gabrix
Junior Beta Tester
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Post by gabrix on Mar 18, 2008 11:05:38 GMT -5
Long time since i said it last time (if i already did.. ^^): Keep up the good work "Mon"! (horrible 'joke') ^^
Now... think of more than one skill on the same button... how can the cooldowns be shown simultaneously?
Choose the 'lowest' cooldown and show that icon (the other will obviously be higher)?
Auto-cicle trough the spells on cooldown?
Simultaneously show left/mid/right or up/mid/bottom?
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Post by Moongaze on Mar 18, 2008 13:37:43 GMT -5
I have thought about cycling the cooldowns and showing the icons like you described, but I realized that people set the icon to show for the left click action (usually) for most buttons. So, if the user is used to seeing an icon that represents the left click and has a middle and right click assigned to it as well (with cooldowns), the icon will be inconsistant of what the user would expect and might confuse them as they could possibly see an entire bar of icons with cooldown, but they could still use the button. Sure, the could check the tooltip, but in a heated battle, tooltip checking might make things worse =( So, It's a good idea, but I don't know if that is the best idea. I also thought about showing all 3 cooldowns at once, one on top, one in the middle, and one on the bottom... (left, middle, and right wouldn't work due to the size of the text) but the text size would have to be small for that to work. Another idea is to color the cooldowns based upon click, and the user might need to remember those colors. Maybe yellow for left click, green for right click, and blue for middle click. This could still present the issue we had before with confusing the user and making them think the spell is on cooldown when it is not. They would need to train themselves so they could recognize the colors and understand what they mean. Also, people who are color blind in one form or another might not be able to tell the difference between some of those colors, depending on the type that they have. Sooo ... I don't know It's something I've been thinking about for a while ...
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Post by scaredofspiders on Mar 19, 2008 1:05:44 GMT -5
For the color blind: couldn't you make it something that a person set on their own (like the green ui layout you had mentioned before.. dark for oom, bright for in range, etc That way they could set it to things they considered lighter or darker...? I like the 'choose lowest cooldown & icon' idea, though. Ooh... and new idea on suggestion board, cuz I was just inspired!
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gabrix
Junior Beta Tester
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Post by gabrix on Mar 25, 2008 8:35:17 GMT -5
Oh... something else... Combustion does not seem to display it's cooldown properly when using OmniCC. Fix it. KKTNX! =]
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