"New GUI Interface" Worth it?

[mahoop]

I'm in the middle of a project, but I started before this last update I made which gave me the possibility to start a new project with "New GUI Interface" or "Legacy Theme Interface"

There is any difference between them, talking about quality/performance? OR its just for convenience?

*Since it will probably create a new folder with updated [options,screens,art].rpy, I would like to know if they are different somehow.

[Valhalla]

No difference in performance. It pretty much just provides a nicer standard GUI from the get go. If you've already created a GUI for the game and customized it to the way you want their is no point in changing over. If you want a nice newer GUI to start modelling your GUI from... then change over.

[ketskari]

The old history log code interferes with self-voicing (causing it to repeat itself, especially in nvl mode), so I went and updated my project to use the new GUI while keeping the majority of the old assets. I had a few other problems with my old GUI that made it worth it, as well. If you have no issues particularly with your current GUI, I would leave it.

However, for someone starting from scratch, I think developing with the new GUI is better because you can easily test out color schemes, font choices, etc, before settling on a design direction--even if the goal is to completely alter the layout in the end.

[wyverngem]

The new GUI comes with variants that are already scripted for you for smaller screens or types, so it's a little more mobile friendly. It's really cool. Also being renpy it's still really easy to customize so you can take away menus and add them fairly easily. I really like the new GUI compared to the older one. Creating a customized game icon is easier and there is now a in-game help menu that has variants for keyboard and mouse. There are more options for the gui that are built in and you don't have to go hunting the forms as much to customize the main menu.