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[Stargazer]

I swear, I feel abit brain dead.

basically i'm trying to think up what to do for the loading screens, basically i'm going with what finite suggested and using the whole folder and picture things, like this:



but I would like suggestions on what to put in there? should I do quick character bio's and put them there? like a different one for each character so the player can know about our character's without having to look up the site or should I do something else?

i'm just looking for suggestions here because i'm having a brain fart on this

[Infinity238]

I think that sounds good, just remember to keep the area's where the text goes open. Since there are two sides to the loading screen I thought maybe like a open folder zaft on one side and eaf on the other (since it needs to be neutral). Maybe also use some of the screenshots as recon photos.

[Stargazer]

ok this is what I got atm, haven't been working on it for too long, maybe ten minutes so don't shoot me >_<



anywayz, what I was thinking was that we'd have one character on one side, and put his/her equivelant on the other side i.e. Malik on the ZAFT side and Yamada on the OMNI side, Shelba on the ZAFT side and Kumiko on the OMNI side, Kaworu on the ZAFT side and Gene on the OMNI side and etc...

I still need to make the background and probably a few tidbits around it but whatcha think so far?

[Infinity238]

I won't shoot you... folder looks good but I do have some critz,

This is how it would apear atm in eaw (dont worry about the weird transparencey thing I have going on its just to show you what I mean), so the one thing I would recomend is keep the areas where the descriptions go as blank pages because that will display the info when loading. The zaft and omni pages should probly be layered in behind.(dont worry to much about the title as it will hover over)

The other thing I would say is messy it up a bit, it looks a little too uniform at the moment.

Edited by Infinity238, 28 December 2006 - 07:44 PM.

[Stargazer]

care to explain ti abit simpler? lol

I just woke up and have 0 idea what you are talking about.

[Infinity238]

See where I put big black text, thats where Empire at war will stick big white text.(simpler? lol)


Unfortunatly I dont have the abillity to change button or text positioning on this screen. So you have to design around the preset layout.

[Stargazer]

what exactly is the pre-set layout? oh and the folder thing wasn' the entire loading screen I made, the entire screen is like 1280x1024...

[Infinity238]

That would be the image I emailed you

[Stargazer]

ehh...

this is gonna be hard to get it to fit into place everywhere...

so basically i've got to make it so the historial reference will fit on zaft's page and the info as in terrain/population and that fits on the OMNI page? crap...

[Infinity238]

Kind of, (my two cents) I guess you can always just make it look like a mess of inteligence papers in the folder. The top most being the blank ones where the game will display the data. (/my two cents)

I know you'll do good, thats why I trust you to do it.

lol, I guess this is the figuretive wip that I've brought out

[Stargazer]

I suppose I could just seperate the folder to make it look like two folders and then I could position it easier...

I think i'll probably just do that, whatcha think finite?

[Infinity238]

Spingle spangle go for the dangle.

[Stargazer]

sorry I didn't post this earlier finite but I had people over.

anywayz, can you check if this fits properly?

http://img147.images...testcopyde9.jpg

[Infinity238]

Actually rather then playing musical chairs you can do some trial and error to see what works. All you need to do is put it in the proper directory in eaw and see how it looks: "Gamedata/data/Art/Textures" folder if none exists just make and name the folders, should help you work on it fast and better. Any other questions let me know chances are I have the answers.

[Stargazer]

sounded like some attitude there with those first few words there finite.

but thanks for telling me where to put, I didn't know where to put all this stuff.

[Infinity238]

I actually origionally typed "if you want to see what it looks like you can do it yourself ." But that didnt sound very good at all, sorry if that came off wrong It was the only way I could think to say it . It may be day time in Austrailia but its late here, and Infinity no function sleep well without.

[Stargazer]

it's 8pm.

and for some reason, I function better with no sleep.

[Sven C.B]

could u ppl try make background with files, but says battle of _______ abit of place info
then the right side could put maps layout


for exm

____________ battle report

BATTLE OF JACHIN DUE | LOCATION INFO


(Description) | map photo

[Infinity238]

Alreday happening.

[dafater]

i like the 1st 1 beter with the 3 original drugies profile lol