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[Dracc]

Oh thank god! That Catslevania skin was driving me crazy. You can't read ANYTHING as it is right now. Looking gorgeous, so keep it up man.

[neverwill]

I animated a lot of the main menu, but not every character, I don't want to over do it. Crash, spyro and cloud and raziel all blink. (raziel is espeically cool because his eyes glow and then stop glowing when he blinks).

Nemesis opens and closes his mouth, Jin's electricity glows and flashes, solid snakes headband blows in the wind, ALUCARD's bottle hovers up and down and there is a shine of light that moves along the sharp edge of Clouds weapon. Oh, the red in the middle of the ninja's forehead and his eye fade in and out.

I tested the color background fading into the grey, it didn't look good so I don't think I'll be doing this.

However, I will be including or releasing both the full color and grayscale version of this because I can't decide which one looks better, so this way people will be able to choose.

I want to work on the rombrowser some more. The sprites I did before don't fit that well with the main menu now I don't think.

I still need sound FX as well (and a splash screen, but that won't take long). I also still need a main menu theme song. If anyone has any suggestions for this I'd love to hear them, I'm kinda lost on this part.

Thanks for all the comments again, they have helped a lot!

[XaRaNn]

Kindda late on this, but cool skin, ya the castlevania one was kind of annoying.

Glad you're releasing both version, me i prefer the grayscale, good job on colorizing only certain parts

[neverwill]

Thanks XaRaNn,

It's been a really trying process trying to nail this. I didn't have a lot of experience with the real playstation which made it harder to come up with a concept.

I played the hell out of nes, snes and n64 so those always came easy.

I want this to be comparable to say my metroid skin (which is still my personal favorite). It just needs some more work I think. I want to be really happy with it and right now I'm not.

[quiksilver_kid]

I think it would look cool if the color looked like it was painted on.

ie. It(the color) would start in the bottom left corner and sweep upwards row by row, then sort of shimmer, and would then "drain" back down.

Sorry if it is hard to understand, here's a bit of a diagram,

"Fill" effect

CODE

===========================================
|| ----------->>>-------------->>>----->F|| S=Start
|| /\----<<<-------------<<<--------------|| F=Finish
|| --->>>-------------->>>--------------/\|| "-"=color
|| /\---------<<<---------------<<<-------|| ">,<,/\"= direction of flow
|| ------->>>------------>>>------------/\||
||/\-------------<<<-------------<<<------||
||S----->>>-------------->>>-----------/\||
===========================================

"Drain" effect

CODE

=====================================        =======================================
||v                               v||       ||                                    ||
||--v                           v--||  -->  ||                                    ||
||----vv                      vv---||       ||                                    ||
||-------vvv              vvv------||       ||v                                  v||
||-----------vvvvvvvvvvvv----------||       ||--v                              v--||
=====================================        =======================================
"v"=direction of drain  "-"=color

[neverwill]

Thanks for all of your input, here is an update. I decided the main menu was too cluttered and when there were a bunch of things animated it looked too busy so I toned it down a bit, less characters, different characters. Dont worry though, the other characters will be making appearances on the other screens (options game select etc).

Again here is what they look like in the grey and full color. If there are any missing bits and pieces it is because that bit or piece is an animated sprite (like most of jins hand).

The blue circle on the main menu and the rombrowser houses a custom logo animation that I did tonight of a circle spinning around the PS logo changing it from grey to full color on each pass, looks real sweet).

I'm still most fond of the grey. Keep in mind, these images do show up darker on a monitor than they do on a t.v by quite a bit.

Anyway, the updates---

Main menu-- (I might take out laura croft and the chick from resident evil)
(IMG:http://img169.imageshack.us/img169/1127/mainhe7.png)

(IMG:http://img181.imageshack.us/img181/2965/mainmenufinalng5.png)

Game Select--
(IMG:http://img169.imageshack.us/img169/7295/gameselectac5.png)

(IMG:http://img181.imageshack.us/img181/6220/gameselectfinalkq2.png)

[warmaster_670]

not trying to be an ass or anything, but i figure you want it to look as proffesional as possible, theres some white edge around snakes gun when hes coloured, just bugs me for some reason.

other than that, looks really good, especialy like the grey with some colour

[neverwill]

QUOTE(warmaster_670 @ Aug 25 2006, 04:16 AM)

not trying to be an ass or anything, but i figure you want it to look as proffesional as possible, theres some white edge around snakes gun when hes coloured, just bugs me for some reason.

other than that, looks really good, especialy like the grey with some colour

Yeah, I'm aware of this. I actually made several copies of each character so I could turn some into grey, some would stay color, some would be the colored bits on the grey etc. I didn't smooth out snakes image before I slapped this up on the forums, I just wanted something quick so I could show what it would look like in color. You'll notice that in the color version his foot sticks out the bottom of Jin's chest too  (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif) .

I think I'm going to end up going with the grey anyway and releasing the color for anyone who wants it.

[EvilShindo]

Awesome work there so far neverwill! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)  i'm loving the characters! but for some reason, maybe you should move Lara and Jill Valentine away from the middle at least.


Also is there any news on the next release of Pcsxbox?

[MF29]

Impressive, Keep going.

[neverwill]

What does everyone think of this variation of the main menu? Or does it not really go with the skin?

(dark and gritty metal)

(IMG:http://img178.imageshack.us/img178/8183/mainqg8.png)

[warmaster_670]

i like it, i like the metal look

[EvilShindo]

May i suggest more of a futuristic space type metal for the menu?

Looks good though. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

[neverwill]

Ditched the metal, came up with something more fitting that looks kick ass. I'm going to keep it under wraps until the skin releases probably  (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

Thanks for all the input. I've finished the bulk of it now and I'm finally very happy with it.

Still to do:
Sound FX
Better Theme Song
Splash Screen

[XaRaNn]

QUOTE(neverwill @ Aug 25 2006, 07:46 PM)

What does everyone think of this variation of the main menu? Or does it not really go with the skin?

(dark and gritty metal)

(IMG:http://img178.imageshack.us/img178/8183/mainqg8.png)

I personally prefer the simpler previous one with the circle embedded on the bottom.