Art Diary/Status [June 27]

[alba]

:-)

First draft, will complete it tomorrow, tired.

Current list of tasks at hands for me!

----- ART -----
Work in progress:
[N/A] Fix the shortcut icon generated by the "Create shortcut on desktop" from the mod options.

Finished:
[100%] New CSP-related ingame spray with the new logo symbol.
[100%] New CSPromod logotype and symbol.
[100%] CSPromod dev textures for mappers
[100%] CSPromod ingame logo texture (new logo), different ways of splitting it. Symbol-only, text-only, both.


----- GUI -----
Work in progress:
[25%] Background image.

Finished:
-

In game & working:
[100%] CSP logotype using CSP font.
[100%] CSP font (upper & lower case).
[100%] VGUI skinning/coloring.


----- HUD -----
Work in progress:
[50%] csp_inferno wireframe overview texture.

Finished:
[100%] New RADAR, circle, transparent with wireframe map overlay (ala killzone2).

In game & working:
[100%] HUD numbers (0123456789.+-$).
[100%] HUD Health, Armor, Ammos box/shape/borders.
[100%] HUD Health bar, Armor bar, Ammos bar.
[100%] Flashbang, HE, Smoke unique icons for the grenades bar.
[100%] Buyzone, Bomb Indicator, Defusekit Indicator icons.
[100%] New weapons selection (compact and light).
[100%] New ammos/weapons pickup style using font and fading.


----- WEB -----
Work in progress:
-

In hands of Biohaz4rd:
[100%] Website frontpage.
[100%] Website generic display page.
[100%] Website comments system.
[100%] Forums frontpage.
[100%] Forums threads listing page.
[100%] Forums posts listing page.




alba out. :mrgreen:

[N0vA]

Ok, nice that you are back :). Looking forward for the next update. If you are planning a new GUI please make it very simple and with low GFXs because of the memory usage. I count always on performance ;-).

PS: I very liked the old buy menu style from CS 1.5/CS 1.6.

[Redstar]

Alba! Alba! Alba! Alba! Alba!, I really hope you'll be able to post all your concepts because they look really nice :D


just need to talk to sandwichboi

:lol: j'adore, en plus quand je vois sa tête je m'aperçois que ce surnom ça lui va trop bien ^^

[KaNaR]

Cool un français :)

[Akh]

Ah voilÃ* KaNar, je me doutais bien que t'étais français !
Sinon sympa de te revoir alba, il me tarde de voir ton taff.

[rvT]

Nie pierdolcie... - oh I mean what ? ;D

[KaNaR]

Btw what are you supposed to do in the team ? Coding ? I don't even remember xD
Ah voilÃ* KaNar, je me doutais bien que t'étais français !
Sinon sympa de te revoir alba, il me tarde de voir ton taff.Tqvu mon pseudo aussi ^^

[alba]

Ok, nice that you are back :). Looking forward for the next update. If you are planning a new GUI please make it very simple and with low GFXs because of the memory usage. I count always on performance ;-).

PS: I very liked the old buy menu style from CS 1.5/CS 1.6.

My current goals (realistically) are:
Rebrand of the logotype that is more dynamic and better (I still have to talk to alex and so on, hopefully that goes through)

- Brand new GUI, fixed colors (blue'er, proper blue and all the shit, updated copyright date, YAY!)
- Brand new HUD, scripted/font files fixed, new icons and overall fixed
- Brand new radar concept (that will require coding so I can't just do that all by myself).
- A new website design / forums integrated theme (that is if I can make sure I got a dude by my side to code it. Need to talk to alex about that).

That's what I'm thinking about now... we will see how things go! :D

[smartin]

Keep it up Ludo!

alba can you do me a favour ? ;D

pls don't use the word "shit" so much ... only use it when something rly exiting happened! and mark it red ;X

[alba]

oh sh...it :D

[deCeption]

I was beginning to think he had a fetish :lol:

[element13]

My current goals (realistically) are:
Rebrand of the logotype that is more dynamic and better (I still have to talk to alex and so on, hopefully that goes through)

- Brand new GUI, fixed colors (blue'er, proper blue and all the shit, updated copyright date, YAY!)
- Brand new HUD, scripted/font files fixed, new icons and overall fixed
- Brand new radar concept (that will require coding so I can't just do that all by myself).
- A new website design / forums integrated theme (that is if I can make sure I got a dude by my side to code it. Need to talk to alex about that).

That's what I'm thinking about now... we will see how things go! :D

Sounds great, but will you stick with this? I've seen some of your work and it's pretty damn good. Not trying to be rude or anything, but that website you made a while back could've been finished a very long time ago. It's really not THAT hard to code a website. May take some time and dedication, but it's been over a year and your work was never finished.

[esk]

SOMEONE NEEDS TO CODE THE DAM SITE! :mrgreen:

[sevoii]

maybe we should just oorgle all over ur face.

[alba]

Not trying to be rude or anything, but that website you made a while back could've been finished a very long time ago. It's really not THAT hard to code a website. May take some time and dedication, but it's been over a year and your work was never finished.

I know, i'm feeling as gutted as you are because I had digx (a nice dude) starting the stuff for me and then he was gone and nobody else what there, I'm sure someone was there on the application thread but I have no idea what alex is doing and what happened, my stuff just sit there taking dust and now it's been actually over a year and a half since my shit was done and all it got was the lame splash page :P

Now since the design is a bit outdated for my taste, I want to make a new one but this time around I just want to make sure I got a dude with me helping me out for this otherwise I'll just be making another design that will never be used.

No offense taken :)

I just want to make sure the stuff I do don't go to the trash again :0 It's about fucking damn time if you ask me we get something rolling in here, I also did a forum theme that was like 80% finished and gave it to ted, guess he didn't finish it :P (blame him)

More updates soon!

[paradox]

recruit meeee! I'm more than capable of getting the site finished I already applied in the website thread ages ago :< viewtopic.php?f=2&t=4&start=0 (http://www.cspromod.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=4&start=0) I'm even on the first page! :|

[alba]

Go ahead and mail alex then so we can sort this out! :O

[cashed]

i finished it, but i dont have ftp. and divo has been in and out on trips to really get him to upload it.

[smartin]

you have emmediagroup

[cashed]

that is unrelated

[alba]

Alright, I was just on msn with biohazard and he's on board to work on the website with me so, expect to get some news here on how things go on from here. It'll get done this time around, I'll make sure of it ;)

[ari12609]

listen awesome ... u dont have any screens from WIP, right? ^^

[element13]

Sounds great! :)
I look forward to seeing the new site!

What ever happened to that CSP GUI that mizzack made? (I think it was him who made it)
The white/red/blue themed csp gui... I thought that one was amazing.

[Spritz]

Lol, I really saw this comming. Oldskool CSP, making promises but dont follow them up!

[alba]

what's that supposed to mean? :o

hmm give us some infos!!!

something like who/what will be the endboss? maxlevle? :)


im bored i just finished cs 1.6 the 29th time endboss isn't so hard after 10 times... :twisted:

[haGisson]

yeah give us some info, or - what would definitely better - give us beta slots :P
PLEASE ^^

[alba]

You want news but you should know that I won't post anything until I'm finished, that is just how I work. I showed a lot of previous on the beta channel to get some feedback but I won't post it on the forums until it's all done and proper.

Frontage is about 80% done I'd say, I have to design a comment section now and a generic page for all the others sections and I'll be done, I expect to be done with that by friday and this weekend biohaz4rd should be able to work on it since our new ftp will be setup this weekend as well.

HUD concept is about half done I'd say, I'm currently working on making an overview from Ted using flat/outlines greyscale color for the radar and it's progressing in the right direction, should be having a test in game this weekend too.

GUI-wise, base are done and edited, i just need to update assets and finish the colors edit and the new background but that'll be done in time too.

There you go, all I can tell you for now

thx for that :)

ur ma fav. dev ;X ^^ :oops:

[yuri]

Thank you for info & your time.

[N0vA]

Good good. You are making progress. I am watching you 8-).

[sevoii]

wow careful! hes watching you!

[smartin]

wsup

[Spritz]

HA HA HA HA

I thought you were getting the new layout online.

[ghz]

HA HA HA HA

I thought you were getting the new layout online.
+1

[alba]

Moved host and hosting dude fucked up the database and since he's not there much we were stuck with nothing. As for my stuff I got personal problems and shit going on but I've mailed my website stuff to bio so he can start on that.

isn't it time for a new dev log? or an dev log update? ^^

[alba]

Not right now, as a lot of people know (about me) I won't post screenshots here unless i'm perfectly happy with them and i'm sure it's final (or near final). As of right now, I can't do more work, may be able to again in a couple of days but I have to take care of other things first.

Hope that clears out your questions.

sorry i know that i postet in wrong theard ... i wanna see the animation status ;X

[KaNaR]

sorry i know that i postet in wrong theard ... i wanna see the animation status ;XThen why are you posting ? ...

[downbad]

because he wants to see the animation status... he said he accidentally posted in the wrong thread. quit being a dick.

[KaNaR]

I'm not the one who posted in the wrong thread even if I knew it ....

@ n69ky : Let me show you where to post xD
viewtopic.php?f=16&t=451 (http://www.cspromod.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=451)

[dk3]

He made a mistake, get over it.

[alba]

Working with some of the guys in the beta channel, hud progress is going along good, I'm starting to make the assets to send mizzack way and he'll be able to code that shit in, I'll script what I have already since he's not there now but, numbers design is almost final (looking good) now just need to make the elements and some icons left to do but all in all... we're close! :D

Oh and if you want to keep up with the work i'm doing today, you can check my twitter (http://www.twitter.com/albator) so I don't have to post everything here, only the final product.

great work !! keep workin'

[alba]

Alright, I'm just going to post this before I go to bed (I'm freaking tired).

Status update on what's happening, website is all done (webdesign-wise) bioh4zard is going to work on it tomorrow and all the "main" aspects of the website are designed and basically done, maybe some tweaking here and there but 90% done. That however doesn't include forums, since a lot of the beta guys weren't so happy about the color scheme of it, decided to change that and fix it properly but that'll be for this weekend, shouldn't take THAT much time. Anyhow, mizzack and I have been doing a lot of progress on the HUD which is looking better and better by the day! I wish i could post one of my concept or one of the screenshot ingame but I'd rather wait for us to be absolutely done so we can just have a video done and redstar can edit it and that'd be way better than just some static screenshots. I can say that it's one of the thing that will make you see the mod differently (it's a huge overhaul).

The whole half-assed 1.6 look is gone, instead we've gone with a totally original idea (but before you flame me) I've made sure to keep everything in the same structure as 1.6 is right now except for the timer which is now at the top along with your mates/enemy status icons. I'll have two different color scheme for it in a cvar. One will be using my custom color scheme "modern" that we'll use as a default one... and the other one which i call "mono" and is basically the orange scheme from 1.6 so if some of you guys prefer that, you can go right away and use that. There is also the radar which should be worked on soon and it'll be an hybrid basically. It'll keep the shape and style of the 1.6 one except that it'll use some new features. It'll be transparent first and you'll have a monochrome map overview right under it which will match the green coloring (yes, we kept it green yay!) and will display you teammates on it and where they are currently facing.

A new GUI/Menu is also in progress, I've done the background so far and some of the reskinning for the menus (which will be a bit transparent now!). One of the main new change I'm making for this is that I'm rebranding promod basically. We have a new logo, new font and a new color scheme. Instead of having everything too blue or too red, I'll instead focus on a greyscale/black/blue/red/white combo. Backgrounds will be in shades of black grey and light grey, menus will be in grey and the focus colors will be red/blue/white. Using that will bring a whole lot more balance to all of it and should make a lot more sense and looks a lot better aswell.

Anyways, I'm just rambling here but I'll keep you guys up to date with all the progress we're making behind the doors so you don't just wait and hear or see nothing, at least you got something to read now.

Sorry for spelling mistakes and what not, as I've said I'm really tired. Catch you guys later...

Cheers, alba out

[Masternoob]

thx alba, that are some great news....

keep up your great work....we all looking forward to 1.0.4

hmmm is it still DOLLAR? i hope so don't wanna have some russian money or EURO is even worse...

[rvT]

Good news alba, I can't wait for 1.04 xD

[yuri]

yay, it sounds very promising and pro so far. Its nice that you make&keep many cvars, tweakability is allways good ;)

[esk]

hmmm is it still DOLLAR? i hope so don't wanna have some russian money or EURO is even worse...

LOL
Yes, it is still in dollars you don't have to worry about that. :P

[skatospag]

Thanks, very great news. We can't wait much longer the beta 1.04 now ;)

[Green]

yes, we want have the beta :D :D :D

[ari12609]

awesome...

[[EA]]

Thanks for the news :D

[baggis]

Thnx for the news :)
Cant wait for the 1.04 to release :o
keep it up!

Yes we can (Wait for the next betarelease)!

[alba]

Some new tidbits for you guys to chew on, GUI is basically 50% done right now, I got the transparency done properly (will just require a bit of tweaking when I put the final background in). It is now using the CSP font and it's looking quite good I must say. I've also fixed the way the menu is displayed so it's more like 1.6 with a gap when you're ingame and renamed "Create Server" to "New Game" (just as it is in 1.6). I'm also doing a lot of changes to the basic way the menu is displayed to be even closer to what 1.6 is (except the right Servers which is there for god knows). It'll have some cool effects and I'm trying to customize it as much as I possibly can (more so than any GUI i have ever done). Another thing I'm planning to do is the remove the god awful switch sounds you have in the menu right now and our nice friend Redstar is going to make some custom ones for us so your ears won't bleed anymore when you're navigating the new menu. This is just some of the stuff that is being worked on and make sure to check this thread out every now and then, I plan to post all the stuff we're progressing on and most importantly, let you guys know when they are in face DONE, IMPLANTED and polished :-)

I'm almost roughly 90% done with all the assets the HUD is using, that means all the font for all the symbols, the only thing left to export into assets is the radar but that I'll work on mizzack with to make sure we're working on it at the same time. Now what's left is all alignement and the scripting part of it.

I got tons and tons of ideas and I sure as hell want to make as much (if not all) of them happen!
If everything goes according to plan, I should be able to post my first "proper" dev log next week with preview pictures and some videos (if redstar has some time still).

I guess that's it for now and don't forget to check d0ublethink's beta diary post! :-)

[baggis]

Thnx for the info alba:)
cant wait for the beta 1.04!
do u guys know when it'l be released?^^

[smartin]

cant wait for the beta 1.04!
do u guys know when it'l be released?^^
lol

[puddin1]

I LOVE YOU ALBA!!!!

Marry me!

[NortproN]

quick math tells me your about 3/4 done

[Lordearon]

Great stuff, scary to hear "original gui" - but let's trust you on this one.

Quake/Warsow - like GUI config is cool though, where everybody can design his own gui. But maybe it's tricky for tournament play?

[Masternoob]

cant wait for the beta 1.04!
do u guys know when it'l be released?^^
lol
made my day :D

[baggis]

well, sorry then? am just excited for the beta.

[smartin]

baggis nothing personal, but if you just knew how many times that question has been asked and answered, you'd also "lol" ;)

[KaNaR]

baggis nothing personal, but if you just knew how many times that question has been asked and answered, you'd also "lol" ;)Yep a lot of times, but we still want to ask it :lol:

[alba]

So, uhm... I don't want to be annoying or anything but, when do you guys think the 1.04 beta will release :?: I can't wait!


































































:mrgreen:

i think september 09th 2009 :P 9:09 pm


we play lotto here? what can we win? :X

[alba]

End of september really? I fell for that one already!

ar0nt you a dev teammember? oO

[smartin]

no dude, alba is just the daily provider of craziness

[Redstar]

he is :lol:

[doublethink]

End of september really? I fell for that one already!


Can you say Easter Egg? :D

[tw1tch]

End of september really? I fell for that one already!


Can you say Easter Egg? :D

ARE YOU SAYING APRIL 2010?!?!?!! =[

[alba]

from now on I'll be using the twitter account to post little updates and only post a big dev log when I got images and everything (which should be soon since I have the HUD concept pretty much complete (except the weapon selection which i'm finishing as we speak) and it'll be reviewed by alex and when that is done, I'll post a dev log with the preview pictures to get some feedback and critics from the community (hopefully good ones but we all know how the cs community is :P)

Either way make sure to check it out every now and then! http://www.twitter.com/welovecs :geek:

[wtfpwnage]

from now on I'll be using the twitter account to post little updates and only post a big dev log when I got images and everything (which should be soon since I have the HUD concept pretty much complete (except the weapon selection which i'm finishing as we speak) and it'll be reviewed by alex and when that is done, I'll post a dev log with the preview pictures to get some feedback and critics from the community (hopefully good ones but we all know how the cs community is :P)

Either way make sure to check it out every now and then! http://www.twitter.com/welovecs :geek:
The stream quality is shit but ye, quite interesting to watch

[NortproN]

Are you using the promod models or 1.x models on twitter, alba ? Can't see too well on twitter

[smartin]

those are 1.6 models

[alba]

yes 1.6 models for source, I hate source ones so :(


The stream quality is shit but ye, quite interesting to watch
Blame my shitty internet connection, I wish i could stream in a higher quality tbh :(

[sevoii]

kiff balls

[alba]

should have an upcoming devlog coming with renders of the hud, a video of the gui (hopefully, just need to get redstar on that) so, keep an eye out! :)

in a day or in a week? i need to know because im in holiday after friday 8:)

[alba]

that's why I said upcoming because I don't really know when it'll be :P

okay i'll stay at home at holidays ;X

[Spritz]

Does that mean that every ingame thing in your percentages list is at a 100% now?

i think the menu isn't ;X

[alba]

Does that mean that every ingame thing in your percentages list is at a 100% now?

I haven't updated that. I will soon but right now i'm too busy working on actual thing than spending time updating that list, sorry. :)

*EDIT* update OP, still have to input a lot of the other things I've done but it's a lot more than what's listed there, cheers!

[N0vA]

Wow, You've made quite a lot of progress now that I've checked the list, nice one! The Killzone 2 like radar might be be a good choice.

[JoeyBruz]

Nice work :). I see the progress on the new website, I hope it gets released soon.

[Zinc]

*slobber*

[alba]

Been a busy bee the last few days so no time on csp but I'll have my devlog progress up soon, waiting for redstar to come back from holidays so we can make a video :O) I didn't forget you guys! Also follow the twitter account (http://twitter.com/welovecs/), I'm posting there regulary when Im not here or just busy :D

[Yatta]

Pfft, tuning transparency? Don't bother, the solid radar is better!








This message has been brought to you by "Yatta!" with extreme bias that should not be taken seriously.

[alba]

well it's only transparency so you can see the overview below it :o

[smartin]

SEX

[NortproN]

...so we can make a video :O)
yay!

[yuri]

CIRCLE FTW :D

+11111

[rijst]

nice work alba !
Belgium ftw! :)

[Spritz]

Video assets done, just need to finish the last details on the hud i'm not happy with and we should start doing that video this weekend :)

[TIRANlik]

Video assets done, just need to finish the last details on the hud i'm not happy with and we should start doing that video this weekend :)
where is video?!!!!!!!!!!!!! :evil: :twisted: :evil: :twisted:

[paradox]

lol I'm sure it'll come soon

[Redstar]

Video assets done, just need to finish the last details on the hud i'm not happy with and we should start doing that video this weekend :)
where is video?!!!!!!!!!!!!! :evil: :twisted: :evil: :twisted:

Just like Alba said, he wanted to finish the last hud details before I can make the video. Unfortunately we didn't start recording it this weekend but it should happens in the next couple of days. So be patient, the video is coming!

[stormvlad]

i'm impatient :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:

[haGisson]

i'm impatient :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:

+1

-2 = 0 :?

[sevoii]

sex on a stick +9

[stonestair]

Viddddd :)

[alba]

No vid for now, I wasn't there for a little while, personal health problem etc... so I couldn't finish the HUD and I'm not sure when i'll be able to finish it sorry...

[Masternoob]

:<

[stormvlad]

No vid for now, I wasn't there for a little while, personal health problem etc... so I couldn't finish the HUD and I'm not sure when i'll be able to finish it sorry...


oh :-( ...still can't wait ... help you get healthy

[alba]

I shall update this thread soon with new infos and update the media section of the website as well :)

[sevoii]

alba can you do me a favour ? ;D

pls don't use the word "shit" so much ... only use it when something rly exiting happened! and mark it red ;X

Fat lol