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CitiesSkylinesMods / TMPE

Cities: Skylines Traffic Manager: President Edition
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Overhauled icons & adjusted UI #1761

Open mrmaffen opened 6 months ago

mrmaffen commented 6 months ago

I have noticed that the icons used in TMPE are a bit all over the place. Some had thin white outlines, others didn't. Some were quite low-res, others weren't. The overall style was also not consistent imo. White icons with black outlines, black icons with white outlines etc. The button background textures also didn't match the C:S ones. I have tried to match the vanilla style as closely as possible, however I haven't yet added proper "active"-states. Normally the button foreground icons should switch to a blue posterized version. This could be done in the future, if somebody really cares to do it. However I think it already looks quite neat. I have also discarded the less saturated "normal"-states, since all they did was make the buttons feel washed out and again decrease legibility. "active" and "normal" states are identical fore foreground pngs right now. The background png is enough to distinguish between button states. However it would make sense to get rid of those active pngs since it's just duplicated data, but simply removing them resulted in a compilation error, which I didn't want to hunt down. Maybe somebody else knows what to do.

I have also changed the main menu button. The background has lost the crown, which wasn't legible. Instead I have given the crown to the traffic light itself, while removing the v11 text. The result is a recognizable, clean icon. At least in my opinion.

I have removed the version labels, since most users don't really care about the version number, except for when they've just updated maybe, or when checking if they're actually up-to-date. This can still easily be done in the Mod Manager or in Skyve. I think this approach is cleaner and matches user expectations.

Screenshots

MainMenu before: cities_tmpe_before_main MainMenu after: cities_tmpe_after_main
RoadSelectionPanel before: cities_tmpe_before_road RoadSelectionPanel after: cities_tmpe_after_road

Just wanted to add: This mod project is an absolute A+. I literally cannot play C:S without it and haven't for a long time. Good job. I hope I can contribute my part with this PR.

kvakvs commented 6 months ago

Have a look at https://github.com/CitiesSkylinesMods/TMPE/pull/1525 There was so much discussion and so many problems found on the way, before i lost steam. Also i stored original textures in vector format, SVG (from Inkscape), where have you stored the originals? Its not there. P.S. Users do care about version label it just can be very very small, barely legible.