Possible Menu Concept

[Springheel]

Seeing as there was a lot of support for a stained-glass style menu, I've been working on some ideas for one. This is a work in progress, obviously. I'm not terribly happy with the city scape...I'm thinking of trying more of a medium shot closer to the buildings. But I just wanted to show you how it is progressing.

 

[Renzatic]

That city looks perfect to me, other than smoothing out the fog a tiny bit I wouldn't change a thing.

 

For the stained glass...hmm...we need to think of a good symbol logo for the mod, something we can also use as our icon.

[New Horizon]

Looking great Springheel.

[god_is_my_goldfish]

Wow, if icould change my vote i would vote for this.

[sparhawk]

Seeing as there was a lot of support for a stained-glass style menu, I've been working on some ideas for one. This is a work in progress, obviously.

Hmmm ... I think I will wait with a comment until I see the final picture.

[Fingernail]

Would people object to using shards of stained glass for the buttons? or is that too far?

[god_is_my_goldfish]

hmm, i could see that working, but i wouldn't make it contrast too harshly with the background, if you know what i mean, that's not quite it.

[Springheel]

I have to be honest, I'm getting nowhere fast with this concept. Remember how I said menus weren't my strong suit? Well, I've been spending lots of time on it with little to show for it, and at the moment I think my time is best spent elsewhere. Anyone else that wants to have a go at this, feel free. I'll post some of the other ideas I had shortly.

[god_is_my_goldfish]

I dunno, post up what you have done so far as a gimp or photoshop file and i'll see what I can do.

[Springheel]

Here's what I had at the point I left off...I'll upload it to the ftp site tomorrow.

 

[god_is_my_goldfish]

still pretty damn good looking if you ask me.

[Renzatic]

I'm with the fish, I don't see anything particularly bad about that shot...quite the opposite in fact.

[sparhawk]

Here's what I had at the point I left off...I'll upload it to the ftp site tomorrow.

Do we need that ring around the clock? It looks so gameish.

 

I would say that it might look better if it were simply put into a clocktower. Maybe with a more bright colourscheme then the background.

 

And it doesn't need to be sqaure in the center. Think of the T2 loading screen. The clocks where part of a picture and still served as progress meters.

Edited October 31, 2004 by sparhawk

[Fingernail]

I love the menu concept.

 

This may also be a bit gamey for sparhawk, but howabout the ring rotates (possibly with the hands of the clock) as you glide your mouse over the options?

[sparhawk]

This may also be a bit gamey for sparhawk, but howabout the ring rotates (possibly with the hands of the clock) as you glide your mouse over the options?

I thought this should have been used for the load progress.

 

But using something like that for the options seems fine. What I meant was not the clock in itself, rather how it is presented here.

 

BTW: I removed the reference to .NET from you help required posting. We don't need that as .NET is something different and not used in Doom 3 coding.

Edited October 31, 2004 by sparhawk

[Fingernail]

good call.

[Fingernail]

SH, Upload the city background please, for pakmannen.

 

We want him to develop an alternative design (some members want more steampunk/mysterious). But don't change your own design.

[Springheel]

I've uploaded it to the Concept Art section of the ftp site. It's called Menu10-1wip.psd.

 

It's saved as a PS5.5 file.

[Fingernail]

Thanks for promptness.

[Fingernail]

Any progress on this design?

[Springheel]

I don't know, who is working on one other than Pak? I haven't assigned this to anyone specific.

[sparhawk]

I don't know, who is working on one other than Pak? I haven't assigned this to anyone specific.

You see? That's what the PM tool is for.

[Fingernail]

GAH....why haven't you finished THIS one?

[Springheel]

You see? That's what the PM tool is for.

 

Or just reading.

 

I'm getting nowhere fast with this concept. Remember how I said menus weren't my strong suit? Well, I've been spending lots of time on it with little to show for it, and at the moment I think my time is best spent elsewhere.

 

I don't know if that was too obtuse.... I haven't been able to do anything with the concept that I like. After many many hours, I'm no further ahead than when I started, so I'm leaving the menu to other people.

 

I'm happy to advise or tinker with other people's concepts, but I don't have the time or expertise to do one from scratch.

[Fingernail]

Right. So we'll leave it to Pak for now. Shame, because I liked what you did with that concept. Maybe someone else can pick it up.