[C4:AC][Art and Graphics] New title screen

[Hydro]

Very nice.

Is there a reason why the SMAX intro background couldn't be used? It seems more than a tad odd to have Italy on Chiron.

Hydro

[Rubin]

Hydro, I tried to present some reasons in post #23 in this thread. It may be possible to mod the Main Menu screen--be it either with a globe without the "city lights" or a static image without the sun (day/night cycle). I've had no success, though.

[Rubin]

Er, I think I managed to remove those annoying city lights.

Edit: Well, of course, no... I can remove all of the city lights except for 6 small ones! I guess we can live with 6 small black dots on the globe, but it is still annoying. If I remove the clouds, I can make those remaining 6 city lights disappear, but then the globe texture looks rather dull... If I remove the globe texture too the Main Menu screen looks very empty.

It may be possible to reduce the cloud density and get rid of the 6 dots this way--or perhaps turn the clouds into the "sentient planet" as seen in the "transcend" movie (lots of small bright lights).

One could put a big ? to show as planet surface (as in "representing the unknown"); or perhaps static images of the 7 original faction leaders. I don't know.

Oh, and I can now remove the sun, though the title still displays the day/night transition.