Main Menu Proposal

[elio]

The current Main Menu needs (in my opinion) revision. i propose following layout

Tutorial: Truck
Multiplayer-Game: World with Tank
Options: some tools
Credits (?): some people
..?

[lav_coyote25]

looks good - start coding...

[DevUrandom]

Maybe we promote this to the first testcase for BetaWidget, EvilGuru?
It's one of the more difficult tasks, but if it can handle that one, it is likely it will handle more widgets, too.

[manaze]

if u biuld it, they will play.

[EvilGuru]

Actually, that kind of thing will not be too hard!

We will have an n-gon layout widget, which takes a variable number of equally sized buttons. They are then placed such that the centres of the buttons form the edges of a regular shaped n-gon.

So yeah, totally possible! I would like to convert the main menus over first, then (later) we can tackle the in-game UI.

Regards, Freddie.

[Per]

That is certainly an interesting twist on the traditional main menu dialog.

[Kreuvf]

Nice idea, but how would this work with the subsequent menus? The options menus and the load/save campaign "menu" for example.

[lav_coyote25]

would it be possible for each of the main buttons to host several child buttons? this way would take care of a numerous amount of dialogs.

[kage]

would it be possible for each of the main buttons to host several child buttons? this way would take care of a numerous amount of dialogs.

yeah, awesome idea -- perhaps each button that is clicked could create several sub-menu buttons that go outward, until something more traditional is needed, such as the key config component.

[elio]

evilguru said transformations (rotation, scaling, moving) and scripts are possible

you click on 'single player campaign', the labels smoothly disappear, the whole thing move up-left, the 6 (without close-button) icons rotate until the 'single player campaign'-icon is in the right-bottom corner. then all the other icons smoothly disappear, the selected icon becomes larger and then two labels appear on the right side of the icon: 'load campaign' 'new campaign'
you clik on new campaign and everything fades to black, the first campaign movie starts
xD

ah, an idea for background: we create two cloud images, one white, ond black (see inside gimp-xcf file), the black one is over the bdrop, the white below. the black goes fast, the white goes slow, both in the same direction. - ok, it's not entirely my idea, the game call of duty also has this clouds :rolleyes:
(see image)

ok, these would be two high resource using ideas, i suggest the ability to disable these features since they're not necessary

[Per]

ah, an idea for background: we create two cloud images, one white, ond black (see inside gimp-xcf file), the black one is over the bdrop, the white below. the black goes fast, the white goes slow, both in the same direction.

This sounds really awesome. :suprised:

[Powzone]

I like the idea and the layout in the first post a lot!
As for the movement I think it would be nice if the submenu buttons move out of the main menu buttons, when pointing with the mouse at them. I always liked the movement of the shades in "Carmagaddon TDR 2000" while moving through the menus, because the 4 shades move one after the other. This movement would fit nice for the buttons in it in my opinion. I hope you know the game... It's hard to make a screenshot of it...
Furthermore I think this way it would need less resources instead of blending the buttons even if it's a good idea too.

[Powzone]

What happened to this whole idea? Something in progress yet?

[Buginator]

What happened to this whole idea? Something in progress yet?

Hmmm... first time I saw this thread. :suprised:

Anyway, my guess would be sometime after 2.1 officially gets released.
Maybe by Xmas '08 (or '09 )

[EvilGuru]

Attached is a sketch-up that I have been working on in Inkscape. The idea is to show what will happen when one clicks on one of the reticule buttons in the main menu (using the animation API).

The (impressive looking) icons are intended to be used for the in-game reticule, as opposed to the main menu, but you get the point.