these two sounds very nice to me. what we need for the menu are tga images - all those jpegs in base/pics/menu and base/pics/hud should be converted to tga and the jpeg compression artifacts must be removed. they are especially visible on higher resolutions and on widescreen.
mapping is a topic where we really need someone - we currently have no real mapper that is creating new stuff for the game. if you could do that, that we be the best from my point of view.
greetings
martin
Alright, I will look into assisting in both of those areas.
For the first I will first have to figure out what you are asking for (converting files sounds too easy, removing artifacts hard).
For the second I first need to get both a working copy of the SVN and the map editor compiled, I was having trouble with that last night but I believe I fixed it. I will see where I can assist.
To address two questions I missed on IRC after I went to bed:
[02:48] Richlv: Volatar_, do you plan those articles that you created links for in the manual page ?
If by manual page you mean
this then I will admit, I did not plan to do them last night, I merely thought that they
should be written by someone. I can do them however. Just because a page is not written in a wiki, does not mean you cannot link to it. Infact, linking to a page that is not written is a good thing for an in-development wiki, as it signals very clearly what needs to be written. (Even more so, the
Wanted Pages page of the wiki is a very powerful tool that requires such links.)
As red links they are "on my list" of things to do I guess.
[02:57] mattn2|home__: Volatar_: if you update the manual, please do it for the latest version
[02:57] mattn2|home__: not for 2.2.1
[02:57] mattn2|home__: i've seen your create base button picture which is highly outdated nowadays
Oh darn. I was still in the process of downloading the SVN version last night while I was editing. I assumed (incorrectly) that such a basic button had not changed. I did try not to make changes that would be version specific last night.
I will complie the SVN ASAP and fix that one.