Yep, if they let us drag them around and then lock their positions, so we don't drag them accidentally. I don't know if that won't be too much work though.

Wow. I really like what I see on Hormalakh's page. The inventory mock-up and the engagement indicators are great. As far as main UI goes, this still takes my vote:

 

Could use a bit of tweaking, but I think it has great potential.

Lots of other cool stuff on his blog: http://hormalakh.blogspot.de/

Yep, if they let us drag them around and then lock their positions, so we don't drag them accidentally. I don't know if that won't be too much work though.

 

No need for something as fancy as dragging . Just a selection portraits position 1, log position 2, etc, really simple for the non-solid UI, not too difficult for the solid either.

 

Yep, if they let us drag them around and then lock their positions, so we don't drag them accidentally. I don't know if that won't be too much work though.

 

No need for something as fancy as dragging . Just a selection portraits position 1, log position 2, etc, really simple for the non-solid UI, not too difficult for the solid either.

 

I think dragging might be easier than using preset positions, but I can't say.

Current style HUD without retarded wasting of space:

 

 

And yes, the area where the level up button would be is taken up by status effects, no reason why the level up button couldn't just be added to the status effect bar always in the top left position.

Edited November 4, 201411 yr by Sensuki

Disagree with the implication that non-utilised space is "wasted".

 

Agree that the log would be far better if situated on the left, particularly given the need to refer to it so bloody often.

Current style HUD without retarded wasting of space:

 

 

And yes, the area where the level up button would be is taken up by status effects, no reason why the level up button couldn't just be added to the status effect bar always in the top left position.

Not how I would do it, but it isn't that bad.  I wouldn't mind it, but I still prefer what is in game now.  Better than other UI's posted lately.

 

Thinking about how Obsidian has designed some classes it is going to be hard to do a "great" UI.  Mages/Priests are seriously handicapped by class design being based on spell levels.

Edited November 5, 201411 yr by Karkarov

Yeah classes with extra resources and classes that need heaps of action bar slots really fubar everything up.

I totally agree. 

 

I think Obsidian should *seriously* consider implementing a way to easily tease appart at least Offensive and defensive spells. IE games used RED, BLUE, GREEN or WHITE colours to easily distinguish between (offensive, defensive, protection, buff) spells. The current spell icons in PoE look nice but they're impractical. 

 

Also, while it makes sense that different level spells are separated by levels in the spell book, it's useless to have a level-based separation in the main combat interface. Splitting the spells in categories would be MUCH more practical. 

 

However, this is currently not the case, and I always find myself having to mouse over all the different spells for many seconds to see their effects every time i want to cast a spell

You can use the TAB key to make tooltips appear instantly, BUUUUUUUUUUUT tab annoyingly has 3 functions in Pillars of Eternity rather than one, and interacting with a UI element is not separated from the game world, so it also brings up every tooltip on the screen and every highlightable object.
 

In the IE games if you moused over a UI element and pressed TAB, it would remove the tooltip delay of the UI element, and nothing more.

However you can reduce the tooltip delay to 0, which means tooltips appear instantly even without pressing a key.

But that is horrible. You don't want tooltips popping up every time you mouse over something.

Edited November 5, 201411 yr by Sensuki

That's the only reason I would mouse over buttons besides in order to click them. And it helps me learn the abilities' names and effects faster. When I don't need it anymore, I'll turn it off.

I prefer how I did it in the IE games, tooltip delay so no crap popups up unless I specifically want it to, and TAB to speed things up.

 

I think leveraging such muscle memory is important.

I prefer how I did it in the IE games, tooltip delay so no crap popups up unless I specifically want it to, and TAB to speed things up.

 

I think leveraging such muscle memory is important.

I'm also used to the way it is in the IE games, but found the tooltip delay controls, and it seems to fix my problem, also gives me more information that pressing tab over an ability in the IE games does.

There's a tooltip delay control in PE too, although it (annoyingly) controls all tooltips, even Combat ones.

I have made frequent requests about splitting the TAB key functions, and for different tooltip sliders.

Edited November 5, 201411 yr by Sensuki

I was talking about PoE in my last post, when I talked about tooltip delay. The IE games already had tab show tooltips on buttons, before it highlighted containers.