Improved Visual - Work In Progress

[thelusiv]

I like where you're going with this. The background looks pretty slick. What kind of car is that?

Thinking about this, it'd be nice to have support for skins so that we could have a couple to choose from, from the options menu.

Now as I see from your screenshots you want to move the buttons around. I imagine each skin should be able to modify the colors of the menu buttons, as well as the button positions and even the button order.

So here's my idea for how to handle skinning. It's actually very simple.

• An option in VDrift.config "main.skin" and corresponding entry in options.config.
  
• A Wheel widget in the Display Options menu to choose from the available skins.
  
• A new directory data/skins/ will hold each skin directory. The skins will be organized like this (where "skin_name" is the skin's short name):
  • data/skins/skin_name/ - the directory for the skin
    
  • data/skins/skin_name/graphics/ - all the PNG files now in data/textures/gui/ except data/textures/gui/tracks/ (these files should go into the individual track dirs)
    
  • data/skins/skin_name/menus/ - all the files now in data/lists/new-menus/
• To the skin graphics directory, we should add a preview.png that shows what the Main menu looks like for that skin. These can be displayed when the user is choosing skins in the Display Options menu with an ImageWheel widget.

Ahem, sorry, got off on a tangent. I'll try to get these features into SVN soon, they really won't be hard at all.

Now, if you want C0ld_St0rm, you could take a look at the updates I made recently to the FAQ entry on How to edit the VDrift menus. Currently it's pretty basic, but it will give you an idea of where to start to get the buttons moved around in VDrift.

If you like, go ahead and start playing around with your menu files. Start with just the Main menu (but look at the other menus too for ideas).

Thanks for your interest and work, which looks very promising!