suspect6 Profile Joined May 2014 Germany 2 Posts Last Edited: 2014-05-13 22:34:33 #1



I'm a Web-/Screendesigner and I love watching Starcraft 2 matches/Tournaments. I started to play sc2 back in beta and played WoL quite a while, when hots was released i played the campagin but didnt play any ladder games anymore or whatsoever cause I didnt really like some of the new units/changes. Although I stopped playing I never stopped watching cause there are still cool matches going on (even though I think there were more intense and fun matches back then) and cool and interesting or fun personalities around. So much for the back story.



The reason why I'm posting here... there are several Observer UI's and overlays around, some do 'A' pretty good and others do 'B' very good or look nicer or have better sponsor integration etc.. Gameheart does a lot of things very good in my opinion, but does also do some things I personally dont like that much, a matter of taste i guess.

The thing is, I dont fancy playing around with the editor / UI tools, so I just made some layouts in Photoshop how I would do an Observer UI for the game. If anyone wants to use these and actually build a UI from it feel free to contact me. Maybe I'll also reach out to blizzard, could be some of the things arent that easy to do with the tools provided and blizzard themselves would have to change sth like for example positioning the default Unit/Worker Killed Compare Panel (ctrl+r), or maybe they want to pick something up from it, I dont know.



I hope some of you guys would also like to see it built. It's also an attempt to give organizations, streamers and leagues the opportunity to use the same UI. I personally don't like having to look on 4 different places when watching different events, cause there is no consistency in positioning in the several UIs and overlays.

If these layouts are getting some likes I could also work a bit more with league colors or such to make it a bit more distinct from one another, so viewers can tell a bit better for example if its dreamhack or if its wcs in addition to the logos.



In the following I will show you the layouts and tell you why I did it like that.



The first thing you'll notice (not the fact that the player portraits - hyun and oz - dont fit the names ) is that the minimap isnt at the bottom left anymore and I know it will take a bit getting used to it, but it has several reasons why I did that, so would be nice if you would read further (i know its difficult getting used to it, mostly when youre actively playing the game).



I did 4 Layouts, there are 2 different styles, a 'vs' style and a list/table style, both of them with a minimal version and a 'normal' ('extra' information) one (in addition I added 2 Images how an all-kill format (e.g. acer Teamstory Cup) could look like.



Layouts:



VS minimal





VS normal





List minimal





List normal





All Kill VS





All Kill List







Explanatory images:

























Possible Areas for 'animated' logos:



Hi,I'm a Web-/Screendesigner and I love watching Starcraft 2 matches/Tournaments. I started to play sc2 back in beta and played WoL quite a while, when hots was released i played the campagin but didnt play any ladder games anymore or whatsoever cause I didnt really like some of the new units/changes. Although I stopped playing I never stopped watching cause there are still cool matches going on (even though I think there were more intense and fun matches back then) and cool and interesting or fun personalities around. So much for the back story.The reason why I'm posting here... there are several Observer UI's and overlays around, some do 'A' pretty good and others do 'B' very good or look nicer or have better sponsor integration etc.. Gameheart does a lot of things very good in my opinion, but does also do some things I personally dont like that much, a matter of taste i guess.The thing is, I dont fancy playing around with the editor / UI tools, so I just made some layouts in Photoshop how I would do an Observer UI for the game. If anyone wants to use these and actually build a UI from it feel free to contact me. Maybe I'll also reach out to blizzard, could be some of the things arent that easy to do with the tools provided and blizzard themselves would have to change sth like for example positioning the default Unit/Worker Killed Compare Panel (ctrl+r), or maybe they want to pick something up from it, I dont know.I hope some of you guys would also like to see it built. It's also an attempt to give organizations, streamers and leagues the opportunity to use the same UI. I personally don't like having to look on 4 different places when watching different events, cause there is no consistency in positioning in the several UIs and overlays.If these layouts are getting some likes I could also work a bit more with league colors or such to make it a bit more distinct from one another, so viewers can tell a bit better for example if its dreamhack or if its wcs in addition to the logos.In the following I will show you the layouts and tell you why I did it like that.The first thing you'll notice (not the fact that the player portraits - hyun and oz - dont fit the names) is that the minimap isnt at the bottom left anymore and I know it will take a bit getting used to it, but it has several reasons why I did that, so would be nice if you would read further (i know its difficult getting used to it, mostly when youre actively playing the game).I did 4 Layouts, there are 2 different styles, a 'vs' style and a list/table style, both of them with a minimal version and a 'normal' ('extra' information) one (in addition I added 2 Images how an all-kill format (e.g. acer Teamstory Cup) could look like.Layouts:VS minimalVS normalList minimalList normalAll Kill VSAll Kill ListExplanatory images:Possible Areas for 'animated' logos:





So, as I said, I hope you like them, or at least like something about it. Feel free to contact me and have fun discussing. ;o So, as I said, I hope you like them, or at least like something about it. Feel free to contact me and have fun discussing. ;o