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Honestly, its too cluttered. The blockyness makes the screen crowded and aesthetically unappealing. Please change UI fonts back to pre-season 4. Great work though. GJ Cryptic.
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  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited July 2011
    I've tried to change it aswell since it was the first thing I noticed, and if there is something that tires me it's a messy UI/Font and colours

    I couldnt find a way to change it so I wonder if there is any and if there isn't, will we get an option to change it somehow :o
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited July 2011
    my Boff bar now takes up 2 rows. I hate it. Please tell me how to change it back to how it was. I actually click my abilities to use them, & now i have to hunt around looking for them, + the UI is using space i would rather use to see whats going on around me.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited July 2011
    my Boff bar now takes up 2 rows. I hate it. Please tell me how to change it back to how it was.
    Go into Edit HUD mode. Put your mouse cursor on the right edge of the BOFF bar and drag it wayyyyyy out to the right. When it's wide enough, you'll have a single row again.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited July 2011
    I had gotten used to the font, and now it seems a little clunky. I'll get used to it again, and my old eyes will probably be thankful. What I really hate is the overlay on all the beautiful artwork that appears when you enter a new sector/instance/location. It really is unnecessary, distracting, and plain ugly.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited July 2011
    my Boff bar now takes up 2 rows. I hate it. Please tell me how to change it back to how it was. I actually click my abilities to use them, & now i have to hunt around looking for them, + the UI is using space i would rather use to see whats going on around me.

    Same here,the way it is now....I HATE IT.....I can't play like this.:mad:
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited July 2011
    HF_Mudd wrote:
    Go into Edit HUD mode. Put your mouse cursor on the right edge of the BOFF bar and drag it wayyyyyy out to the right. When it's wide enough, you'll have a single row again.

    THANK YOU! :D
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited July 2011
    Some people wanted a more LCARS-y look for the loading screens, with the artwork shoved off into a little window to the side. Then people wanted to see the artwork all big again, and we got this. And now...

    They just can't win.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited July 2011
    HF_Mudd wrote:
    Go into Edit HUD mode. Put your mouse cursor on the right edge of the BOFF bar and drag it wayyyyyy out to the right. When it's wide enough, you'll have a single row again.

    THANK YOU !!!!!!:)

    (damn devs......next time let us know will ya)
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited July 2011
    Can someone please take a screenshot of the font change you are seeing? I'll be on the live server looking for any font changes that may have slipped through the cracks but I need your help to expedite the process.

    Thanks!
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited July 2011
    HF_Mudd wrote:
    Go into Edit HUD mode. Put your mouse cursor on the right edge of the BOFF bar and drag it wayyyyyy out to the right. When it's wide enough, you'll have a single row again.

    Thank you for posting a workaround, I'll see about changing the default width of the BOFF bar so that it's one row and not two by default.

    That said this is not an issue related to the fonts.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited July 2011
    SHARKFORCE wrote: »
    THANK YOU !!!!!!:)

    (damn devs......next time let us know will ya)

    From the patch notes:
    UI
    • The power tray in space now has a fourth mode which provides a 3 row block of power slots plus the existing bridge officer powers tray at the same time.
    • It's now possible to resize the bridge officer tray cell and the bridge officers will wrap to the width of the cells.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited July 2011
    LedMirage wrote:
    Can someone please take a screenshot of the font change you are seeing? I'll be on the live server looking for any font changes that may have slipped through the cracks but I need your help to expedite the process.

    Thanks!

    Here is a screenshot I took today on Holodeck, that I posted in another thread. See how the button text is so big now that it takes up two lines? I'm referring to the Transwarp to Gamma Orionis button. Also, look at the font size of the mission tracker.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited July 2011
    It's as if all of the writing pre-season 4 was written in normal font like this, and after the patch (and also on tribble before today) the writing and lettering is now in bold like so, also a little lareger too.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited July 2011
    HF_Mudd wrote:
    Go into Edit HUD mode. Put your mouse cursor on the right edge of the BOFF bar and drag it wayyyyyy out to the right. When it's wide enough, you'll have a single row again.

    Yeah, this works, but the bridge officers are now right-justified (pressed as far right on the screen as they'll go), leaving a big empty space on their left side and that offsets them from the power bars awkwardly.
    craigsta wrote:
    It's as if all of the writing pre-season 4 was written in normal font like this, and after the patch (and also on tribble before today) the writing and lettering is now in bold like so, also a little lareger too.

    That's a pretty accurate representation of the change.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited July 2011
    Chookhlo wrote: »
    Yeah, this works, but the bridge officers are now right-justified (pressed as far right on the screen as they'll go), leaving a big empty space on their left side and that offsets them from the power bars awkwardly.
    In that case, I recommend shifting the bar itself to the left until it has the spacing you desire. Having (the non-displaying) part of the bar overlapped by another HUD element shouldn't be a problem, but let us know if it is.

    And craigsta covers my sense of the font change pretty well. (I haven't had a chance to get on Live yet today, but I noticed it immediately and every time since when logging into Tribble.)
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited July 2011
    LedMirage wrote:
    Can someone please take a screenshot of the font change you are seeing? I'll be on the live server looking for any font changes that may have slipped through the cracks but I need your help to expedite the process.

    Thanks!

    heres some shots of the font changes, I posted them on our fleet website.
    http://starfleetops.com/fleet-news/new-font-changes-for-cryptic-devs-to-view/

    one of those pics shows how the character/ship titles lay over my ship. It does the same thing over other objects like ESD.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited July 2011
    HF_Mudd wrote:
    In that case, I recommend shifting the bar itself to the left until it has the spacing you desire. Having (the non-displaying) part of the bar overlapped by another HUD element shouldn't be a problem, but let us know if it is.

    D'oh! Don't know why I didn't think of that.

    2ID-Dang wrote:
    heres some shots of the font changes, I posted them on our fleet website.
    http://starfleetops.com/fleet-news/new-font-changes-for-cryptic-devs-to-view/

    one of those pics shows how the character/ship titles lay over my ship. It does the same thing over other objects like ESD.

    It might be helpful to the devs if you have any "before" shots for comparison - (the fonts might have been displaying differently internally than they have for us end users for some reason). I tried to find some to post, but it looks like I turned my hud off for screenshots a long time ago, so I don't really have anything handy
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited July 2011
    It might be helpful to the devs if you have any "before" shots for comparison - (the fonts might have been displaying differently internally than they have for us end users for some reason). I tried to find some to post, but it looks like I turned my hud off for screenshots a long time ago, so I don't really have anything handy[/QUOTE]


    Yea, I dont have any before shots. Does anyone else have any for good comparison?
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited July 2011
    LedMirage wrote:
    Can someone please take a screenshot of the font change you are seeing? I'll be on the live server looking for any font changes that may have slipped through the cracks but I need your help to expedite the process.

    Thanks!

    I guess you missed the thread where you originally asked this, so I'll post the picture link here as well. It's an animated gif to show the changes:

    http://postimage.org/image/1h2v9tdd0/full/

    Edit: That's before shots from holodeck pre-s4, and after shots from tribble before s4. Holo now is virtually the same except mission tracker is fixed.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited July 2011
    I updated some better screen shots of the overlapping titles in space. same situation for ground.

    http://starfleetops.com/fleet-news/new-font-changes-for-cryptic-devs-to-view/
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited July 2011
    I have to say I really am happy with the season 4 changes overall. I do however agree that the old fonts were a little easier on the eyes than the new ones.
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