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Originally Posted by Thomas  IMHO, 2D icons may be more easier to understand (and faster to do! It took me a lot of time to realise Hexagon ones...) but in C4D R10, You have too much style difference between the icons. Some are in full 2D, and other includes 3D content, not in the same style...
And i think I'll also switch to 2D icons in my next work... |
I would add that shaded icons seem slower to load, thus take some memory resources that would have been used for other purpose.
Actually, I do the same thing in Windows XP. It is adjusted for best performance. Meaning, all icons are unshaded, shadows and animation effects are turned off completely. I don't even use a wallpaper background for my desktop. It's completely blank.
I favor iconified interfaces. (No, not the TrueSpace kind.) They look friendlier: Hexagon, Carrara, Vue, CAD apps, Solid modelers, Rhino, etc. Textual interfaces really turns me off: Silo, Lightwave, XSI, Blender (which is my main app, ironically.)
Thomas, now that you're no longer part of the Carrara team, who do you think will design C6's UI?