Creating a handmade loading screen, need feedback.

[Kazuga]

In short: I'm creating a new loading screen for my map. For the first time it's going to be completely handmade. Even though I'm not the best one in Photoshop, I will try my best to create a good image.

Edit: This is only a "sketch" of the loading screen. It is far far from done. What I want is ideas for what I should add/change.

This is what I have so far: (Will change the background of course.)
Current Version:

Old versions:
Version 1:

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Version 2:

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Please leave comments for what you think I should add/change.

Again, it is only a "sketch".

 

[konerboy]

i don't like it, it has to many bugs on it.

how about a metal theme?

a metal background with screws and stuff like that with some text.

 

[Oninuva]

Using photoshop is not handmade.. thats.. graphicly created..

handmade is.. um with pen or pencil..

Anyways, the fonts are bad.. your left border is not aligned.. It looks like all you did was draw a couple of shapes and change colors.. Good luck.

 

[Kazuga]

>i don't like it, it has to many bugs on it.
Bugs...?

>how about a metal theme?
That's sort of what I'm working on...

>Using photoshop is not handmade..
Sorry, then I have misunderstood the real meaning of the word handmade. It's just that I have seen other's using it for Photoshop etc.

>Anyways, the fonts are bad..
What's bad with them? Please describe, otherwise I will never be able to improve. If you only tell me something is wrong but not what's wrong with it then I can't fix it. It's like telling a bird that it's flying the wrong way instead of telling it where to fly.

>your left border is not aligned.. It looks like all you did was draw a couple of shapes and change colors..
Well I'm still working on it. This is far far from done, it's more of a sketch of what it shall look like. All I want is ideas for improvement of what to add in the image.

 

[konerboy]

>i don't like it, it has to many bugs on it.
Bugs...?

the left border is not aligned, the box/text is not in the middle.

 

[Kazuga]

>the left border is not aligned
Fixed.

>the box/text is not in the middle.
If it's not in the middle then so ain't the warcraft 3 loading screen bar. I took a screenshot of the loading screen when starting a wc3 map and based the bar position of the loading screen bar position. I also just measured to make sure that it really was in the middle, which it is.

Edit: Well, it doesn't look very metallic... But it looks better.^^

Will soon post a new update of it. Please leave feedback... (Yes I know, the color of "Robot Wars 2.0" looks horrible, I'm going to change it now.)

 

[Ghostwind]

Using photoshop is not handmade.. thats.. graphicly created..

handmade is.. um with pen or pencil..

Anyways, the fonts are bad.. your left border is not aligned.. It looks like all you did was draw a couple of shapes and change colors.. Good luck.

Unless you can move the mouse with your mind, I'd say photoshop counts as handmade.

 

[Kazuga]

Well, it looks better but it's still not very good... I don't really know how to improve it much more now... All tips, suggestions and critic is mostly welcome.

Note: No it's not done yet.

 

[YourFace]

it looks cool for a handmade, but you can never really 'tell' if it's hand made or not right,
handmade ones are cool, some people just put a black background on the loading screen and then make it change colours to give you ceizures or something
change the background color of your loading screen to something more noticeable and unique, and you'll get a lot more players :thup:
gl!

 

[Kazuga]

>change the background color of your loading screen to something more noticeable and unique
Such as? ^^

I was thinking of using a gold like color of the text, but I have no idea of what it's RGB values are... Would be cool if someone could tell me. ^^
With RGB I mean the three main colors Red, Green and Blue in the 0-255 scale. I'm colorblind so I face big difficulties when working with colors. (No it's not only red and green.)

If anyone have any suggestions please post them here.:thup: The new version is going to be ready some time this week so it would be cool to finish the image until then.

 

[Nudl9]

Your just doing this to promote your map and u know what to do with your loading screen.

 

[Kazuga]

Your just doing this to promote your map and u know what to do with your loading screen.

Promote the map? To what...? It already has a loading screen but it's so ugly that I'm trying to create a new one. (Which at the moment looks worse...).

Thanks rappunk23.

 

[Techide]

A helping hand?

Well, if you're colourblind then maybe graphical designs are a bit hard for you to do. Not that I wan't to disrespect your work in any way.

Aaaaanyways, just wanted to say that if you want, I could take a look at it, and help you improve it. Or make you one from scratch if you're interested...

Comments:

If you are aiming for a redish metallic theme, add some shadow to your plates and screws, add highlighting effects to your metallic areas either with some reflection highlighting or maybe some bump effect highlight/shadowing for a more rough look. The font stands a bit to much out from the rest. Make it more consistent with the background and I'll guarantee that it will fit a bit better with the theme.

Great theme idea though, like your style of thinking. Keep working on it