Can we talk about Green UI?

Xer0 · #1 10-16-2019, 08:32 PM

I understand, for the sake of preserving the classic experience, the rationale behind barring people from using custom UI's during the beta and at launch.

That being said, the current UI is garbage. The farthest thing from Classic that I can possibly imagine. In fact it calls to mind my time during Luclin.

I was very excited when I first logged in and saw this close-to-classic recreation of the character creation UI.. Only to be greeted by black transparent windows with no texturing whatsoever on the in-game ui. So of course I naturally flipped through several of the in-built options for UI files as well as downloading the "classic" recration on Welgrim's site-- ya know, the bluish-grey stone texture? Only to find none of them work.

So again, I understand the lack of support for customizable UI's-- But if you're going to prohibit them to preserve the classic atmosphere, why would you also shove the farthest thing from a classic UI down our throat?

zaneosak · #2 10-16-2019, 08:36 PM

they said the titanium client doesn't allow the classic 20% of your screen is playable space UI so they were going to use the first available UI that still exists, The velious transparent one, then they decided to add in classic elements to that UI to try to get some kind of classic feel to it (marbling, 6 buttons, inventory screen replicated spacing, comparable main page button)

El-Hefe · #3 10-16-2019, 08:36 PM

The transparent windows are day 1 classic.

So... maybe do research before declaring something is "The farthest thing from classic"?

Baler · #4 10-16-2019, 08:39 PM

Just hit F10

Xer0 · #5 10-16-2019, 08:40 PM

And just fort the sake of visualization,

this
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is totally kosher.
While this

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is not.

Xer0 · #6 10-16-2019, 08:41 PM

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The transparent windows are day 1 classic.

So... maybe do research before declaring something is "The farthest thing from classic"?

nah man, I remember the game from way back int he day. The UI had a gray/blue stone-looking texture with sandstone colored buttons.

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they said the titanium client doesn't allow the classic 20% of your screen is playable space UI so they were going to use the first available UI that still exists, The velious transparent one, then they decided to add in classic elements to that UI to try to get some kind of classic feel to it (marbling, 6 buttons, inventory screen replicated spacing, comparable main page button)

I see no way to obtain the marbling. That I would b e happy with. All I see now is transparent black with sandstone-colored buttons. I've fiddled with alpha, transparency, texturing.. none of it added the effect you're speaking about. It only allowed for the changing of black to the likes of RBYGW, and various mixtures.

El-Hefe · #7 10-16-2019, 08:44 PM

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nah man, I remember the game from way back int he day. The UI had a gray/blue stone-looking texture with sandstone colored buttons.

and then you hit F10 and it brought up the clear UI.

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Screenshot dated 7/99

Shits classic AF.

Xer0 · #8 10-16-2019, 08:50 PM

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and then you hit F10 and it brought up the clear UI.

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Screenshot dated 7/99

Shits classic AF.

Sorry, that's not correct. It may have been an option at launch, but it was not the default UI. In fact the bulk of the screen was taken up by that blue-stone appearance back in the day. All of the UI elements were built around the playable screen space in a fixed position.

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I understand that as others have pointed out, that specific UI is not possible int he titanium client. But the point I am making is that if you're not able to have an actual classic UI, why force the current iteration down the throat of the userbase?

Ashenden · #9 10-16-2019, 08:51 PM

Well the client this runs on can't do that, and as such you're forced to use the alternative option that existed at the same time. Sorry.

omgmo · #10 10-16-2019, 08:53 PM

OP, your answers are in the first stickied post in this forum.