Hiya



While I have no problems with it, my suggestion would be to make a specific program in, say, MED, that allows you to change text, background color, window shape (to pre-defined sizes), text location (left, center, right), etc. So, for example, if you are doing a "black-and-white film noir" style game, you could have the window have no 'boarder', make the background almost-white, the text black, the font Garamond and on the left, and the size to resemble the dimensions of a piece of paper. For a futuristic racing game, perhaps a wide and thin black window with gold boarder, light blue text color, centered, with some futuristic'ish looking text, and the text size a bit bigger and in italics. For the Pro folks, allow them to add a background image to the window, perhaps a drop-shadow, and transparency?

Anyway, the point would be to be able to change the general look via the engine. It would still be there, but at least having a very "programmer b/w look" opening to your historical medieval simulation could be remedied.

i like the idea of a startUp-Window-Contest. And i would make one for suh a contest ^^

Oh what fun it is to ride in a one horse open sleigh!

After using this, and many other forums, I still don't know why people get so defensive and read everything in the worst possible way it could be written...

I like it, simple, stupid, to the point! call it what you want, just not sympathetic... you won't get that off of me (maybe the smile will help) (2 to be sure)

referring to the Logo,

If you want unlimited players on a server, buy PRO!
If you want a distributable level editor, but PRO!
If you want automatic LODding, (yep you guessed it) buy PRO!

If you want to use shaders... buy >commercial
If you want particle effects... buy >commercial

But without going on too much, why not give the designer the option/ability to design his own StartUp Window, same as what was possible with A5 and A6 (possibly A4, never used it)

Pick from prerendered logos, choose from prerendered backgrounds, choose any font, choose any position, and even support shaders on startup (even though this'll be a no, as graphics are not yet initialised)

(nearly forgot the smiley )

then shhhh!

Is it possible for you to define five or so different start up screens (where as the one we have now is the default one) that we can tell the engine with scripting which one we want to use.
This doesn't allow non pro users to make their own start up screens or edit them in any way, but allows us to choose from a list of different ones.
Can your bosses at least agree to this?
Is still think the start up-Window-Contest is a good idea, maybe you could make it so the top 5 make it in.