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Join Date: 2004-03-17 Member: 27379Members
Join Date: 2004-03-17 Member: 27379Members
<div class="IPBDescription">which one do you prefer?</div> hi dudes! I didn't really know where to post it (general discussion or artwork) I choosed artwork because these screens have been drawed by the way I guess.
So which one of the 3 (sry dudes I haven't found the pic of the actual menu in the ns folder somewhere, I'd be glad if someone could post it here) pics do you personally think is better?
I really miss the consolescreen from ns 2.0. What a pity that steam doesn't have such things like that!
<img src='http://mitglied.lycos.de/filligran/NaSe-stuff/console.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image' />
but for the menuscreen I think the current one is better than the one from 2.0
<img src='http://mitglied.lycos.de/filligran/NaSe-stuff/main_menu.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image' />
post your comments <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wink-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink-fix.gif' /><!--endemo--> oh and hopefully someone is going to post the current menu screen!
So which one of the 3 (sry dudes I haven't found the pic of the actual menu in the ns folder somewhere, I'd be glad if someone could post it here) pics do you personally think is better?
I really miss the consolescreen from ns 2.0. What a pity that steam doesn't have such things like that!
<img src='http://mitglied.lycos.de/filligran/NaSe-stuff/console.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image' />
but for the menuscreen I think the current one is better than the one from 2.0
<img src='http://mitglied.lycos.de/filligran/NaSe-stuff/main_menu.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image' />
post your comments <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wink-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink-fix.gif' /><!--endemo--> oh and hopefully someone is going to post the current menu screen!
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annyone who fail to understand that reply?
maybe flayra has one or one of the admines who're plain' NS since back it was released.
Isn't somebody here who has the pic from 1.0 and the current main menu screen?
or am i wrong? meh?
1280 x 1024 res only. (for now until i get asked to make others <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo--> )
<img src='http://www.opticpower.com/kylie/fury/nsbackground.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image' />
extract the rar into steam/steamapps/XXXXX/half-life/ns/resource/
<a href='http://www.opticpower.com/kylie/fury/resource.rar' target='_blank'>teh menu of dewm!</a>
<a href='http://mitglied.lycos.de/centercross/files/ns1.0_background.zip' target='_blank'>download this picture as background</a> (save target as)
<img src='http://mitglied.lycos.de/centercross/files/main_menu.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image' />
<a href='http://mitglied.lycos.de/centercross/files/ns1.0_loadingbg.zip' target='_blank'>download this picture as background</a> (save target as)
<img src='http://mitglied.lycos.de/centercross/files/console.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image' />
you need to splice the image into 256x256 parts, which need to be saved as a TGA
in the backgroundLayout text file, it locates the parts, and puts it together.
eg
<!--c1--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>CODE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='CODE'><!--ec1-->resolution 1024 768
resource/background/1024_1_a_loading.tga scaled 0 0
resource/background/1024_1_b_loading.tga scaled 256 0
resource/background/1024_1_c_loading.tga scaled 512 0
resource/background/1024_1_d_loading.tga scaled 768 0
resource/background/1024_2_a_loading.tga scaled 0 256
resource/background/1024_2_b_loading.tga scaled 256 256
resource/background/1024_2_c_loading.tga scaled 512 256
resource/background/1024_2_d_loading.tga scaled 768 256
resource/background/1024_3_a_loading.tga scaled 0 512
resource/background/1024_3_b_loading.tga scaled 256 512
resource/background/1024_3_c_loading.tga scaled 512 512
resource/background/1024_3_d_loading.tga scaled 768 512<!--c2--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--ec2-->
where
resource/background/XXXXXXXXXXXX.tga scaled XXX XXX
is where the file is located, and the positioning of it
the resource/ba .. part is the link, i dont konw but i think it has to be in the format as put above "xxxx_#_X_loading.tga" where xxxx is the resolution (width) of the background image as a whole, # is which row down it is (there are 3 rows for a 1024 background) and x is the column letter. a being left, d being far right.
the numbers after scaled are the position that the splice holds on the main image (from the top left corner)
eg, the first one being the image thats row 1 column a, therefore its a 0, 0.
second one would be row 1 column b, at 256, 0
backgrounds that are 800x600, or other sizes that dont fit exactly into 256 blocks, just cut them off at designated sizes and as long as you have to positioning right in the code, it will look fine ingame (i believe)
theres a less ... muddled way of doing it somewhere else on the forums, but yeah <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo-->
oh and
the 1024 x 768 sized background is made up of 12 TGA images and 2 txt files. (both included in the rar file)
<a href='http://www.custom-tfc.co.uk/SteamBG.zip' target='_blank'>hl splash screen creator</a>
and you are happy for life <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
my way, although confusing at first, can do any size.
tho you gotta do it all yourself and it gets boring after the 3rd image <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo--> tho it only takes around 3 mins
i cant code, so i cant make a program to do it for you.
but yeah, easiest way in PS is to make 2 images, the first one is the bg you want,
the second is a 256x256 sized one.
then just copy paste and save as
uhm by the way..I haven't finished your sounds yet *doh* <!--emo&::nerdy::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/nerd-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='nerd-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
this is actally my backround its the coolest one
<a href='http://www.unknownworlds.com/ns/images/NS-Steam-mainmenu.jpg' target='_blank'>http://www.unknownworlds.com/ns/images/NS-Steam-mainmenu.jpg</a>
this is actally my backround its the coolest one
<a href='http://www.unknownworlds.com/ns/images/NS-Steam-mainmenu.jpg' target='_blank'>http://www.unknownworlds.com/ns/images/NS-Steam-mainmenu.jpg</a> <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
whats so cool about it? btw its the standart ns 3.0 background ...
done
extract the zip into : steam\SteamApps\XXXXX\half-life\ns\resource
overwrite anything in that folder (make backups if you wanna revert to the original background (back up backgroundloadinglayout.txt, backgroundlayout.txt and the background folder))
if you want any custome ones done, pm me with the link.
<a href='http://www.opticpower.com/kylie/fury/alien800x600background.zip' target='_blank'>Alien background</a>
:edit: I checked NS1 and the bg is the same as 2. On a side-note, 770 posts... just like my old Viper 770. how nice. ^_^ ... sorry, there's a lot of nostalgia associated with that card.