Preview: New birth interface

[darkgod]

Next beta is going to introduce a totally overhauled birth interface, so I thought you might all want a little preview

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMRUTyNuK_s

As you can see all birth selection is now done on a single screen, including name!

Quickbirth is replaced with "premades", which act quite the same except the UI is more explicit.
Instead of creating a character with the same name, you have a list of premade characters available in your local "character's vault" which youcan simply select to quickly create a new character based upon it.

[Grey]

All sorts of awesome! I love the restart options. Everything's a lot smoother.

How will this affect modules?

[darkgod]

It wont, this is obviously very customly made for tome.

The character's vault feature is available to modules.

If a module wants to get "inspired" by the custom birth screen more power to them, the code is actually quite clear and not taht long (650 or so lines including premade handling and randomization)

[Grey]

I'm just thinking how by default the game asks for a name before even loading the module (from what I can tell). Will that change?

[darkgod]

Oh that has been possible to change it for many betas
Just add a line:

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no_get_name = true

In your module's init.lua and it will stop requesting a name before loading the module.

I had not enabled it for tome because this broke quickbirth.

[Miruko]

can i suggest to have a field where the stats are shown? it could be useful to see them and plan the build before starting te character or browsing the wiki. Let's say i choose a cornac mage, i would like to see a field the shows my current WIL or MAG...

[yufra]

That is absolutely brilliant... I particularly like the random-in-one-button and character vault selection screen... kudos!

[Nori]

Love it!

[faustgeist]

Marvelous! The other videos too!
~R

[CaptainTrips]

Looks great, much more intuitive than the current design. I would also really like to have the option of viewing racial and class skills from the birth screen. If not the class skills, at least the racial skills would be nice, as I can't remember them all and like to match my race and class based on them.

[evouga]

This looks great. Can't wait!