FreeOrion

i go to freeorion.org. click FORUM on the leftside bar. Automatically log in (i checked the button)

are the "new post pending" icons (the orange notes) lighting up for other people on the individual topics? They light up for me on the whole forum, but when i click on the forum, all the topics are white (no new posts).

Whatsup with that?

too late. I've already converted to OpenGL. It took me the whole weekend to get my crash-course, but i know enough now to reconstruct my demo in OpenGL instead of SDL. Here are some relatively recent screenshots: http://forum.orionsector.com/viewtopic.php?t=1300 Right now i'm working on the collisio...

This is a great site for getting free fonts without popups or hassles:

http://www.downloadfreefonts.com/fontfiles/afonts.htm

As the opinion of a professional color analyzer, i like the old version better. Jacking up the contrast does not always make a better image.

ripped right out of my game. each block has a different kind of "theme": Amplitude, Sigma, Delta, Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Epsilon, Zeta, Theta, Iota, Omicron, Pi, Tau, Omega, Concentric, Hyperplane, Negative, Prime, Pythagorus, Vertex, Radiolarian, Levitation, Vortex, Quasar, Polar, Pulsar, No...

The latest mockup looks good. From a strictly artistic point of view, i'll say this though: There is a major lack of visual contrast in the entire scene. There are many lines and many different colors scattered in all directions. For this, you could do several things: Unify all the shapes and colors...

please don't scare me like that. Us normal people shouldn't have to suffer every year at the hands of April Fooligans.

bah

*ptooie*

i spit on #2. #3 looks rather good though. I still like #1, although i'd be happy with either (Except #2 of course)

although it looks nice, for a game i think that kind of UI is a bit "unnecessarily ornate". For me it's like they tried to hard to make it "cool", but it feels more like cool without purpose, or if we really went into deep space we wouldn't be working on consoles that worked like...

except for the art of course

"Anyways, if we have just a very basic looking one like the one we have now, I think it would be a shame. We have the time, manpower, and skill to make an amazing UI. " Be carefull. That's the MOO3 approach and looked what happened there. Sometimes, less really is more. In my own game desi...

I agree. the choice of fonts and overall widget size is much too big. Lots of wasted space as a result.

i like the way GalCIv did they're minimap. Each star had a sizable circle around which represented it's influence in some field. Switch to Population view, and the circles around each colony grow or shrink in sze to show relative amounts of population contained therein. http://www.galciv.com/images/...

loads OK for me. Makes sure it is .org not .com

http://www.paragui.org/