Event/Announcement Login Screen

About
A new project I've made up for GunZ. I've seen a few other games have an announcement graphic image in-game to inform players, why not have it for GunZ? A few hours of messing around and I've come up with this.

The concept is just using the animation element of GunZ xml's (which worked pretty well imo).
Five 6 second announcement/event images cycle through the animation. You can change the cycle time and remove/add any images from the animation cycle easily.

Preview
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-HA8lj420w"]YouTube- GunZ: XML + Photoshop (LOGIN)[/ame]
I created 5 image examples seen in the video. I rushed through them so I can get it all finished. And yes, the skin is very bland. I might make a new set of skins for it after.

I'm attempting to create an alternative version that doesn't use animations, but the user can control what slide they want to view (a few people here should know where I'm going with this, hint hint :p)

Anyways, here are the files.

Download

http://filebeam.com/fe754481129982d07525430fc496e6a1
(all files go in default.mrs)

Changes:
* APR 30 2010 : Fixed the misaligned objects on screen (buttons, text backgrounds)




Support
How to add new images to the animation cycle.
1.) Open templates.xml with a text editor such as Notepad.
2.) ALT + F and find "AnnLogin".
3.) You should find the following lines:

PHP Code:

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        <!-- Animation template of announcements -->
    <ANIMATIONTEMPLATE item="AnnLogin">
        <BITMAP>announce_1.png</BITMAP>
        <BITMAP>announce_2.png</BITMAP>
        <BITMAP>announce_3.png</BITMAP>
        <BITMAP>announce_4.png</BITMAP>
        <BITMAP>announce_5.png</BITMAP>
        <DELAY>6000</DELAY>
    </ANIMATIONTEMPLATE> 


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4.) Add a new line for the image (announce_6.png for example).

PHP Code:

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        <!-- Animation template of announcements -->
    <ANIMATIONTEMPLATE item="AnnLogin">
        <BITMAP>announce_1.png</BITMAP>
        <BITMAP>announce_2.png</BITMAP>
        <BITMAP>announce_3.png</BITMAP>
        <BITMAP>announce_4.png</BITMAP>
        <BITMAP>announce_5.png</BITMAP>
        <BITMAP>announce_6.png</BITMAP>
        <DELAY>6000</DELAY>
    </ANIMATIONTEMPLATE> 


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5.) CTRL+S to save, exit and make a new image named announce_6.png inside the default.mrs folder. Make sure it's the same size as the other images!

How to change the cycle speed.
1.) Open template.xml.
2.) Go to the AnnLogin item and look for the delay value.
3.) Change the value (6000 is what I set it as) to whatever you want.
NOTE: if the delay is 1000, then it will be 1 second long. 5000 = 5 seconds, ect.

Known issues
1.) Loginframe image doesn't stretch to fit screen at the sides, which blows my own personal aesthetic view for this project ;[.
2.) Announcement/event images are pretty small, planning to make bigger ones for the alternative version.
3.) I haven't moved the text messages rofl.


Enjoy, hope you learned something from this too.

Thanks mate.

wow amazing i loved it thanks man.. 10/10

upload screenshot.
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Originally Posted by Exiled Hero

upload screenshot.
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http://i39.tinypic.com/egsldk.png

This makes use of the AnimationTemplate for the "Nice" function in-game.

I've seen this in a few websites, but not on GunZ.

Thanks for it anyway.

Fux pro! Thanks a lot!

Nice man

edit: a way to bring it down?

Nice thoughts.

But yea, we have already the launcher for shit like this?:P

We could make it bigger if we edit the Login Forum.

Good stuff.

works like a charm,

Most users do not know how to use animation system, but knowing that is really easy.

Lamda was the first to use the animation system, in creating a modification of the logo of the lobby, located in the upper left.

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Originally Posted by Leoric

Most users do not know how to use animation system, but knowing that is really easy.

Lamda was the first to use the animation system, in creating a modification of the logo of the lobby, located in the upper left.

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Lol, when he discoverd?:P I found it out on my self too:P

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Originally Posted by eele

Lol, when he discoverd?:P I found it out on my self too:P

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But the war of egos in ragezone, is ended, We're here to share and help each other. :thumbup1: :ott1: :drool:

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Originally Posted by Leoric

But the war of egos in ragezone, is ended, We're here to share and help each other. :thumbup1: :ott1: :drool:

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that's quite nice but can someone help me with my problem?