HUD and windows

The interface was rebuilt around a limestone theme and a compact centre plate. This is where everything sits and what it does.

The screen

The two skill wells

The LMB and RMB wells each show what their button will do. Their opening between the bezels is 46 x 46 pixels - the hard boundary every icon and background is scaled into, so nothing spills onto the frame.

The skill picker

Left click the LMB well and its picker opens; left click the RMB well and you get the right button's. Click an entry, it binds and the window closes. Two clicks to act, the same motion mirrored for each button - which is the whole point of it.

It lists what you can use right now, in two groups:

• Skills - Regular and Fist Attack, then class-tree rows that are built, unlocked and have a rank in them. Passives never appear: one cannot be readied, and an entry that does nothing when clicked is worse than an absent one.
• Spells - everything you have learned, from books, abilities or a staff.

Each cell shows its rank bottom-centre, and hovering names it. A tree row's number is the points sunk into it; a spell's is its effective level, which is books plus items and never points - see Class trees.

Auras are greyed in the LMB picker and stay clickable. An aura is a toggle with no spell slot, so the left button has nothing to hold - but clicking it still lights it, which lands on the right button, and that saves opening the other picker to do it.

The list grows to fit its contents rather than filling a fixed grid, so a level-3 character sees three icons and not a wall of empty cells. If it ever outgrows the space above the panel, the wheel scrolls it.

Windows

Standing interface rules

• Every window is keyboard-reachable and never needs more than two clicks to act.
• OK and Cancel sit in the same two zones in every dialog.
• A window never lets a click through to the world beneath it.
• Content that overflows scrolls; it is never clipped silently.
• An open window hides the HUD behind it rather than overlapping it.
• Every window the player can browse carries a small red X in its own top-right corner, and clicking it closes that window. Escape closes it too.
• Space is the master closer: it shuts every open window at once, and is reserved so no keybinding can take it. A store steps back through its own Escape path; Levski's Roar refuses if your pack is too full to take back what is in its grid.

The Abilities window

Four sheets: Spells (the book list, grouped by level band and sorted alphabetically inside each) and three class-tree pages, on a 56 x 56 icon cell.

Left click a tree cell to put a point in. Right click to take one back. Refunds are free and unlimited - there is no respec cost and no confirmation. There are no + and - buttons any more: they only ever existed because the icon itself used to mean "ready this", so the two actions had to be kept apart by geometry. Now the whole cell is one target.

The Spells sheet takes no points at all - see the rule on Class trees.