{"id":1287,"date":"2015-05-07T13:09:37","date_gmt":"2015-05-07T20:09:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/universesandbox.com\/blog\/?p=1287"},"modified":"2021-05-26T14:58:20","modified_gmt":"2021-05-26T21:58:20","slug":"alpha-15-update-ui","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/universesandbox.com\/blog\/2015\/05\/alpha-15-update-ui\/","title":{"rendered":"New UI Screenshot &#038; Alpha 15 Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/universesandbox.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/New-User-Interface.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1315\" alt=\"New User Interface\" src=\"https:\/\/universesandbox.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/New-User-Interface-650x365.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"365\" srcset=\"https:\/\/universesandbox.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/New-User-Interface-650x365.jpg 650w, https:\/\/universesandbox.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/New-User-Interface-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/universesandbox.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/New-User-Interface.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>User Interface Improvements<\/h3>\n<p>In the screenshot above you can see the improved Open, Add, and Properties panels. (Although you won&#8217;t usually have all 3 open simultaneously.)<\/p>\n<p>The design will still change a bit as we continue development, but it&#8217;s a good representation of the direction we&#8217;re heading: unified icon styles, minimalistic design, better spacing, and a more intuitive organization of controls and settings.<\/p>\n<p>One of our favorite new additions is the thumbnails in the Open panel, which provide a much more representative and inviting preview of the available simulations.<\/p>\n<p>The biggest change? We&#8217;ve moved most of the actions you&#8217;ll need for exploring and interacting with a sim to a bottom bar. We pride ourselves on the amount of customizable options, but they&#8217;re only as useful as they are easy to find and adjust.<\/p>\n<h3>What else have we been working on since Alpha 14?<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Getting our newest team member up to speed\n<ul>\n<li>A big welcome to astrophysicist <a href=\"http:\/\/jennseiler.com\/\">Jenn Seiler<\/a>!<\/li>\n<li>Jenn is currently working on improving volatile loss rates and implementing magnetic fields (look for these in future updates)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Refactored physics and performance optimizations (<a href=\"universesandbox.com\/blog\/2015\/03\/more-improvements\/\">see previous post<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Transitioning to GIT for our source control\n<ul>\n<li>This will help us maintain a monthly update schedule, as we can now develop features on the side without affecting the main project, then merge them in when they&#8217;re ready<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Improved graphics settings and options<\/li>\n<li>First steps in integrating backend visual improvements<\/li>\n<li>New tech which lets users heat up one side of a body (coming post-Alpha 15)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We&#8217;re working hard to get everything working again for Alpha 15. Keep your eyes peeled. We look forward to hearing what everyone thinks.<\/p>\n<p>If you don&#8217;t own Universe Sandbox \u00b2, you can get instant access to the alpha through our website: <a href=\"http:\/\/universesandbox.com\/2\">universesandbox.com\/2<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>User Interface Improvements In the screenshot above you can see the improved Open, Add, and Properties panels. (Although you won&#8217;t usually have all 3 open simultaneously.) The design will still change a bit as we continue development, but it&#8217;s a good representation of the direction we&#8217;re heading: unified icon styles, minimalistic design, better spacing, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-development","category-update"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/universesandbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/universesandbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/universesandbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/universesandbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/universesandbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1287"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/universesandbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4707,"href":"https:\/\/universesandbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1287\/revisions\/4707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/universesandbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/universesandbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/universesandbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}