Customizing the main menu background [added]

Kert

Joined June 2009

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Kert 2012-03-27T15:43:14+00:00

Here's a photoshopped pic of the suggestion:

Isn't it cool? I think it can be quite refreshing, especially for old players

What I suggest is:
- customizable background of the title screen
- probably customizable interface button colours (through color keys like I did in the pic) or images (less coding)
But the osu! logo (cookie) remains completely unmodifiable, cause it's what the logo is for
All this data can be placed in %osu!%/data/interface/ for example, not in skins folder

About background:
Yeah, we can already do stuff like in this thread - t/47896&start=0
But the image is in the foreground and it overlaps osu! logo and even osu! copyright notes on the left and generally looks bad

Looking forward to receive an answer from you, peppy

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Suimya

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Suimya 2012-03-27T17:20:35+00:00

good idea ~ o.o

ychao

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ychao 2012-03-27T17:31:23+00:00

I would personally love this, but I am not sure how much peppy will though.

Kitsunemimi

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Kitsunemimi 2012-03-27T18:25:04+00:00

Alright, so apparently the message hasn't gotten to you guys yet.

The reason why peppy "fixed" the title.png is precisely and *solely* because people were abusing it and modifying it to change the appearance of the menu. It's for this reason that other previous requests for this sort of thing were denied, and for the same reason why this request will almost certainly be denied as well.

Kert

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Kert 2012-03-28T01:35:51+00:00

Kitsunemimi wrote:
The reason why peppy "fixed" the title.png..

It still works afaik

My feature request is a little different, cause it's also about interface look
I think it would be a good idea, if interface images are for example in %osu!%/data/interface/ . Not in skin folder

Mythras

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Joined February 2010

Mythras 2012-03-28T02:25:31+00:00

Kitsunemimi wrote:
Alright, so apparently the message hasn't gotten to you guys yet.

The reason why peppy "fixed" the title.png is precisely and *solely* because people were abusing it and modifying it to change the appearance of the menu. It's for this reason that other previous requests for this sort of thing were denied, and for the same reason why this request will almost certainly be denied as well.

why is changing the menu considered abuse? lol

peppy

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Here since the beginning

peppy 2012-03-28T03:16:07+00:00

Editing files in data/ is tracked as game modifications and classified in the same bracket as hacking or cheating.

I do have plans on implementing this kind of skinning properly, at some point in the future.

Aoko

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Aoko 2012-03-28T06:15:02+00:00

Yey!!! So, I will support.

Kert

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Kert 2012-03-28T07:49:33+00:00

Yay!
Your response made me a little bit happier for today :p

Waiting for this stuff to happen ^_^

ziin

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ziin 2012-03-29T02:18:41+00:00

title.png is a completely broken way to fix the lack of a proper feature.

Glad it's being thought of to skin properly, though. There's so much to be skinned, but so little we can actually do.

You can still technically change title.png pretty easily (I made a script which automatically did it), but I obviously deleted it since it falls under hacking.

Accelerator-kun

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Joined March 2012

Accelerator-kun 2012-04-03T17:15:11+00:00

Even just a customizable background of the main menu would be great!

theowest

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theowest 2012-04-03T17:40:48+00:00