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    • Anyone good at menu-making?


      Part of what my Firefly TC needs is a menu. I've got the graphics for one; they were provided by a very helpful person, whos email I seem to have lost, unfortunately. (Mail me if you're on here!) I actually don't even know what board they frequent; back when I started this project, I requested help from a number of different boards.

      But that's beside the point.

      The point is, its a good design, and I'd like to use it for my menu. However, the graphics are currently various layers in a psd file.

      I've figured out how I need to go about making them into an ENV menu----what format the buttons should be stored in, etc----but so far, each of my attempts to do this has simply crashed EVN. Probably not doing the masking right, or something.

      So I'm hoping there's someone on here who's mastered menu-making, who would be willing to take the psd file, and get back to me with the appropriate PICT and colr resources.

      Here's a flattened version: (url="http://"http://www.digikitten.com/playhousev2/files/Lindley/ser-menu.jpg")http://www.digikitte...ey/ser-menu.jpg(/url)

      There's no hurry; anyone who can do it, regardless of how long it would take, please let me know.

      A breif description:
      Serenity is on the right side of the screen. Clicking the cockpit should be Enter Ship; the left engine, New Pilot; the right engine, Open Pilot; the center area, Set Prefs; the rear engine, Quit. The About button doesn't have a specified place yet; presumably there'd be a logo on the left side of the screen with the About button under it.

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    • sorry, I'm not the person or someone who can help you. I just wanted to offer a general tip, you may be planning this already, but there should be an indication of where you click to get different places - as in text.

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    • The plan is that the text appears over the Blue Sun logo when you hover the mouse over the right area.

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      Originally posted by Lindley:
      The plan is that the text appears over the Blue Sun logo when you hover the mouse over the right area.

      Much like SFA. Interesting.

      If you send it to me, I could take a crack at it. I'm no master, but I do know how to do it.

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    • It seems like you are planning on a custom placement of the menus. From what I know, I'm sorry to tell you, this is not possible. You'll have to use the predefined button positions as seen Nova.

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      Originally posted by Engla:
      It seems like you are planning on a custom placement of the menus. From what I know, I'm sorry to tell you, this is not possible. You'll have to use the predefined button positions as seen Nova.

      Think before you post and look at the cรถlr resource.

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    • Hey, orca. I was wrong, but I certainly did think before posting; all I did was trying to recall a discussion from earlier on - and it seems the discussion I read a while ago continued after I read it.

      What you should have said, orca, is: "Engla, that's not quite correct. See, searching for 'main menu' found me (url="http://"http://www.ambrosiasw.com/webboard/Forum9/HTML/004474.html")this(/url), it's all explained there."

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      Originally posted by orcaloverbri9:
      **Much like SFA. Interesting.

      If you send it to me, I could take a crack at it. I'm no master, but I do know how to do it.

      **

      Sure, I'll send it over.

      Its possible that the design might simply be too complicated....if that's the case, I'll try to work up a simpler one.

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      Originally posted by Engla:
      Hey, orca. I was wrong, but I certainly did think before posting

      I know...it was me who didn't. Sorry if that was a little rude.

      Lindley: Nah, nothing's too complicated for the Nova engine! ๐Ÿ˜‰

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    • Pict of Missile sent to you with spin, outfit, weap, etc. No under wing launcher included.

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      Originally posted by Robert A. W.:
      Pict of Missile sent to you with spin, outfit, weap, etc. No under wing launcher included.

      I may be mistaken, but either you're in the wrong topic, or you misunderstood what was being asked. This person is asking for help on a menu, not a missile.

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    • Some people prefer to run Nova in window mode, and your menu would be cut off if you keep the design that way. I don't know how you'd fix it with that design, but if you don't want to change it, better make the Preferences button easy to access in window mode.

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      Originally posted by Mantaray:
      Some people prefer to run Nova in window mode, and your menu would be cut off if you keep the design that way. I don't know how you'd fix it with that design, but if you don't want to change it, better make the Preferences button easy to access in window mode.

      Erm...it automatically scales it, as I recall...

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      Originally posted by orcaloverbri9:
      **Erm...it automatically scales it, as I recall...

      **

      Not for me, it doesn't. It doesn't scale the sidebar interface, either.

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      Originally posted by Mantaray:
      Not for me, it doesn't. It doesn't scale the sidebar interface, either.

      Well, that's not anything anyone should have to deal with. ATMOS didn't bother, no reason anyone else should.

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    • I'll worry about scaling once I've got something. That's my general policy on this entire TC----get something first, then worry about making it perfect. ๐Ÿ™‚

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    • I'm working on the menu. I have the background PICT, but these buttons are hard to extract. I'm going to have to make a sacrifice for the middle and make it a square button instead of irregular, unless you can figure out a way to do something about it.

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    • ^Like I said, something first. Improvements can come later.

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      Originally posted by Lindley:
      ^Like I said, something first. Improvements can come later.

      Well, in that case...heh, just kidding. ๐Ÿ™‚

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    • May I ask what your progress is on the conversion?

      There's no hurry or anything, I'm just wondering.

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      (This message has been edited by Lindley (edited 01-31-2004).)