New atmospheric loading screen / Новые Атмосферные загрузочные экраны.
[RU]
Блуждая по зоне не первый месяц, я ловил себя на мысли, до чего же тут скучные и однообразные загрузочные экраны, в игре мы очень часто их наблюдаем, так как в ней нет открытого мира, и ходить между локациями приходится постоянно. И так как почему то никто не решился сделать что то лучше чем старые загрузочные экраны в HD качестве, я решил сделать такой мод сам. За основу я взял потрясающие арты множества разных художников, которые я находил на ArtStation и DeviantART и не только. Всего было взято 182 картинки (это общее число загрузочных экранов в Аномалии) Я старался придерживаться общего стиля, что бы экраны загрузки не сильно различались между собой, подходили под локации и атмосфере, это было не легко, но вроде я справился. Надеюсь вам понравится эта сборка загрузочных экранов, и это немного разнообразит ваш игровой опыт. Если у вас будут какие то замечания по поводу мода, пишите мне, я исправлю. И помните:
Счастье, Счастье для всех. Даром. И пусть никто не уйдет обиженным!
[ENG]
Wandering around the zone for more than a month, I caught myself thinking how boring and monotonous loading screens are here, in the game we see them very often, since there is no open world in it, and you have to constantly walk between locations. And since for some reason no one dared to do something better than the old loading screens in HD quality, I decided to make such a mod myself. As a basis, I took amazing art from many different artists that I found on ArtStation and DeviantART and not only. A total of 182 pictures were taken (this is the total number of loading screens in the Anomaly). I tried to stick to the general style, so that the loading screens would not differ much from each other, fit the location and atmosphere, it was not easy, but I seem to have done it. I hope you enjoy this loading screen build and it will diversify your gaming experience a bit. If you have any comments about the mod, write to me, I will correct it.
And remember: "HAPPINESS FOR EVERYBODY, FREE, AND NO ONE WILL GO AWAY UNSATISFIED!"
Ниже я покажу примеры экранов загрузки.
Below I will show examples of loading screens.
Самый первый экран, это основной задний фон, он не будет меняться, остальные же будут меняться между локациями.
The first screen is the main background, it will not change, the rest will change between locations.
Установка:
Просто установите архив с помощью Mod Organizer 2, при установке у вас будет 2 строчки, нужно выбрать первую и нажать правой кнопкой мыши «установить как каталог с данными», вот и все.
Installation:
Just install the archive using Mod Organizer 2, during installation you will have 2 lines, you need to select the first one and right-click “install data directory”, that’s all.
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Those look great. I'm not sure why someone chose to give you a 1/10 score, with no comment whatsoever, it's both funny and sad that people do this.
Still, if anything, I would say you probably should go through the effort of actually listing the authors of all of this art, as the minimum courtesy for their work - those things take a long time to paint.
Looks like a great selection, regardless.
Thank you very much for your feedback. This is my first mod here and I'm glad that you like it. I'll be sure to list all the authors later.
No problem - nice to have you, welcome :)
Could you please credit the artists who made those pictures? It's not hard, just google reverse image search if you don't know the original author.
nice mod, I always was disappointed about the loading screens they kinda suck but these are great
just tried them - the art is beautiful but it looks a bit strange that one picture displays on top of another picture. It would be much better to only have one: either crop the artwork to full screen, or if that's not possible then probably best to remove the one that stays always in the back and just keep it black instead.
Thank you) If you don't like the background, then you can do the following: in the mod folder gamedata/textures/ui there is a file ui_actor_loadgame_screen. Just open it in any image editor convenient for you, select everything and click delete, or just replace it with a black background) In the future I will make a 2nd version of the mod with the choice of such a function.
Also in the future I will add a vignette so that the loading screens do not stand out from the background.
If you have any suggestions for other pictures that could be better suited for this or that location, then please write to me in private messages or here, I'll take a look)
thanks, I may do that. If that is technically possible with the engine, I think it would be best to just stretch the individual art pieces so that they cover the full screen, though I appreciate there may be limits to what can be done.
Unfortunately so far it doesn't work that way. There is generally a very strange background logic. It is divided into 2 pictures, the center, and 2 side strips. That's why I made it dark with a vignette, because I couldn't really customize it.
got you. I'd think about making some kind of a universal black backdrop with an outline as the background image, so that all the internal images display in the same format. Anyways thanks for the addon, good selection!
Great idea though please give credit to the artists.
Thanks, I've already added the authors to a text file in the mod's archive.
I agree about the backdrop being distracting but otherwise, and even with that problem, this is by far more immersive and creative than the typical ones...If you could fix the background edges I'd give this a 10/10; Current rank is 9. Thanks this looks great!
Thank you) In the future I will add a vignette, I think in a couple of days.
one trick I can think of may be to simply add a thick white outline frame for each of the art frames that you have in photoshop, which will make fake the look of a structured design layout instead of just feeling like plain images pasted on top of another.
With a frame around them, it won't be distracting anymore to have the master image underneath either (I actually like that image very much) and it will look like part of the same style that Modern UI introduces, so a win-win across the board.
It may be a bit of a busy work to do it 180 times manually, but once you have a frame ready in photoshop, you just drag and drop every next image and export. Should be done in 30 minutes to an hour :)
great job, great selection, thanks for the update!
Glad you like it)
Круто, спасибо!
красавчик Автор, большое спасибо!
Было бы великолепно, если бы вы сделали вторую версию, а именно для зимних сборок, что бы преимущественно были зимние фотографии
Вряд ли я смогу найди подходящее количество материала похожее на то что у меня в зимнем сеттинге, да и пока что времени у меня на это нет. Но там не давно выпустили такой мод, правда там просто скриншоты из игры с зимним модом.
FATAL ERROR
[error]Expression : D3DX10CreateTextureFromMemory ( HW.pDevice,S->pointer(),S->length(), &LoadInfo;, 0, &pTexture2D;, 0 )
[error]Function : CRender::texture_load
[error]File : ..\xrRenderDX10\dx10Texture.cpp
[error]Line : 544
[error]Description : The parameter is incorrect.
[error]Arguments : d:/games/stalker/anomaly 1.5.2\gamedata\textures\ui\ui_actor_loadgame_screen.dds
stack trace:
hey idk what cause this
Honestly, I find it difficult to answer, you are probably the only one who complained about it. What Anomaly build are you using? Personally, I play on GAMMA and everything is fine on it. Perhaps due to the specifics of your assembly, the textures are packed in some formats, and therefore a conflict occurs. Although in this case, the mod would simply not overwrite anything and would not work. I don't know if I can help
idk, there no overwrite and i just choose version one
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Try run game on DX11.
I love these loading screens. Literally my staple.
А что обновилось? Мой неметаный глаз заметил только, что дефолтный загрузочный экран поменялся на третью версию
Кроме этого, очень хороший мод, реально помогает "держать планку" между красотой самой игры, и внезапного низкокачественного экрана загрузки. Очень подходящие арты выбраны под локации. Классно идет с "повествовательными подсказками" или "без подсказок"
Спасибо, рад что вам нравится) Обновилось ничего, просто заметил пару кривых моментов в картинках которые бросались в глаза, и решил их немного исправить, ну и да, 3ю версию фона сделал стандартной так как она по моему мнению больше всего подходит, вот и всё)
Hello friend, I love your loading screen images, would it be possible to make a low resolution version for PC potato like mine? it's great and they look amazing but now it takes a while to load the games anyway you have a 10/10 from me keep it up!
Hello, thanks for the feedback. Due to the incorrect format of the ui_actor_loadgame_screen.dds file, it weighed almost 200mb, did not pay attention to it, thanks, now it's fixed. All other pictures weigh 2MB, I don’t think that this greatly affects the download speed, I hope the fix will help.
thanks very much buddy!!!! I'll try it right away!!
Thank you very much.
Could you re-add the option with vignette again in an update, please?
Unfortunately I don't have time for that right now, but sometime later I will add this feature again.
Как на gamma установить ?
Просто установите архив с помощью Mod Organizer 2 или скиньте папку gamedata в папку mods (хотя я настоятельно рекомендую первый способ)
When I download this mod to MO2, it says that the content of anomaly doesn't look valid. And the game crashes upon loading. Additionaly, it says this
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Continue?
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This mod was probably NOT set up correctly, most likely it will NOT work. You should first correct the directory layout using the content-tree.
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Ignore Cancel
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What do I do?
Just install the archive using Mod Organizer 2, during installation you will have 2 lines, you need to select the first one and right-click “install data directory”, that’s all.
how can i install??
Just install the archive using Mod Organizer 2, during installation you will have 2 lines, you need to select the first one and right-click “install data directory”, that’s all.
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Superb ! Thanks much. I love it.
I’d like to ask something, in case you know, by chance :
I’d like to move the «enter the zone» prompt and I don’t find how ! I think it would be better if it was on top of the screen, or under the pictures, not on it. I looked the files I have, but since I did not unpacked them maybe I just don’t have the right one.