AoD dialogue screen

[Vault Dweller]

Still work in progress, so opinions and suggestions are welcome. We hooked up the dialogue database thingy yesterday, here is the first shot after switching to 3D.

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Spazmo: Odds are, something you like very much sucks. Why? Because this is RPG Codex.

[Astromarine]

very neat. My only tiny tiny niggle is that the gold display looks very isolated there under the picture instead of being on the bottom of the window (say, bottom right corner of the dialogue window itself) where it is closer to the stats displays. It's too near to the only visual element on the screen now. it gets lost.
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Astro

"Go skate into an AIDS tree, motherfucker!"
- Louis CK

[Zli]

First, I love the dialogue choices

But I'm not so sure about the background. It reminds me of the old Win 3.1 tiled wallpapers (i.e. really old) and looks too busy when it's behind such a thin font. I'd either put a bolder font, or make a non-tiled / easier on the eyes wallpaper, or both. A barely visible low-contrast landscape, maybe that of the region you're in, would be nice...

The borders look fine.

One more thing... I've noticed the Perception check on the bottom left. Is that made automaticly when you enter an area or do you have to click somewhere? And is it a roll, or just an ordinary <> ?
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[StraitLacedDeviant]

Or you could also display your current health/mana etc there as well, to help judge whether attacking or not is a good idea.

[Vault Dweller]

Agree. Thanks, Astro.

There is no mana. HPs are visible on the interface (50 HP)
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[Major_Blackhart]

Friggin awesome VD! Personally, I'm good with everything. This game is gonna kick major ass! WOOT!
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[Necropennis]

Looking great

[callehe]

looks great, I love the new 3d look with high detail level, and the ground looks realistic too. keep up the good work.
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[Psilon]

Yup, that's Torque all right. I know that cursor well.

Looks pretty good, VD.
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[hussar]

No talking heads? Sellout!

So far so good. I'm curious about the transition from the game screen to the dialogue screen though. Now it seems as if the dialogue interface almost completely takes over the screen, maybe something less invasive would work such as not reducing the game screen so much.

Also the NPC dialogue sort of blends in and looks more like a description of something as it took me few seconds to see what the character was responding to.

[Zli]

I meant something like this.
Those trees were the first thing I found, but it could be done much better. I'm no Cézanne.
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[Vault Dweller]

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[LlamaGod]

NEEDS LESS SHITTY 3D
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[Vault Dweller]

Shitty 3D is all the rage right now. When in Rome...
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Spazmo: Odds are, something you like very much sucks. Why? Because this is RPG Codex.

[Spazmo]

It's really great, but all that empty space really bugs me. Find something useful to fill it with! Perhaps a recap of the conversation to date could appear somewhere in there.
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How appropriate. You fight like a cow.

[Vault Dweller]

How is something like this?
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Spazmo: Odds are, something you like very much sucks. Why? Because this is RPG Codex.

[Human Shield]

A lot of empty space.

Maybe add some status windows in the lower left.

. Mood of other person, maybe with graphical faces.
. Any status effects you have, so being poisoned will show up and disappear in conversation with a healer NPC.
. Usable inventory, maybe bribing with items instead of just gold (like selling to merchant). Or items to help you sneak attack or showing poison items that let you poison. Darklands' item usage dialog choices combined with inventory status.

[Spazmo]

[Necropennis]

I liked the edit(not the coca-cola one ¬¬) although those trees looked like roman soldiers in formation at first sight(no offense heh).

Actually, that would be pretty cool. A Roman legion in the background :O

[Sarkile]

I disagree with Necropenis. I think you need to keep the Coke advertisement.

[spacemoose]

I also think there should be some kind of faint background picture for the dialogue screen.

Other than that, it looks sweet. As others mentioned the dialogue options are very very good. This looks like what I have been waiting for since... a long time!
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[ichpokhudezh]

Does status screen have to be gray-ed out (and not accessible, I presume)?
Can at least the messages window (bottom left) be normal and scrollabe during dialogs?

edit: btw, I don't like the dialog background either, looks out of place/color combination now. IMO even this would have been better.
No biggie, tho.
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[Vault Dweller]

The interface buttons are locked in the dialogue mode. The message window could be unlocked but it's kinda useless at this point as nothing would be reflected there during a dialogue session.

The background is ok, nothing spectacular, but it works (translation: it doesn't bother me).
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Spazmo: Odds are, something you like very much sucks. Why? Because this is RPG Codex.

[obediah]