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New furniture interface - still needs some work (imo)

From the Glitch change log from a day or two ago: "Remember the old, sucky UI for upgrading furniture? We don't because that thing has been gone for *literally* hours. The past? Eh? … Better."

I'm not a fan of the new interface. I'm finding that the "Change style for X credits" gray bar gets in the way of seeing the furniture previewed in the house.

Also, in the case of a hanging decoration, the view swiveled upwards so that I was looking at the ceiling between floors in the center of the screen -- I couldn't see how the decoration would look in the room at all, because I couldn't see the rest of the room. Not that it mattered, because the "Change style for X credits" bar was covering up almost the entire decoration anyway.

TS, please review and tweak the UI!

(Edited to correct text that appears in the gray bar)

Posted 7 months ago by Erak Subscriber! | Permalink

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  • I've honestly not had that problem.....
    Posted 7 months ago by ~Arabesque~ Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I can't see the new pepper hanging decor at all cuz the thing is in the way :(
    Posted 7 months ago by Gadzooks Subscriber! | Permalink
  • the thing? You know you can drag the pop up don't you?
    Posted 7 months ago by ~Arabesque~ Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I just drag the thing to one side when I want to view the furniture.
    Posted 7 months ago by Mal'akh Subscriber! | Permalink
  • The thing should automatically be positioned out of your way. We'll look into it :)
    Posted 7 months ago by stoot barfield Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Arabesque, I'm not talking about the pop-up window that shows all the possible choices....I'm talking about the gray bar that appears under or on the item you're upgrading, right above the option to "Hit the lights." At first it says, "Choose a style from the right." Then, once you choose a style, it changes to say "Change style for X credits." I tried repositioning it, but it won't budge.

    If you have a hanging decoration in your house, try changing its style to the new pepper string. As Gadzooks, says, the gray bar almost completely covers the decoration, so you can't see what it will look like in your house. (Plus, there's the whole swivel-view thing.)

    ETA: Thanks, stoot!
    Posted 7 months ago by Erak Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I was just trying out some of the new furniture, and noticed that even if you're zoomed out, as soon as you click on a furniture item and select Change Style, it zooms your view back to the regular setting. (But what if I wanted to preview the furniture with the view zoomed out so I could see more of the room?)

    Also tested with hanging decorations and am seeing the same thing as others: the "change style" button obscures the item (especially the flags), and the view moves so that you can't see all of the room where the hanging decoration is located.

    Even for regular items, the "change style" button is in the way. For instance, I was changing the style of a side table beside my bed, but the "change style" button was covering up part of the view under the table (which included part of the bed), so I couldn't really evaluate how the table looked in conjunction with the bed.
    Posted 7 months ago by Aldebaran Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Aldebaran & Erak: I'm having trouble reproducing what you are seeing. Can either of make screenshots? Or submit a bug from inside the client while the UI is open? Also, on which floor is the item you are previewing? And is it on one of the edges of the house?
    Posted 6 months ago by stoot barfield Subscriber! | Permalink
  • @stoot: Here is an example of how the "change style" button interferes with actually seeing the style:

    i.imgur.com/BUBkv.png
    Posted 6 months ago by Sirentist Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Seems there are now two interfaces. 

    1) If you are upgrading an item already placed in the house, you get the new interface.  What I don't care for currently in the new interface is that it doesn't tell you the name of the upgrade.  

    2) If you have moved the item back into your inventory (and it was upgraded), and select change style, you still get the old upgrade interface (which frankly I liked a bit better than the new one).

    I would love an interface where I could sort the upgrades better (by cost, by subscriber only vs non-subscriber, by name, by color/tags, etc) - though maybe we can already do this and I've just not played with the interface enough yet.
    Posted 6 months ago by b3achy Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I love the new UI!
    Posted 6 months ago by Taco Assassin Subscriber! | Permalink
  • @Erak - I have to agree. While it is nice to have the upgrade display options box move to the side, the rest is a step backward IMO. I like to be able to see how the item will work in the room - sometimes that means I want to see it centered, but more often it means I want to see it off to one side. Previously I could have the view I wanted by positioning it there before doing the upgrade. Now, the view is automatically changed. I also agree that the change style button is in the way. I was trying to upgrade a side table and that button was right on top of it.
    Posted 6 months ago by Audaria Subscriber! | Permalink
  • @stoot, here is a series of 5 screenshots showing the whole sequence: http://imgur.com/a/pJ5ok#0N5Pf

    1 - Standing at left end of the 2nd floor (of 3).

    2 - Switched to Decoration mode.

    3 - Selecting "Change style" for the hanging decoration (cranes).

    4 - The room view moves to spotlight the third floor (above the place where the cranes are hanging from the ceiling of the 2nd floor). Also, the gray "Choose a style" button partially obscures the cranes.

    5 - Selected the hanging peppers, so the cranes change to the peppers. The "Change style" button almost totally obscures this decoration (and same for flags). Also, because of the way the room view repositioned itself (previous screenshot), I can't see how the decoration would look in the room (assuming I could see the decoration in the first place).

    (edited to make link active)
    Posted 6 months ago by Erak Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Thanks for the links, Erak & Sirentist! That definitely didn't come up in testing or we wouldn't have released it. Still trying to figure out what is causing that for you.
    Posted 6 months ago by stoot barfield Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Mine doesn't do that..the change style for free message is above or below the item I choose to change.
    Posted 6 months ago by Cryztal Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Yeah, it was fixed yesterday.
    Posted 6 months ago by eric Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Not seen those flags before, they look like a row of underoos on the washing line.
    Posted 6 months ago by Miss Parsley Subscriber! | Permalink