I have recently fallen in love with Stardock's Object Dock Plus.

Now, I know that the UI for GalCiv II is more or less set in stone already, but I would still like to ask this:

Why not make the UI customizable ala ODP? Would it be hard to do? Stardock already owns the technology, so I guess what I'm asking is: What would it require for that technology to be utilized in a game?

In many games, I find myself only using some of the controls frequently, some less frequently, and some not at all. It would be cool to be able to customize the UI, and it seems to me that ODP offers just that possibility.

Morten

Comments
on Feb 26, 2005
I suggest you read the GUI journals in the forum... they do use it and you can customize it
on Feb 26, 2005
Geeze I love this company..... GO STARDOCK!
on Feb 26, 2005
yea, frogboy said in a preview that users can skin the interface... should be interesting.
on Feb 27, 2005
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Oh...my bad if that is the case. I thought that the UI was "only" skinnable. Byt if you can actually move the controls around, and group them after what you use the most, then I rest my case.

Morten
on Feb 27, 2005
not sure about that... hopefully a dev could answer
on Feb 27, 2005
I think they said it was totally modable, not just "skinable".
on Feb 28, 2005
I via DesktopX.
on Feb 28, 2005
way so that people can do that too. 

on Mar 17, 2005

The GalCiv UI is a series of .dxpacks . 

http://www.desktopx.net and download DesktopX.

on Mar 18, 2005
he UI code doesn't implement itself).