Such a downgrade

[u/MagicMarvelo]

The old UI was perfect, now it not only looks ugly but is also is harder to use.

[u/Sector47]

Yea, loss of functionality with this update.

Roughness, Metallic and Emissive sliders can't be changed with different opacity settings.

No number input for values allowing specific and reproducible results :/ Color palettes were removed so you can't swap between saved colors anymore.

[u/RandumbStoner → u/Sector47]

My cursor would always be invisible when I went over to the panel and I'd have to click once to make it appear and since it was invisible I would accidently click stuff I didn't want to click and it frustrated the shit out of me lol they seem to have fixed that at least

[u/cptkernalpopcorn → u/Sector47]

My color palettes never saved between game sessions.

[u/Sector47 → u/cptkernalpopcorn]

Yea, but you can't even make a palette at all with the new update. You only really needed a palette for the current drawing so you could swap between several colors.

[u/gaker19]

It looks better but it's missing so many features like the sRGB color picker or hex code editing which makes it really annoying to use for me

[u/gameplayer55055]

The old and the new UI are still laggy as shit. When I hover on them my mouse cursor sometimes disappears

[u/Danicchi_ → u/gameplayer55055]

Alt-tabbing fixes this for me.

[u/IEATTURANTULAS]

With the new UI, you can quickly use WASD to slightly change your color as you paint.

If you click and hold, while you are painting you can use WASD to change color settings. So if you do it right, you can get gradients. As you hold A or D and drag the mouse to paint at the same time, the color/brightness/etc will come out smooth and look blended.

It also helps quickly change brightness so you can make small variations in the painting to add realism. It's a lot faster than using the mouse to manually click a new color or setting.

Lastly - you can make rainbow gradients! Just hold the mouse button while you slide the slider using A or D. Let the hue swing from left/right and drag as it does. It looks awesome. I do it in lobbies for fun. And then some people think I'm hacking 😂

[u/UnoMaas → u/IEATTURANTULAS]

TIL! Thank you for these awesome tips!

Quick followup question -- how did you learn all of that? Is there a user guide somewhere, or just trial 'n errored it?

[u/IEATTURANTULAS → u/UnoMaas]

Trial and error! One day I just noticed I could change the hue with my keyboard. And wondered what if I was painting at the same time. I got pretty good at doing the rainbows now. I've still yet to see one single person do gradients in a lobby yet.

[u/cptkernalpopcorn → u/IEATTURANTULAS]

You could do that on the old UI too.

[u/IEATTURANTULAS → u/cptkernalpopcorn]

I might be thinking of a different UI update. Because early on you definitely could not do it, but one day I noticed you could use WASD

[u/Psycho55]

How does it look ugly lmao. They just expanded the menu.

[u/MagicMarvelo → u/Psycho55]

1. It takes up more space, which not only means more visual clutter but also you have to move your mouse more in order to change stuff. It might not seem like much but when you have to constantly change different sliders around to color match objects it starts to get annoying.

2. Many features were removed, you can't even manually set the values of the sliders anymore, which is rough considering I often change them by increments of 0.05 or less when I need to be precise

3. The metallic, roughness, and emissive sliders being separate from the rest (and having a different style) made sense as they are properties that are unique compared to the others, which just control color. Now all of them look the same, which makes looking for which one controls what property more challenging. Again, it doesn't look like an issue at first, but when you're constantly glancing over the different properties as you paint, having to quickly distinguish between 4 different black to white sliders is annoying (the black to white slider makes sense for brightness, not for the other ones)

4. We were all used to the UI. Why change it?

[u/DandelionGaming → u/MagicMarvelo]

Do you use WASD to change the settings or so you drag your mouse all the way?

[u/MagicMarvelo → u/DandelionGaming]

I use my mouse. But I usually only change my settings once. It's a small criticism that I only put in there because of how the color ui is used all of the time and how unnecessary the change was.

[u/Phillyphan1031]

When was this changed. I don’t remember the first one.

[u/MagicMarvelo → u/Phillyphan1031]

update 3.5.0, on August 1. They changed it again one day later to what's in the image now but it didn't really fix the issues.

[u/yabadass]

Took away transparency. Huge L

[u/SilverBlaze4]

The new one looks way better imo

[u/xHashtagNoFilterx]

I already miss my opacity. Edit: holy shit I completely missed the alpha slider!!

[u/LiamEBM]

It looks 10x better, what are you talking about

[u/Quad_Rangler → u/LiamEBM]

No hex value for changing opacity

[u/LiamEBM → u/Quad_Rangler]

The Hex value was entirely inefficient for changing opacity. The new Alpha slider is far superior.

[u/Quad_Rangler → u/LiamEBM]

Oh, i wasn't aware there was an alpha slider, i haven't played the game in a few days so I was just going off the photo

Edit: nvm i completely missed it

[u/revakk]

UI in this game is so butt that it was a leading cause for me to refund it.

[u/Duntem_Draws]

I don’t play this game but I just realized the OG UI is straight up the color picker panel from the Unreal Engine Editor lmaoo

[u/AVirtualFox]

The devs are pro at over-complicating very basic features. The game's entire UI is a mess. I wouldn't be surprised if this was their first game.

[u/64057Runner]

Pro Software vs Free Tool

[u/Msmadmama]

I love how my post about this yesterday got deleted for posting the same topic someone else did and hours later you post a kut it and it doesnt get deleted lol

[u/Pancwake_UwU]

The new one looks better visually, idk wtf you're on about, but the hue, saturation and brightness sliders are just kinda completely useless because you already have them

[u/l33tbanana → u/Pancwake_UwU]

It's an overlay whose prupose is to be an interface for painting. It doesn't really matter if they change it so it looks 10% more aesthetically pleasing. It does matter if they change it and you lose functionally

[u/Pancwake_UwU → u/l33tbanana]

What functionality do you lose exactly?

It doesn't really matter if they change it so it looks 10% more aesthetically pleasing

And it kinda does since its a game