[glob2-devel] Re: Forbidden, Clearing, and Guard Area Animations

[Bradley Arsenault]

On 4/15/07, Bradley Arsenault <address@hidden> wrote:
> I've just noticed some new animations for the Forbidden, Clearing, and
> Guard areas.
>
> I like the new pictures for the areas, they look sweet.
>
> But the animations must go. Animating the areas adds nothing to the
> user interface, or the information given to the user. Its extremely
> visually distracting, it pulls the eye away from critical information
> with fast motion.
>
> If I've learned one thing from visual design class its that this is
> bad, very bad. I don't want to criticize but I instantly found it very
> difficult to do bug testing with these.
>
> I don't know exactly how they where done, but I suggest that whoever
> implemented them pick one frame and stick with it. The animation,
> while the effort is apprecciatted. is only going to make things more
> difficult for the user in the end.

In my late sleep I overreacted a bit. The animations aren't
particularly intrusive or eye-catching. We can let it be decided for
final in the release candidate.

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