Melee dps UI discussion

Re: Melee dps UI discussion

Post 08 Mar 2010 09:24

User avatarzYN
 
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Farnion wrote:Synti pls :D

Synti's UI and comparison shot.

Chopped together (rather shoddily) from quite a few screenshots to show the functionality. It might look spammy (it really isn't), but there's plenty of stuff happening in the screenshot, staged or not, on purpose.


Main points:
Extremely lightweight. I'm playing with ~3-4 years old computer, yet I keep a rather nice 20-40 FPS in 25-man raids. This is enough to keep everything playable. Getting rid of Pitbull and other crap that take an enormous amount of processing power from the CPU gives me more than double the FPS, literally. Current addons have 5.6Mb memory usage.

Focus of the UI is in one, concentrated place. I get all the relevant information at a very quick glance. I don't really give a shit how many debuffs from the whole raid my target has in a PvE UI - all it does is take up huge amounts of space for useless information. Clutter is kept to very minimum.

No spammy shit addons or other flashy stuff which serve no other purpose except to look nice in UI screenshots. Functionality is the keyword. Everything is very easy to spot, which leaves plenty of time for optimizing DPS and to plan ahead. I feel this is an extremely important part in an UI and very often overlooked. Any UI where you have to look around to gather the important information is horrible.


Added some text in it to clue in as to what does what. Rest of them should be self-explanatory.

[edit:] Forgot to mark the "debuff gained" section. It's a bit above the big boss warnings. Shows a big icon and a text of what kind of fire I'm standing on.
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Re: Melee dps UI discussion

Post 09 Mar 2010 13:28

User avatarzYN
 
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Fireslave wrote:Greatful for any time/input

Have you distorted the image itself or are you just playing with a non-wide resolution? You should really re-check your video settings.

Re: Melee dps UI discussion

Post 09 Mar 2010 14:03

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Turns out id be in maga nub settings. I forgot to ever change the settings when i got a new screen + cpu :<

Fixed - http://img532.imageshack.us/img532/7431 ... 141857.jpg

Re: Melee dps UI discussion

Post 23 Mar 2010 20:56

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Synti can you please upload your UI?

Re: Melee dps UI discussion

Post 24 Mar 2010 00:13

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Iiris pls :)

Re: Melee dps UI discussion

Post 24 Mar 2010 09:32

User avatarzYN
 
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burkee wrote:Synti can you please upload your UI?

I tried to check it out yesterday, but I haven't found a sensible way of uploading it that I'd be happy with. I can just list the add-ons and stuff that I use, though, if that's enough?

Re: Melee dps UI discussion

Post 24 Mar 2010 09:40

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zYN wrote:I can just list the add-ons and stuff that I use, though, if that's enough?

Would be nice.

/Edit: May sound silly but where is your main action bar? The one with IT, PS, SS, BS etc

Re: Melee dps UI discussion

Post 24 Mar 2010 13:06

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Hello,

To Maeil :

Just wondering : You have your addon's messages such as Trickortreat's ones in your second chatbox (the one above). Is it with KgPanels or you just created a new chatbox with the basic chat system? That can seem a little bit stupid but actually you can't choose in which box are those kind of message so... wtf? :-p

I thought you just put the basic general channel above the other (the one for the groupe/raid) but this general channel disappear after a while without any message. I mean even the font disappear. That's not the case for other channels created.

Re: Melee dps UI discussion

Post 24 Mar 2010 13:08

User avatarzYN
 
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Farnion wrote:May sound silly but where is your main action bar? The one with IT, PS, SS, BS etc

All of the simple abilities that require a rune or some such are on a hidden bar. I can see when I'm able to use them by checking the runes I have available at that moment. Same with runic power abilities that don't have a CD.


I'll list the addons and stuff later on when I'm not feeling quite as lazy.

Re: Melee dps UI discussion

Post 24 Mar 2010 14:01

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Tytyl wrote:Hello,

To Maeil :

Just wondering : You have your addon's messages such as Trickortreat's ones in your second chatbox (the one above). Is it with KgPanels or you just created a new chatbox with the basic chat system? That can seem a little bit stupid but actually you can't choose in which box are those kind of message so... wtf? :-p


Just created new chatbox for general/trade/gchat/say and unchecked those channels on the default chatbox.
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