[Snarks]

Does anyone know how the menu backgrounds (the menu screens with the doors, people, and whatnot) work? And how much work would it take to make something like that?

[niffiwan]

Have a look at this thread; i.e. a template for creating new mainhalls.

[The E]

uhhh, niffiwan, that tool can NOT create new mainhalls. It can create the rest of the interface, but mainhalls are not within its powers.

Snarks: Mainhalls are somewhat complex. They require not only the graphical assets, the animations and sounds, they also require entries in mainhall.tbl.

[niffiwan]

oops - sorry about that Snarks

[The E]

If you want to take a look at how Mainhalls are made, I would recommend checking out mods like FSPort, or BP, or WoD, or Antagonist; those all provide their own custom mainhalls.

[mjn.mixael]

This thread gives the basics of how Mainhalls work. However, to make one from scratch that has doors and animations much like the retail Mainhalls is a lot of work. I should know.

[Droid803]

Simple "static" mainhalls are really easy to make tbh. Especially if you don't give two ****s about animating the "buttons"/doors it takes all of like, 2 minutes to whip one up from a screenshot.

Really depends how "involved" you want it to be.