Customizable Inventory ANALYSIS

I'm not sure if this would be worth making a video about so I'll just make a thread for now and ask for your guys opinions!

Ideas:
Customizable from settings?
Different obtainable bags?
Different update Versions?


HUD.



Open Inventory.



Also I'd appreciate you wouldn't directly quote this post.

 

Again, I personally prefer the top left bars in the second and last pictures, and the quickbar in the first picture as it looks much more organised and less squashed together.

As for inventory screen, I prefer the second as everything is in one box instead of having to open two boxes to change equipment from your inventory.

 

Yeah, I like the ui of the final picture, it makes it look simple to get around and to find everything, and at the same time, doesn't get in the way.

 

More customizability is better imo.

 

Agreed, actually.

If possible giving the players the choice from multiple options would be nice but realistically it's not probable.

 

I'm liking the bottom picture the best. Very clean and simple.

 

I like the single box for the inventory.

As for the action bar, um.. hard to say... I can see some people preferring the hotbar style and others preferring the sidebar. I'd say that would be more of a changeable thing, rather then a permanent thing that you can't change.

 

Yeah, I think having the option to choose which bar you have is the best idea.
My main gripe with the first inventory screen is that it's on two windows. The minimalist second inventory is just so unobtrusive (now if only there was an option to make it more transparent/translucent).

Also, have you played with moving the first hotbar to the bottom of the screen? Bringing it closer to the player seems like a good idea, in my mind, and I want to see how it actually looks.

 

if i had to chose, i'd go with pic 2 and 4.

 

I hope every thing, like inventory and equipment are all customizable because I rather don't like any of them :/

 

im gonna go with all of em since theyre super cool

 

It depends for me, really. First, I was thinking it may be interesting to have the camera place the player in the center of the screen once he's underground, since we know there are caves, and maybe digging in the game. Thus, it wouldn't change much to have the hot bar in the top or bottom. But I kind of like the side-hotbar too. However, like pretty much everybody here, I prefer the inventory in one page.

 

(Psssst, KaratePig, if you don't like them, then tell WHY you don't like them, so that, ya know, the developers can look into making it better?)

As an example, you should make the inventory screen stretchable; like, able to squash it, make it longer, drag up higher, ect. like a normal program window on a computer. (Does that make sense at all, Pedguin? Sorry if it doesn't, and I'll try to make it more sensible sounding later.)

 

Don't worry, I find it makes perfect sense. And I would like it. I am the kind of guy who would like to always have a little inventory window in a corner to always have an eye on what I am picking up.

 

Hopefully, by the time the game is finished, the UI will be so spectacular that you won't need customization.

 

I just don't like the layout of the equipment/inventory/hotbar because it doesn't look nice to me, It is too spread out. If you played Terraria then you would know what I like. I like the little bar of equipment/social armor then accessories, but also the hotbar could be closer to the bottom. I just generaly don't like the look of it. (Psssst, Ryss, is that enough explanation so the developer know WHY I don't like it so they can make it better )

 

I personally think the HUD on the first screen looks best, and the inventory screen on the last screen seems the easiest.

 

i agree, do you see how in the last screenshot the pants and shirt equipment almost seem misplaced? I feel they could have made it look a lot nicer, and hopefully, they will.

 

I like the first pic and last pic the best, first for hotbar and last for inventory and stats (Energy, Health, Defence or so I think)

 

I don't really see what you mean by spread out, I'd say it is as compressed as possible. My biggest critic is that the inventory window should be slightly transparent.