The main screen

[someloser]

The current main screen sucks! (no offence intended to whoever made it, but a spade is a spade...)
So ive been working on a replacement (somewhat based on this tutorial):

Please post comments and constructive critisism, but remember, this is a WIP. Ignore the clouds, they are currently being redesigned.

Unfortunatly, the night is to light for the stars to show here, so if anyone could take a few high res pictures of a clear night sky, that would be great! Oh. and please avoid the more known star consolations.

So, what do you think?

[Chaom]

Um a few things, firstly the image is too small, just make it bigger even when you post it. And also you should make it so there is more light part on the planet. And lastly... is that earth??? It shouldnt look so much like earth (both my opinions lol).

[Stof]

If it represents a human habitable planet, it's normal to look somewhat like earth. Best would be to show some more surface details so that it looks like earth but you can still see that the landmass is completly different. it should do the trick

[someloser]

I was thinking, since the humans can survive without helmet/bs (well, as long as im not ingame, MWAHAHAHAH), its atmosphere would look like the earths, so i based that on some nasa pictures.

i updated the first post to have the new version, higher resulution and increased the contrast of the ground somewhat. Still the old clouds tho, havent finished the new ones.

planned changes for next version: move then sun a bit to show more landmass, new clouds (*sigh* they are a pain in the ass, currently at 16 layers), maybe some oceans or something, havent decided yet

[Chaom]

I like the ideas and I like the picture... I am making a mod, maybe I could feature your picture?

[someloser]

yeah ofcourse! use on its not finished yet thou, and havent had any time to work on it today.
i was kinda hoping it could replace the current main screan in the next version of trem, since the one we have now is awful

[[db@]Megabite]

Mh, I like the animation / shader on the current one...
The planet is a 3d-model with a bland texture, I guess pimping that texture would be great... other changes seem to be rather unneccesary in my eyes.

Danny

P.S.: Your proposal is looking great, anyway!

[someloser]

Progress has been slow lately, as ive been busy with some other stuff..
Ive given up on the new clouds, they are to much of a pain in the ass, been working some on the background tho

just a little teaser:

im still awaiting the rights to use the source image for that background, so... *ssschh*  :wink:

tell me what you think! what looks good, what doesn't, what rox, and what sux?
is it good enough for inclusion in the game (providing i get the rights for the source)? and who should i talk to about that?

[Ksempac]

I love it but it still has one of the problem of the original menu screen : It lacks life.

I would love to see something that reminds the 2 races (if you wanna keep this image it could be a human spaceship and maybe a giant shadow of an Overmind in background)...

The original menu screen and this one gave the impression that Tremulous is a game where you explore new planets...It doesnt feel like it s a close combat between 2 races.

[someloser]

aww shit, you are right.. and ive spent far to much time on this to abandon it now..
Great idea about the spaceship! ill definitly do it if i can find my trueSpace cd..

and ive got another idea.. A little video feed from a turret in the lower right corner, and beside it some faces in green with ammo counters under them.. You see the counters counting down, and the faces turning from green to red, u know, like in alien?
on the video you some humans getting slayed and turrets fireing rapidly.. eventually the turret goes and the video goes to noise..

Think that will be goode?

[Stof]

I like it myself but if you want to give a better feel of what is tremulous, maybe add a semi trasparent dragoon in the more empty half of the screen. Or maybe make an animation where you show various humans and aliens one after the other

[Kattana]

Instead of an animation how about a group of humans and aliens surrounding them fading out into space.

[Smokey]

what more life could you want?!:/1/11/./1

you have a damn pig in a tophat.. thats good for me

 

[SLAVE|Mietz]

aww shit, you are right.. and ive spent far to much time on this to abandon it now..
Great idea about the spaceship! ill definitly do it if i can find my trueSpace cd..

and ive got another idea.. A little video feed from a turret in the lower right corner, and beside it some faces in green with ammo counters under them.. You see the counters counting down, and the faces turning from green to red, u know, like in alien?
on the video you some humans getting slayed and turrets fireing rapidly.. eventually the turret goes and the video goes to noise..

Think that will be goode?

no offense, the pic is "nice" but nothing more.

first what makes me unhappy is the "clouds" look like big splashes of some kind of fluid and are not "fluffy" like clouds look like.

second yould be the lightning, its too much trem-oriented, but thats only in case if you want to make something different.

i personally dont see any "spaceships" in a picture for a game like trem, its no space-opera, its a shooter.

maybe we have to make something completely new.

In the end i have to say that i like the screen like it is, it fits the trem atmosphere.

[[HUN]Eagletooth]

I really like your picture, because its nice, but its not about Trem...

If you want to make a completely new, and you want a trem feeling then i have an idea for you...

Maybe it should be a small scene from trem... a group of heroic marines holding their last stand against the overwhelming alien horde... Encircled and wounded but still fighting with various equipment: machinegun, chaingun, flamer, blaster, helmet and light armour, battlesuit and even a jetpack...
Everything that symbolises humanity's technical superiority and versatility ... On the other hand the aliens should be the most typical alien creatures used by the most players: marauaders, wallwalking dretch, 'goon preparing to chomp and in the background maybe a tyrant closing fast... Everything that symbolises the aliens mobility and different playstyles...

But i think it is impossible to make with in-game pictures stolen from screenshots, so i think someone should draw it... But its a very hard job to draw something like this in good quality, coloured and so on...

[someloser]

no offense, the pic is "nice" but nothing more.

none taken, i havent done any mayor photoshopping in ~5 years so this is kinda new to me

first what makes me unhappy is the "clouds" look like big splashes of some kind of fluid and are not "fluffy" like clouds look like.

yeah, i know, im not happy with them either. Ive made an action for quickly generatin new ones, however there are a lot of variables (at the moment, 36 layers, each with 4 different variables) and working in high resulotion is kinda slow

with the new action, they do look a lot more 3d, and you can even make out the hurricanes/storms now
ive yet to fint a set of variables pleasing me tho :\

second yould be the lightning, its too much trem-oriented, but thats only in case if you want to make something different.

err, i dont get your point

thanks for the critisism, keeps me sharp and my ego from growin bigger than whats good for me

no comments on my ingame turret cam vid idea?

oh, i didnt mention it before, but this is still a wip

[SLAVE|Mietz]

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second yould be the lightning, its too much trem-oriented, but thats only in case if you want to make something different.  

err, i dont get your point

I mean, it looks just like the current mainscreen, only the planet is changed, anything else is almost identical.
So in the case you wanted to make something new, its not what it should be.