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[en] Edain Mod => [Edain] Discussion and Feedback => Thema gestartet von: magickoala am 7. Nov 2014, 02:51

Titel: Modding Edain Launcher UI
Beitrag von: magickoala am 7. Nov 2014, 02:51

Update 1.3 - Halfway
(http://i.imgur.com/lsFXGsw.png)

Turin got the news system working \o/
And he did the whole news thing in one night lol.

Update: 1.2 - Now with extra safe mojo :P

(http://i.imgur.com/sIe0SDP.jpg)

(http://i.imgur.com/c5Xtp73.jpg)

(http://i.imgur.com/AV1Xruo.jpg)

(http://i.imgur.com/DEQGQxK.jpg)

(http://i.imgur.com/RK9XNds.jpg)

(http://i.imgur.com/HcAXBA5.jpg)

(http://i.imgur.com/tRyeZ5w.jpg)

(http://i.imgur.com/jo4XiY8.jpg)

Meanwhile, in a paralel universe..  8-)

[Old] 1.0 Design UI Changes

(http://i.imgur.com/qWkCp1H.jpg)

(http://i.imgur.com/RE9ntvw.jpg)

(http://i.imgur.com/XRQYwTy.jpg)

(http://i.imgur.com/Xmq2iyo.jpg)

(http://i.imgur.com/ITbKpUd.jpg)

(http://i.imgur.com/UkOgIWX.jpg)

(http://i.imgur.com/AXGLnh7.jpg)

(http://i.imgur.com/FWqXMjq.jpg)

(http://i.imgur.com/FimtpSq.jpg)

(http://i.imgur.com/YBKb1pg.jpg)

(http://i.imgur.com/2u2GvRO.jpg)

(http://i.imgur.com/YQbKPrS.jpg)

So, this is just a little tinkering on the launcher potential.
Fan work ^^ If you like its yours, of course.

Most of backgrounds are old BFME2 concept art wallpapers.

Couldnt hold it, all this hype about 4.0.. \o/

And if you're that tempted to ask: hey, isnt just like THE SAME
as Blizz's  client? - Well, what can i say... :) Ours is better. ;b

Cheers.!

Titel: Re:Modding Edain Launcher UI
Beitrag von: Labadal am 7. Nov 2014, 06:57

Wow, it looks very good ^^. I think, you have to speak with Turin Turambar, the creator of the official Edain Mod Switcher. His Switcher you can find here:
Modding Union Forum > Edain Mod > [Edain] Ankündigungen > Edain Mod 3.8.1 Switcher 4.1.4
I hope your mod switcher will find some recognition from the Edain Team and the community ^^.

Titel: Re:Modding Edain Launcher UI
Beitrag von: Arathorn am 7. Nov 2014, 08:37

It's really looking clean and nice :) I hope this will make it into 4.0.
Greetings Arathorn

Titel: Re:Modding Edain Launcher UI
Beitrag von: Adamin am 7. Nov 2014, 09:21

So, is this a fake, or is it really working, or is this just a reskin of the "Blizz's  client"?

Titel: Re:Modding Edain Launcher UI
Beitrag von: magickoala am 7. Nov 2014, 10:53

Thanks for the reply :)

Mostly is just design stuff. Believe you could easly code it using HTML5, but i dont have skill to make it happend. :) I can provide all PSDs, buttons, tables, and layout responses needed to do it, but i cant go further then that.

A experienced coder could use Parallax even to make it animated and create smooth fade transitions between screens.. then would be epic. :) Got a friend who knows how to do it.. but he just became a daddy, so my arguments to make him work.. failed miserably. :D Cant blame him.

Considering that most of the switcher screens are covered and i scratched the whole thing, hurts my feelings to read it just as a *blizzard reskin*, lol. But yea, i started it over battle.net main screen. Took out some stuff, added another.

Isnt finished thou, this is just preliminar work, have tons of errors.. Ill rearrange some stuff when i get time. Thing i like about this little scheme is that you can easly change the layout using just a pic. 

Well, thanks for the attention, ill bring this post to the Switcher foruns and see how far it goes.

:)

Titel: Re:Modding Edain Launcher UI
Beitrag von: Adamin am 7. Nov 2014, 11:17

Yeah, sorry about that, but that point kinda confused me. ^^

Nevertheless, it looks really good! (http://forum.modding-union.com/Themes/modding1_1-0/images/post/thumbup.gif)

Titel: Re:Modding Edain Launcher UI
Beitrag von: magickoala am 7. Nov 2014, 11:26

Heh, no worries, actually i kinda feel blame for it. Partially.

They didnt patented the alignment system after all.. XD

Thanks, im looking for suggestions to improve it and make it
EdainTeam-desirable ;) I feel bad that it runs away from
the mainstream design we see in Edain stuff, wich is most
fantasy design, that fits better on LOTR universe then Aero
transparency like i did.

But.. well, the future is today, lol, so.. why not?

Titel: Re:Modding Edain Launcher UI
Beitrag von: Turin Turumbar am 7. Nov 2014, 12:37

Hi,
Sorry i do not have time yet to write about this. Personally i am Open for Design changes, i will answer your PM with further informations in the evening.

Titel: Re:Modding Edain Launcher UI
Beitrag von: magickoala am 7. Nov 2014, 23:34

Cool, im around.
Some icons:

(http://i.imgur.com/SAIJgtU.png)

Thou, what comes to mind is "they're cool, but the actual one is just what we need."
So.. this will become discontinued work in 5,4,3... :D

Fun with ground placeholder.  xD

(http://i.imgur.com/1To8btD.png) (http://i.imgur.com/bF41t7b.png)

Couldnt find the file anywhere in the textures...
suppose youre using the original?

Titel: Re:Modding Edain Launcher UI
Beitrag von: magickoala am 9. Nov 2014, 20:08

So, im looking for ingame pictures / screenshots of Edain epic battles, nice cinematic poses and good map takes.. If anyone have a sexy screen from a good game would be great if you can share it! :)

Thanks in advance o/

Titel: Re:Modding Edain Launcher UI
Beitrag von: Arathorn am 9. Nov 2014, 20:10

Well, guess if the launcher is meant to be for Edain 4.0, you'd need to get screenshot of that Edain version. So i guess you'd look into the videos for Edain 4.0 or ask an Edain teammember for a couple screenshots :P

Titel: Re:Modding Edain Launcher UI
Beitrag von: magickoala am 9. Nov 2014, 20:15

Hmm, indeed, i didnt considered the fact that 4.0 changes maps a lot..

Im trying to stay away of copyright'd pics, so the best to do is use ingame footage to actually make the backgrounds, but as you stated, most of stuff will change in 4.0, so im kinda stuck with digital art stuff.

Guess ill keep bothering Turin for pics. :D

Thanks for the tip o/

Titel: Re:Modding Edain Launcher UI
Beitrag von: Labadal am 10. Nov 2014, 00:26

Cool Update ^^. On top of that your edit of the first post looks very good respectively your taste for middle-earth related pictures is very good.
Another topic: Is there some development concerning the cooperation with Turin Turambar? Would be interesting to know ^^

Titel: Re:Modding Edain Launcher UI
Beitrag von: magickoala am 10. Nov 2014, 01:40

Thanks, actually the new update comes from Turin's tips. ;)

Turin is givin all the support he can, and taking this to the Edain Team. He's also been having very patient with me spamming his box the whole day. :) Its all very preliminar since they have an extra concern with copyright laws and pictures, wich makes sense considering Germany laws.

Thou, i just got some news from an featured artist in D.A and he allowed us to use his art, so we have like a big head-start to make things move. When we have this sorted, believe we can hope for some real action next week.

So.. one step closer to make it happen :)

Titel: Re:Modding Edain Launcher UI
Beitrag von: Turin Turumbar am 10. Nov 2014, 23:06

By the way: Yes we are currently working together to get this design into the switcher ;)

Titel: Re:Modding Edain Launcher UI
Beitrag von: Elendils Cousin 3. Grades am 10. Nov 2014, 23:50

Great! I can't wait to see all the cool new stuff myself (not that the current version of the switcher is ugly in any way ;)).

By the way, where do you find all those images? Did you just google "lord of the rings artwork" or something?

Titel: Re:Modding Edain Launcher UI
Beitrag von: magickoala am 11. Nov 2014, 00:29

Cool :) I think theres lot of nice stuff coming ^^

About the pics, well, yea, deviantArt helps a lot too, but its mostly googled.. I have tons of pics saved from previous modding experiences too, so i gathered a little collection of different kinds of tolkien related pictures.

But, for the launcher itself were doing an effort to get just clean and authorized images, so its most of them from D.A and its respective artists. :)

Ill show some experiences with ingame icons later, btw  xD

Titel: Re:Modding Edain Launcher UI
Beitrag von: Arathorn am 11. Nov 2014, 16:33

Hey, this is looking pretty good, but i think it doesn't fit in this topic anymore. As for the icons i think Edain already has some pretty good icons and those will probably get even better for 4.0 :)If you really want to share your ingame icons, do this in a seperate thread as this is not related in any way to the Edain Launcher UI
With best regards
Arathorn

Titel: Re:Modding Edain Launcher UI
Beitrag von: magickoala am 11. Nov 2014, 17:05

Thanks for the tip, u're totally right.
I was just lazy to start another post.. 8-|

Titel: Re:Modding Edain Launcher UI
Beitrag von: Lord of Mordor am 11. Nov 2014, 20:09

This is damn impressive, just wanted to throw in my thanks to you for creating this and working with Turin to get it into the next Edain version! xD

Titel: Re:Modding Edain Launcher UI
Beitrag von: magickoala am 11. Nov 2014, 23:04

I gotta thank you guys too for being so receptive, for all the hard work and late nights already spent on insane coding.

Also for keeping an open mind for new ideas. Turin could had just said *ours is good enough*, wich actually is,  8-| and none of this would be happening, but here we are..

So, im really happy we're making it work :)

Titel: Re:Modding Edain Launcher UI
Beitrag von: Turin Turumbar am 11. Nov 2014, 23:53

Honestly, this is also depended on your work. ;) Since you are very fast in answering requests I make or questions I have. So this would by far not possible with your awesome work also ;)

Titel: Re:Modding Edain Launcher UI
Beitrag von: magickoala am 12. Nov 2014, 00:52

Its all about teamwork and huge amounts of coffee..  xD

Well, we pretty much cleared the way about the structure, so i would say the hardest part is ready :D Tomorrow sounds promising ;)

Titel: Re:Modding Edain Launcher UI
Beitrag von: Nightmaster am 14. Nov 2014, 04:08

Wow. Just stumbled across your thread and these designs o__o
Awesome stuff, really psyched to see this come to life with 4.0 :D
Kudos to both of you (magickoala for design work and Turin for incoperating it in his Launcher) (**)

Titel: Re:Modding Edain Launcher UI
Beitrag von: Hüter am 29. Nov 2014, 18:57

Are you still working at the launcher?
I would like it to be so, as the pictures look great and a new launcher for the best Edain version ever (4.0) would be so great.

Hüter

Titel: Re:Modding Edain Launcher UI
Beitrag von: Turin Turumbar am 29. Nov 2014, 19:00

Yes, we are working on it ;)

Titel: Re:Modding Edain Launcher UI
Beitrag von: Hüter am 29. Nov 2014, 20:30

Ok, then everything's fine ;)

Titel: Re:Modding Edain Launcher UI
Beitrag von: magickoala am 29. Nov 2014, 22:43

We had some development :)

Some things were changed to make it more user friendly and easier to use.
Also there was a lot of re-study of concepts and BGs to reach the current state ;) Finally, we needed authorizations for all the pictures, wich is a resolved case aswell.

So i believe we will have something nice by this month! :)

(http://i.imgur.com/xIQ2cSV.jpg)
Little previa ;D

Titel: Re:Modding Edain Launcher UI
Beitrag von: Joragon am 29. Nov 2014, 22:50

And you only do it English or in German too?
Because all your Pictures are in English and the mod is in German, that would be a bit strange  :D
Nice picture  ;)

Edit: Sorry, I didn't see the picture with the options where you can choose the language  xD

Titel: Re:Modding Edain Launcher UI
Beitrag von: magickoala am 29. Nov 2014, 22:56

Heh yea, we're doing versions for both english and german. :)
As german is kinda experimental to me, i stick to english previews xD
But Turin gave me all the needed feedback that Google Translate couldn't,
so, i think we're good. ^^

Titel: Re:Modding Edain Launcher UI
Beitrag von: Joragon am 29. Nov 2014, 22:59

Nice to heare  :)

Titel: Re:Modding Edain Launcher UI
Beitrag von: Saruman der Bunte am 1. Feb 2015, 19:38

Wow, thats really impressive! Thanks for the great design.

Titel: Re:Modding Edain Launcher UI
Beitrag von: magickoala am 3. Feb 2015, 20:29

Thanks for the comments^^

Turin and i are working hard to make it tick in the last months. Im pretty sure it will be a nice asset and make players life a lot easier! :)

Titel: Re:Modding Edain Launcher UI
Beitrag von: TiberiusOgden am 11. Feb 2015, 22:40

Zitat von: magickoala am  3. Feb 2015, 20:29

Thanks for the comments^^

Turin and i are working hard to make it tick in the last months. Im pretty sure it will be a nice asset and make players life a lot easier! :)

It's really awesome and professional! I am looking forward to it! ;o)

Thanks you and Turin for it!

Titel: Re:Modding Edain Launcher UI
Beitrag von: Linwe am 11. Feb 2015, 22:49

Where can i download the launcher?

Titel: Re:Modding Edain Launcher UI
Beitrag von: Arathorn am 11. Feb 2015, 22:52

You can't download it anywhere, because it'll probably released with Edain 4.0

Titel: Re: Modding Edain Launcher UI
Beitrag von: Lord of Mordor am 30. Mär 2015, 08:16

Now that the launcher has been officially released, I just wanted to once again give huge props to magickoala - he has done tremendous work and helped us a great deal to bring you the best and most professional launcher we've ever had xD Thanks from the entire team!

Titel: Re: Modding Edain Launcher UI
Beitrag von: LordDainIronfoot am 30. Mär 2015, 10:42

I love those Skins for the Swithcer,The Lonely MOuntain,Thorin and MOria and eveything they look so good!Turin is the best in this I always enjoyed his work and now I do even more!I wanted to ask is it possible for him to make a Skin with Iron Hills Army or Dain with and without Helmet and such,theri cavalry or Chariots and suhc things I am jsut asking! :)
And is it posssible for me to get Thorin for the Skin!/Not that the current one is not actually when I saw it I fell in love with the Swithcer for which I thnaky ou both for your hard work! :) I am jsut more a fan of Dwarves and Erebor so I wanted to ask! ? :)

Titel: Re: Modding Edain Launcher UI
Beitrag von: magickoala am 30. Mär 2015, 17:47

Zitat

Now that the launcher has been officially released, I just wanted to once again give huge props to magickoala - he has done tremendous work and helped us a great deal to bring you the best and most professional launcher we've ever had xD Thanks from the entire team!

Kudos for the great Aragorn pic to the front. :) Always a pleasure, LoM ^^