Which of these do you prefer?

To be honest, I think they both clutter the screen, more importantly, I think the meters feel unnatural to the rest of the ui, especially on the bottom. Maybe re-position the breath meter under health and energy bar and move the option A meter directly under the action bar.

 

Or, have both bars separate, one on either side of the hotbar.

 

Okay, but what does it mean? In the mockup am I at "full" heat or am I too hot? How fast am I cooling off? Am I going to have to look at that bar constantly to judge how fast I'm losing heat? Am I losing heat because I just entered a really cold zone or because the cold weather has had a cumulative effect over the past hour? Simply adding arrows that show the speed of heat loss would answer all of these questions. Adding arrows won't make it complicated, it's still simple.

 

Most certainly B. Has a good feel to it. ​

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Food bar is not bothersome. Temperature and breath pop-up bars also act like an alert of sorts, bringing your attention to a situation.​

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B because it just looks better.

 

B has an additional pro not recognized (at least not that I saw) that when a bar pops up it grabs your attention, which is beneficial if you are using breath, or getting cold. I like that best.

 

B is for Beta witch nearly done, and B is for the choice I chose.

 

What if in B, instead of the bars popping up at the bottom, they popped up below the food meter? I mean, you don't wanna clutter the area over there, but that's why they are hidden most of the time. Hunger is always showing, and the other two pop up as needed under the food meter, and then a keybind to show them anytime.

If we're going to focus our attention somewhere, might as well keep it all in the same general area, so we don't have to monitor multiple areas of the screen for vital information like those bars.

 

That's probably because the food bar popped up every time you started to get hungry. Thus, you got used to it happening when there was no emergency yet. Thus, you got to where you wound up ignoring it.

That's why I like option B.

In real life, we hardly think about our environment when we're comfortable. It will work with natural human thinking if those bars only pop up when something might actually need our attention, right?

 

I've heard that Tiy is reading changelogs of other games... Cool...
IMO, the main idea about the UI should be that elements that are vitally important should be more visible than less important ones... Health, Energy shield, Armor integrity, Hunger, Breath, Status effects, Body temperature are all definitely very important for you staying alive...
If some parameters become critically important (starving, poisoned, almost frozen, almost out of breath, almost dead) the UI elements should attract attention by all means possible: flashing, shaking, sound cues and whole-screen effects...

 

b, a would get in the way DX

 

I like option C.

But in actuality, I like A design-wise, though B would probably be more practical.

 

Why not both? Have an option to arrange the GUI to your own personal preference.

 

Option C , always the best xDDDD

 

B is certainly better, I hope you'll add some kind of alert sound/visual so the player notices the bars appearing?

 

B, I like having an open screen when I don't need that info. Plus it's convenient to have the rest of the info next to each other.

 

Option A I don't like stacking bars keep as low as possible
Or on option B make the bottom bars side by side?

 

To be honest, I prefer none of those, or rather: a bit different.

I'd take B, and move the two bars from the bottom to the top (where the air is in A). Having those at the bottom feels kinda awkward. The human attention "line" thingie goes from top left to bottom right; it's much more noticable at the top than at the bottom, and since you're used (or you could say, people are trained) to look "up" for UI-Information anyway... I'd say it'd feel more natural.

 

B as the default sounds best, however I would not mind the ability to set some sort of option to have a temp gauge on screen at all times for testing purposes. (ie, testing the effectiveness of different types of cold/heat? mitigation in different scenarios)

Preferably not by taking up a slot (tech? or gadget?) that is just inventory clutter. ^_^ Thanks.