The skill menu has been completely rewritten in 0.8. New features are:
- Aptitudes are always displayed.
- You can press * to view all skills.
- Crosstrain bonus and antitrain malus are displayed as aptitude bonus/malus.
- You can navigate the menu with a cursor. It is disabled by default. Just press enter or a directional key (arrow or numpad) to enable it.
- When toggling a skill with enter, the cursor automatically move to the next skill. This allows you to quicky toggle several consecutive skills.
Tiles
- Mouse support for selecting skills and pushing the buttons at the bottom.
- Skill icons (thanks to Denzi for drawing them!). You need a window height of at least 702 pixels. You can disable them by setting the tile_menu_icons option to false.
Transfer knowledge. This is the last ability of Ashenzari, the new cursed god. It allows you to transfer skill points from one skill to another. The interface is integrated in the new skill menu. The transfer isn’t instantaneous, points are transferred each time you gain XP.
- Preview: when selecting a skill as the source or destination of the transfer, the new level at which it will be raised or lowered is displayed.
- Transfer progress: During the transfer, the skill menu will show the transfer progress by default. You can change view with “!”.
Come to the Tavern if you have any comments about it.
Galehar
1. Comment by Sometimes
24/Dec/2010 at 12:43
Loving the new skill menu, it’s much more readily comprehensible. The tile skill buttons are hard to read at a glance, though- white numbers on white and grey background?
2. Comment by jpeg
31/Dec/2010 at 12:57
The numbers are now outlined in black, which should make them more readable. I’ve also added the aptitude numbers.
3. Pingback by A Playtesting Post to Ring In the New Year « Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup
8/Jan/2011 at 22:18
[...] already know about the big Armour unnerfing, and also about the the new skill menu, so what else is [...]
4. Comment by Luke
12/Mar/2011 at 10:16
Can you please change to blue text at top? This is almost unreadable without squinting. In general, I find dark blue items very hard to see.
5. Comment by galehar
12/Mar/2011 at 16:19
You can change your terminal colour, or use the colour.OLDCOLOUR = NEWCOLOUR option.
From the option guide:
Useful for terminals where some colours are hard to read (and cannot be adjusted)