There's a certain threshold for readability - one of the sources of visual confusion, a basic strategy for making captchas, is to have visual shapes of similar luminosity and similar size/shape overlaid on each other. Ironically, it can hit humans harder than OCR programs, since computers can see as fine-grained differences as the image can store. Having the opaque background completely eliminates the background noise, but it also eliminates the background info - it obstructs our view of the game map behind it, and of the context in which the unit is speaking; which is a useful reason to have these transparent (outside of the whole "looks cool" factor).
I saw a clever solution to this, recently - this is the same problem that transparent terminals always have (the parallels here are actually very strong, since in both wesnoth and trans terminals, we're reading text over a noisy background); having them transparent makes your desktop and underlying applications visible, but makes the terminal rather difficult to read. A linux software package called beryl implemented the clever idea of blurring the background info that is seen through the window, which makes the window content much more visible. http://www.beryl-project.org/images/blur_full.jpg Unfortunately, I don't see us coding that here any time soon. Without a blur, I'd gun for ~75% opacity in the interests of legibility. If we ever code it and could display it with a blur, we could go as low as 50%, perhaps. On Jun 13, 2007, at 4:02 PM, Nils Kneuper wrote: > Eric S. Raymond schrieb: >> We're tuning the degree of transparency in the popup transient >> windows, and need artists' eyes for best judgment on what level looks >> right. >> >> The SVN repo now has the following images: >> >> images/dialogs/translucent-background_70.png >> images/dialogs/translucent-background_75.png >> images/dialogs/translucent-background_80.png >> >> Please link each of these in turn to images/dialogs/translucent- >> background.png >> and tell us which version you think looks best. >> > I did also create some screenshots, though ingame it does look a > little > "brighter" than on the screenshots. So please test it ingame. You can > see the screenshots I made over here: > http://www.wesnoth.org/files/transparancy_sshots/ > From how it looks ingame I do vote for > images/dialogs/translucent-background_80.png as image used to determin > dialog transparancy. > Cheers, > Nils Kneuper aka Ivanovic > > _______________________________________________ > Wesnoth-dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/wesnoth-dev _______________________________________________ Wesnoth-dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/wesnoth-dev
