GRAPHICS: Call to Artists!

[Maquiladora]

Maquiladora

Stop pushing for the Gui's

oh yeah, why?

I wasnt pushing for them anyway, its too big a job to get stuck in to yet. But you know, he can stick around for a few years

[The Big Mc]

Not really did you look at my alpha down Gui

The hard part is the diplomacy parchments.

[OnePresent]

Thanks for the kind words. This is just a sketch, and also in many layers in photoshop, so adjustments can be made, including making room for buttons.

[The Big Mc]

I resized the image to fit on the main ctp2 screen



as you can see the button mess up the image

[Locutus]

Great stuff, OnePresent

I was thinking it would probably make more sense to merge the two startup screens (the one The Big Mc posted with the new background and the new game/load game/options screen on which the pic OnePresent made is based).

Otherwise the two screens would end up being really similar and having the current setup of two screens is a bit superfluous anyway.

Obviously this will require moving/resizing the buttons.

[The Big Mc]

It's not that hard .

we just make the multiplayer button the same size as play by e-maill and have two rows of three buttons with the two at the bottom for credits and exit.

[The Big Mc]

Sorry double post

[Maquiladora]

as you can see the button mess up the image

Actually that image would fit perfect, its just bottom brick wall part isnt included, im sure that would be easy for OnePresent to include.

Personally id rather not combine the 2 main screens, i think a new single player screen would be better and use the "Apolyton Edition" for the opening titles obviously.

[The Big Mc]

I think we should drop the second screen it is totally useless and many people have said to get rid of it.

But if you want we could always have a vote.

[Maquiladora]

Seems easier to make one image, than to resize and re-arrange all the buttons.

[OnePresent]

Once you guys decide what you want on the screens, I can set them up so that they look great. So at this point let's not worry about if there's room for something, or even if it is hard to do (at this point, with these graphics it is not). If we need two screens, that's easy too. Of course I'll upload a sketch and we can make changes from that point.

Seems we might want to get a screen without buttons for the download link. I could add in the word alpha or beta.

What I'll eventually need is a listing of every button you want on a screen. If a button leads to another screen and another listing of buttons, that's ok too.

Big Mc had some small "legal" type on his screen. I'd love to go ahead and get that somewhat firm so I can get it in place.

[Locutus]

I did a quick photoshop of what a single screen might look like, to facilitate discussion.

Basically this setup works, though I it might be useful to make slightly more room at the bottom for the buttons and legal text there.

BTW, is the legal text we currently have still fixed on the image like I originally made it or is it text from a text file, like the version number? For multi-language support it would be best to put the text in a text file...

Maq,
Moving around and resizing buttons (their width anyway) is easier in CtP2 than it is in HTML, so that's not really a major issue.

[Locutus]

Dammit, attachment got lost in a server screw-up.

[Solver]

Looks pretty fine - I understand that the areas around buttons wouldn't appear as that, it's just the Photoshop draft.

[Locutus]

Originally posted by OnePresent
Seems we might want to get a screen without buttons for the download link. I could add in the word alpha or beta.

I'm not sure if I understand you correctly here, but you don't acually have to add any buttons in the artwork. The game adds the buttons for you. You just have to reserve room for them. The first image you posted (when resized) already works perfectly, if it wasn't for the unaligned buttons (as The Big Mc showed).

Big Mc had some small "legal" type on his screen. I'd love to go ahead and get that somewhat firm so I can get it in place.

I think this is pretty much fixed already. But since, as I pointed out, it's different for every language it would be best not to fix that on the image itself, but rather let the game place it for us and just reserve some empty space for it on the image.