[m5.28.1] Soldier stat bar graph looks wrong.

[Melee]

Description:  Soldier's 95 accuracy bar is longer than the 98 strength bar (because she has 100). 95 is less than 98 but looks wrong.

What Happened:  The red heavy armor penalty bar area appears to be adding to the bar length instead of subtracting.  The red area being on the other end of the bar would also make more sense if the bar is representing 0 on the left and 100 on the right.  The red area could also be inside the border of the total green area and more transparent.

 

Edited April 28, 2025 by Melee

[Kouki]

5 hours ago, Melee said:

Description:  Soldier's 95 accuracy bar is longer than the 98 strength bar (because she has 100). 95 is less than 98 but looks wrong.

What Happened:  The red heavy armor penalty bar area appears to be adding to the bar length instead of subtracting.  The red area being on the other end of the bar would also make more sense if the bar is representing 0 on the left and 100 on the right.  The red area could also be inside the border of the total green area and more transparent.

 

Yeah it kinda does look better if the stat penalties are shown on the right side of the bar, will bring this up with the rest of the team and see what they think

[gG-Unknown]

12 minutes ago, Kouki said:

Yeah it kinda does look better if the stat penalties are shown on the right side of the bar, will bring this up with the rest of the team and see what they think

The point of the topic is not about left OR right side. Point is:

1. lenght of the skill bar is wrong. Wrong ratio to other bars of same lenght
2. way how to visually interpret the bonus - penally for better readability

When you present issue to the team, focus at root. Thank you !

Edited April 28, 2025 by gG-Unknown

[Kouki]

18 minutes ago, gG-Unknown said:

The point of the topic is not about left OR right side. Point is:

1. lenght of the skill bar is wrong. Wrong ratio to other bars of same lenght
2. way how to visually interpret the bonus - penally for better readability

When you present issue to the team, focus at root. Thank you !

Regarding these points
1. The skill bar is at the correct length, if the original accuracy is 100 then the green bar should be maxed out. The stat penalty (-5) is just overlaid on top of the actual skill bar.
2. Which means moving it to the right side will make it more readable (showing reduced skill, etc)

Will have to double check with the rest of the team first as there might be a specific reason why the penalties are shown on the left hand side here (whereas other penalties like weight and hp reduction are shown on the right side, and in the case of weight, the penalties are shown inside the border of the actual weight cap)

[Chris]

The intention is that the red area should just be overlaid on the stat bar, and shouldn't affect the length of it at all. We'll take a look.

[Melee]

The bars are the correct length, but when the bars are compared relative to one another, the green 95 bar extends past the numerically "longer" green 98 bar which makes it look like the red penalty is being added to the bar instead of subtracted.

[Chris]

1 hour ago, Melee said:

The bars are the correct length, but when the bars are compared relative to one another, the green 95 bar extends past the numerically "longer" green 98 bar which makes it look like the red penalty is being added to the bar instead of subtracted.

Thanks. This isn't a bug; it visualises the fact that the base value is actually higher than the base 98 value is.

I can see the argument that you'd want the red negative modifier section displayed at the end of the bar rather than the start, but then you run into issues when soldiers have both positive and negative modifiers active at the same time, because positive modifiers are shown at the end of the bar (and actually increase the length).

[Melee]

Just overlay the red over both blue and green on the right.  My old eyes also have trouble distinguishing the blue and darker green.

Edited April 28, 2025 by Melee