[Poll] Settings menu skin size (Page 1 of 2)

Would rather call it normal, big, and super big. I'll choose the smallest one for the reasons you quoted.

Why not just scale the size depending on the number of skins you have so it fills the entire box?

Of course if you have like 5000 skins or whatever stupid amount, just use the smallest.

Or even just make small/medium/large an option.

yemdx: its not really about the list... its about the size in general so also about the size of the preview on top

does the sizes makes any difference in game? so.. i see nothing special in this vote (the screenshots) xDD
its all the same... only the number of tees in a line changes.. lol .. what is the matter of this ?
if the new skin system really comes out, the big one would be better to see the tatoo and bla bla (differences between the skins while u choose the parts of the tee)..
but i seriously see nothing special .. any size is good -.-
regardless on the size in game settings, the result in game will be same [...] !!!
for me this change seems useless , but good that u wanna hear what others think about this before changing =]

I would choose the fat size, because simply the menu tab is about the player skin and people would probably like to see it in a bigger size to see it in it's full design and to decide whether they like it, or they want to change it. It's not like we need to save space in the menu.

assuming 0.7 allows custom skins, i'd like more per row so you can see more at a time

Small tees are bad for looking small things =\

This is what I said. If ingame there is no difference, this vote/topic is completly useless.
What I meant was: Would make sense to care about the size only for choosing the skin details - but if u say that we cant see the details also in game this topic gets even more useless.

I think the comunity should worry about more important things in the game Settings, for example the "Server Filter", which is killing the game right now. Since long time the community wasnt talking about changes in settings here at the forum and when I saw this topic I expected to see something important (I mean, something which can really helps the game to bring more players or make the people play more "what Teeworlds really is" or so). I am talking about the game design in general. The size of the Tees is really not important in this case, wont change how people is interacting with the game at all.

Ehmm... at my first post over here: "but good that u wanna hear from the ppl in forum before..."
And yeah, I know.. this is just my opinion about what is going on right now with Tw... the forum is here for this, discussing ideas. And for me this will not change the future of the game.
Was just saying.
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Edited: there are many other things which could help the game to change (interaction of the new players when they join the server filter or so) as i said in my eg. The new ones only see DDrace servers at the top of the list - they think Teeworlds is only that and they really dont know about other mods.. Most of them. The TW Team could make something which shows the players right after they join game which kind of gameplay/gametype/mods u have, and from there redirect the players to the servers related to what they have choosen before.. This would change completly the first contact between players + game and make ppl discover new Tee-worlds

We know that Mr. Sushi Tee !!!

I just justify my vote, sorry for this.
Didn't know that it was forbidden to say my opinion in a forum which is made for this.

Gl with the new Tw Menu.

This poll is actually kinda worthless since SushiTee's post is completely biased.

You give arguments about why smaller previews are better than larger ones but you don't give any argument about the other side... Your post is the only one that voters will read before voting. They can't make their one opinion before voting and are influenced by your post. Also, the lack of possibility to change our vote in the poll doesn't help. Finally using the word "fat" just encourages people to vote "small" as "fat" will be read as "too big" by most people.

About my opinion on the question, i voted for "fat" for a few good reasons.

First and most important point, I will compare the skins customizing process to a IRL make up.
When you make up you always make sure to be as close to the mirror as possible: the bigger u see yourself in the mirror, the more details you will see. It would be ridiculous to make up 3 meters away from the mirror, as you wouldn't be able to see every thing you would like to correct. It is exactly the same when you customize your skin: the bigger you see the tee, the more details you will see ; and you know your skin will be exactly like you want it to be if the skin preview is big. Obviously people don't come very close to you IRL to see every detail of your face and wouldn't notice everything, but all these details make a whole and you want to make sure you look as beautiful as possible. This is the same for skins: yes people will see your skin smaller ingame, but details will still matter.

I think this point prevails on every other point.
I'll just add that anyway there is enough place for "fat" skin previews as you can see in the screenshots provided by SushiTee.

Also i have seen some arguments in this thread about why "small" previews are better, and most of them are invalid in my opinion.

There is no way this can be a good argument and its not even logical. When you make up you don't go at the same distance from the mirror than from the people that will look at you.

Definitely invalid for the reasons i explained.

This is hard to argue about this one as it's purely subjective. But shouldn't functionality always prevail on the look? I wouldn't mind a popup showing the tee taking half the size of the screen if it was possible, so that i can make my skin perfect. Obviously this is exaggerated because you don't need it that big because of the low number of details in a skin, but the idea is here. But yeah the "fat" previews look a bit too fat compared to the rest of the UI. What about increasing the text size by just a bit to compensate the difference and keep the functionality without letting the look aside?

Honestly this is the best point i've heard so far because it matters so much. The "small" previews look way more sharp than the "fat" ones.
That said no-one ever complained about this in the 0.6 versions, and in 0.7 it is even sharper than in 0.6 with the same skin size (due to a few changes of the data files).

After making myself an opinion and hearing the arguments for both sides i really don't think making the previews smaller is a wise decision and i would consider it as a regression of the new menus/skins in 0.7 if this would get changed that way.