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Smurfigineer The Black Ops	Posted - 2008.10.09 18:38:00 - [31] Nice one with the drones!
Commander Spectre The Funkstars Guild	Posted - 2008.10.10 12:26:00 - [32] Ok how about a Small Weave style dashboard?
Sepheir Sepheron Caldari	Posted - 2008.10.10 15:15:00 - [33] Originally by: quave Edited by: quave on 04/10/2008 11:03:36 Originally by: Commander Spectre Yeah well that's why I suggested it as an option. I know not everyone would like to use it. sorry i wasn't very clear about that, i would love to use it, but i think it would look out of place to have a dashboard with the quality of trinity graphics, only for it to be surrounded by the rest of the user interface which looks like windows 95. If they modernised the whole UI then i would love to see this as a feature. Edited for spelling He made those himself, CCP would obviously do a far better job. He was just trying to show us a template for what he was talking about.
Sepheir Sepheron Caldari	Posted - 2008.10.10 15:15:00 - [34] Oh and /signed
Commander Spectre The Funkstars Guild	Posted - 2008.10.13 06:03:00 - [35] Yeah...I made them myself to show the possibilities. It is my hope that they would offer a few different dashboards so that people could choose one they liked. And yeah...I'm sure CCP could do a better job of it cuz I'm just working from screenshots...but they didn't come out all that bad. They do get the job done though, as you can clearly see the modules and capacitor indicator would show up very well. I don't think it would be all that hard for CCP to just put an image behind them and add the drone options I showed.
Stormaar Caldari	Posted - 2008.10.13 06:53:00 - [36] Another great idea... So, like all other UI things will be never implemented. Too bad. For my self - i wanna cutomisable HUD. I dont wanna this big thing in center, i wanna move it to somewhere or change it to square... nvm About drones - I wanna see in target dropdown menu [Engage target], may be with some submenu. So, be ready for forum graveyard for UI topics )) ----- Customizable UI / internal API for mods/addons
Kembla	Posted - 2008.10.13 07:50:00 - [37] Originally by: Commander Spectre You know I was thinking that there needs to be an indicator for drones to tell if they are active or passive. Also it would be nice to see thier health while in the drone bay. So I thought they could change the drones window like this... There is already an area where you can view the status of your drones. Click on the triangle to the left of "Drones (1 of max 5 in space)" to view the drone settings window. I fully agree with the dashboard idea. I believe it should match the current colour theme and transparency. The waypoint text could remain white but outlined in black.
SAI Peregrinus Caldari State War Academy	Posted - 2008.10.13 08:35:00 - [38] I, too agree. Even a basic graphic design class tells you to use high contrast for things that need to be visible.
Commander Spectre The Funkstars Guild	Posted - 2008.10.13 14:00:00 - [39] Originally by: Kembla There is already an area where you can view the status of your drones. Click on the triangle to the left of "Drones (1 of max 5 in space)" to view the drone settings window. Hmm...thanks for that info...I had not noticed that before. But you should still be able to see the drone health bars while they are in the drone bay like in my original picture. As it is now you have to guess which drones to launch before you can repair them or not launch the badly damaged ones to attack with.
Hugh Ruka Exploratio et Industria Morispatia	Posted - 2008.10.13 14:17:00 - [40] Originally by: Kembla Originally by: Commander Spectre You know I was thinking that there needs to be an indicator for drones to tell if they are active or passive. Also it would be nice to see thier health while in the drone bay. So I thought they could change the drones window like this... There is already an area where you can view the status of your drones. Click on the triangle to the left of "Drones (1 of max 5 in space)" to view the drone settings window. I fully agree with the dashboard idea. I believe it should match the current colour theme and transparency. The waypoint text could remain white but outlined in black. and why should I do 2 unneded mouse clicks just to see the settings ? the OPs idea is great ... however I'd add a transparency setting there ... so you can blend a darker dashboard texture with the background so that it won't look that much out of place ... overall great work OP ... --- SIG --- CSM: your support is needed !

Commander Spectre The Funkstars Guild	Posted - 2008.10.14 17:34:00 - [41] /bump
SAI Peregrinus Caldari State War Academy	Posted - 2008.10.15 08:16:00 - [42] Also, a dashboard would make the proposed "damage text above weapons" more visible, and thus enhance that other suggestion. Perhaps free-floating panels that would always sit at the bottom level, and be customizable? Then you could make dashboards for any text, target windows, etc, yourself.
Commander Spectre The Funkstars Guild	Posted - 2008.10.15 13:20:00 - [43] Well I guess the whole ghost training thing was taking up all the devs time and they couldn't be bothered to look at any ideas...maybe now that they are done with that they can look at my idea and respond. So far player response has been favorable...dunno if that counts or anything though...
Elena Morin'staal Minmatar Tau Online Explorator Corp	Posted - 2008.10.15 13:51:00 - [44] So, is this possible to make as a player mod, by any chance, or is it A, Impossible, or B, an exploit under EULA? Assuming it was a legal, allowed and non buggy, I'd download this in a second.
B0rn2KiLL Black Nova Corp Band of Brothers	Posted - 2008.10.16 14:12:00 - [45] signed tbh. i like it. could do the same for the overview as well. sun + white names = does not mix. --- Originally by: Oveur It's important to understand that EVE is a "PvP" focused game
Commander Spectre The Funkstars Guild	Posted - 2008.10.16 14:37:00 - [46] Originally by: Elena Morin'staal So, is this possible to make as a player mod, by any chance, or is it A, Impossible, or B, an exploit under EULA? Assuming it was a legal, allowed and non buggy, I'd download this in a second. Well as a player mod that you download that would depend on CCP and it could cause lag during session changes I would think. So I thought they could impliment it server side to save on lag. Is it possible? - It would really just be an image placed behind the current readouts to give them a background to contrast to. There could be several to choose from or just blank to keep everything how it is for people who may not like the idea. So I think it should be possible in one form or another...still waiting for a dev to post and say if it is or not. While some players would probably like to make thier own custom dashboards I don't know if CCP would go for that...again I'm still hoping a dev will post to give some input. I have made several to show what they could look like and I have several more if they are interested. Is it legal, exploit, viloate the EULA? - No it's not ment to be any kind of expliot or anything illegal that violates the EULA. It should be made available to all players to give an even footing in the game. I would never suggest an exploit for EVE. This is only an improvement to the visual of the readouts intended to make them show more clearly so the player does not have to rotate his view to find a dark spot in space.
Elena Morin'staal Minmatar Tau Online Explorator Corp	Posted - 2008.10.16 14:56:00 - [47] Originally by: Commander Spectre I would never suggest an exploit for EVE. This is only an improvement to the visual of the readouts intended to make them show more clearly so the player does not have to rotate his view to find a dark spot in space. I didn't mean to imply like that, I just thought that the EULA might not allow third party software, and if you released this as a player mod, it might come into conflict. Still, it would be nice to see this implemented :)
Commander Spectre The Funkstars Guild	Posted - 2008.10.16 17:06:00 - [48] Well no it would not be third party software. Not software at all really. It was ment to be a feature the Devs could add. Like the settings for graphics in EVE to select a theme color for your windows color. They could just add images you could select as a background behind the modules readout. So it's not really a mod either. Maybe they could make it so you could add your own images to the ones available in say the cache folder or something, but that would take a bit more doing and I really don't know if they would go for that. I leave the technical coding part up to them. All I did was modify a screenshot with paintshop to show what it would look like so they could get the idea.


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