What's the best way to make a tool tip?

[Vicboy]

Many AOS games use different formats of tool tips... But which ones are clear and more easy for both the creator and player?

I'm really looking for ABILITIES tool tips first... The Learn Tool Tip to be specific...

 

[-Berz-]

I do it like:
1. i make a short description of spell, just what it does(but no numbers like damage duration, i do it like "it deals damage and last a few seconds"
2.Than i go into detail Here i will wrote an exsample for warstomp:

Casters jump in the air and slams the ground, all enemy targets will suffer damage and get stunned for a short amount of time.

Deals 90 damage to enemy units and stunns them for 3 seconds.

I do the amount of damage first than, other effects like armor, damage bonus, than stunns, slows(%) and the last thing is duration.

This is how i do it, its a bit lame, but i think that the player undarstands what the spell should do.

edit:
and its good to use SHIFT for spell names like "Almighty Superior War Stomp" (this is a bit long name for a spell, but i think you get my point)

Hope this comes handy

Have Fun!

-BerZeKeR-

 

[Soga-]

Spell Name
Description
[Level 1] - Blah blah
[Level 2] - Blah blah
[Level N] - Blah blah

But if you have a lot of levels, just do "x*spell level in damage."

 

[ady_illidan]

just make them short
dont write 5000 words just for a spell

 

[Squiggy]

[COLOR="Yellow"]Ability:[/COLOR] Energy Blast [Level 1]
[COLOR="Yellow"]Effect:[/COLOR] A binding energy ball appears which shoots forward, damaging all enemies in it's way
[COLOR="Yellow"]Damage:[/COLOR] 35 per hit enemy
[COLOR="Yellow"]Range:[/COLOR] 800
[COLOR="Yellow"]Type:[/COLOR] Active (4 seconds cooldown)

That's an example how i describe tooltips of abilites - maybe not the best way but it's at least easy to read and understand ^^

 

[Vicboy]

I like squiggy's...

 

[LordDz]

Yupp.

I tend to do the normal Blizzard way cuz I'm just lazy ^^

 

[Squiggy]

You know you can just copy-n-paste templates?
It takes approx. 2 seconds to cnp and another 5 to adjust