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Development => Bugs, Feature Requests, and Feedback => Official Feature Votes => Topic started by: ic3y on May 19, 2010, 01:09:55 PM

Title: [Feature Request] New Load Screen
Post by: ic3y on May 19, 2010, 01:09:55 PM
(http://www.ic3y.de/bup/loader_example.png)

An example.
Title: Re: [Feature Request] New Load Screen
Post by: Kyuuchi on May 19, 2010, 01:11:05 PM
This would be a really good idea - it's an easy way of jitspoe getting some extra revenue, perfect for a couple of advertisements on the page and it's just a great way of getting a big message out to the players of the game..

+1 - implement straight away.. no feature vote.. -.- waste of time.
Title: Re: [Feature Request] New Load Screen
Post by: Legendz on May 19, 2010, 01:18:32 PM
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Title: Re: [Feature Request] New Load Screen
Post by: Bono on May 19, 2010, 02:54:49 PM
+1 000 000 :P
Title: Re: [Feature Request] New Load Screen
Post by: ViciouZ on May 19, 2010, 03:50:56 PM
Not hard to do, but it does require high res pics of every level, unless it was just a generic screen with the map name printed automatically over the top
Title: Re: [Feature Request] New Load Screen
Post by: jaypeak on May 19, 2010, 06:34:34 PM
this is kinda like urban terror... please put it in! ;D
Title: Re: [Feature Request] New Load Screen
Post by: RoBbIe on May 19, 2010, 07:16:00 PM
Will each map have its own loading screen, or will it always be the same pics? and if its different pics, there should be the map name in big letters somewhere in the screen :P
Title: Re: [Feature Request] New Load Screen
Post by: T3RR0R15T on May 19, 2010, 07:48:19 PM
Maybe a default screen from jitspoe and each serveradmin can make an own one for his server.
Title: Re: [Feature Request] New Load Screen
Post by: nook on May 19, 2010, 08:59:38 PM
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Title: Re: [Feature Request] New Load Screen
Post by: abnormal on May 20, 2010, 01:29:57 AM
+1
I wouldn't use it for advertising as kyu has suggested, but just to add some hints and tips for new players not to leave this game after their first view at it.

Will each map have its own loading screen, or will it always be the same pics? and if its different pics, there should be the map name in big letters somewhere in the screen :P
I wouldn't make a screen like this for each map, because there are hundreds of maps and it's quite impossible to have it like this.. Maybe there could be some screen from action related to hints and tips..

For example: Theres a screen showing how someone's flying through the window in shazam33

Hints & Tips: Learn to gain your speed with strafe jumping to enable faster movement and jumping. More info at "asdasd"

And it would be the same with DJ, picking up better guns, etc..
Title: Re: [Feature Request] New Load Screen
Post by: T3RR0R15T on May 20, 2010, 09:12:43 AM
But there can't be very much text. The loading image is only shown a few seconds each time.
Title: Re: [Feature Request] New Load Screen
Post by: JUICEY on May 20, 2010, 09:17:35 AM
well this is an excellent idea. What kind of things would you put in the "Did you know?" box? Maybe how the game was developed, or maybe an intro to the map, followed by different pictures of different angles of the map?
Title: Re: [Feature Request] New Load Screen
Post by: domic on May 20, 2010, 09:59:33 AM
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Title: Re: [Feature Request] New Load Screen
Post by: ic3y on May 20, 2010, 11:49:54 AM
Maybe a default screen from jitspoe and each serveradmin can make an own one for his server.
Carpathian was just an example.

Maybe an extra window for the MOTD from the Server.
Title: Re: [Feature Request] New Load Screen
Post by: Bono on May 20, 2010, 01:49:27 PM
My example:
(http://iv.pl/images/97520465523773776969_thumb.jpg) (http://iv.pl/viewer.php?file=97520465523773776969.jpg)

"Loading" shows the progress of the overall loading..
The blue bar below "loading" shows details of loading the game.
(http://iv.pl/images/27210567179642021230_thumb.jpg) (http://iv.pl/viewer.php?file=27210567179642021230.jpg)

(background is from my PCDPmod menus)
Title: Re: [Feature Request] New Load Screen
Post by: vLaD on May 21, 2010, 12:13:43 AM
good idea but the load times are 2 fast so it will be hard to catch anything. (or at least in my case)
Title: Re: [Feature Request] New Load Screen
Post by: ic3y on May 21, 2010, 09:38:08 AM
good idea but the load times are 2 fast so it will be hard to catch anything. (or at least in my case)

Maybe a timer for joining (example: 10 sec)?
So everyone will see the news etc
Title: Re: [Feature Request] New Load Screen
Post by: XtremeBain on May 21, 2010, 10:07:18 AM
I'm not sure if I like that or not - it's nice to just be at the console so you can quickly execute commands if you need to.  Eventually I'll probably beef up the loading screens, but it's not a very high priority to me.

If this gets done, a cvar to disable it and load from the console from like it does now would be nice.
Title: Re: [Feature Request] New Load Screen
Post by: Bono on May 21, 2010, 10:47:02 AM
Maybe a timer for joining (example: 10 sec)?
So everyone will see the news etc

+1 !

If this gets done, a cvar to disable it and load from the console from like it does now would be nice.

+1 !
Title: Re: [Feature Request] New Load Screen
Post by: Justinph5 on May 21, 2010, 03:14:35 PM
It only takes a few seconds for a new map to load though. By the time a load screen would load, the map would already be loaded :P

And I'd rather not have it set to a timer and be stuck looking at a static screen for 10s if I know the map is already loaded, that would be a pain for matches when a team keeps switching maps :P   (although it would be good for newbie pubs, so the cvar xbain suggested would be required if this was done)
Title: Re: [Feature Request] New Load Screen
Post by: ViciouZ on May 21, 2010, 03:27:58 PM
It only takes a few seconds for a new map to load though. By the time a load screen would load, the map would already be loaded :P

And I'd rather not have it set to a timer and be stuck looking at a static screen for 10s if I know the map is already loaded, that would be a pain for matches when a team keeps switching maps :P   (although it would be good for newbie pubs, so the cvar xbain suggested would be required if this was done)

How about an "OK" or "Play" button that appears when the map is done loading that closes the loading screen?
Title: Re: [Feature Request] New Load Screen
Post by: lester456 on May 21, 2010, 03:30:51 PM
How about an "OK" or "Play" button that appears when the map is done loading that closes the loading screen?
Yeah, that sounds better.
Title: Re: [Feature Request] New Load Screen
Post by: ic3y on May 21, 2010, 03:37:36 PM
How about an "OK" or "Play" button that appears when the map is done loading that closes the loading screen?
Something like that.
Title: Re: [Feature Request] New Load Screen
Post by: Bono on May 21, 2010, 03:52:19 PM
But maybe you can cancel this timer?
Title: Re: [Feature Request] New Load Screen
Post by: Justinph5 on May 21, 2010, 04:21:09 PM
I KNOW!!! Why not make it client side... cl_loadscreen 1   so that it would be on when the game is first downloaded, and can be turned off by any player if they just want the console  :D
Title: Re: [Feature Request] New Load Screen
Post by: vLaD on May 21, 2010, 05:13:31 PM
the okay button is a great idea.
Title: Re: [Feature Request] New Load Screen
Post by: ic3y on August 16, 2010, 05:49:05 AM
+1 for Build 31 !
Title: Re: [Feature Request] New Load Screen
Post by: jitspoe on September 01, 2010, 03:30:27 PM
Sounds pretty similar to this feature vote: http://dplogin.com/forums/index.php?topic=11192 / http://dplogin.com/dplogin/featurevote/feature.php?id=10024

Though the image isn't loading anymore, so I'm not sure.
Title: Re: [Feature Request] New Load Screen
Post by: ic3y on September 02, 2010, 01:50:22 AM
*first post picture update*

http://www.ic3y.de/bup/loader_example.png
Title: Re: [Feature Request] New Load Screen
Post by: bLiNdThInG on September 02, 2010, 02:49:20 AM
nice example ic3y, i'd lyk to see this.
Title: Re: [Feature Request] New Load Screen
Post by: Rewind on September 02, 2010, 08:28:45 AM
I too think it would be a nice improvement.
You could also stick some localstats information somewhere. KDR, Grabs, Caps, etc.
Title: Re: [Feature Request] New Load Screen
Post by: jacobbrenner2000 on September 06, 2010, 03:32:18 PM
+ infinity if the cam is recording the whole place. if so NICE job
Title: Re: [Feature Request] New Load Screen
Post by: ITSM3 on September 14, 2010, 03:19:30 PM
+1  good idea :D
Title: Re: [Feature Request] New Load Screen
Post by: jitspoe on September 14, 2010, 04:33:29 PM
I've given this its own feature vote: http://dplogin.com/dplogin/featurevote/feature.php?id=10237

One thing that would be kind of cool is if you could store the location the mapshot was taken so you could fade the mapshot out and have the real map appear behind it with a "join game" button or something.
Title: Re: [Feature Request] New Load Screen
Post by: Gamabunta on September 14, 2010, 04:45:24 PM
Wouldn't this require fixing spawnpoints? Or is there other way for a player to appear on a map?
I'd go with a screenshot showing best/largest/most crucial part of a map while the map is loading, then leave things as they are.
Title: Re: [Feature Request] New Load Screen
Post by: jitspoe on September 22, 2010, 11:47:10 AM
You could have an "enter game" point, basically, where you'd be placed when you first connected to the server, saw the MOTD, and potentially had a team selection screen or something like that.
Title: Re: [Feature Request] New Load Screen
Post by: Rewind on September 22, 2010, 12:35:38 PM
I think there's a lot of potential behind this. Would it be possible to have the same stats server browser gets to be displayed on this load page?
I.E. the players on each team and team scores. Then you could decide what team you want to be on, obviously abiding by auto-balance rules.