Post by reyazulejos in Cartoony UI Pack comments

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Hey RhosGFX, love your stuff, bought the entire bundle. I'm a little confused, in the screenshots and reference photos for this UI pack, even in the main profile pic for it, I see lots of assets that I think are missing from the actual download? Like your settings container with the pointy edges for example? Am I downloading the wrong version or something? Are the pictures misleading? Also you have some spelling mistakes lol, search "setings". Thanks!

Edit: I'm reading your description, maybe those are in the layered SVG files? I haven't checked, but honestly I wouldn't mind having hundreds of assets already exported as long as they are organized and follow structured naming conventions throughout the pack. This is because I've coded up my game to directly parse through the asset directories, group the assets by size, name, and folder, and then i can switch colors/assets in my 9Patch on the fly. Hundreds/Thousands of assets is no problem when you build your game system to automatically handle them and they are consistently named and labeled. You should go for it honestly.

RhosGFX10 days ago

Ah, I should have been more clear! The images are just illustrative of what *could* be made from the elements. They're not included in the pack.

As for the thousands of assets, I actually initially wanted to do that, but it would make the pack take up so much space that it'd be really inconvenient for the majority of users (and potentially impossible to even upload to itch).

You're right, though: they're all in the layered SVGs. Everything's already labelled, so all you need to do is export them. In Illustrator, you'd select every asset, then right click > collect for export > as multiple assets. It's unwieldy, but it's the besr option I have for now.

Thanks for the tip on the spelling - I'll fix it!

I understand this pack hasn't 100% lived up to your expectations, so if you want to raise a ticket with support I'll approve a refund :)

reyazulejos10 days ago (1 edit)

Hmm that's disappointing, but I still think it's worth it, no need for a refund. How about instead of a refund you update the pack with some of those cool ideas lol, at least the ones you've already show in the pics: then it wouldn't be misleading anymore! please :)

Also some quick math: The entire UI pack zip is only 1.7MB zipped, and that's including the SVG files! That's nothing, the Itch size limit is 1GB (1000 MB) if I recall, so you could literally make this pack 588 TIMES larger. If you want to test it, try uploading some file that's just under 1GB. You could always have a "base" version of this pack like you do in your base vs PRO packs: small like it is now, and then supe up the PRO version for people like me who want that kind of thing. Food for thought, keep up the good work!

RhosGFX10 days ago

Oh, brilliant idea, why didn't I think of that! I think I'll probably do something like Essentials vs Expanded. Will take a little while - I'll have to export all the frames, update marketing copy and graphics etc - but I'll get started on that once I'm done with the current Furniture pack update. Thank you!!

reyazulejos10 days ago (2 edits)

That sounds awesome! I'll be looking out for it.

Crazy thoughts here: It'd be nice if your packs organized the assets in a way that makes it easy for developers to more easily build systems that can parse them automatically (especially the Expanded packs if they have thousands). Some minor improvements and "rules" to your folder structure could really take your assets to the next level: it would allow developers to make a "pulg-and-play" plugins/adapters for Godot, Roblox, Unity, etc on github that could work with all your asset packs "automagically," taking alot of the friction out of actually integrating them in games. People would look to the plugin devs to answer those questions instead. I'd be down to modify my current system for Godot and put it on github if we make this happen, I'm sure other devs would do the same for other engines.

One of the main annoyances, at least for the UI pack, is that I have to manually find which assets are 9Patch and which are Uniform Scaling (the ones with plus signs in them and the icons), if that was separated by folder and/or name it would make it even easier.

This would make it even MORE of a no-brainer for game devs to buy your assets over anyone else's because they would "just work" easily. Over time other asset makers would probably start following the conventions to integrate with the plugins, but you'd be the first trailblazer. The main groundwork from your end would be redefining the naming conventions, the folder structures, and then strictly following them across all your packs going forwards. To enforce this we can create a validation script that you can run on the asset packs, it would flag anything that isn't following the "rules" before you release it, this would easily keep your structure consistent across all your packs (we could even throw a spell check in there lol).

The assets themselves are already good to go. Anyways, if you ever want to chat more about it let me know!

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