Work I did on 1/12/2021

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Hey doods, I worked on some UI shit for the main menu I wanted to stream it yesterday but it would have been a very inconsistent stream with researching and looking into other ui's on google and playing a few games to see how their's reacts, so I was deciding on a consistent color theory for the game. So let me give you the overview of yesterday.

Menu UI

So one of the most important part of UI is choosing a consistent color pallete that the player can quickly identify and know what color means what.

After coming up with these colors that seem vibrant, easy on the eyes, and also can be tonally adjusted when they need to without losing its luster. I was about to finalize the animations for the Player dialogue but decided a Color guide is need to make sense of and help the player in the basic understanding of whats happening on screen. After picking the colors I made a mock up of a dialogue box asset, while including the different color theories.

with these done and established the next thing was to put these colors to the test in an ingame UI desgn test so I originally  madea 2 different mockups 

I still felt like I didnt have a good flow down so I asked around what people think and jurry gave me the badass idea to combine them so thats what I did!

 After making the "Load" I felt more confident using the principles I learned into doing another menu. Idiot me forgot that I made a controllers setting instead of an Options setting so I had to friggan change the word on her body from "Controls" to "Options"

I also added better color variations of highlights for each choice based on what Ilearned and I really like the better color contrast. After that I got to work on the UI for the options menu and that came out pretty quickly and happy with how it turned out!

The buttons to the left are going to be the highlight and selected version of each choice. The buttons will be in fonts f undecided optiopns for now since me and Gabe gotta figure out wtf each button will be but thats where we're at. I just have to add the animations to Unity and export the buttons and then I can move on to finalizing Ashley's Body in the Main menuuuu.

Ight, that about fucking covers it I think from yesterday. Im gonna finish up the rtest of the menus tonight hopefully and Ill start Streaming tommorrow since Ill be finalizing the Chapter Select Animations. 

Rock on,

-Pyro