Screen Shots of your UI...

[bondies]

Originally Posted by Mischback So, this is just some playing around in Photoshop atm, but I think I like it... Don't know if I like it enough to try coding it, but anyway: The idea was, to make sort of a steampunk-inspired UI... With this strict layout I'm limiting myself to 24 visible buttons, but I really like the look of this. You can see portrait (left) and minimap (right), an XP-bar (bottom) and the players health and powerbars (top). What do you think? It is worth digging some further on this idea?

Yes! I love this idea

[Zagrei]

Sooo, I have decided to try switching my CD management to a cooldown bar. So far, I like it! Now, I just a have to get used to it xD Comments?

My CD bar (if I can't remember the keybind, lol) is almost hidden at the very bottom.

EDIT: Added a group shot.

[Unkn]

Newest screenshots... Haven't converted grid to match unit frames yet. Grid will end up looking like the pet/tot frames.

In combat




Out of Combat



When I'm done I plan on having the arrows under the health bars showing procs on player frame and debuffs/combo points on target frame

[Coote]

Starting again from scratch. Still lacking just about everything, but I'm still undecided on what to use for unitframes, or tooltips.

EDIT: Oops, messed up with attaching it. /facepalm

[sevti]

Alright, here's what I got jumping onto the transparent unit frame bandwagon

First shot has battlefield minimap up; I use it a lot for gathering/exploring, but I'll probably turn it off if I'm just questing. Second gives an idea of what it looks like in raid, and third is... well possibly a very silly idea, lol. It's been working out for me so far; I could never use it in a raid or any situation where I actually care about the names and exact percentages, but for mass random battlegrounds I think I like it. And the action bar in the corner was made visible primarily for alt-leveling purposes.

I'm undecided if I should add more of the gradient panels around things (like the friends/guild brokers at the top).

[MoonWitch]

Originally Posted by carebear. I have no idea to be honest. It'll probably take me a couple of weeks to figure it out and get it how I want it to be. Then there's the trouble of me having to sit on every class so that I can put in all the buffs and debuffs for each individual class and that's just helllooads of effort With me playing warrior I'd most likely only going to setup warrior stuff though. Healing UI That's a healing screenshot

I am actually quite interested in knowing what the colored squares in the UFs represent (and even more interested in how you did it :P)

[zork]

@Unkn
Me likes.

[Dawn]

Added zork's art to ToT, pet, focus, etc. ... However, I changed the ToT/Pet texture's appearance.

[Ferous]

Originally Posted by Dawn Added zork's art to ToT, pet, focus, etc. ... However, I changed the ToT/Pet texture's appearance.

You need to do something with the actionbar area Dawn!

[zork]

Dawn I love my new textures but that doesn't look right with pixel font style.

[Syxx]

Originally Posted by Dawn Added zork's art to ToT, pet, focus, etc. ... However, I changed the ToT/Pet texture's appearance.

Wow, that's just gorgeous. Simple and lovely... except I dislike pixel fonts a LOT. XD

[Haleth]

I agree with zork, pixel fonts and art don't really mix. Looks good otherwise.

[Dawn]

Yeah, like I said It was just fun at first, quickly thrown together. Didn't expect it to work so well. Guess I need to make an interface out of it, at least replace font and borders (buttons, minimap, ...).

[tenub]

Scrapped the old concept for a new bar-only idea. The top blue bars each represent 10%, so once your target hits 90% one bar goes away. The bottom orange bars represent 1% and will deplete faster, kind of like the hour and minute hands on a clock.

[Dawn]

Originally Posted by tenub Scrapped the old concept for a new bar-only idea. The top blue bars each represent 10%, so once your target hits 90% one bar goes away. The bottom orange bars represent 1% and will deplete faster, kind of like the hour and minute hands on a clock.

Like 91-100% = 10 top bars, 99 % = 9 bottom bars, 98 = 8 bottom bars, etc

until 90 % = 9 top bars and again 10 bottom bars?

Sounds awesome.

[Mischback]

Tenub, this is really cool... Would be too modern for me, but could turn out really great in term of functionality!

Unkn: This looks amazing, though I think that something is not fitting... The size of this really cool unitframes doesn't fit to the very small buttons...


Here's a little update to my steampunk-idea. Dawn suggested to add some textures, and since I wanted some grungy look, this is what has come out:



I don't know if I want this steampunk-copper / -tin-look. Me likes the grey.
Will try that tomorrow. Rust is on my list, too.

What do you think?

[tenub]

I was kind of stupid when I wrote that. Once the health hits below 100% a top bar will disappear, ie. 92% would be 9 top bars and 2 bottom bars. 89% would be 8 top bars and 9 bottom bars. It seems confusing at first but I think once I implement the idea that it would make more sense as I test the frames out more and more.

Edit: I really like the idea Mischback. From the graphics perspective it looks pretty cheesy/fake. However, as a concept and a first draft it's amazing. I might suggest tweaking the bevel in addition to adding the rust and more detail that you plan on doing. It really reminds me of one of my old favorite games by Bungie, Marathon:

[Led ++]

raid:
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/15576616/Wo...610_233143.jpg

party:
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/15576616/Wo...610_205514.jpg
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/15576616/Wo...610_204751.jpg

Mainly something to level my druid with. Works for everything tho.

Before anyone says it's again just a typical layout with pixelfonts, I really don't care. It just works.

[Plickz]

Originally Posted by Led ++ raid: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/15576616/Wo...610_233143.jpg party: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/15576616/Wo...610_205514.jpg https://dl.dropbox.com/u/15576616/Wo...610_204751.jpg Mainly something to level my druid with. Works for everything tho. Before anyone says it's again just a typical layout with pixelfonts, I really don't care. It just works.

Jw, how did you go around setting up the combo points/balance bar/holy power bar/shard bar with stuf?

This is what I've been working on, inspired by Zagrei's UI :P
http://img257.imageshack.us/img257/6...2710101135.jpg

[tenub]

Originally Posted by Led ++ Before anyone says it's again just a typical layout with pixelfonts, I really don't care. It just works.

At least use a font such as Unibody or Semplice, or at least bring the font you used for your chat text to your entire UI to make it more legible and more consistent. The 04b fonts are pretty hard to read and therefore not very good for use in a UI. I would only use them to display numbers if I was absolutely required to use such a font.