Spring SP

Android_X · Post by **Android_X** » 15 Feb 2006, 23:33

I will be changing the buttons, I just threw them in for the screen shot so you could see where they are being put.

What do you think if I use the logo and title from the first pic but as a plain colour watermark?

Btw the little spring thingy in the corner next to the version number is a link to the taspring website.

To any of you that don't like the the skin you can allways download the the cource code change the skin to what you want and compile.....*thinks to self - maybe I could get SP to load different skins.*

SeanHeron · Post by **SeanHeron** » 15 Feb 2006, 23:36

I agree wit HanSolo, I think it looks well cool and brings back the old TA feelings to see the frontpage in that style. Way to go !

Chocapic · Post by **Chocapic** » 15 Feb 2006, 23:58

its good to mention that in general bad GUIs really keep quite some players away, therefore for the further increase of spring comunity new GUIs are in need here (including lobby GUI).

Post by **Tim Blokdijk** » 16 Feb 2006, 01:56

The "new GUI" thing is a known feature request...

Go and find us some developers to work on it!
Or if people really like to have it.. set up a fund raiser so a developer can be hired to implement it.

Android_X · Post by **Android_X** » 16 Feb 2006, 10:37

OK this will be the final main menu if there are not too many objections.

I only have one more function I want to add to the replays section, so not long till version 0.5 beta.

Maelstrom · Post by **Maelstrom** » 16 Feb 2006, 11:39

Having the text on the buttons all the same size would be good, but otherwise its looking nice.

NOiZE · Post by **NOiZE** » 16 Feb 2006, 13:28

looks quite good.. but for some reason i don't like the buttons

Masse · Post by **Masse** » 16 Feb 2006, 14:07

i like it allot

kinda i dont want TA style menus... but some voice inside me says TA style FTW !

Chocapic · Post by **Chocapic** » 16 Feb 2006, 14:44

Maelstrom wrote:Having the text on the buttons all the same size would be good, but otherwise its looking nice.

yes the diferent text sizes on the buttons makes them not look perfect

Hansolo88 · Post by **Hansolo88** » 16 Feb 2006, 15:44

Looking better and better.

It is true, lack of a nice GUI really does keep people away. I honestly think SpringSP should be shipped with the main download package, it would really help someone who is just getting started. In my case, I downloaded the full game, but it took me a while to make sense of how to start a single player game, though the online documentation helped some. The list of scripts is totally confusing to a brand new player. And then figuring out how to run a single player game against an AI that would actually fight back took even longer...

Regardless, I'm so pumped I found TA Spring, what an awesome effort. I think I just found something to keep me busy until Supreme Commander comes out.

AF · Post by AF » 16 Feb 2006, 16:00

You dont object to me continually packaging NTAI with Spring SP and making shortcuts in startmenu/desktop to it? Saves me having to explain howto get it working or howto use it offline

SeanHeron · Post by **SeanHeron** » 16 Feb 2006, 16:36

Not so important after all :/

AF · Post by AF » 16 Feb 2006, 20:15

Download V0.41 Here
Download 0.41 Source

Sorry, I didnt knwo the links in the first post had been broken when Android_X updated to 0.41

Android_X · Post by **Android_X** » 18 Feb 2006, 02:16

I have uploaded version 0.5 beta1 to FU

http://www.fileuniverse.com/?p=showitem&ID=2431

Please let me know if this version fixes the problems loading maps.

AF wrote:You dont object to me continually packaging NTAI with Spring SP and making shortcuts in startmenu/desktop to it? Saves me having to explain howto get it working or howto use it offline

I don't mind what you do with SP as long as it is useful.

Edit: Just make sure that installer does not overwrite newer versions of SP with older ones in the install package. I tested and the NTAI XE3 installer just overwrote SP v0.5b1 with SP v0.4.1.

Chocapic · Post by **Chocapic** » 18 Feb 2006, 05:18

with this new face SpringSp is kicking ass

, i wonder if it shouldnt run fullscreen ....
as for the errors they are still there

, not that they bother me at all

.
its looking very good now , a lot a new features , and those load bars

.
If you get maximized going, implement a minimap on it and fix the errors, itll be perfect!!!
oh btw, when you launc TASClient shouldnt it close SpringSp ?

Android_X · Post by **Android_X** » 18 Feb 2006, 11:10

Chocapic wrote:as for the errors they are still there

Hmm

. If you don't mind Chocapic could you send me an email with your archivecache.txt attached. I should be able to load it and see what is causing the error then fix it.

The problem with making SP fullscreen is that I can't just strech the screen to any size, not without rewriting most of the frontend. I can add a fullscreen background and have the normal screen centered in the middle of it, that would sort of be fullscreen

.

AF · Post by AF » 18 Feb 2006, 14:42

Try adding a version nubmer to the end in future, and I'll do so in my installers so that they dont overwrite ^^

Android_X · Post by **Android_X** » 10 Mar 2006, 01:40

Sorry for taking so long(very busy lately), here's version 0.5 beta2

http://www.fileuniverse.com/?p=showitem&ID=2590

I added a fullscreen background mode which is toggled by pressing F4, started animating the buttons and I got SP working even with Chocapic's archivecache

. Please let me know if there are still errors.

Android_X

Dragon45 · Post by **Dragon45** » 10 Mar 2006, 03:27

Gah, i am teh late!

Anyway, i made a semi proof of concept GUI background based on Neuralize's original work (which is much better than current Spring logo IMHO, but meh

):

http://www.fileuniverse.com/?p=showimage&ID=2730

Dragon45 · Post by **Dragon45** » 10 Mar 2006, 03:30

Pardon the sloppiness... tis all Paint

Spring RTS Engine

Spring SP