button-preview should be user-initiated, not a mouse-over.

[Crystalwarrior]

Mousing over is the DRO method and I always hated it because it brings up a new window even if you don't intend to.

Perhaps add a button with an eye icon that will open up a preview window and adapt to your emote selection?

Video of KFO-Client behavior (context menus are evil if they're the ONLY option so prefer buttons of course, treat right-click context menu interactions as "hidden and obscure" for the most part)

Attorney_Online_26dEGFkwUn.mp4

[SyntaxNyah]

I did think it could be a useful feature mouse over as some toggle since some people might genuinely like that as much as I will never ever use it. It should probably be corrected to where right clicking the emote is the default. But if the user wants to experiment with hovering I don't see why not. I will improve it to where it's not the default at least but it's a feature OmniTroid put on our webAO fork https://webao.miku.pizza and I thought it might be a nice addition to the client, but I personally agree with you that I wouldn't really use it. So it should be off as a default.

[Crystalwarrior]

@SyntaxNyah I'm always a defender of giving the users customizability so having an option for hover-to-preview is fine by me as long as I can keep my "button to preview".

I would advise against right-clicking being the primary method still if you can sqeeze in a "preview" button somewhere but the right-click method is an AO import-friendly version.

The preview window itself should be where you can swap emote type and alter other elements about the scene probably rather than it being a right-click context menu option.

[SyntaxNyah]

@SyntaxNyah I'm always a defender of giving the users customizability so having an option for hover-to-preview is fine by me as long as I can keep my "button to preview".

I would advise against right-clicking being the primary method still if you can sqeeze in a "preview" button somewhere but the right-click method is an AO import-friendly version.

The preview window itself should be where you can swap emote type and alter other elements about the scene probably rather than it being a right-click context menu option.

@Crystalwarrior Best of both worlds. Keep both but make it so you can change the keybind for preview with any button while having hover off by default. We already have a keybind system, so I can just expand that.