Auto-updater UI

[Jeff]

Hey guys, as promised in the blog post tonight, here's the auto-updater UI I recently whipped up. Let me know what you think!

Be sure to use the latest version of Chrome or Safari (better yet, a WebKit nightly) to test it out!

All the data here is simulated, it's not actually downloading anything:

http://www.wolfire.com/ui/autoupdate/autoupdate.html

[Tonjevic]

Nice and smooth.

I especially like the version previews bit.

[GreenFlame]

At last! Really amazing!!!! Hope soon i'll be able to update my old alpha
Thank you very much!!!!!!!!!!

[m3nace]

nice
smooth
awesome

[Froyok]

Cancel button doesn't work on progress bar.

[Ozymandias]

Now I'm curious. Obviously this would be used in the full retail game.

Would something like this be available for mods you install? I.E. in the main menu it would tell you that mods you have have updates to them and then you could decide if you want to bother getting the update just then... if that's possible, of course.

NOTE: Mmmm, green. I like green =) I hope more of the UI later involves more of this black/dark grey + green =)

Though personally I would prefer more bluish green than the yellowish green being used now... because yellowish green looks yucky (though it would probably fit OG's theme more =o)

Greeen

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NOTE 2: I like green.

[Skofo]

Wow. It's crazy that all of that was made like a regular web page. Well done!

[TheBigCheese]

You should add some nice earthy browns to the UI's color scheme as well to complement the greens.

[Zhukov]

You should add some nice earthy browns to the UI's color scheme as well to complement the greens.

Seconded. A lot.

All that grey really doesn't cut the mustard.

[Lord_of_Sausage]

I find it really sexy as it is.

[Jeff]

Feel free to pitch in mockups like Ozymandias, that would be very helpful.

[Endoperez]

You could consider putting in an Overgrowth-themed loading graphic instead of generic colored bar. Perhaps something like a moss-covered stone pillar, horizontal obviously. Here's a very simple MSPaint sketch made from the pillars in Overgrowth logo, to show the basic idea. The loading bar could be the pillar itself appearing, or plants and roots growing over it.

[Ozymandias]

plants and roots growing over [the pillar].

This sounds like an epic idea. A clean stone pillar that slowly gets chips and moss and vines growing from left to right. Doesn't that just yell 'overgrowth' ? =P

[Froyok]

plants and roots growing over [the pillar].

This sounds like an epic idea. A clean stone pillar that slowly gets chips and moss and vines growing from left to right. Doesn't that just yell 'overgrowth' ? =P

I thought of the same thing by seeing this image!

[Uberbeard]

Yeah that might be a nice little animation.