UI: Status Bar Colourisation / Categorisation / Bolding

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Meric
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UI: Status Bar Colourisation / Categorisation / Bolding

Post by Meric »

Attachment below. An example of how busy the status bar can get and although maybe a hyperbolic example it can get rather busy up there and can be a lot to process - especially in raid situations.

So would suggest some sort of colourisation, bolding or categorisation of the status bar for ease of readability.

Categorisation - 3 static lines each populated by a subset of tile occurrences:
Singular Status Effects on you - combination strikes, golem form, defiler poison, passive regen, hidden, travel skills, potion ticks etc
Area Status Effects - e.g arcane well, hail storm, intimidating aura, fog etc
Glyphs - well, glyphs

Colourisation - same as current but effects are coded a certain colour whether they are positive, neutral or a negative effect to the character.
Blue - Positive: Arcane Well, Golem Form, Combination attack stack, potion ticks etc
Black - Neutral: Hidden, travel skills, passive regen, stored blessings, Glyphs that dont impact you
Red - Negative: Defiler poison, Agony Curse, Lethargic, Glyphs that impact you etc

Bolding - Bold status effects that are of particular immediate relevance to your char - ie. may have an impact on AP, MP, HP values such as Defiler poision, curses, travel skill, enervated, potion ticks
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Re: UI: Status Bar Colourisation / Categorisation / Bolding

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Wrote a module for NC-tweaks. So far it only handles colors.
Sorting isn't trivial because some Status Effects span multiple HTML elements (see: Tap Font)
Bolding would be doable if anyone cared to produce an exhaustive list of any status that should be bolded.

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https://github.com/Argavyon/nexus-clash ... ks.user.js
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Re: UI: Status Bar Colourisation / Categorisation / Bolding

Post by cat »

+1 for this.
Overall colours/bold/italics etc could be used in all UI to great effect. For example every time AP/MP/HP are mentioned in toggles, drop-down menus, logs etc they could be coded green/blue/red respectively. I know for me this would make juggling mechanics and UI elements much more intuitive - and if these rich text features are not appreciated they could be toggled off and/or changed to a colourblind friendly mode.
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