19th March - The Colour(ful Inventory Windows) of Magic

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19th March - The Colour(ful Inventory Windows) of Magic

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Hurray, finally an update to the UI that involves color!

 

The more fancier looking stuff in the game the better. The more items and craftable items in the game the better. If youre ever thinkng if you should add something the answer is always yes. The more things to play with the better.

 

I'd have the Avians yellow with red bits, then Glitch's UI should look a bit mouldy steampunk-ish.

 

Well colorful stuff is cute but... The real thing community would love is if you gave modders power over customize the GUI of starbound.
There's things like the songbook GUI and the chat GUI that desperately need some love!

 

"Scriptable GUI" sounds good to you? If yes, sit down and be patient.

 

Ahh, refreshing. We need more of these nice aesthetic updates.... Thanks.

 

... this game realy needs a crafting system where you get to assemble your own weapons from parts... (I want to mix and match the handle's and heads to make my own weapon! Nowz! ). Nice axe handles btw and the stacked windows showing up in different colors seems like a good idea.

 

If it's possible for the community to choose names for the handles (handles for the handles?), I would like the two designs in the bottom right corner to be named "The Emperor's New Handles".

 

Unless you meant something else, modders do have the ability to customize the GUIs in Starbound. Even the songbook and chat UIs have received mods in the past...

 

Nice colorful touch! Now those windows are nearly perfect! Of course it would be nice if they could remember their last positions

 

I been trying to make this, but I'm not sure what lua could be used to make it easier than making an item for every possible combination.

 

I'd hope the menu colors are customizable. That'd be super-helpful.

 

Very true. Also, it'd be nice to have them appear in the same place you last put them, so you can easily keep your windows organized, instead of them appearing in the default place every time, which is very annoying. So, yeah, the UI is great, but needs some tweeks ot make it less frustrating to navigate. Colors are a good start.

 

The colored windows look pretty weird to me.

 

I briefly mentioned it in a couple of retweets to Tiy but I'll mention it again here regarding the colored windows.

I've never had any trouble distinguishing stacked windows in Starbound, probably since the only times I've ever had stacked windows was when trying to scan items from my inventory in the 3D printer. It would be a different story if suddenly we could open multiple chest inventories at a time (granted, I don;t think I ever tried...).

What I have found annoying/confusing while playing but never thought to mention it until now, was how I'd accidentally hit the wrong key when trying to craft items at a crafting table.

I often hit 'C' instead of 'E' thus bringing up the crafting menu with only the basic "craft anywhere" recipes when I wanted to use the recipes on the table.

So this gave me an idea. Why not let the 'C' crafting menu check for nearby crafting tables and load those recipes as well? This can gives us one stop crafting if we put all our various crafting tables, forges, anvils, replicators, and spinning wheels near each other. If a player wants to see only "craft anywhere" recipes they can simply walk away from all crafting tables/stations.

The 'E' key functionality can remain the same for players who want to keep things segmented.

Anyhow, suggestion over. (Heck, I should probably actually post this in the suggestions thread come to think of it.)

Those axe handles are looking cool. Almost makes me want to use axes more often. Particularly those last two "handles" in that image (Yeah I know that the game probably doesn't generate axes with invisible handles, but it'd be funny).

Edit: Thread made in the suggestions forum

 

Well, Inventory will stay in the last place you left it. It's just that if you open a storage device, the game moves the Inventory window for you.

I tend to push Inventory as far left as possible, as I juggle a ton of different items while building. The window will stay put no matter how many times I open or close it... until I use a storage device.

 

Am I misrememberin things or is that what Terarria does? Not that that's a bad thing, mind you...

 

Hehe, I wasn't even considering Terraria when making that post.

But yeah, It totally does that. Granted last time I played Terraria (which was several months ago) it was still annoying to scroll through everything to find the thing you wanted to craft. Thankfully Starbound lets you search and sort recipes.