GUI Help

[SuedKAT]

Hello,

Been playing this "vanilla" on my brothers Steam account for a while and recently picked it up for my self. While browsing the workshop I found loads of neat stuff that I downloaded, huge props to the moders they've made some great stuff for sure, however I ran into a slight problem of sorts. Most categories of buildings don't require more than a couple of mods to shake the feeling of just plopping down the same building over and over again, but the residential buildings are different, so I quite quickly filled up that tab with buildings like this:

https://i.postimg.cc/WbtLv5Sj/GUI.png

Sure it's a bit cluttered, I can work with that no problem but that ain't all the buildings I want to use, so to get all of them I need to go to this screen:

https://i.postimg.cc/W1JBDtQH/Workshop.png

This leaves me with 17 pages with 3 rows of buildings on each in no order what so ever to find what I want.

Is there a hidden button for "page 2" or something I'm missing in the first picture or is it really this cumbersome to use more mods than the current GUI window for a single category can hold?

[Vimes]

What you can do is.....

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2876389318

reduce the vast amount of buildings shown within each of the three categories of the residential buildings ( small, medium and large) by taking a look at the above screenshot and ensuring that only favourites are displayed there. To add a building to your favourite list, just right click on it as indicated.
To ensure that just favourites are shown and not everything, ensure that is ticked as shown at the top of the screenshot.

You will note that in the screenshot I show I have a search option in the Workshop open window, I am using the beta branch version and perhaps that feature is yet to go to the stable branch of the game. That also helps to search for known buildings.

[SuedKAT]

I see, that workaround can work I guess since I can pick the residental buildings I want for that specific town and only show those at the time. Still cumbersome but much better than how it currently is at least, still think that a GUI tweak with for example pages like when you buy a vehicle in a depot would be better in the long run, since this is a game in which the workshop is essential in my opinion.

Also I guess you didn't take that screenshot on a 17inch laptop screen like I did, since having 11 rows of buildings would be something I could live with quite easily. Might be an idea to collapse the category options into a way smaller size when you've selected something to give room a bit better.

[Vimes]

I can imagine, this game already having a second pass at the UI, can still change as it develops in time during its early access phase.
The workshop is continuing to grow to the point where the UI might well need another tweak or two to accommodate something similar to what you suggest.

Even tho I have over 1000 workshop items installed, many of them being within the residential category, I do not expect all of them to be similarly accessible for each map I play.
I think of it as the toolbar on the left, vertical one, with all the assets (mods) being shown, with the search bar function as noted, and then the bottom one displaying my favourites that are often typically used. I appreciate the difference between the two.
Resolution, relative to monitor size, is going to influence how accessible some aspects of the game is going to be.

you can change the UI settings, that helps, here....

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2876417222

[SuedKAT]

The new GUI is a huge upgrade over the last one, but yes it still have some shortcomings, at least when you take the content on the workshop into consideration. I've been part of modding teams in the past that have overhauled and/or tweaked game GUI's but that's something I only would work on when the game is out in it's final form.

Might "borrow" a larger monitor from work to make it more manageable, but at the moment my 17 inch 1080p laptop screen seems like a bit of a hindrance for sure. I've played around some with scaling in the past but it's only so much you can do on a 17 inch before stuff gets unreadable and to tiny to even make out what the icons are, but thanks for the tip regardless!

Huge thanks for taking the time answering my questions, will have to see how I work around the issues I have at the moment in the end. One thing is for sure though I won't stop downloading residental buildings I like on the workshop and building cities with loads of different buildings in them!

Now back to the workshop, who knows, might be some new neat stuff to play with :)