Hey there Ghostdog - I'm LOVING your UI pack! Fantastic work!
Just thought I'd attempt a few suggestions to the "wishlist" for whenever you release the next version. This is concerning the dialog UI, seeing dialog is king in
PST - as we well know.
1) I'm finding the darker/more-colorful background quite distracting for reading the huge streams of text, and much prefer the slightly-blurred/colorless look of the original background - I wonder if you could make this an *option*? Looking at it this way: Most everything else you have done adds NEW art to fill the gaps in the widescreen mod, but the dialog background is REPLACING art that, for my mind, looked better before. In my research I noticed there are optional "rusty UI bars" for The Vanished Ones 1024x768 UI mod, which is a perfect example, except I prefer your 1280x800 UI. If not bundling it with the mod, I wonder if you could likewise provide the relevant file with the *original* background color as an alternate download? (WMMOSDP.MOS - I believe is the file in question)
2) Similar again to 1024x768 UI mod, I wonder if you could have an option to make the text box window itself (not necessarily the background) more narrow, say like the original 640 pixels wide? The problem again being in reading the lengthy streams of text, where my eyes have to wrap around to the next line (1280 pixels in the opposite direction) without losing my place in the sentence. In short, smaller blocks of text are much easier to read. Hard to describe but I hope you know what I mean, just try maximizing your browser window and reading these paragraphs.
... 3) Merely as a result of #2, ideally if the text window is somewhere around 640-800 wide, I wonder if it can perhaps be centered (more or less) in the middle of the background? No need to make the background itself match the text position, but just for aesthetic purposes if the text might look better centered, rather than to one half. Either way I think it would *read* better if narrow.
That about covers it. I tend to think providing such things as an option to the player (either during install or as alternate small download) would help so that each person can have their own preferences. These tweaks would make your mod PERFECT in my opinion - though it is already a fantastic piece of work. Many thanks to you and the other mod'rs!
Cheers,
TV
