new default textures and model for the release

Walking Tree · Post by **Walking Tree** » Fri Jan 27, 2006 11:04 pm

dawn of tron (ya I like the name joda) explosion edition 1

oh, and lucifers "dawn of tron" was not a serious submission. only a "you can do it" for me

who would seriously submit a title screen in such a low resolution and with half a name hanging in it ?

edd · Post by **edd** » Sat Jan 28, 2006 2:29 am

I have done a bit more work on the screens, I think this layout is getting there!

edd · Post by **edd** » Sat Jan 28, 2006 2:36 am

These are the walls i use on my version.

joda.bot · Post by **joda.bot** » Sat Jan 28, 2006 3:05 am

@edd: wow, cool I like the splash screen.

The only problem I see might be that the background is too bright (the font is white (and will stay white AFAIK). Someone requested a matching splash and ingame look. Thus you might change the background to something darker

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EDIT: Also at the current stage the GUI can only display one splash at start up and then uses the an animated grid as background (hardcoded).

Otherwise I really like the layout

I also posted a link to a tron.ttf and xenotron.ttf font which might be used for the splash, not sure if that helps ... (guess u used Arial?).

The font does not have to be similiar to the game's font AFAIK.

I'll add the last splash to the list instead of your last splash and also your wall texture.

Post by **Lucifer** » Sat Jan 28, 2006 6:04 am

So, I collected Walking Tree's splash screen and the other stuff I made (because I'm really enjoying it

) into a moviepack. Since I needed a model, and Tard's 3ds version of the default model doesn't work (it needs to be .ase, doesn't it?), I grabbed the Enigma model. So here it is, if anybody wants it.

philippeqc · Post by **philippeqc** » Sat Jan 28, 2006 11:15 am

This is in reference to Joda's list here http://forums.armagetronad.net/viewtopi ... 1371#41371

Wow!

This is excellent, exactly what I've wanted without ever expressing it. Your amazing Joda!

So, tell us what you like, and in which combinaisions. Feel free to change your vote at anytime as new entries come, your taste change or a winner start to emerge and you want to support / disqualify it. Because even if I ask you not to make references to others votes, people will still ignore me and do it, I think when you want to change a vote, edit your old message and add "Withdrawn" at the top and bottom of your old entry, and make a new post in this discussion.

Try to make your vote clear, as I've been know to be less than perfect at interpreting intentions. ;) I would really appreciate if you voted for groupings rather than single items. Something like "I really like 'Lucifer: light blue sky' which has the floor texture x, wall texture y, (etc) but I'd change the sky for texture z". Feel free to express this in a way that is both convenient for you and clear for me. Please avoid making references to other votes as people are allowed to change their own votes.

I think I will accept multiple votes from the same person. I'd rather like if you didn't use this for voting on small variations on a ground idea but rather on somewhat different items. I hope this might help us find a winner faster than a single vote procedure. Please use this priviledge wisely.

I hope with all of this, pattern will emerge fast and clearly. I will tally the votes in the presence of a grown-up (my girl-friend), and should I be unable to see a clear and definif winner, I'll call an independant judge (my girl-friend) to make the final call, as she has much more of an artistic eye than me. ;)

Go an express yourself! But please keep that discussion only for mentionning your vote. It will be enought work to go through it without needed to go through discussions and debate.

-ph

* This is just an example of a vote*
I really like the movie pack that Lucifer assembled here http://forums.armagetronad.net/viewtopi ... 1411#41411

But I also like the following composition:
edd's rim wall full.png http://forums.armagetronad.net/viewtopi ... 1402#41402
and his splashscreen http://forums.armagetronad.net/download.php?id=2395
iceman's sky http://forums.armagetronad.net/download.php?id=2387
z-man's rim wall http://forums.armagetronad.net/files/th ... ll_926.png
.... and so on ...
* This is just an example of a vote*

Post by **Lucifer** » Sat Jan 28, 2006 11:38 am

Ok, I voted for myself mostly. Heh. Felt kinda weird doing it, too.

Anyway, all of the artwork is really nice, I think it's going to look good and will be happy with whatever is chosen.

I'd like to see someone who can make these cool-looking grid letters and stuff make a texture with the color scheme in my wall. That wall matches everything else really well, it's just not a good wall.

Also, I'm torn on splash screens. I like all the blue ones Walking Tree made. But I like some of the others too, they all look good.

philippeqc · Post by **philippeqc** » Sat Jan 28, 2006 12:07 pm

My!

You are all in a really creative flow! It really amazing and impressive to see your fine work. I love everything I see. This release is going to ROCK on all front!

I though this is something where the whole community should get a chance to participate, so I've decided to send an invitation. I'll be posting it on MicroBusCity, but feel free to spread the word all around so everybody gets a chance to participate. Feel free to use and adapt this sample text as you see fit.
*****
Fellow Armagetron Advance player,

ArmagetronAd is nearing a new release named Artemis (version 0.2.8.0) and we need your help!

We all feel this release is very special, so we would like all the players, new and old, to get that same feeling as soons as they start it up! So we have decided to update its look a bit, and include a new set of textures in it, and we would like you, the community, to come and help us on this task.

How to help?
First, make your own submission!
You know of that neat image that would just make the most perfect wall texture! Come and submit it!
Your brain has been itching with an idea for a model that would totally rock! Fire up the old 3d modeler and impress us!
You have a neat texture idea but you couldn't spot the difference between Gimp/Photoshop and a toaster if your life depended on it! Then find someone to carry your creative inspiration into the digital world through any mean necessary (promise of virtual or physical favors, bribe through offer of chocolat or sugar in either fermented or unfermented form, nagging them into submission, etc.), and share the results with us!

The fine art works thus producted can be submitted on forums.armagetronad.net in this discussion http://forums.armagetronad.net/viewtopi ... 5879#35879

Second, tell us what you like
There is a kind of loose voting going around! And we need YOU to help us pick the winning combinaisons to be included in the release. So you feel a certain combinaision is the one that should be used? You want to support entries? Then make yourself heard here http://forums.armagetronad.net/viewtopi ... 1371#41371 with the voting procedure described just a bit further down for your convenience!

Come and help us show the world how special we think this game is!

-ph

Walking Tree · Post by **Walking Tree** » Sat Jan 28, 2006 12:09 pm

so, I did a variation of dawnoftron blue - just moved the text...
and I tar bzip2ed the gimp source of my three dawn of tron variations and the final soft artemis titles.

edd · Post by **edd** » Sat Jan 28, 2006 3:06 pm

I am still playing 'round with the splash screen ... fonts etc can easily be changed but I think I am getting closer to a final version. As always any coments greatly appreciated. I have also included my low poly light cycle model and map (570 poly count).

I have also zipped the cycle and its map together with my rim wall and grid textures.

edd

edd · Post by **edd** » Sat Jan 28, 2006 3:08 pm

Not sure if this should be posted here as well, but i thought it might help to bring it all together.

edd · Post by **edd** » Sat Jan 28, 2006 3:10 pm

I think I am getting a little obsessed!

edd · Post by **edd** » Sat Jan 28, 2006 3:55 pm

I will also try out the other fonts for the next version!

edd · Post by **edd** » Sat Jan 28, 2006 4:36 pm

I think this is my final version (still open to change the font though!).

Hope you like it.

edd

edd · Post by **edd** » Sat Jan 28, 2006 5:11 pm

sorry, getting carried away.

edd

Armagetron Forums

new default textures and model for the release

some more splash screens

my rim walls

some more sample art work!

the cycle model with maps

one more alternative

opps ... sorry i forgot about the darker backgroung.

and finaly....

one more final version??????