FreeOrion

Hey all! I'm back from holiday. Happy new year to you all! :) And now, back to business: :wink: http://img474.imageshack.us/img474/8513/sidepanelmockupkd5.png - width reduction: un/collapse buttons overlay content; sidepanel size reduced to 4 buildings size - decreased focus selectors size (less hei...

I should be doing different things... :? :) Freed up some space... see for yourself. http://img115.imageshack.us/img115/2563/sidepanelmockup17uncollxn8.png It's not just buildings that have effects... They can be added to the tooltip, too. If the lists gets too long, we can move the information to a...

A final update before I go on holiday: Uncollapsed: http://img216.imageshack.us/img216/5180/sidepanelmockup16uncollri0.png - specials are indicated with an aterisk at the end of the planet name - planet tooltip reveals which specials are present at the planet - added grey outlines behind resources t...

I've updated the mockups:

Uncollapsed:


Collapsed:


I might not check back before next year, please do comment nonetheless.

http://img187.imageshack.us/img187/8591/sidepanelmockup14al6.png sidepanel: planet - in-game gas giant. it fits. - put the special icons at the bottom of the planet; looks IMHO worse than before as it breaks the boundary of the sidepanel; also, the planet name would have to be very long and there h...

the big question is, what does it collapse into? I can't imagine buildings-icons half that size being readable. Simple colored squares of various colors and sizes? That's pretty abstract. Or just a total "Buildings: 2 (4)" That sounds reasonable. • Eventually we'll have Shipyards and poss...

• Are you indending that specials be placed after the planet name as icons or written out? Either way i think that's a good place— space allowing. I'd like to have individual icons for each special. Mouse-over reveals the description. • Well, i think you've demonstrated that there are worse places ...

Here we go... http://img184.imageshack.us/img184/299/sidepanelmockup12wp9.png - planet special and flag position changed (@eleazar: [planet] by obstructed, I meant obstructed by too many graphics; a single flag in the top-left corner does hardly obstruct the whole planet) - correction of meter/resou...

• Nearly white boxes around the elements make the divisions very prominent, but these divisions are not very important. How about using the empire color for those outlines? • i don't understand why science should be greyed out because it's reached it's max. If anything it should be emphasized, not ...

Updated mockup:



- added flag

Collapsed view:



- shows only primary/secondary focus

New mockup: http://img118.imageshack.us/img118/5384/sidepanelmockup10ay5.png - detailed population info - resource information can be collapsed (button in top-right corner) - primary and secondary focus are selected with a simple drop-down list, easy to implement, easy to use - construction and heal...

Okay, so then the system name is partly obstructed for 1 turn, that's hardly relevant.

If you command a fleet to leave a system the fleet icon is no longer diplayed above the star, but is instead displayed below the star. Thus it's easy to tell at a glance which fleets have orders to move. But why would that no longer be possible with the fleets above the system selection indicator l...

The top is reserved for the fleet icons, the bottom for the star name. Don't forget that departing fleets currently move to the bottom of the star until the player's turn is up. This makes it very easy to distinguish between fleets that have orders and those that don't. Something much more valuable...

I think now that we have several proposals that will probably all work well for focus selection , we might actually decide. Proposed were: (a) hexagon selection, two hexagons (maybe one large for primary focus, one small for secondary focus), in the middle the current setting for focus (b) pentagon ...