It took me a few tries running the updater to get it to work, luck of the draw I guess, but I finally got the new client installed. So if it doesn't work the first few tries, don't give up.

I have to say that the game is running better than ever on my Intel Mac with OS 10.5.5. The graphics look great, the audio is no longer hollow, and I can quit the game without getting an  "Application Unexpectedly Quit" error. Cheers! 

Yea she was "towering" over the tower in an earlier version, but I noticed she was kind of awkwardly placed and I moved her without much thought.


I have seen Xordan's launcher, if it is what I'm thinking of, and I did use it as a base when designing this one. Though mine gives it more of the feel of a launcher with the news being added and the emphasis taken away from the updater.

I have also created a new login screen:

The background would be an animated environment.

I'm glad to hear the GUI is being updated, and that this thread has been a source of inspiration. It's good to know it is actually helping the game in some way.

Well as for switching between tabs while "holding" an item could be achieved by allowing the user to switch into a tab with a mouse over, instead of actually having to click it. Though the shelf idea is very interesting.

I have started testing out actually implementing this GUI in-game and must say the results have been very satisfying so far. The last time I tried implementing my reskin (Seen Here) I found that even when restricting the GUI from resizing to fit the resolution (an idea pointed out to me by Cherppow) I found that the graphics were distorted when rendered ingame and ended up looking terrible.
This time I found out a new trick (Pointed out here).

3D hardware (but also software) can render textures more efficiently if the dimensions are powers of two(abbr. "PO2") (e.g. 256x256, 512x128...), going so far that hardware and graphics APIs (e.g. OpenGL) require textures to have PO2 dimensions. So does CrystalSpace for all textures, 2D and 3D. While you can feed non-PO2 textures into CS, they will be resized internally to a PO2 size (e.g. 640x480 will become 512x512). The resizing isn't very good, though: the texture will end up looking rather ugly when rendered.

So I created my texture at dimensions that are a power of two, and then turned of scaling, and resizing due to resolution and here is the result:

Not a single smudged pixel.

Well it has been a while since I have updated, but I plan to continue working on the concept.

I have streamlined the interface a bit, and I redid the window borders.
@Xoiani: The small icons help reduce clutter, but it could be possible to have a larger view icon displayed upon examining the item.



EDIT: Boosted color to make it look less dull. (Makes it look a lot better in-game.)

I updated the info and party window. I also redid the window styles a little as seen by the quest window:

I'm not sure if I like the squared corners better but I think they will show up better in-game.

@Cherppow: I like the multi-state buttons for the stances and spellpower. I agree it wastes a lot of space having all the icons laid out. The stop attack button could possibly be located in the target window, that way it would only appear when attacking something and would be easier to click mid-fight because you would already have your eyes there anyways.

I also like that you brought back the time icon, though I meant for it also to show the current weather. I'm not sure if people use the game time as a reference, but I doubt it so replacing it with general "early morning" seems fine.

Well we could always take advantage of tabbed windows to reduce their number. For example clicking the portrait icon could go to a "character" container window that can be tabbed between inventory and stats. Each tab could still have its own shortcut key as if it were its own window.



     


Just because the design is meant to be simplistic and elegant, doesn't mean it can't have some more "artistic" elements. It's just a matter of 
keeping it clean. That is why I decided to try adding the old-paper-like feel to the quest notes and will also to the spell book. I have redone the Title Bar of the window. I think these few touches help keep the design from being too simple and boring.

I was thinking that clicking the window icon could minimize the window into just the Title Bar as to quickly get it out of the way when you don't want to close it.

I like the smaller inventory slots. You won't have to scroll so much.

I started work on the stats and skills window as seen here:

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I like what you've done with the inventory window. I downloaded your PSD and updated my own with it so now I have one complete PSD. I also went through and organized mine, naming and deleting layers after seeing how nicely kept yours was. I changed a few things around and didn't really like the new stances so I left them the same.
Here: