SonicGDK 1.30.000

I think we are looking at try to have a Generations feel.

 

Hmm. I could try some Generations style menus. If that's what you're looking for. Although, from what I hear (on UDK forums), Scaleform is kind of "meh".

 

Okay, do you have a design in mind? Other than "anything will do"?

 

Hey Azu when doing the menu could u make it so that you can easily change the graphics ?
example don't crowd all the textures and fonts if using a single sheet.
That way its easy to come in and change up the menus with new graphics without having to worry to much about spacings.
(Some fonts create longer lines than others)

Also are you doing Pause menu as well?

 

I was thinking of doing in a sheet style and possibly making a BitMap Font-style sheet. Although, I'd not sure if UDK ignores the alpha in bit-map fonts. For example in MMF2 the Text Blitter Plugin includes the alpha in the characters. So if you have a sheet like A B C D, it would write out "l I k e t h I s" instead of "like this".

Anyway, I was think of doing something like this:

 

That looks pretty good so far.

 

That's from Generations. It's an example of the sheet format I was going for.

 

I believe that he was just giving you an example of how he would have the sheet layout. IE: would that be an acceptable level of spacing between items on the sheet, etc? At least, that's how I took it based on the rest of the comments.

 

HighFrictionZone is right, Space layout. However, I had something in mind with gears.

 

Gears for the design. Since this is engine, though I'd use gears. You know, gears in an engine.
By spikes, I assume you mean http://www.spriters-resource.com/other_systems/sonicadven2/sheet/22725 ]this[/url].
You can separate images in Flash as symbols, but that is much as I know.

 

You can do crazy sprite sheets like that but there's no point with Flash. Flash is vector by nature; putting many things on one "sprite sheet" internally is itself related to the inherent limitations of graphics memory for raster texture sizes. Apples and oranges.

 

Well you actually can have sprite sheets and then import to Flash and tell it to Trace the Bitmap (automated vectorizing).

But at this point this is actually stupidity to do, at least if you're developing your own graphics instead of using like... Generations/Adv2/etc. Illustrator and/or Corel are the best tools to do any kind of graphical texture related to HUDs and whatever interfaces. They're programs designed to be used for this kind of stuff and have a bunch of tools that no Photoshop or Gimp has... You can also import your vector to Flash instead of having to save it as an PNG or TGA and import it, having to work with limited graphics size then.

 

I do have Inkscape, but I don't have Illustrator nor Corel. I got copy from a friend. So I did this. It's a work in progress.

However, I'm thinking of doing something with Sonic logo. My idea is that the background of the title screen could have gears moving and rotating about. The menu could spin on two connected gears. Start Game (or Choose Map), Options, and Exit. I like simple designs, but I can get a little busy with some of my designs.

 

Yeah, like I said, you CAN do it but it'd be completely ass-backwards.

 

I'm starting to re-learn flash, but I don't know AS at all, but hey. It's pretty awesome to learn a new skill.