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Paintball 2: The Game => Paintball 2 Discussion => Topic started by: Zorchenhimer on April 20, 2007, 10:17:06 AM
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Ok. I've been hearing from some people that the themes of my menus are not to their liking. So, what I've decided to do for the next version of my maps menu (V9) is have you choose which one looks better.
Color:
(http://zilla-clan.net/upload/images/94761_color.jpg)
Monochrome:
(http://zilla-clan.net/upload/images/18589_mono.jpg)
Boring:
(http://zilla-clan.net/upload/images/05730_boring.jpg)
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Could you do.. the boring layout with colors? None of the distracting symbols...
Cheers,
y00tz
Edit:
This is what I'm imagining... it's like what I'm doing with my Extended Menu Pack (In development).
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Either remake all the menus with colour or leave them boring. At the moment the colours always grab your attention.
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Either remake all the menus with colour or leave them boring. At the moment the colours always grab your attention.
That's what I was planning on doing, but I have to get a solid 'theme' first.
y00tz, that looks good. I thought of doing something like that, but I'd never get around to actually finishing it. At least not before the end of the school year. And if you need any help with that menu pack, just let me know.
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Don't have as many symbols in the monochrome. If you left them at just [] then that would be cool.
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"color" without those .:::[[[[[[thing]]]]]]:::---. would be awesome.
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Zorch, I'm a *computer science* major, do you think I'm expected to finish things? Of course not it's the only career in the world where deadlines are a joke. Second, I'm a student as well, trust me when I say there's a 5% chance that menu pack will ever be finished, but thanks a lot for the offer of help, I'll probably hit you up on that.
If you however, ever wish for a some GUI images, I'd be glad to hook you up.
Cheers,
y00tz
Btw, off-topic: Do you *ever* play in game? I rarely do (too busy making textures etc. for this game and others I've developed) but often check on servers and never see anyone I recognize..
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Boring colors FTW
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Colors are bad because then the color highlights don't work.
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Btw, off-topic: Do you *ever* play in game? I rarely do (too busy making textures etc. for this game and others I've developed) but often check on servers and never see anyone I recognize..
I am very rarely on any servers. Why? I can't get to them. I'm behind a proxied LAN, and severe filter. However! In 17 days I go home for the summer! I can't wait.
On Topic:
Any suggestions on what it should look like? (colors?)
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if you do want to use colours, then only colour the menu name, that should help alot.
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Idk, I like his orange, it works fine and is offset well from the background. The font is probably the problem... We need to produce a better font for use with our custom menus and such...
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The font is gonna be hard, unless Jits implements using regular fonts (.ttf, .fon, etc.) in menus. But I doubt that will happen anytime soon.
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This will be the only time you see this Zorch my friend.
LET THIS, OUT OF ALL THINGS IN GAME AND OUT, BE USER DEFINED.
Good work.
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Hey Zorchenhimer I say you make them all a really bright colour like yellow or neon colours maybe alternate the colours to dont just use all orange.
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Will there be anyway we could change the color in like a menu setup thing? That way anybody could choose blue, green, or boring white.
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Hey Zorchenhimer I say you make them all a really bright colour like yellow or neon colours maybe alternate the colours to dont just use all orange.
We don't want the menus to be a rainbow. Just make them one color to make it easy but not that orange in my opinion.
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Will there be anyway we could change the color in like a menu setup thing? That way anybody could choose blue, green, or boring white.
When I'm done with what I'm currently working on, yes. Meanwhile I am gonna release my menus without a 'theme', and hopefully short after that I will release themes. Hopefully.
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I´d go with boring. It doesn´t distracts as much as the others. Keep it simple and effective.
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truly who cares, if you are going to do anything make the actual playing better, not the menu, it isn't a fasion show
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truly who cares, if you are going to do anything make the actual playing better, not the menu, it isn't a fasion show
Unfortunately HE can't do that. But what he IS trying to do is improve on the overall experience and contributing to the community as a whole.
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i care.
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I care Bix. (Enough to give you a -1)
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i like changes to the game, so i love these menus. -1 for you chris :P
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I think colour with those thing is pretty cool, but it might look better with different colours, also I'm a little confused, are we also telling our favourite games/modes? If so, I like all of them.
P.S. : Where are there more of those voting things? Those are cool !
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I say leave at least a boring set going as you update. If you want to put other themes on, then cool, but I will probably download the boring, and customize it to match everything else I have. Personalizing is way better than taking the normals.
-why don't you add some of the animated pics that you showed me? (I'm thinking of the flag)
P.S. : Where are there more of those voting things? Those are cool !
happy voting soldier.
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-why don't you add some of the animated pics that you showed me? (I'm thinking of the flag)
I donno. Haven't really found a good place for them yet. But then again, I haven't been looking either. :P
But don't worry, I'm sure I'll find a good place.
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blinking paint gauge when the amount goes below 50? that seems like a convenient and logical place to add some animation
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off-topic - Spook: Yeah, but overdoing animations on the HUD is a no-no, so I wouldn't add much past ammo and flags
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those 2 are the essentials, i mean co2, only a noob needs to refill anything but the first cartridge, and players left, in a 1v1 it would flash nonstop. So the main things are those 2 (being flags and paint)
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or a noise that goEs "get some paint fool" when you get below ten
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or a noise that goEs "get some paint fool" when you get below ten
lol "Mr. T" style lmao
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or a noise that goEs "get some paint fool" when you get below ten
lol "Mr. T" style lmao
Hahaha Ash!! "Say Boy!! How would you like me tuh "F" you up thuh ass? (Eddie Murphy's - RAW)
***Back ON TOPIC***
truly who cares
Obviously they do:
Ok. I've been hearing from some people that the themes of my menus are not to their liking.
And it's quite rude to act like someone else's work is useless poopy when they try to contribute something that other people are interested in, I mean, that wasn't constructive criticism or anything, so why even say it? Is it really going to make him stop making menus for people? No. And I think you knew that well enough, you just wanted to cause a stir and be an asshat.
Totally agree with P|nk!! I might be wrong but IMHO Zorch comes in 2nd aside jitspoe for the amount of time they contribute trying to improve the game and help people in the community. Kudos to them and hell yeah we care! You should be ashamed Chris!.. **SPANK**
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or a noise that goEs "get some paint fool" when you get below ten
No! Its too funny sitting outside a base until the guy camping suddenly realises he has no gas left, or even better when they don't realise they have no paint.
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ill just give myself -100 because who cares. no one wants some [.[.[Welcome to Dp].].] they want Welcome to Dp. looks better, is better, another -100 for me
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Whining gets you a -. :D
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P.S. : Where are there more of those voting things? Those are cool !
More flingtasticness, only because of your enthusiasm and my boredom! =>
http://dplogin.com/forums/index.php?topic=4066.0
http://dplogin.com/forums/index.php?topic=5619.0
http://dplogin.com/forums/index.php?topic=6027.0
You didn´t have putted my voting poll :( So here it is:
http://dplogin.com/forums/index.php?topic=6028.0
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Okay, enough off topic everyone...
Zorchenheimer, are you going to release themes independent, or bundle themes with the menu pack
For example, will there be 1 menu download and a number of themes, or just a number of Menu + Theme downloads.
I ask because I have two thoughts on the matter, it would be neat to allow users to download themes as they desire, and easily use them, for example a user can download the 500k menu pack, then maybe a few 15kb themes as they desire (and as you release them), my second thought is that I'd love to develop a theme for the menu pack, as sort of a guest theme... Thoughts?
Cheers, love your work,
y00tz
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Well, I haven't been able to really start on any themes. Finals start this Saturday, and this week has been a nightmare. So it would be awesome if you developed a theme or two.
Depending on how the themes are done, they could be rather large or quite small. Chances are I will have both a separate download for individual themes and an "All-In-One" download.
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Ok, first off thanks P!nk.
Second, I can't get to those becasue when I go to the site, it says the servers have been reloacted.... ok, let me think of the most unoffensive way to say this.... ok I got it.
What the HECK is with that (notice the stress on heck)
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Thanks for those links P!nk, voted on all of them (now that normal forum is back up), and how did you get those anyway? Is there some sort of way to search or what?
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Home | Help | Search | Admin | Profile | Logout
Though I don't think you can search for polls specifically. You just have to go through the posts and look for the little bar graph icon.
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Thanks jitspoe, I appreciate it, but I did just see that at the bottom of the page the other day, which allowed me to find a bunch of poles :)
Also, is there some way other than search to find forums where you can test and give feed back on new maps?
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"color" without those .:::[[[[[[thing]]]]]]:::---. would be awesome.
yeah, i agree to that
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I think, as I said before, that the idea of those things is pretty cool, mabey they should be slightly different though, but something to that effect, and mabey you should make the actual colour optional, and have like ten different option or something.
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and mabey you should make the actual colour optional, and have like ten different option or something.
When it is done, everything will be optional. It's just going very slowly. (busy week/weekend)
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Ok, I like the idea zorch, and I still think you should add some colours (please forgive me if you meant in your last post that you will). When you finish, please post a link here to download it! Also, P!nk, cool avatar!
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When you finish, please post a link here to download it!
Well, duh. :P Haha.
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Ok, thank you !!!
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if you wanted a lot of work you could add a color bar to each menu with cvar's that would change the theme of the individual pages. Or you could just have a separate menu/bar on the main menu, that sets all the menus to a color theme with cvar's.
That would cover your colors. For themes changing you could change the main menu to a pre-main menu that would select a theme and direct to different sets of menus. That way it would be like a "mood mod" that I could change colors according to how I'm feeling...or not.
thanks Z and keep working dude!
ps. I just noticed and thought it might be entertaining to do a emoticon theme - >:( 8) :o ??? :D
...you could get pretty creative with that...