Main menu skins and customized island anims

[theavonlady]

It would be nice to be able to design the format of OFP's main menu. This would allow customization of the location and look of clickables, such as CAMPAIGNS, MISSIONS, etc. Maybe allow placing of a private logo jpg somewhere, too (e.g., squad emblem).

In addition, it would be nice if the user could define the starting island anim. And it would be even better if multiple anims could be played per island either in a given sequence or at random.

And, finally, it would be nice if BIS allowed player made island anims to contain custom music tracks.

[SpeedyDonkey]

Its good that you made this thread about the main menu, since i think that it sometimes increases the loading time too much, particularly on Nogova.

[Postduifje]

Indeed, I don't think it's good to run animations in the background of the main menu, it really slows everything down. Just a cool (maybe blurry) warpicture (ingame or real) is muck better (if offcourse you also have a cool background tune)

[GAMEER_77]

There's nothing wrong with the background cutscenes, as long as they aren't too laggy (Ahem, Nogova) and do not include fadein/out

*shudders

Gameer

[theavonlady]

Here's a current example of some of what I'm talking about.

You have to modify OFP to do this and personally, I don't think it's justified in OFP1.

[Kegetys]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (theavonlady @ 15 May 2003,15:05)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Here&#39;s a current example of some of what I&#39;m talking about...[/QUOTE]<span id='postcolor'>
Looks better with hisky:




The weather is random so it looks a bit different every time

[SpeedyDonkey]

I really should download that sky pack... is it easy to install?

[Postduifje]

Wow, that looks awesome&#33;&#33;&#33;

[CoolCarlos2002]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Kegetys @ 15 May 2003,14:51)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE"></span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (theavonlady @ 15 May 2003,15)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Here&#39;s a current example of some of what I&#39;m talking about...[/QUOTE]<span id='postcolor'>
Looks better with hisky:


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The weather is random so it looks a bit different every time[/QUOTE]<span id='postcolor'>
where are the hawk&#39;s ***

[freddern]

Is it almost impossible to make an own background in the menu or is that something I can do by myself? (really want to...)