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Modding, Mission Design, and Coding => The Modding Workshop => Topic started by: NeonShivan on December 21, 2011, 05:16:16 pm

Title: Question: How to make Freespace 2 UI and Icons
Post by: NeonShivan on December 21, 2011, 05:16:16 pm

As the Subject says, is there any tutorial out there I could go by to make Freespace 2 UI and/or briefing icons? The only UI I can make is the main menu and I just simply used Blue Planet's menu UI as a template. Can anyone help?

Title: Re: Question: How to make Freespace 2 UI and Icons
Post by: mjn.mixael on December 21, 2011, 06:15:57 pm

Search for Contemplates (Why isn't this stickied anywhere?) for the UI. Briefing icons require a little more work. Open up a retail one to see what the frames should look like, then I recommend using my ANI Toolkit on the Tools board to make the ANI because it takes care of the palette automatically.

Title: Re: Question: How to make Freespace 2 UI and Icons
Post by: NeonShivan on December 22, 2011, 01:46:05 pm

Quote from: mjn.mixael on December 21, 2011, 06:15:57 pm

Search for Contemplates (Why isn't this stickied anywhere?) for the UI. Briefing icons require a little more work. Open up a retail one to see what the frames should look like, then I recommend using my ANI Toolkit on the Tools board to make the ANI because it takes care of the palette automatically.

Thanks, and yeah why isnt this sticked anywhere.

Title: Re: Question: How to make Freespace 2 UI and Icons
Post by: BlasterNT on December 25, 2011, 01:18:19 am

A question about Contemplates -- what does it do with the "material" image?  Is that used as a button texture or something?