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Offline Buff Skeleton

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Re: Let's talk about the front page!
Reply #80 on: October 22, 2016, 09:16:30 am
One other thing: the images show a lot of warships duking it out from a distance, but maybe it'd be better to have an actual ingame screenshot with HUD and everything, at least for the introduction? Would mesh better with the "unleash your inner starfighter pilot" line to see someone actually being a pilot rather than an observer :)

I also think that Freespace needs to make a bigger appearance. The word itself - like in one of the images. If this site is all about Freespace and Freespace modding, that should be pretty overwhelmingly clear.
 

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Re: Let's talk about the front page!
Reply #81 on: October 22, 2016, 09:54:29 am
Quote from: Buff Skeleton on October 22, 2016, 09:16:30 am
One other thing: the images show a lot of warships duking it out from a distance, but maybe it'd be better to have an actual ingame screenshot with HUD and everything, at least for the introduction? Would mesh better with the "unleash your inner starfighter pilot" line to see someone actually being a pilot rather than an observer :)

No. FS HUD is ugly.
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Reply #82 on: October 22, 2016, 10:11:36 am
FS1 maybe, but FS2 looks pretty decent if you take some time to colorize it. Not even the whole HUD, but just the center reticle stuff with someone firing on other fighters. I mean, if you can't even show off what the game looks like to an actual player, what's that say?
  

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Reply #83 on: October 22, 2016, 10:48:31 am
But in Freespace, the HUD isn't what the game looks like. We don't generally use cockpit models or anything similar. The HUD is just textual information pasted to the screen in front of what the game looks like. The HUD helps you play the game, it does not help you see it. You can take any one of those screenshots and slap an FS HUD on it and it will be exactly the same except with an obstructed view.
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Re: Let's talk about the front page!
Reply #84 on: October 22, 2016, 01:01:41 pm
For site design images, no HUD. But if we have a little gallery of "Hey, this is what the game looks like these days!" (which we should have, but perhaps not necessary to launch with that), then sure, HUD would be acceptable.

That said, the images are basically placeholders - I just picked some from the Screenshot contest wiki page that I thought would work in the various situations. I really really want to have a nice background video - perhaps done at a somewhat low resolution but with that horizontal scanlines effect, to offset the low res? Not sure if that's clear... whatever, anyway, background video, which only gets initialized on... tablet? desktop? sizes and up.

I have an idea for the "steps" section, gimme a bit. ;)
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Reply #85 on: October 22, 2016, 01:49:51 pm
I'm working on something that could be that video. I'll be able to do more after my mod is out because I need to play lots of other mods to record footage.
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Re: Let's talk about the front page!
Reply #86 on: October 22, 2016, 02:15:15 pm
Quote from: mjn.mixael on October 22, 2016, 01:49:51 pm
I'm working on something that could be that video. I'll be able to do more after my mod is out because I need to play lots of other mods to record footage.

Sounds like what I had in mind... a bunch of 5-10 second highlight clips?
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"The very essence of tolerance rests on the fact that we have to be intolerant of intolerance. Stretching right back to Kant, through the Frankfurt School and up to today, liberalism means that we can do anything we like as long as we don't hurt others. This means that if we are tolerant of others' intolerance - especially when that intolerance is a call for genocide - then all we are doing is allowing that intolerance to flourish, and allowing the violence that will spring from that intolerance to continue unabated." - Bren Carlill
 

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Reply #87 on: October 22, 2016, 05:33:41 pm
Yeah basically. However, do not feel like you're stepping on toes if you randomly have time and decide to do it yourself! Codehulu knows I've got a long list of projects to finish around here.
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Reply #88 on: October 22, 2016, 07:51:10 pm
I don't have anything like the resources or tools necessary to do it, sorry. :-/
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"The very essence of tolerance rests on the fact that we have to be intolerant of intolerance. Stretching right back to Kant, through the Frankfurt School and up to today, liberalism means that we can do anything we like as long as we don't hurt others. This means that if we are tolerant of others' intolerance - especially when that intolerance is a call for genocide - then all we are doing is allowing that intolerance to flourish, and allowing the violence that will spring from that intolerance to continue unabated." - Bren Carlill
 

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Reply #89 on: November 11, 2016, 05:18:29 pm
Just wanted to make note of this; I'll try to see if I can integrate most of this stuff into the frontpage design.

http://blog.hubspot.com/blog/tabid/6307/bid/31097/12-Critical-Elements-Every-Homepage-Must-Have-Infographic.aspx#sm.00000z6h3mw9gafnzv3946h6rh6k9
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"The very essence of tolerance rests on the fact that we have to be intolerant of intolerance. Stretching right back to Kant, through the Frankfurt School and up to today, liberalism means that we can do anything we like as long as we don't hurt others. This means that if we are tolerant of others' intolerance - especially when that intolerance is a call for genocide - then all we are doing is allowing that intolerance to flourish, and allowing the violence that will spring from that intolerance to continue unabated." - Bren Carlill
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