Endymi Typhirr
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Posted - 2014.11.17 14:44:38 -
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After playing with this on Sisi, my main gripe is that, all aesthetics aside, the transparency--and particularly the dynamic transparency--really screws with my ability to read what's going on.
A specific example: on TQ, I use a color scheme (Cool Gray) that has a dark/black color for a pinned window. I used pinned windows for things I want to see behind, but the dark color helps me to read it without issue. This is particularly useful on my overview/selected item windows.
With the addition of dynamic transparency, as well as non-customization of colors/brightness/alpha, anytime I've not specifically clicked on something in my overview or otherwise am actively working with it, the transparency is such that it is completely unreadable against brighter backgrounds and gets muddled with most anything behind it. As well, it is rather irritating that its readability changes rapidly whenever I'm in combat and going back and forth between managing targets and actions. If I'm in combat, readability is not suppose to be my primary target.
Unless the dynamic nature of the transparency AND the level of transparency AND the brightness/darkness can be adjusted, I consider this unusable and unfit for release. Text--especially essential combat UI--should never have to fight against other graphical elements. I would be extremely frustrated if this went to release without these issues being addressed.
A couple ways to fix this that I can think of:
A) The new system goes out with the addition of an option to A1) disable the dynamic transparency, and A2) customize the colors and alpha of the theme
B) The new system goes out, but B1) all pinned windows are immune to dynamic transparency and B2) themes have a far darker pinned window color to help with readability. This is the lazy way out that will still **** people off, but it will at least save you guys the time of having to deal with adding customization while still solving these issues.
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