Tiberian Dawn UI revamp

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dragunoff
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Tiberian Dawn UI revamp

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Heya everyone,

I've been working on a new in-game UI for Tib Dawn mod. It's based on the work of xanax and warman who were working on this before me. I've also added some twists from myself and I have coded it to work in-game.

I'm starting this topic to gather overall feedback and suggestions on some points.

Here is the issue on github: https://github.com/OpenRA/OpenRA/issues/7572
And here's my WIP branch: https://github.com/dragunoff/OpenRA/tre ... -dragunoff

Test builds can be downloaded from here: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/ ... sp=sharing (sorry, no mac build, I couldn't package that)
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Re: Tiberian Dawn UI revamp

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GDI
There are two versions for GDI: with green and red buttons. Red buttons fit better in the overall color scheme of the mod. Green buttons fit better with the faction.
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Re: Tiberian Dawn UI revamp

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Nod
There are two versions for Nod: with light and dark panels. Light panels work better in-game because it's easier to distinguiush the interactive elements from pure decorative elements. Dark panels I feel fit better with the faction.
Nod (light panels)
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Re: Tiberian Dawn UI revamp

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Wow that looking awesome <3

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Re: Tiberian Dawn UI revamp

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Green GDI looks nice :)

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Re: Tiberian Dawn UI revamp

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I thought that GDI style color is brown/yellow. Green is completely fine too though.

As for Nod, I might suggest making it something in between light and dark themes, and/or maybe with red incuts (and GDI having brown ones).

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Re: Tiberian Dawn UI revamp

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GDI color is indeed golden/brown, but I think it would be harder to make an UI with that color because it would be too similar the active icon state (yellow). I think that it's better to have consistent icon states across factions. Furthermore green was used for GDI's UI in CNC3 and since this proposed design seems inspired by CNC3 I think it's good to stick with green. I may still give it a try though as I am curious.

@netnazugul Which part of the UI do you refer to as "incuts"?

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