check out my UI

hey, check out my UI i just finished for my new map :)

You could have put lots more effort in it...
too much noise,too little variation in color and in details and well its just plain boring and crapy .
Mind if I do a paintover?

feel free to go over, i tried to stick towards the original doom UI as much as possible. I wanteed it to be plain and simple. The ui i used in my other map was firey, and annoying.

Nice idea with the doom stuff
My quick paintover:


*this is just an idea*
Also If your interested getting some people to help you in your map come here:
http://com4.runboard.com/bcustommapmakers
(recently one of our clan moderators brothers deleted about 700 of our posts...so pretty small number of posts right now)

Oh and good luck with the map.

hmm, ok, im not gonna post an updated screenshot quite yet, but i used a few of ur ideas. I put a pipe running across the middle thin part instead of stone (which looks great). And at one part, i stacked the blocks like u did. I also tried to emphyasize the cracks between teh blocks more so it would stand out a bit more. I think im gonna do something like u did with the top edge of the UI along the bottom. Id like to put some blood spatters on the stone (but it isnt easy in psp, any suggestions on how to make good ones?). And, im gonna try to pile up a few bones in the corners along the edge of the UI. Along with the little faint strip u got abve the main areas. Thatll also help hide a little black area (went to low, and alpha wont fix it). thnx, and any suggestions with blood spatter techniques would be appricated!

also, i made it so when u click a non hero, the inventory slot cover shows the inventory slos, but 4 triangles are aligned covering the skulls, its looks good when u switch between hero and units.

1 last thing, cool minimap border and menu borders along the top, i may do something like that. :)

Check these out:
http://www.wc3sear.ch/viewtopic.php?t=12138
I made them some time ago but they will help I think.

ok, im done! i culd probably add a bit mroe to it on minimap and clock, but im tired of messin with it, and it looks good, nice and simple. heres the final ui.

Yeah... that looks much better than your old Doom UI. I too beleive you could add a little more to it. But it's, like you said, Simple.. and good

do u mean better than the first ui pic i posted... or better than the ui in Ultimate DOOM, the first one i made?