Post Your UI

[nsj]

Edit: Anyone an idea how to make my crits look better? In normal they look like streched und not just replaced by bigger numbers. Hope you understand what I mean. I want nice and clear numbers, when they crit

[Ishtara]

What font are you using on your raid/player/target frames?

I used pixel_41 from my media pack which is hooge5007 i believe.
<3
Ish

---------- Post added 2012-02-11 at 11:36 PM ----------

Good. Now the only thing that needs tweaking is your font choice. Hint: you could use your chat font for every other element in the UI that uses text. However, if you're absolutely hellbent on a pixel font you really only have like three legible choices. I'd recommend trying Semplice first.

Hint: Im Ishtara, I use pixel fonts for everything but chatlogs :P I've known about the semplice font family for years and have it in my media folder along with most of the fonts on that website. And to imply that there are only three legible pixel fonts suggests to me that you simply have bad eye sight.

Thanks for the "good" though
<3
Ish

[Yanzina]

http://i.imgur.com/RcA1c.jpg non-combat

http://i.imgur.com/tsnU2.jpg In combat


http://i.imgur.com/UM6LF.jpg All power auras

[BlackMagicMarkel]

http://i.imgur.com/RcA1c.jpg non-combat

http://i.imgur.com/tsnU2.jpg In combat


http://i.imgur.com/UM6LF.jpg All power auras

I love you. So hard.

[Defect]

http://i.imgur.com/RcA1c.jpg non-combat

http://i.imgur.com/tsnU2.jpg In combat


http://i.imgur.com/UM6LF.jpg All power auras

Everything is good except the ponies : (

[alextg94]

http://i.imgur.com/RcA1c.jpg non-combat

http://i.imgur.com/tsnU2.jpg In combat


http://i.imgur.com/UM6LF.jpg All power auras

As silly as it is... .it is pretty epic.

[Yanzina]

http://i.imgur.com/RcA1c.jpg non-combat

http://i.imgur.com/tsnU2.jpg In combat


http://i.imgur.com/UM6LF.jpg All power auras

http://www.curse.com/addons/wow/powe...-pack-1/565762 For those of you wondering.

[Daredalus]

Update:



<3
Ish

*edit*
The data text is behind the holy power bars. The bars go away when you leave combat Same thing as in my healing ui.

Please upload lol!!!

[Zumo]

Don't see the point in having the time in a UI.

[Ricen]

Don't see the point in having the time in a UI.

I don't see the point in commenting something negative like that.

[Ishtara]

Don't see the point in having the time in a UI.

Either
A. You don't speak English well and you are trying to say that you don't see the point in spending time making a custom Ui.
OR
B. You do speak English and you can't understand why someone would want a clock in their Ui to know what time it is.

If A: Your post is completely pointless.
If B: Some people like to keep track of time while playing WoW.

[Quse]

Don't see the point in having the time in a UI.

People that play full screened don't have a clock in the bottom right corner of their screen.

Newest update:

DPS layout


Heal/General layout


Link

[tenub]

And to imply that there are only three legible pixel fonts suggests to me that you simply have bad eye sight.

Information displayed by any user interface needs to be able to be gleaned from a quick glance. Any pixel fonts other than Semplice and two or three others unfortunately do not have this characteristic. Vital information should never be displayed at anything even close to 8pt. Just look at any commercial or professional interface ever designed from a cellphone interface to any other popular game interface to a web interface, they almost all use a crisp, clean sans serif for this very reason. Attempting to argue that the majority of pixel fonts, or any pixel fonts (other than the few exceptions) for this matter, are perfectly fine in this regard and are well suited for use in an interface design is futile and only strengthens the idea that one has no idea what he or she is talking about and consequently all ideas and arguments made by this person should be disregarded off the bat.

And here's something I've been working on - sort of a minimalist concept showing lb/pb/ignite dots and an edited myBigIgnite frame in the center of the player frame with the power bar overlaying the border of each frame:

[Quse]

I sincerely believe you're missing the font scale of some pixel fonts at 8px. A post above yours is my interface with a completely and 100% readable at-a-glance pixel font that is 8px. There is nothing difficult to read, its easily large enough to get information from - in fact, there isn't a single bit of vital information in that interface (aside from chat font) that isn't in the pixel font at 8px. I've spent an innumerable amount of hours browsing pixel/bitmap fonts, and aside from seriously stylized fonts, most are completely acceptable for interfaces that strive to, and are, easily readable.

While I agree that "some" pixel fonts are ineffective for "at-a-glance" information, there really aren't that many in use by completely and easily functionable interfaces - including Ish's (even though I don't care for his).

Edit for Treeston:
Did I miss the option for a smaller thumbnail on imgur that doesn't require a paid sub? I thought I linked in the smallest I could get =/

[Led ++]

People that play full screened don't have a clock in the bottom right corner of their screen.

Newest update:

DPS layout


Heal/General layout


Link

I wonder, your combat log / EavesDrop thing on the right side, while it looks pretty and organized, do you ever actually use it in the middle of a battle?

[Treeston]

Edit for Treeston:
Did I miss the option for a smaller thumbnail on imgur that doesn't require a paid sub? I thought I linked in the smallest I could get =/

The last character of thumbnail specifies thumbnail size.

http://i.imgur.com/hTluVm.jpg

Is a medium size thumbnail, for example. Other valid values are "l" and "s" (large and small, respectively). You can omit it to link to the full-size image (inside the [url=] tag).

[Quse]

(this might be a double post, I swear I just hit submit)

re: Ish
You're right, I don't use it as much as I thought I'd use it. But I've used scrolling combat texts (MSBT, xCT, etc..) and it essentially filled the need but I was able to look back through it - "insta-gibbed? oh hey this is what happened," and I hate the default combat log for that purpose. I've been ramping up the healing/damage thresholds to make it less spammy and only show the inc dmg that I'd like to see (which is almost exclusively what I'm suing it for).

I could in all reality find some way to hide unless moused over or faded out, but I think I'd miss it too much. I know, know, anit-minimalism =/

re: Treeston
Thanks a lot, didn't notice that about imgur thumbs. Imageshacks seem broken unless you add the "th" to the image portion of the thumb link, so figured I'd try out another option.

[Coldkil]

@ish: going to steal the nameplate layout SO BAD. i don't like castbars though, so i'll keep them as they are now.

[Muncken87]

Information displayed by any user interface needs to be able to be gleaned from a quick glance. Any pixel fonts other than Semplice and two or three others unfortunately do not have this characteristic. Vital information should never be displayed at anything even close to 8pt. Just look at any commercial or professional interface ever designed from a cellphone interface to any other popular game interface to a web interface, they almost all use a crisp, clean sans serif for this very reason. Attempting to argue that the majority of pixel fonts, or any pixel fonts (other than the few exceptions) for this matter, are perfectly fine in this regard and are well suited for use in an interface design is futile and only strengthens the idea that one has no idea what he or she is talking about and consequently all ideas and arguments made by this person should be disregarded off the bat.


And here's something I've been working on - sort of a minimalist concept showing lb/pb/ignite dots and an edited myBigIgnite frame in the center of the player frame with the power bar overlaying the border of each frame:

I agree with you pixel font suits fine for most of a ui, but making the parts of the ui that u mostly use larger, and the things that u use less smaller, having a very small pixel font during a 25 man hc fight can be pretty annoying to track due to the small font size imo.
Hard to find the balance between good looking and user friendly, if ur at spine hc or something and gonna keep track of 7 cds with pixelfonts, and maybe power torrent,2 trinket proccs , would u still think that a 8 bit pixel font would suit, i just think making the things that u watch very closely larger while having other parts of the elements that doesnt move or u dont need to check often smaller.

[Treeston]

re: Treeston
Thanks a lot, didn't notice that about imgur thumbs. Imageshacks seem broken unless you add the "th" to the image portion of the thumb link, so figured I'd try out another option.

We've got a list of thumbnail link differences for various image hosts.