage · Jan 25, 2012

Worked a little with the UI. I added a experimental border to fill the gap and been looking for copper things since Mr. Goblin suggested it. Haven't found anything yet though.
Thought about having some viking releated stuff, since they usually have something runic.. or a sword, but making it fit has been tricky.

Edit: Got inspired when I looked around into warcraft 3 textures again, decided to use one of the wolves from the Orc UI. Now I offically got parts from all four warcraft UIs into this one. I have a concept now, although I doubt I'll execute it that well. For those that played heroes 3. You ran around across the map, finding obelisks that revealed piece by piece where the holy grail was found. It got me thinking, I could make something similar to that with the gap I have left. Might not look that good when I am done with it though. It would need a serious retouching once my conceptual part is done. ;S

Kam · Jan 25, 2012

1.03 is looking good. I think the transition above the 1,0 icon box from the silver to brown is a little abrupt.

MiniMage · Jan 25, 2012

Well, version 0.101 came before the 0.103 version. So the fact that 03 is better than 01 means I'm taking the steps into the right direction. I think I'll skip the jigsaw puzzle though, it tends to get messy when I added chunks to it, I think it's better as it is now, but yeah.. It needs something more. Not much, but something.

Been thinking about if I should look up a few chain textures in warcraft and attach them diagonally from the two new holes I added. I think it would be a nice touch and it would feel less empty down there.

MiniMage · Jan 27, 2012

Doodled some more, I'm not sure if this is in the right direction or if I should call 0.103 the final version.

Luorax · Jan 27, 2012

I like it, but those leaves still annoy the hell out of me.

_lycan · Jan 27, 2012

yeah no need for leaves, if you want to have leaves need to have 3 different parts of the ui with them to make leaves part of the "feel" of the ui , if it just randomly appears in one part it feels like you tried to add whatever you found..

MiniMage · Jan 27, 2012

Darklycan51 said:
yeah no need for leaves, if you want to have leaves need to have 3 different parts of the ui with them to make leaves part of the "feel" of the ui , if it just randomly appears in one part it feels like you tried to add whatever you found..

If you wish to suggest me to remove something, please suggest a replacement.
Personally, I think it looks pretty well, although I'm not sure which version is best, 0.103 or 0.106

PROXY · Jan 28, 2012

If you want to make the leaves fit, add them at the places in the left and right part of the ui, at the top of the boxes where the copper copper is. That should make them fit more in. And that scroll is somewhat out of place if you ask me. And what still annoys the hell out of me, is the transition between the gray and the gold at the clock.

MiniMage · Jan 28, 2012

PROXY said:
If you want to make the leaves fit, add them at the places in the left and right part of the ui, at the top of the boxes where the copper copper is. That should make them fit more in. And that scroll is somewhat out of place if you ask me. And what still annoys the hell out of me, is the transition between the gray and the gold at the clock.

With other words, you prefer the 0.103 version. Hm, more leaves on the 0.103 version and then off to a better artist who helps me with final touches. That should do the trick. Hm.

Shadow44 · Feb 16, 2012

Just amazing. great work. I think version 1.06 is better than 1.03, and only thing I don't like is transition between the gray and the gold at the clock.

Sorry for my english ;]

Mazzard · Feb 17, 2012

1.03 is better than 1.06 , agree

MiniMage · Feb 18, 2012

You guys are confuzzling the hell out of me.

Adding leaves is a real pain in the ass. Slammed a iron bar on there, Might need to slap on some woody bits to compensate.
It's just a concept, not actually worked in there yet, but adding leaves to the rest of the UI simply tends to ruin it, which bothers me somewhat. ;/

Complete removal of leaves, Bad/Good idea? That or I'll just ask someone to help me finish it without adding more leaves.
Basically asking someone to pimp the 0.103 version.

Edit:
Tweaked with leaves again, the whole iron bar thing annoyed me. Hell, I'm still not sure in what direction to take it. No one seems to respond, so well, I'll leave it like this for a while longer until I can figure it out myself.

PROXY · Feb 25, 2012

2.0 looks good! The filling left of the portrait is a bit mixed but I guess that will be fixed later, nice made though.

Now put leaves on the right side too and you are there! The transition at the clock still is annyoing... :/

Mazzard · Feb 28, 2012

version 2.0 is look good

but i think filling left of the portrait is make game screen small area

Dota 1.5 is feel lite (good) but low texture

Moon Mover · May 26, 2012

This thing is beautiful.

Would you ever finish it? Otherwise, I would be super-sad. )-:

WindowsVistaSucks · Jun 18, 2012

Jesus. This looks very nice.

MiniMage · Jun 18, 2012

I just need to ask a more experienced artist to work out the flaws and give it some final touches. ;p

WerBackIII · Dec 3, 2012

I don't know if you're still around, but that one is stunning. I think you can release it as it is, it's loveable.

yeyoxcore · Dec 3, 2012

nice work

, waiting for final version

Luorax · Dec 3, 2012

You realize it's been almost half a year he last posted a WIP?

WerBackIII · Dec 3, 2012

I do realize, and something else I do realize as well - the last post was from him. It has not simply "died out", he just didn't get any replies. And if we want to see this UI released, it's better to tell him it's awesome now, than later.

And, you do realize that the 2D development forum is quite dead lately?

MiniMage · Dec 3, 2012

I don't really get why people haven't realized this yet. I do not create UI's, I design them. I ask actual artists with fancypants skills to create the UI using my design, touching up what I've made to such an extent that it would be able to be used as an UI. I asked for someone to help me, no one offered to do so, so until a point where I can find someone willing, it will simply wait around. That's about how it is for me.

My programs that I use are beyond primitive. Each version I create has a specific level of color.
Adding new details lowers the specific amount of color variations, essentially destroying it.

As an example, look at the time indicator and see how the color has faded slightly with each update.

I could essentially work a little bit more with it, but without an artist to touch it up, I don't think it'll ever be "done".
Not to mention my currently very limited amount of time I got left over prevents from working on it very much.

PROXY said:
The transition at the clock still is annyoing... :/

That was intended to be rust, because I thought it enhanced the whole dungeon seige feel that I think this UI currently has.

Linkin · Jan 29, 2013

I really hope someone with experience comes here and finish the last parts, this UI is easily comparable in looks with the Pandarian UI.

NEW UI WIP, Misha's Request.

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