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Title: Making a New Background
Post by: vague312 on December 27, 2007, 05:20:46 PM
Sup all

**Edit**
Changed the name of the thread since im working on a new background.

Got board with my free time and i made a new background for DP on my comp.
Just thought id post it up if anyone wanted it.

screenshot of the old BG
http://vague312.com/digitalpaint/bgscreenshot.jpg

Scroll down for the Newer BG

Thanks
---Joe
Title: Re: Made a New Background
Post by: lekky on December 27, 2007, 05:26:18 PM
Not sure about the text, but the background looks cool enough.

What map is that?
Title: Re: Made a New Background
Post by: vague312 on December 27, 2007, 05:45:42 PM
Thanks

The text is just something im messing around with also lol.

the map in the background is Bonebreak. I made about a month ago.
looking to make an official release but its just a matter of getting there. Been playing it on the FORK and NOOB Playground servers for a little while now.
Title: Re: Made a New Background
Post by: lekky on December 27, 2007, 05:50:27 PM
You know that you can remove the score and num of paintballs, etc by typing cl_drawhud 0 in the console? Just letting you know in case you didn't want those on the screenshot :P
Title: Re: Made a New Background
Post by: sk89q on December 27, 2007, 05:55:41 PM
Upload your map to http://maps.digitalpaint.therisenrealm.com/ :P

I like the background, but like lekky said, the text doesn't work too well.
Title: Re: Made a New Background
Post by: vague312 on December 27, 2007, 06:08:20 PM
im prob going to make a white border around the outside of the text to make it pop more. Ill work on the text coloring a bit more later.
then again i might keep it because its ugly :)

thanks for the hud tip lekky

maps uploaded.
Title: Re: Made a New Background
Post by: coLa on December 27, 2007, 11:11:58 PM
at first i thought it said "PDAY" i was like uh... what is that. lol. looks like a cool background. i'd say keep the font but change the color to more suit the BG. just my .02
Title: Re: Made a New Background
Post by: vague312 on December 28, 2007, 02:00:59 PM
Took another screenshot and fixed the lettering.

The updated file is in my original post
Title: Re: Made a New Background
Post by: coLa on December 28, 2007, 02:12:21 PM
looks 20x better. gj.
Title: Re: Made a New Background
Post by: XtremeBain on December 28, 2007, 02:30:54 PM
Blend in the top left corner, even if you have to fake it.
Title: Re: Made a New Background
Post by: lekky on December 28, 2007, 02:36:19 PM
Text is a lot better, and what XtremeBain said should help.
Title: Re: Made a New Background
Post by: Nikademis on December 28, 2007, 11:31:32 PM
I LIKE IT!!!.......................YAH I GOT MAIL
Title: Re: Made a New Background
Post by: DaRkNeSS on January 02, 2008, 11:36:47 PM
Looks nasty.
Title: Re: Made a New Background
Post by: Playah on January 03, 2008, 10:22:13 AM
Nice style. Good job.
Title: Re: Made a New Background
Post by: BuLLzEyE on January 03, 2008, 06:42:48 PM
Looks nasty.

Lmao.
Title: Re: Made a New Background
Post by: Apocalypse on January 03, 2008, 08:37:17 PM
Looks great vague.
Title: Re: Made a New Background
Post by: vague312 on January 03, 2008, 11:47:16 PM
thanks for the props guys

i will be updating the upper left corner within the next week.
Who knows i might make more with lettering included.

tinkering is fun :)
Title: Re: Made a New Background
Post by: vague312 on January 05, 2008, 03:26:45 PM
Came across an anarchy image i liked so im scrapping the old background and starting on a new one.
Im still editing the other stock images to match the Anarchy Background. Still shading the boarders of the main menu and he in game menu is going to get a boarder to match the main menu.

Is there a guide on what images do what in the menus?

here are 2 screenshots of the current.

Title: Re: Making a New Background
Post by: Spook on January 05, 2008, 04:39:24 PM
That one is hawt!
Title: Re: Making a New Background
Post by: Zorchenhimer on January 05, 2008, 04:58:31 PM
Is there a guide on what images do what in the menus?

The images them selves do nothing.  Buttons can be made from images, however.  There is no reference on what does what though.  If you want I could put my menus on this theme or vise versa.
Title: Re: Making a New Background
Post by: Cobo on January 05, 2008, 05:18:32 PM
Im sure I had something like this in the menu guide I made in the wiki.
From the source:

PICTURES
pic - sets the image file
hoverpic - image that appears when you put the mouse above the image
selectedpic - image that appears when you click the image

COMMANDS
doubleclick - command to do when you double click the image
command - command to do when image is clicked

SIZES
picwidth - the width of the pic
picheight - the height of the pic
hoverpicwidth - width of hoverpic
hoverpicheight - height of hoverpic

POSITIONING
xabs/xleft/x - position of the image where 0 is the leftmost edge of the screen
yabs/ytop/y - position of the image where 0 is the top part of the screen
xcent - x position of the image relative to the center of the screen
ycent - y position of the image relative to the center of the screen
xright - x position relative to the right of the screen (0 is the rightmost edge)
ybot - y position relative to the bottom (0 is the bottom)
xrel - x position relative to the last widget you made
yrel - y position relative to the last widget you made

ALIGMENT
halign - horisontal aligment. can be left, center, and right
valign - vertical aligment. can be top middle bottom

There are a lot more values that can be set, but they dont apply to the images.
Title: Re: Making a New Background
Post by: vague312 on January 05, 2008, 07:32:27 PM
sry let me reword the question.
Is there a guide on what images do what in the menus?

Im looking for a guide to change the appearance of the of the scrollbars, check boxes, etc. to make everything match the backgrounds.

Kinda like Darkness did with his Red Theme
http://img166.imageshack.us/img166/5310/sshot008yf0.jpg
http://dplogin.com/forums/index.php?topic=9614.0

IM going to be tinkering for a while ill try and keep track of the images im editing.

Zorchenhimer do u have colors that would match?

thanks for helping with this guys
---Joe
Title: Re: Making a New Background
Post by: Cobo on January 05, 2008, 07:35:15 PM
Oh, well all those images are in the pball/images folder. You could just edit one image and see what happens, but remember to backup.
Title: Re: Making a New Background
Post by: vague312 on January 30, 2008, 11:52:54 AM
just letting everyone know i havent abandoned the anarchy style. things have been kicking up at work.

I now have a list of the image files i need to edit and i will post the breakdown of what each image does in the menues.

Should be another week r so. I need a day off :(