Recently I subscribed to the sapphire skin mod and all the three skins under that. Whenever I try to load the game with some skin on, it hangs. From the day I bought this game, it has never hung up until now. I have not yet played with a non-vanilla skin. Has anyone been able to work out any of the skins? Or is the mod itself troublesome?
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Make sure you only have one Sapphire skin subscribed/enabled at a time. I use the Silicon skin and it works pretty well - sometimes I have to "reload active skin" to get certain mod-specific icons to appear, but on the whole it's much improved UI.
There is also issue that the game's current UI code seems to have been written in a great rush, it's shockingly bad. Like icons on the menus are 109x100 (from vague memory), but you can only use 109x75 - why? And one of the icons must always be in "selected" state - why? There should be decent and reliable ways to create windows, nice looking graphs (not the ugly things currently provided), add buttons and so on. It needs a vast amount of refinement. I'm not surprised that the Sapphire skins are mostly "on hold" (probably abandoned) with the current state of the vanilla UI system. IMHO the whole native UI needs an overhaul to something that works much better, but that will probably kill the Sapphire skins dead, so it's not looking good whatever route is taken
There is also issue that the game's current UI code seems to have been written in a great rush, it's shockingly bad. Like icons on the menus are 109x100 (from vague memory), but you can only use 109x75 - why? And one of the icons must always be in "selected" state - why? There should be decent and reliable ways to create windows, nice looking graphs (not the ugly things currently provided), add buttons and so on. It needs a vast amount of refinement. I'm not surprised that the Sapphire skins are mostly "on hold" (probably abandoned) with the current state of the vanilla UI system. IMHO the whole native UI needs an overhaul to something that works much better, but that will probably kill the Sapphire skins dead, so it's not looking good whatever route is taken
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Make sure you only have one Sapphire skin subscribed/enabled at a time. I use the Silicon skin and it works pretty well - sometimes I have to "reload active skin" to get certain mod-specific icons to appear, but on the whole it's much improved UI.
There is also issue that the game's current UI code seems to have been written in a great rush, it's shockingly bad. Like icons on the menus are 109x100 (from vague memory), but you can only use 109x75 - why? And one of the icons must always be in "selected" state - why? There should be decent and reliable ways to create windows, nice looking graphs (not the ugly things currently provided), add buttons and so on. It needs a vast amount of refinement. I'm not surprised that the Sapphire skins are mostly "on hold" (probably abandoned) with the current state of the vanilla UI system. IMHO the whole native UI needs an overhaul to something that works much better, but that will probably kill the Sapphire skins dead, so it's not looking good whatever route is taken
Hmm.. I dint understand much of your explanation, but it worked. Its weird that you can only enable one skin when the settings are set like you can change between skins in-game. I also liked silicon skin only. Could have been a little more colorful on the icons but UI looked clear unlike the stock. Needless to say the stock UI is total BS.. you cant even see the green money flow on the almost black background.. and the letters are too small. Silicon skin makes it much better. Haven't tried the clear skin yet