yeah, I'm surprised that so many people dont know you can melee or shoot an engineer camera Oh, and BULLETS DO NOT HURT TANKS! I can't believe how many times I have had to shout that.
Some class-specific tips based on which class the player plays the most (or least) would be good, along with the map screenshot.
LIEZ! The good thing about this is that I should be able to randomise between background picture, and text, as they are two seperate vtf's. Meaning it saves a load of diskspace (each image is about 600KB).
Well, I'm currently trying to get the randomising to work properly, but it seems to not like it. I'll try some more tweaking. What I mean is that it should display a map-specific background, with a random text that I can specify on top of it.
I've cracked it! Well, partially. I can now randomise the text on top of the map background image, but that is fixed depending on the map. I can also have a different one while the client is first connecting to the server, and doesn't know what the map is. Here's where you come in! I'm looking for someone to make a short looping animation which says "retrieving battle information...", or something like that. Basically, it will come up before the random "tip". It only needs to be about 10-30 frames long, and should loop.
include basic map info too, like average game length and map type (infantry flag, commander, infantry+VF flag)
that would be good, but it would help new players to know what type of map it is, as well as how long to expect things to last.
Trouble with that is, I can't randomise it like that, and if I put it on the background itself, it will overlap and look odd.
The loading animation? Preferably 400x300, and whatever colours you like. Preferably Empires themed :D
