After making the disc dpad skin, the stick area of the joystick skins started looking too big. The size was decided to minimize overlapping areas between adjacent positions of the stick, in hope to make the moves clear in a tough encoding situation. But I was wondering if it's actually hurting the readability. I tried to decrease the stick area size to that of the disc dpad skin and made a gif from both versions to see the difference. Here's the comparison GIF between the two different area sizes.
I felt like the smaller size is making it easier to read, but I can't really provide logical reasons. So I tried to stick to things I can measure:
- While I can try to distance active positions from the neutral position, I can't change angles between them. This ended up the original size having a bigger overlapping between active positions than that between any active position and the neutral position.
- With overall size decrease, the eyes now have a smaller area to track.
- The smaller size has generally larger overlapping between positions, but the overlapping is more even.
Based on these matters, I decided to update the skins with the change.