Login process questions

[kochon]

Hi there folks. I'm in the process of tweaking the login process to my liking, I've merely started yet but I'm running into a few issues, I figured some of you might be able to help me out.

First issue:
I cannot seem to be able to re-integrate the login background image, I've tried reversing this tutorial
http://forum.ragezone.com/f245/backg...in-map-837813/

But the login background is now just a black screen. I do have a file called loginbg.jpg in Interface/loadable.mrs and it IS referenced in the code but for some reason it won't show up... nothing useful in mlog...
Video :


Second and third issue:
Ever since I re-enabled the maiet logo, which was achieved by just uncommenting a line in ZInterfaceBackground.cpp, the character is invisible until the logo disapears. It's hard to explain but here's a video.

I know for a fact it wasn't like that in the ijji or iGunz days, the character is clearly visible through the logo...

Surely you've noticed from the second video that after selecting the character, the camera moves to a third position, which baffles me. In login.RS.xml there are only two camera position dummies so wtf?

Edit: Turns out this "3rd camera movement" I was talking about is actually the angle change that occurs when you select a character. Well the coords for that are hard-coded in ZInterfaceBackground:

    if ( nSceneNumber == LOGIN_SCENE_SELECTCHAR)
    {
        m_vCamPosSt = m_vCamPosEd;
        m_vCamPosEd.y = -880;
        m_vCamPosEd.z = 550;

        m_vCamDirSt = m_vCamDirEd;
        m_vCamDirEd.x = -0.55f;
        m_vCamDirEd.z = 0.10f;
    }

So I was able to achieve an acceptable result by tweaking coords until it looked good enough. All my other attempts (commenting stuff out, etc) ended in a black screen as soon as you hit select until the lobby turns up.
Thanks for reading through.

[MentaL]