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rebuild status in the hud?

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Piemanlives:
Welcome to the community :P

Alistair MacBain:
I actually like that idea. And why make it so complex Rainer. Just fill the Red signs in ur Hud step by step when rebuilding something so u see the engineers rebuild that part.
Would also love that as engi to see if my second engi is repairing a certain part to priotize different.

Rainer Zu Fall:

--- Quote from: Alistair MacBain on September 05, 2013, 03:27:40 am ---I actually like that idea. And why make it so complex Rainer. Just fill the Red signs in ur Hud step by step when rebuilding something so u see the engineers rebuild that part.
Would also love that as engi to see if my second engi is repairing a certain part to priotize different.

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I can see some problems for colorblind people as well as keeping 2 spanner hits apart on a Galleon's hull instead of a Squid's one. Since this wouldn't be any help at all then by only minimal changes to the brightness of the red, I suggest using a different bar. This would add more to the HUD, if for example 2 engineers and 1 gun had to rebuild stuff because of 2 Manticore Hwachas attacking you -> 3 more bars added to the HUD.

Cheeseycom:

--- Quote from: RainerZuFall on September 05, 2013, 10:01:48 am ---I can see some problems for colorblind people as well as keeping 2 spanner hits apart on a Galleon's hull instead of a Squid's one. Since this wouldn't be any help at all then by only minimal changes to the brightness of the red, I suggest using a different bar. This would add more to the HUD, if for example 2 engineers and 1 gun had to rebuild stuff because of 2 Manticore Hwachas attacking you -> 3 more bars added to the HUD.

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There are already bars on the HUD as the HP of each item is reduced - why not simply re-use that same bar in a different colour?
I know you mentioned there may be issues for colour blind people, but if the repair progress bar colour was substantially different from the usual health bar, they should hopefully still be able to tell the difference? Admittedly there are many different types of colour blindness so I know accounting for all of them is difficult to do.. but this seems like the simplest way to add this feature without adding additional elements to the UI.

Perhaps if the repair progress bar were also to flash on and off to differentiate it from the health bar.. or a tiny spanner could be placed next to the bar to indicate it is for repairs.

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