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Editing and Customization => Community Content => Community Releases => Topic started by: Kaiser Tarkin on July 08, 2009, 01:46:33 am

Title: A better looking main menu
Post by: Kaiser Tarkin on July 08, 2009, 01:46:33 am
I made this for your Main Menu , So you guys decide which one looks good .After u made your pick ill be adding a couple backgrounds to it. I , In my opinion the 3rd one looks good at the bottom.Im trying to give your main menu some style .
http://s974.photobucket.com/albums/ae221/Kaiser_Tarkin/?action=view&current=GoldenEyeMod.jpg
Title: Re: A better looking main menu
Post by: Konrad Beerbaum on July 08, 2009, 03:02:53 am
Unfortunately we aren't in a position to take fan submissions.  Everything goes through a design and iteration process that has the whole team provides input on.  Members must also go through a trial process so they can demonstrate their skills and show that they can work as part of a team before any work is accepted. 

To be honest, we aren't really in any need of 2d design help at this point.  We've done a lot of work on our ingame menus, but unfortunately we can't change the main menu at this point due to technical considerations (i.e. it will take a lot of coding work to make it happen).  This will change in the future, but for now the main menu is a lesser priority.  We got a lot of plans for the main menu, but we won't be enable to implement them right now.

If you'd like to make some cool desktop backgrounds for people to use, I'm sure that would be appreciated. 

Title: Re: A better looking main menu
Post by: Josh [SLX] on July 08, 2009, 03:08:09 am
Cant people edit their own VTF's? Or will steam just auto-update to replace them?

I want to replace some of the game themes with some of Goldenzen's. The regular ones get a bit old after a while  :-X
Title: Re: A better looking main menu
Post by: Jeron [SharpSh00tah] on July 08, 2009, 03:30:19 am
You can replace/change alot of files/textures.
Title: Re: A better looking main menu
Post by: kraid on July 08, 2009, 12:57:27 pm
The background can be replaced by changing the files located in "Valve\Steam\SteamApps\SourceMods\gesource\materials\console".
There's a Background01.vmt, a text file which can be edited using a text-editor.

If you wanna use your own Background texture, make it a size like 1024x1024 pixel and save it as .vtf file (photoshop-plugin, VTFedit, compiling with vtex). name it something like background02.vtf and place it in the same folder.
Now change the texturepath
"$basetexture" "console/background01" into    
"$basetexture" "console/background02"
save the file and your new background should be there when you load the game.

Don't change any other parameters of the .vmt file, this could cause unwanted effects.
Title: Re: A better looking main menu
Post by: Kaiser Tarkin on July 09, 2009, 04:33:21 am
check it out guys what do you think? http://s974.photobucket.com/albums/ae221/Kaiser_Tarkin/?action=view&current=GoldenEyeMod-1.jpg
Title: Re: A better looking main menu
Post by: Josh [SLX] on July 09, 2009, 04:46:26 am
Its not bad, i like the overall style and theme to it, but the aliasing where the black and white meets is a little amateurish and unnerving. Fix those.
Title: Re: A better looking main menu
Post by: jjmusicnotes on July 09, 2009, 01:07:18 pm
Too distracting for a main menu.

Please, someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I think that at some point, the devs plan to use the original manilla-folder style for the menus.