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Posted at: 2020-08-11, 07:43

Nordfriese wrote:

I really don't like those leaves.

That's because they are placeholder art.

I think we should leave the code i in case an artist comes along. We can always remove them close to feature freeze.


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Posted at: 2020-08-11, 07:53

I'm talking only about the main menu here. The leaves do fit well to the other fullscreen menu screens, I removed them only for the main screen.

Another thing: The options and about screen currently scale to (½ screen width × ½ screen height). This looks quite cramped in 800×600, but a larger ratio is too large in widescreen. Should we give them a fixed size (like ~ 600×400) instead?


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Posted at: 2020-08-11, 08:08

Nordfriese wrote:

That would look good in 800×600 but it is pretty obtrusive at a larger scale:

The button background is also a bit too transparent now imho

Well , I'd like the button background and I think the bottomline with the version and copyright is looking good now as well.
The logo looks better in 800x600 because of the different screen resolution ratio, not the resolution itself. As it looks good in 800x600 which is 4:3 we should aim at having the same vertical distance between the logo and the buttons in 1920x1080 which is 16:9. then it should look pretty much the same as. Not sure however if we could get this to scale according screen height rather than width.


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Posted at: 2020-08-11, 09:42

I can make it scale in any way I want face-wink.png Will change the scaling factor calculation from width to height this evening


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Posted at: 2020-08-11, 11:11

Found some time earlier than expected.

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Edited: 2020-08-11, 11:11

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Posted at: 2020-08-11, 12:22

I like it this way. Thank you very much.
Let's see what others think


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Posted at: 2020-08-11, 13:16

Yes, looking good.

We have a high resolution version of the logo in the media repo. I don't know if you have grabbed this yet, but the image should not be scaled up past its maximum resolution. If you have already done that, ignore this comment face-wink.png

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Posted at: 2020-08-11, 20:16

Nothing to complain, two objects centered is good face-smile.png

One thing: The order is now as follows:

  1. Show main splashscreen (sometimes there is a black screen before the main splashscreen appears)
  2. Blend with image
  3. Blend with new image and menu

I find step two a bit superfluous... It takes too long to get into the main menu, imho.

I would suggest to get rid of the first splashscreen. It shows the old logo and is nothing good for, imho. Instead leave the screen black and put the new logo onto the black background, if feasible at the same position where it will appear in the next screen. Then blend over directly to a new image with menu. Is this doable?


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Posted at: 2020-08-11, 20:32

Show main splashscreen (sometimes there is a black screen before the main splashscreen appears)

That is also in master. The graphics system is initializing and the images are being loaded. We cannot render anything during the second of startup.

I find step two a bit superfluous... It takes too long to get into the main menu, imho.

You can just skip it with a click or any key

I would suggest to get rid of the first splashscreen. It shows the old logo and is nothing good for, imho.

Yes it is, this is a very beautiful image! I'm not going to remove that.


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Posted at: 2020-08-11, 21:19

Nordfriese wrote:

I find step two a bit superfluous... It takes too long to get into the main menu, imho.

You can just skip it with a click or any key

The last phase (when the buttons are fading in) is not skippable. It's not a big problem since if one wants to skip the intro they'll likely do it earlier, but still I think it should be either skippable or quicker.

EDIT: There also seems to be a small stripe of garbage pixels in the top-right corner of the logo (curiously, only when the window size is 1680x1050).

EDIT 2: And the options screen dropdowns don't work.

Edited: 2020-08-11, 21:38

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