Art Diary/Status [January 29]

[alba]

Hello everyone, it's me again. This time, you know the drill except I've decided I'd split my art threads from release to release and share (what I'm allowed to) with you guys, see what I'm working on and so on. So here we go.

Note: Please note that a concept is not a confirmation of anything as a feature but it's more like a research and development process and it might take quite a while before you see them (or not) inside the game.

Last update: October 20, 2010

alba out.

HUD
Work in progress
-

Finished
[100%] Radar: Body texture (large).
[100%] Radar: Body texture (medium).
[100%] Radar: Icons (large).
[100%] Radar: Icons (medium).
[100%] Scoreboard: Bomb Exploded icon.
[100%] Scoreboard: Bomb Defused icon.
[100%] Scoreboard: Death icon.
[100%] Scoreboard: HLTV Delay icon.
[100%] Scoreboard: Ready/Not Ready icons.
[100%] Timer: Bomb planted icon.

In-game
[100%] Scoreboard: Bomb icon.
[100%] Scoreboard: Defusekit icon.
[100%] Scoreboard: Health icon.
[100%] Scoreboard: Money icon.

GAMEPLAY
Work in progress
[0%] Crosshair: 1.6 awp scope rework (not yet perfected)

Finished
[HOLD] Sprite: 1.6-style blood splatter animation. (OB particle effet now, needs testing to make sure it's close enough to how it was to 1.6)

In-game
n/a

VGUI
Work in progress
[0%] Concept: Admin menu.
[0%] Concept: Call vote menu.

Finished
[100%] Concept: Broadcasting/cspTV.
[100%] Concept: Buy menu gui.
[100%] Concept: Buy menu oldschool.
[100%] Team Selection: Counter-Terrorist icon.
[100%] Team Selection: Terrorist icon.

In-game
[100%] Concept: Options menu: Player tab.
[100%] Concept: Options menu: Audio tab.
[100%] Concept: Options menu: Video tab.
[100%] Concept: New scoreboard.
[100%] Concept: New Team selection.

MAPPING
Work in progress
-

Finished
[100%] Concept: csp_aim_awp
[100%] Concept: csp_aim_pistol

WEBSITE
Work in progress
n/a

Finished
[100%] Website Refresh: Frontpage
[100%] Website Refresh: About
[100%] Website Refresh: Download
[100%] Website Refresh: FAQ
[100%] Website Refresh: Jobs
[100%] Website Refresh: Media
[100%] Website Refresh: Team
[100%] Forums: New vBulletin theme (frontpage)
[100%] Forums: New vBulletin theme (threads)
[100%] Forums: New vBulletin theme (posting)
[100%] Forums: New vBulletin theme (profile)

Live
-

STEAM
Information
I'm currently remaking the new steam ui theme to be closer to what I think it should be and once I'm done, I'll skin said skin and make one that uses csp's color scheme and style so it might look different but it should be roughly the same. I've posted a thread on the official steam forums about this (http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1161275) already if you want to check it out and post feedback there, thought it should be here in a devlog as well.

Work in progress
[0%] Concept: CSPromod Steam UI 2010.

Finished
n/a

PREVIOUS DEVELOPER LOGS
- Art Diary/Status [November 12] (http://cspromod.com/community/threads/438-Art-Diary-Status-November-12)
- Art Diary/Status [June 27] (http://cspromod.com/community/threads/116-Art-Diary-Status-June-27)

[Masternoob]

nice, keep up the good work!

[ExoFun]

Nice keep up the good work :)

[fa1]

Nice Alba ! Keep ip up !

[haGisson]

hmm... terrorist/counter-terrorist icon... i'm curious what and where it will be in the hud :)

[VIDEN]

In-game IRC client concept.
Broadcasting/cspTV concept.

Nice!

[Lordearon]

Looks sweet and very exciting

How about the bomb icon in the scoreboard? Any chance there will be one to replace the text 'bomb' ?

[alba]

hmm... terrorist/counter-terrorist icon... i'm curious what and where it will be in the hud :)

Team selection.

[criticals]

In-game IRC client concept.
Broadcasting/cspTV concept.

Nice!

Agreed.

[haGisson]

thx :)

i know this has nothing to do with the GUI, but i hope cspTV will be a proxy like hltv, because source-tv consumes lots of ressources of the gameserver

[hxcguitarist]

In-game IRC client concept.
Broadcasting/cspTV concept.

Nice!

Agreed.

Double agreed! Great update Alba. I can't wait to see some of the progress that will be included in both 1.04 and 1.05 Beta :)

[alba]

Again, just want to stress out, these are just concepts. It's going to take a lot of work for what's coming but at yeah :)

[dem3nted]

The minute i see csp 1.04 available to download i'll die of a heart atack =D

[MaveN]

In-game IRC client concept.
Nice!

[RATpope]

sweet looking so far

[gregggggg]

alba when you say youre going to implement the ingame irc client, you should consider making an automatic pug/mix system to be built with it. it allows the pickup and play factor. many new or teamless players will have a much easier job in finding a team with this too.

[[EA]]

[50%] Terrorist icon.

:o

[natko]

Nice work alba!

[Merdiso]

Nice Diary Thread, Alba.Keep it up ! I'm lookin' as always forward :D.

[Fubister]

hell nice, keep it up

[Exire]

OH MY GOOOD

FIX THE "Forums new smilies set." SOON OMG IM SOOOOOoOOOOO EXITED

xD

[sexpanda]

"consider making an automatic pug/mix system"
i think that would take alot of time to codeing to do and might be a good thing way way down the road but realy is not needed if there is a ingame findscrim and findringer room that you could just post for a ringer stuff that way pugs dont endup with random 4v5 and stuff or just random ppl just joining that you dont want playing with you, atleast with the find ringer system you can say be mature and get rid of them when they are not what you want to play with.

so although it makes things a little ezer on the players without teams, its realy just people being to lazy to go and post as a ringer, everyone has proly been in findringer and knows how ez it is usualy to find a scrim to join, so personaly save your time and make the rest of the game the best you can, instead of adding this feature that would take for ever to do and because its dedicated servers would cause alot of problems all round

[larsson719]

I used to use this (http://scriptsurge.org/701) which is an irc server bot that, when launched, allows you to run commands like


-ready
-steamid
-kick ct
-kick t
-lo3

it was pretty sweet.. is this similar to what the in-game irc client will do?

[sonkan]

nice job !

[pixelkiller]

can't wait :) i think, this mod could be very interesting

[[EA]]

Nice alba! Let's see more green!

;-)

[CREDiBLE]

I'll say it again, Alba. Love your updates and dedication.

ilu<3duovic

[vctm]

I'm sure Twelve-60 to help you with your IRC client ;D. Keep it up alba, been doing some amazing work.

[linkfik]

alba maybe mazzer can create "Animation Work in Progress" topic look like your ?

[CREDiBLE]

Good idea, linkfik :)

[alba]

That's up to him, really but I don't think it'd be of much uses since it takes quite a bit of time to tweak and make an animation so yeah... dunno :P

[fa1]

Alba, if you read this, don't put TeamKill/Errors column in Scoreboard... It's useless =X Take it like 1.6 or CSS scoreboard and keep money and health, and add kits and bombs icons [dead one if you want too ^^].

[Fokz]

Remove those errors.

HP should be shown as less/more filled icons of teammates.

And cash in chat sorted showing nickname and + or type of primary gun if equipped. This will solve many problems ;<

and you have nice HUD additions and less packed scoreboard.

[1nfern0]

I like the errors idea, I just think "errors" sounds ridiculous. I think it should be changed to BD & BP. Also, if it doesn't already happen, teammate HP should be red in console when it is in red status.

But anyways, err, off topic -_-'

[22Chrono]

For the : Concept: Broadcasting/cspTV.
The ESWC event have they're own HLTV Broadcasting System
look at this :
http://www.fragbite.com/img/IMG_5035.jpg
or WCG
http://img338.imageshack.us/img338/6393/pppv.png
I think you already know them, but i can affirm they are pretty good to watch on events !

[alba]

Yeah I know, I was planning to base the structure of it on something similar :)

[Fokz]

Yeah I know, I was planning to base the structure of it on something similar :)

and can you repond in any way on the team cash idea I just posted?

[vctm]

I like the WCG one but with more of a glossy feel of the ESWC one. But I'm sure you'll come up with something amazing, as you always do alba ;D.

[Mazzer]

alba maybe mazzer can create "Animation Work in Progress" topic look like your ?

hmm maybe, i was thinking of doing something like that, but then again it'd be nice to save some death anims and stuff for when u see them in game. so i might post some more stuff as i go along just to show that its still progressing but not show everything.

<disclamer i dont know when yet, lol>

[n69ky]

mazzer do a progress list for every animation!
HAHA :D

[DIEEIER]

Hello, theres something ive noticed that sure you have but havent seen any discuss about it. Is the antialiasing that sometines appear on the radar.

http://img710.imageshack.us/img710/2685/49149807.png

This seems to be a tricky one, have you fixed yet or done any progress? The image is taken from the media picture so sure is not only me that get it.

Saluts

[alba]

That's because of the overview rotation the image is scaled down but yeah you don't notice it in movements, just when you stand still with a certain angle. Nothing too annoying but there's not much I can do about it.

[DIEEIER]

It appears to me very often even when i move, really nothing to do about it?

[alba]

It's nothing that's annoying. If it annoys you then I don't know what to say...

[DIEEIER]

Is not that annoys me, is that make it look somewhat unfinished and unproffesional, this is not an insult so please dont take it the wrong way, youve done great job.

[alba]

This is the way textures behaves when they're rotated and rescalled. Sorry but it seems that you'll have to live with it :)

[DIEEIER]

How about a lock north option so be like metalgearsolid radar.

http://img163.imageshack.us/img163/8260/180pxthesolitonradar.jpg

[alba]

Well, that's one of the plan but for that to work properly, you need to have the little angle sphere for each players. That'll eventually be added so no worries there.

[Fr0stY]

I've noticed 2 quit commands one called "quit" one called "quti" :)

[Stoki]

[100%] Radar: Icons (medium).
[100%] Radar: Icons (large).

where is the difference?
other icons between the resolutions?

[alba]

3 different radar sizes & radar icons sizes for bigger resolutions, yes. Since all of the hud is made with font except the radar since it wasn't possible to make something 1.6-like without using a texture, this will allow people who uses big resolution to get the same radar proportions and not one tiny radar :)

[criticals]

I'm especially excited about the CSPTV. As an ESEA support employee, it's a bit annoying being limited by what the HLTV and SRCTV can do. It's tough to see everything you need to in one shot. Hopefully we'll be able to put in some ideas and feedback on how to better CSPTV not only in a competitive sense, but a practical support sense as well.

Or perhaps by that time we'll have a whole new system. Who knows?

[Saint]

picture-in-picture for CSPTV will literally make me jizz

[reactor]

hi first of all i wan't to thank all the csp devs for there works good jop guys
2nd i was with u from ur old fourm and yeah u toke along time for making 1.04 but it worth the wait

What I noticed is that when your teammate is on the outskirts of the radar u don’t know is he on it or he is far away they should change the dot with an arrow if the player went outside the radar more than the outskirt .

and also when the player camp for ex. u should also change the dot with arrow point to the place he is loking at.and about the scorebord i like it but i don't think in a combative play which promod is all about u don't need the errors and score columns just the old stuff with the mony and the hp and IMO the hp color shoud change like the hp in the hud from blue to yellow to orange and red becoz these will give you a fast and better idea which of ur team mate need backup. those the things i am thinking about right now i wish i was helpful

Sorry for any spelling or grammar mistakes, I'm not a native English speaker..

[DooM49]

great work alba glad that you are considering this:
[0%] Sprite: 1.6-style blood splatter animation.
since i made a suggestion on that :D

[n69ky]

hi first of all i wan't to thank all the csp devs for there works good jop guys
2nd i was with u from ur old fourm and yeah u toke along time for making 1.04 but it worth the wait

What I noticed is that when your teammate is on the outskirts of the radar u don’t know is he on it or he is far away they should change the dot with an arrow if the player went outside the radar more than the outskirt .

and also when the player camp for ex. u should also change the dot with arrow point to the place he is loking at.and about the scorebord i like it but i don't think in a combative play which promod is all about u don't need the errors and score columns just the old stuff with the mony and the hp and IMO the hp color shoud change like the hp in the hud from blue to yellow to orange and red becoz these will give you a fast and better idea which of ur team mate need backup. those the things i am thinking about right now i wish i was helpful

Sorry for any spelling or grammar mistakes, I'm not a native English speaker..


or a not filled DOT :P alba has to decide what fitts the design ;O

[ayck]

Love what you already did and can't wait further upgrades !

Well I dunno is it right place, but I noticed that flash bang blindness time is too short. Practically there no point from flash bang if blindness is so short, about 2.5-3sec.

One more thing. Whats about voice communication while you are dead ? It will be great if those who is alive could hear dead one's. This is more for clanwars !

[GenoX]

Seems Awsome!

[dmd]

ayck: alive talking with dead for clanwars??? it is not competitive when you can talk IN GAME with alive members of your team. You can use VT/TS2/Mumble or whatever for this, imo this function shuld be deleted or not made in every FPS game.

[ayck]

dmd it's the reason why I ask about that. It will be much easier and cooler, than using vt or TS2 !

[n69ky]

damn alba not a word, you updated this 13/2/

[Masternoob]

Sprite: 1.6-style blood splatter animation.

<3<3<3<3<3

[Karneval]

Ill go on my knees and beg for the real oldschool knife Animation/holding! :D oh please put it as a option!

http://www.csextreme.net/info/weapons/CSKnife.jpg


1.6-Style Blood Splatter animation gonna rock.

[SpikeMeister]

Concepts should be posted for our enjoyment ^.^

[Karneval]

Agree^^

[Suicide]

I see the in-game IRC has been removed from the in-concept list...

Does this mean that Idea was scrapped?

[tiger]

I see the in-game IRC has been removed from the in-concept list...

Does this mean that Idea was scrapped?

More likely that it just won't be in 1.05.

[alba]

tiger has it, i'll probably re-add it for the next one after 1.05 =)

[[EA]]

We definitely need those forum smilies. ;-)

[Karneval]

we definitely need that knife you mean ;P

[Suicide]

tiger has it, i'll probably re-add it for the next one after 1.05 =)
Good, that is like the one thing i am most excited about seeing...
Hell i'd probably do all the coding myself if I thought it would get it in the game ;)

[fa1]

10 days w/o any news? =) What's going on ?
P.S : I love you alba!

[hxcguitarist]

10 days w/o any news? =) What's going on ?
P.S : I love you alba!
QFT

[[EA]]

LessThanThree

[eveo]

less than 100 people on right now lol

[alba]

Been busy so... just updated it. You can stop whining now :)

[zwacki]

good boy ;)

[n69ky]

Nice to see the progress ;9

[tiger]

Thanks for the update. Will we get to see how the new scoreboard looks like any time soon?

[alba]

I was thinking about it and I need to ask alex if I can, if he says yes I'll post it then.

[DEVLOG]

I can see you've done a lot of work this month Alba!

[alba]

I can see you've done a lot of trolling this month!

[[EA]]

alba win.

[fa1]

Thank you alba for updates ! You've done a great job so far & will do ;)

[alba]

And if anyone is wondering, I've just updated the skin progress on the official steam forums thread (http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1161275). Check it out if you wanna see what's up.

8)

[Merdiso]

Really nice mate, I love your work, thumbs up !

[Bro]

where to download csp_aim_pistol?????
i dont want a custom map^^ i want URE MAP!!!!!1ONE

[sevoii]

bah humbug

[Bro]

aww and also will u guys from promod remake every map from 1.6 and source?
at least the cool ones and the ones wich are played often?
-de_dust?
-cs_militia??????????????
-cs_office?
-cs_assault??????????????????????

would be nice :)

[NortproN]

why no officcial news/updates/polls/media ?

[downbad]

Bro, there are no hostages in CSP. Also, the maps that aren't used in leagues will have to be made by the community.

[Lordearon]

downbad, they are working in a non-hostage (aka bomb) version for italy and office. Only no release yet, but they look awesome.

Great job alba, love the steam thread on the UI

[zwacki]

bomb version of italy, nice!

[haden]

update?

[TylerT]

update?

Last update: March 1st, 2010
I wonder if we can coax a release date if we rephrase with update culmination or something.

[haden]

ups dont saw that

[wHEElEr]

ant chance of seeing some newness?

[tiger]

alba do you think the new scoreboard will be in the point release? That'd be great!

[alba]

Nope it won't. It's been stated already that the new scoreboard will be (or won't, depends on the schedule) in 1.05

[IMTYPING]

UPDATE UPDATE UPDATE - i guess ure allreaddy finished with terror pic and radar icons ? :P
AND IM DyING to see the new maps aim_pistol aim_ak_colt and so on...
UPDATE UPDATE UPDATE

[hxcguitarist]

Sneaky update Alba :) Good stuff. Keep it up man!

[alba]

The forums are kind of broken where you got some limitations and bold not working, really need to get that fixed :O

[sevoii]

The forum is giving me many hassles...

Otherwise... Yeah good job.

[brainz]

first of all EXECELLENT WORK DONE BY ALEX'S TEAM...... AMAZING JOB EVERYBODY.....

Till now the game is doing very well, although still in its very early stages..... i wanted to tell you (actually URGE you guys) guys that you all should concentrate more on finishing the interface and gameplay stage of the game rather then work on other stuff like maps ..... This way more energy, time and money can be focused on the most important factor of the game rather then anything else, thus the basic game will be up and running alot sooner and we as admins can finally install Cspromod in our servers alot sooner:p :d ;)

I wish you guys all the best, and hope that you guys will keep working hard to bring us one of the next biggest revolutionary games on air.....

GOOD LUCK ...... :afw:

[Seiya]

Good luck！:d

[alba]

I should be able to update this thread this weekend with some progress :)

[Vanish]

Sounds good (:

[zwacki]

wohoooooooooo!

[TUROcKdev]

do you mean with this weekend the valve time??? =D

[alba]

Yes, I have health problems and I need an operation asap so I couldn't really work on shit but I'm doing that now :o

[ociN]

Can you update your topic alba ?
Thank you ;)

[hxcguitarist]

Wow! Lots of work got done! Thanks Alba for the update :)

[Mith]

Is it me or is this forum getting prettier?

Me likes

[NaapjusuN]

Well done my man

[[EA]]

csp_aim_pistol

:-)

[downbad]

While yall are working on the new website design, could we get a forum tree at the bottom of the page aswell? Its a pain to have to scroll all the way back up to the top after you read a page of posts. Preferably, right under the quick reply box or even under the page numbers.

[SpikeMeister]

+1 downbad

[alba]

well there are lot of changes coming, I've already finished the new forums one but we'll adjust things don't worry too much about it. It's just a matter of time now.

[Mith]

We need a :3 emoticon.

Sorta like this

http://forums.blackmesasource.com/images/emoticons/lion.png

[sevoii]

erection on my head

[shumped]

We need a :3 emoticon.

Sorta like this

http://forums.blackmesasource.com/images/emoticons/lion.png
totally looks like a ballsack on his face

[Mith]

Does not!!!

:(

Oh gawd why can't I write in full capslock rage?

[alba]

I'm actually going to use a third party emoticon pack because I don't have time to finish all of them properly, would rather focus my time on game related stuff. I'll update the forums with that tomorrow or something :P

[Lordearon]

w00t, so all the HUD stuff is in hands of the coders now... can't wait for a new devlog with some in-game screens of hud & anim

[vctm]

I'm actually going to use a third party emoticon pack because I don't have time to finish all of them properly, would rather focus my time on game related stuff. I'll update the forums with that tomorrow or something :P

Good idea.

Also, quick question; why did you guys redesign the front page before the forums? The current frontpage is/was fine but the forums are a bit of a wreck. Was it due to WordPress integration or something?

[[EA]]

Looking good alba!

[alba]

Both are a wreck right now, lost the scripts and some of the look parts are broken. Basically the reason why it's frontpage before forums is because vbulletin is much more of a bitch to code compared to the wordpress page we'll have.

It'll just take a bit of time before everything is changed and back to lookin' good just like it was before (except better obviously)

[smilesger]

how would it be with a "BOMB PLANTED" icon :P ?

[alba]

You'll understand when you see the new scoreboard ;-)

[Chris]

You'll understand when you see the new scoreboard ;-)

Damn TEASE :'( !

[Jobashi]

I'm so looking forward to the Call Vote menu! =)

Good job alba!

[criticals]

how go the web updates?

[amogan]

Hit F5 until something changes.

[criticals]

Hit F5 until something changes.

i'd rather not hit F5 for the next decade.

[alba]

Oh no he didn't! *SNAP*

[Lordearon]

I thought you had posted some new scoreboard screens just before the site went down? can't find them :(

--- Update ---

hmmm maybe by 'devlog' you meant on the dev log, not a devlog entry on the forum

[Mith]

He did say "I have a new devlog about blablablabla coming soon" though, so that was probably just a bit of poor phrasing by alba :P.

When you put too much information before a few key verbs people tend to ignore them and only see the message for it's "core".

Just found his tweet... he did mention coming soon at the very end :).

"Most people didn't see I guess but I have a new devlog with new media on scoreboard, team selection and what not coming soon! #csp"

[alba]

Yes, I'm working on the devlog since it was in the works before the website outage and now i'm back on track :)

[Lordearon]

now I'm convinced you can edit tweets! :p

--- Update ---

I kid I kid

[alba]

No you can't, wtf you on about?

[shumped]

Soon (http://www.wowwiki.com/Soon)

:O:O:O:O:O:O

[Lordearon]

mmmyeeh...

[barrakuda]

I wish that u can include maps like tuscan,mill,strike, and cbble :)
and i know there are more people who whis this. (sorry for my bad english)

--- Update ---

..and alba please reply in private chat. :) ?

[n3krO]

I Like to many maps so its really bad idea to improve more maps cuz ppl will wish them to be oficial and than team's works on one map and on tournament they will need to face map's where they didnt trained hard..

[griMz]

ingame irc thats srsly ftw!

[Mith]

Hey alba my Steam client has just updated, and Valve be stealin' yer ideas.

They just put in tabbed friends chat and web browsing in the client.

http://www.steampowered.com/platform/update_history/index.php?skin=0&id=0

[CREDiBLE]

Hey alba my Steam client has just updated, and Valve be stealin' yer ideas.

They just put in tabbed friends chat and web browsing in the client.

http://www.steampowered.com/platform/update_history/index.php?skin=0&id=0
Yeah, alba invented tabbed chatting and in-program browsers
http://www.twolvesblog.com/images/stories/wh-double-facepalm.jpg

[Mith]

Yeah, alba invented tabbed chatting and in-program browsers
http://www.twolvesblog.com/images/stories/wh-double-facepalm.jpg

bscly

also webbrowsing has been there since ever, I meant tabbed web browsing (which is twice as awesome obvsly)

[tiger]

alba made a concept long before the tabs were introduced in Steam beta. Also Mith was sorta joking.

http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1161275

http://alba.cspromod.com/steam/steam_ui_chat_window_tabs_latest.jpg

Nice try though, but that fail would rather apply to you.

[Mith]

^ Oh hey someone with a sense of humor in this forums, I don't know how to react to that

[CREDiBLE]

In that case. Best. Joke. EVER.

[n69ky]

Its easier for alba now to bring his skin out because the tabbing thing now is possible

[alba]

Yep helps a lot :) Glad they're starting to actually improve it.

[Lordearon]

Alba woke up?

[tiger]

[0%] Crosshair: 1.6 awp scope rework (not yet perfected)

When you get to it can you make it so that the scope in high resolution looks the same as it does in 640x480 and 800x600? In higher resolutions the dot doesn't really look like one (it's weird) whereas it looks much better and more 1.6-like in those two resolutions.

[hxcguitarist]

Updated O_O Sneaky sneaky!

[alba]

Still got plenty of things to update but I figured I'd put the obvious things since it's been a little while and I've been busy :P

[leetlamer]

Hows that Steam skin going along? Still working on it?

I really liked the concepts, I hope you consider finishing it. That skin was pure awesome.

[haden]

[HOLD] Sprite: 1.6-style blood splatter animation. (OB particle effet now, needs testing to make sure it's close enough to how it was to 1.6)

anything new for 1.05 in this section?

[yuri]

anything new for 1.05 in this section?
Maybe a look into the Jobs section will tell you more :)
http://wiki.cspromod.com/Jobs (http://wiki.cspromod.com/Jobs)

[alba]

anything new for 1.05 in this section?
If you read the sentence, you'd clearly see this isn't a sprite anymore but an effect particle.

[CHUCKY]

i'm loving it (palaapaapaaaa)