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Any word about the old turret icons? (Now with the answer)

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Bienator II
madmen of the skies
#101 - 2011-11-02 13:19:45 UTC
CCP t0rfifrans wrote:
Guys, we're reverting the icons to the way they were before we introduced the new turrets.

We hoped that the rendered previews would turn out more clearly, but it's evident that usability suffered, and as a result, we're changing them back.

I can't comment exactly on when the change will go out, but it's in the pipe. They look right on dev machines with the latest internal build, at least.

nice to see that CCP agrees that usability > fanciness.

however having this model 2 icon rendering concept in place is quite cool IMO. For example what you could experiment with is silhouette renders of the items. Like color coded top + side views without textures, only the outline. (laser orange, hybrid green...)

this would make them all icon-like, you don't have to paint all by hand (maintenance) and it would be the best of both. Easily distinguishable while still being able to associate the icon with the 3d turret.

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Sidus Isaacs
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
#102 - 2011-11-02 14:17:46 UTC
The old icon back will be nice, or some new stylized ones.
Rixiu
PonyTek
#103 - 2011-11-02 19:59:49 UTC
Nice to see this, a hack for the old turret icons were posted on failheapchallange some time ago but forcing people to mod around :awesome: is terribly bad.

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