Pop-up skin menu impressions.

[Lamron]

I just wanted everybody's impressions of the new menu included in the LPskinsV2 file.

1) What is the most useful now-that-I-have-it-I-can't-live-without-it feature?

2) What feature will you never use?

3) What feature do you wish it had? (I would say "within reason", but I know you guys would ignore that anyway. LOL)

[Brammer]

1-Ilike the ability to switch sides and weapons on the fly
2-weapons bar and compass
3-the ability to instantly drop a proximity mine.

[desmo2]

(1)-biggest is the ability to quickly quit the game and change weapons without having to die or change teams.

(2)-I probably won't ever use the mouse speed or brightness adjust. Doubt that I'll use the mute.

(3)-the ability to instantly drop proximity mines!!! ;D


Notice:This post was modified to conform to the question posed and to prevent me from looking like an idiot. OOPS, too late!

[Lost_Child]

I know that yall wouldn't understand, but when your almost deaf noisy backgrounds make it nearly impossible to hear !!
1) Maybe without realizing it the BEST thing you did is give me the ability to turn off the ambient sound !!
2) Being able to change weapons on the fly
3)Turning off weapons and compass

What is this about instant dropping of proxies ?
Am I missing something ?
Cause you KNOW I would use it ;D

[Lamron]

LOL. Brammer is the only one to actually read the questions!

The (1) is supposed to be the best feature.
The (2) is the most useless feature.
The (3) is the wish-it-had feature.


So Brammer said he liked the switch weapons, had no use for the weapbar/compass on/off, and wished it had instant prox mines.

I'm pretty sure that Lost_Child's answer was intended to be what he liked in order of importance.

[Lost_Child]

OOPS
They dont call me LOST_Child for no reason!
1) Maybe without realizing it the BEST thing you did is give me the ability to turn off the ambient sound !!
2) rarely use the Quit button
3)Wish it didn't default to Mute when you go to spec

[RedRock]

1. a) Fast switching
b) Different crosshairs
2. a) Ambient sound Mute
b) Wish it didn't default to Mute automatically for spectate
c) Quit button crashed me HARD first time I tried it
3. a) Ability to go quickly to Member's menu from the skin menu
b) Pop-up dictionary for Lamron and thesaurus for others

And for the record, before editing, this purposefully-short response was about twice as long. Anyone know the fable of the scorpion and the fox crossing the stream?

[Lamron]

RedRock said:

Anyone know the fable of the scorpion and the fox crossing the stream

I find myself cataclysmically non-conversant on the anecdote pertaining to the venomous arthropods of the class Arachnida and the Urocyon cinereoargenteus's peregrination to the antithetical bank of the oceanic tributary. Perchance, you would cogitate pontificating some of your substantial erudition to your plebeian catechumen. Let your magnanimous verbosity be equal to our impecunious cognizance.

RedRock said:

b) Pop-up dictionary for Lamron and thesaurus for others

Duh....Huh? What's a thesaurus? Is that like a fungus or something?

[desmo2]

LOL! ;D How eloquent!

BTW, Redrock, how did you vote in the poll above?

[RedRock]

1) I voted truthfully, of course.

2) Fox & Scorpion: Scorpion needed to get across, couldn't swim, fox could, scorp asked fox for help, but fox said he wouldnt' carry scorp cuz scorp would sting him. Scorp said, Nuh uhn, no way, man, so fox said OK, and scorp got on fox's back and fox started swimming across. Halfway over, scorp stings fox, fox says, Why you do that? Now we both gonna drown! Scorp says, sorry, bro, it's just my nature, i gotta do it!

LOVE YOU GUYS!

[RedRock]

Hey!!!!!!! What happened to my very clever totally-blank response, the obviously shortest response, which I posted BEFORE my longer response and which I SAW on the forum for a while? HMMMMM???

[FrozenAngel]

as I have only tryied it the one time found it nice but I think I will try one more time after i get orginized to find out if that was what created lag issue with me lamron I know you dont think so but my ping has been fine since and slowly getting everything orginized to a point where everything is in one ball of wax lol

but it is coool never the less

[Lamron]

Working on V3.
The changes include:

Removed brightness/mouse sliders.

No auto-mute for spectate. If anyone likes this feature I can enable it for them individually.

Added options to bind Knives and toggle auto/3rd to keys for easy use.

Added simple table to show the relevant server info. This replaces the Greeting message for LPmembers and shows up to date info.


Wishlists welcome.

[RedRock]

Lamron, I hope you do not remove the brightness/mouse sliders. I use the brightness often, as there is some bug that when I shrink my game window to go to my hard disk and check other windows or programs (such as to download the latest map or get an email) and then go back to the game window, it always makes my game screen quite dim, and your pop-up menu is the quickest and easiest way to fix that. Also, sometimes with some maps, I slightly alter my mouse sensitivity (bezerker maps, more sensitive; long distance maps, less sensitive; both as you pointed out to us earlier), and again, your pop-up is the best way to do this. If you have to remove one, I would say make it the mouse, not the brightness.

In this same vein, I want to commend you strongly on the pop-up menu! That little tool is so cool and easy. It makes changing teams and weapons almost effortless, and non-members are always asking how to change teams/weapons and for them it is a multi-step process which frequently they just refuse to do, but hey, we're special, we do it like magic!!!!! We do it Lamronically!!! I wonder if you want to license and sell your pop-up to other users (as honor-ware or with some password to unlock it, I'm sure you would know how to do that)--at $5 or so it might bring in a tidy little sum for you or the server, while MOH is still a hot game.

As for a wish-list, I wish the pop-up could let me easily choose any stock skin without having to do that console push menu stock skin thing, and then let me switch back to my custom skin just as easily. I switch to stock skins of my choosing, rather than to the default stock skin, when I go to other servers (not too often--"don't get jealous, 'toine"[In Living Color reference]), and as I mentioned some time back, if I'm the only member on the PlayGround, I like to go to a stock camo/grey skin rather than to the (I think) more visible default skins that non-members see me as.

And I now have to admit, I don't know what ambient sounds are. I don't hear anything different or differently, to my knowledge, if I mute ambient sounds. Can you explain?

I know I don't like to hear the doors opening and people bleeding if those events are not "near" me, and sometimes it seems as if every action on the map is heard even when no one is within a hundred yards of me. Can you explain this?

On the 3rd toggle, I think it should be that the toggled setting stays as set for the next spawn, rather than defaulting to full auto, so that a player's preference is what he wakes up to each time, rather than having to switch upon weapon issuance each time. And did you increase the recoil when you added in the 3rd burst option? It seems as if the stg and bar kick more on full auto than before the 3rd option.

And finally, call me forgetful or unattentive, but I think the pop-up menu would be nice if it showed me (via star or cross, if nothing else) what team I currently am on, as a lot of times on Team play I go to switch weapons and can't remember which team I'm on and end up going over to the dark side, if I don't exit the pop-up and check scores and then go back to the pop-up before choosing. And, if the pop-up showed with numbers the team composition (for example, Star 6, Cross 2), that might help with choosing sides in team play while getting the right weapon, again, without having to go to the scores window and then back to the pop-up. I have really come to love the pop-up.

I reserve the right to come back and add a few thoughts on this, as I didn't want to do a long note this time (LOL).

[Lamron]

Well, I THOUGHT I was getting closed to finishing the skin menu, but apparently I have some more work to do. LOL

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Brightness/mouse sliders: I didn't think people used them very much, so I took them out to make room for something else. I'll see if I can fit them back in.

Stock/Custom skins: the stockskin_menu will be improved to allow you to select skins from it directly. The new custom bind options will let you go directly to the stock or custom menus.

Ambient sounds: you should be able to hear wind and distant battle sounds in most maps. Having it on really enhances the realistic feel of the game, having it off lets you hear other player's movements easier.

Auto/3rnd toggle: this is a WEAPON function, not a PLAYER function. The change stays with the gun. When you die you don't respawn with the same gun (it's left next to your body), you are issued a new one. If someone picks up your dropped gun it will still be in whatever mode you left it in. The new gun you spawn with will have the default setting (auto).

The current settings are:
BAR, STG44, PPSH, Thompson: More recoil in auto. Accurate in 3rd.
Sten, MP40: Slow fire in auto. Faster ROF in 3rnd.

Team identification: There is already an icon in the bottom left of your screen that tells you what team you're on. This icon is still visable while using the menu. (you get -10 points for asking for a feature the game already has).


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I have also added a function that prints instructions on mod usage.