nexuiz 2.4 user interface usability problems

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nexuiz 2.4 user interface usability problems

Postby AU » Tue Jan 29, 2008 11:24 am

I had 2 problems so far with new 2.4 svn version [3300] menu UI. These problems aren't bugs but proposals to improve interface a bit, so I don't expect many answers here (actually, I didn't know where to put this topic but this seems to be the most appropriate place :wink:)
--- The first thing is a font color of server titles in the Multiplayer -> Join menu. My Internet connection isn't very good - the ping varies from 180 to 500+, and so all the server names' colors are very similar to that of the background. It would be really good if you change one of the colors or use outline around the letters, because it's really difficult to choose correct server.
-- Another problem is a really minor one, but it happened too many times.... When you start auto downloading some files from a server, the status line(s) appear at the bottom of the screen, just above the "Credits" and "Quit" buttons. The "Credits" is not as important one :), but it happened too many times, that the file to download was such big that I wanted to stop downloading it and switch to another server (or quit the game). To do that I needed to restart the game (there is a stopdownload command but it didn't work for me :)), and you should guess where the "Quit" button is now (really minor problem though). There should be some way to stop downloading or to hide the status panel, or the panel should be somewhere else.....
Thanks for attention :D
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Postby divVerent » Tue Jan 29, 2008 1:13 pm

The download message can't be moved...

but "curl --cancel" stops the HTTP downloads. HTH.

As for the server coloring issue... I'll look into that. But that's a thing a skin can change. Will make the fading out of slow servers less strong.
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Postby AU » Wed Jan 30, 2008 7:06 am

Great :D, download problem solved, thx :D
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Postby divVerent » Wed Jan 30, 2008 8:41 am

Just committed a fix to make stopdownload also do curl --cancel automatically.
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You can vary the number of "MS", so you can clearly see it's MS which is causing it.
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Postby AU » Thu Jan 31, 2008 7:35 am

Yep, this worked too, so what was stopdownload supposed to do before:)
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Postby divVerent » Thu Jan 31, 2008 9:06 am

It stops the engine internal download protocol (max 5k/sec, can only download maps/models/sounds, no textures, so it sucks [doesn't suck in Quake 1, as Q1 maps/models contain their required textures], but it is there mostly because QW needs it).
1. Open Notepad
2. Paste: ÿþMSMSMS
3. Save
4. Open the file in Notepad again

You can vary the number of "MS", so you can clearly see it's MS which is causing it.
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Postby divVerent » Thu Jan 31, 2008 9:08 am

As for the server coloring... extract the file gfx/menu/default/skinvalues.txt. Customize this block:

ALPHA_SERVERLIST_FULL 0.2
ALPHA_SERVERLIST_EMPTY 0.5
COLOR_SERVERLIST_LOWPING '0 1 0'
COLOR_SERVERLIST_MEDPING '1 1 0'
COLOR_SERVERLIST_HIGHPING '1 0 0'
ALPHA_SERVERLIST_HIGHPING 0.2

and tell me the values you would like there. You may especially want to raise ALPHA_SERVERLIST_HIGHPING...
1. Open Notepad
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4. Open the file in Notepad again

You can vary the number of "MS", so you can clearly see it's MS which is causing it.
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Postby AU » Thu Jan 31, 2008 10:43 am

Yea, _FULL and _HIGHPING could be a little higher, for example 0.5, but how can I check the result?
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Postby divVerent » Thu Jan 31, 2008 10:58 am

By extracting that file into your Nexuiz folder in the right place, and starting Nexuiz. For full instructions, see the Nexuiz skin contest topic: http://forums.alientrap.local/viewtopic.php?t=2613

Also, FULL is lower than EMPTY for a reason - you have no reason to even try joining a full server. So making them the same would be bad. If you want to set FULL to 0.5, EMPTY would become 0.7 perhaps.
1. Open Notepad
2. Paste: ÿþMSMSMS
3. Save
4. Open the file in Notepad again

You can vary the number of "MS", so you can clearly see it's MS which is causing it.
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Postby AU » Thu Jan 31, 2008 12:24 pm

Yep, simply 0.2 is too low for me, because I don't want to increase brightness or contrast of my monitor.... :)
Trying to run Nexuiz now.......
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