Kinn, I'm inclined to agree with JPLambert that the mouseovers should be a different shade of brown rather than a bright colour.

Also, how about varying the shade of each of the different buttons (although still brown obviously), atm it's more 3 shades of brown rather than 256 

I like it. Keep the green, you want to keep a bit of contrast.

I never got to read Blitz's page. :( 

[nt] 

Anyone tried the warhammer: dawn of war beta that was released today? I've heard a ton of good things about the beta-test, so I'm getting it now to see if its any good. Just wondering, as I seem to remember there being one or two warhammer geeks in the mix here. 

Yeah I really wanted to dl the demo but its 319mb or somesuch size, sucks when Im on 56k...

Please tell us how it is when you've had a play, it looks awesome :) 

I played it when it was first released on FilePlanet.

It's OK, but somewhat simplistic in terms of gameplay/tactics/troop control. Pretty much 'just another rts', except without having to ship resources back to your base (and with GC-esque control points).

However, the artwork in general, and the animations especially, are amazing. It does actually feel like you're watching a real battle. 

Oh, and it has a custom colours option which is a nice nod to its origins 

I will download it, if it's only 319 mb that should be no problem. I tried downloading the WoW beta but it was 2200 mb, so I left it on over night and it was half way done. =\ But yes I plan on playing Dawn of War, looks very good to me, like a fun version of Warcraft3. 

If fucking FilePlanet would stop sending me in circles. Is there anywhere else I can download it? Whenever I enter my age to download it, it sends me to a page to register with fileplanet and it won't let me downlaod it. I filled out the form, but then it said my info was already taken. /me cries 

For most demos, if you're having problems with FilePenis, checkout:

www.3dgamers.com 

Crits Please
#5324 posted by Kinn [217.43.53.217] on 2004/09/09 03:52:15

For what it's worth, it's very bland. As far as speed goes I have a really fast connection so I cannot evaluate that. (loaded it in > 1 second. 

after looking at it a bit more (the above was my first impression), I would make each link go to another page. If for no other reason than to keep Scampie's bandwidth usage down). I clicked on Bastion and ended up downloading it again (I already had it).

Instead of green you might want to go with a darker brown. And where the blue is you might want to think about using a brownish green. Just my thought's ;) 

Thanks for the crits, guys.

The consensus seems to be: make the bright colours another shade of brown (seems logical I guess).

Quaketree: Ignore the links etc. - the "bastion" link is only temporary anyway, just so the map is there whilst I work on the rest of the content. It won't behave like that in the finished version. 

In general, I don't like splash pages. 

well, when it's done, all the links will work, so I don't know if it really qualifies as a "splash page" in the sense that you mean. 

Okay, maybe "splash page" isn't quite the right word. But having a menu page that you have to keep flipping back to is silly from the perspective of navigation and flow. And if you have the menu on all of the sub-pages, good; but even if you do, that makes the front menu page kind of unnecessary because it feels like you're adding a small seperation between the user and the content.

I do like the design, though. And if it was just a set of links to other sites or files (zip, jpg, dzip, etc.) then I think this would be perfect. 

actually, the links were just gonna pop up a smaller window - so no flipping back would be involved. 

That might be even worse, Kinn. Those usually don't work well or at all in browsers that block pop-ups. 

please avoid new windows or popups, at least if the new page is on the same site. The "splash" page is fine with me as you only have to backpedal. 

well i'll make the links open in the same window, and have a simple nav bar in each section, so you won't have to backpedal to navigate the site either. 

Wow this demo got me hooked yo. It's really fun, at least to me, but then again I love RTS games. I'll prolly pick it up on the 21st, or maybe just wait until my birthday in October. Either way it's good. 

It's worth learning some basic php even if all you're doing is includes. You can get away with only having the navbar in one place and having all other pages include it. 

Includes rock, but thats about all I'm smart enough to use. 

I just went to take a visit to your web page and I got this message

Microsoft VBScript runtime error '800a000e'

Out of string space

/fatty/Default.asp, line 223


Thought you should know. 

3DBuzz has been releasing VTM's (Video Tutorials) for DooM3 for a while now, mainly basic stuff. They just released a series on Scripting, 8 vids in total for the scripting section. There are also 19 other various vid tuts covering the basics.

http://www.3dbuzz.com/

You will have to register. There Tutorials for Unreal, and 3dsMax, were quite good.