Taking your suggestions for a new UI
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This was originally talked about here:
link text but seems more appropriate here now.
Was thinking that you could have the games that someone is in and looking for players be as follows:
Using Global 40 colors
Canadian Red = Expert
screenshot in case you haven't seen it I'll post over at git as well
oops ! my screenshot didn't work. i'll try again
well said I didn't have privileges for that. basically it's just a little more Red than the Russia color
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A small update for everyone interested:
The latest pre-release introduced some icons for the game type selection screen.
We're not completely happy with them, and @redrum suggested we could ask for your help.
So if you're able to come up with a good lokkingand descriptive icon on your own, we'd be happy to use it in the new UI.
The preferred format is png, I'm not sure if uploading an image to the forum will preserve the quality, so having the icon stored on a cloud service of your choice is going to come in handy. -
@roiex
Been a while since I did a pre release. Know it's gotta be somewhere but can't find it. Tried relevant links, which btw takes me to the last post instead of the beginning, but no go. Can you dial me in on a link ? I assume you just open the bin and slam the new jar in still ?Anyway I'm sure I can track it down, come to think of it redrum had it in the AI thread. yep here it is:
Guess by icon you can use any triplea unit image ? Need to do the cloud thing too. Ok. I'll give it a shot and see what happens.
Good stuff you guys have been doing here. The site is picking up speed : )
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Hi there, would love to see features such as Deltium posted. I feel that many of these games are competitive by nature and that's the allure that draws many players. Adding some features to cater to that would increase the quality of the experience here. I played on GTO for 3 or so years and two of the things I liked a lot were: Being able to see someones overall wins/losses on that particular game and when they implemented ELO. I consider myself a competitive and passionate Axis and Allies player. I was aware of TripleA when GTO shut down but the lack of those features stopped me from playing here. (I know that's my decision but it influenced me enough to not sign up, no offense :P) I decided to start playing here because I need to scratch that Axis and Allies itch again even if it isn't as competitive.
I know that what you guys do is basically volunteer work so no one is entitled to anything. I appreciate all the hard work that goes into making this service a reality. I plan to be active here and will also donate time to time to show my thanks.
Nice to meet you all!
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Did a little work on this to make some icon for the game selection screen.
I haven't played around with the background or textures. But just started with some icons.
Will post more as I continue to make additions.
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Did some fiddling around today experimenting with some ideas.
"A joyous heart sours with the burden of expectation"
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@Hepps I'm actually stunned how amazing your "test screen" looks. You did a really good job there.
The only thing I dislike about it is how the letters on join networked game and host networked game look, I like the idea of it though.
If you keep it up, the difficult part for me is going to implement it in the engine without losing quality there
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@roiex The lettering is the original Report font. I did not make any changes to that.
To be honest, I really like the idea of a typewriter font... but I am not really in love with this particular font with the shadowed double strike as it kind of blurs some of the smaller captions that are a smaller font size.
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@Hepps I meant the "letter" in the Icon. (Or at least I assume it's a letter).
Yeah, I'm not too happy with this font either, it's too small for some labels and suffers in terms of readability in some points. -
@Hepps Also we probably want to be consistent with the icon art style.
So either all icons have this simplistic one color design, or all of them look "real" -
@hepps Impressive. Overall I love it though have a few questions/thoughts:
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Looks like you've kind of created a new 'icon' with the TripleA name. I'm open to honestly completely revamping things across the board though do like consistency. Thoughts on the existing icon we have on the forum/website with the infantry?
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Host/Join Networked Game - I pretty tempted to hide these options behind an advanced options menu or remove them all together. I don't think they are used that much though open to what people think. I'd like to have a more approachable main screen with only often used options and probably need a 'Settings' box.
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Color scheme - I'm interested/open to changing the color scheme entirely. I personally think the red is maybe a bit too jarring but would be interested in others' thoughts.
I think my main point is if we are really going to go all in on a new UI then we should be open to completely changing things as what we have now leaves a lot to be desired...
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@redrum This screen is actually the second screen, the game selection screen.
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@roiex Not sure what you mean.... there are no letters.
the one box is the military map symbol for Mechanized Infantry and the other 2 boxes are the military map symbol for Infantry. The only other thing in the images is the arrows they use on military maps to show troop movements.
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@hepps Ahh, that's what it's supposed to represent. I already assumed something along those lines ^^
Let me clarify what I find a little bit odd about them: They look too perfect.
So if it's possible to make it look a little bit more irregular without losing this simplistic style I'd go with that ^^ -
@roiex Sure... what I'd like to do is do the image for both with a hand drawn image. then scan it and digitize it... then colour it to match the 2 tone style.
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The new logo was just me fucking around. Tried to make a logo that paid homage to the original one we have had for 12 years.
As far as colour.... I am currently testing what I wanted to go with... which is an Army olive green.
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Do as you prefer.
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@roiex I see. I do wonder whether 1 screen or 2 screens is better. Really depends on the number of options that we end up with I guess.
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Here is the same layout but with an army olive green for the icons.
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