Ugly loading screen

[aiphee]

Hi, first thing which newbie notices when games starts is weird log, which has nothing to say to him and may look kinda scary.

What about make loading screen little more friendly and hide the log into background.

Something about this:

(notice just hidden log and progreebar, rest is some image with hints from ZK)

Its a easy change and can really change first impression of game, what do you say?

[smoth]

The engine is supposed to get lua loading screens one day, this will allow devs like the zk devs to fix the loading screen. but it is not available right now for us.

[aiphee]

Ok, thx for answer. Hop the devs will have time and flavor.

[Das Bruce]

Spring has nothing, if not flavourful devs.

[Silentwings]

In that loading screen it looks as though the text the engine prints out sa it loads ie being faded - how is that done?

[gajop]

In that loading screen it looks as though the text the engine prints out sa it loads ie being faded - how is that done?

photoshop/gimp? :p

[aiphee]

Its just a sketch.
Inkscape :)

[smoth]

Spring has nothing, if not flavourful devs.

f you I am delicious!

[Silentwings]

Oh... in my opinion being able to control how that text appears would make much prettier load screens!

[Das Bruce]

f you I am delicious!

Yes, that is what that means.

[luckywaldo7]

Spring devs are an acquired taste.

On a more related note, is there any chance we could get a very preliminary version of lua loadscreens? I know there is awesome fancy stuff like minimap previews planned, but it would be a nice step just to hide all the text.

[FLOZi]

Almost like no one else bothers to read the git log:

https://github.com/spring/spring/commit ... 7114da7fa3

[smoth]

few do.

[luckywaldo7]

Not religiously. About every week or so I'll check the commit log.

Thanks for the change anyway.

[jK]

there is an atom feed ...

[Licho]

It would be nice to get some lua access to that .. just simple "drawscreen", "progressmessage" etc events.
Im not sure if its viable to hide any messages because then there is no feedback and it makes it look like frozen game.

[Forboding Angel]

There are what... 12 loading steps? Why not just have a progress bar lua'd that has 12 steps (make the last 7 steps take place at 99% trololol Microsoft)?

[aiphee]

So it is possible now.

https://github.com/spring/spring/commit ... a14ade548c

http://springrts.com/phpbb/viewtopic.ph ... 80#p544290

[Jools]

There are what... 12 loading steps? Why not just have a progress bar lua'd that has 12 steps (make the last 7 steps take place at 99% trololol Microsoft)?

+1. Especially that thing with last 7 steps.