Making The Menu

I thought I'd share some screenshots of the main menu which I am currently working on. I started working on this a while back and am putting in many systems essential to the game. 

 

 

As you can see, there will just be simple options to navigate through the menu in these early alpha versions of StarForge. The menu is set to view the planet from space, when you hit the "view space" button(which I see the text needs to be placed a bit lower), you can pan the camera around the planet.

I have also upgraded the moons texturing and this will be reflected ingame. I've decided to use a combination of a main big texture and a tiled detail texture. This produces the neat bumps you see all over the surface. 

I am also working on an in-game internet browser of which you will see a blog post about soon. It supports tabbed browsing and you will be able to view Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, our forums, ect. all in game. We plan to allow you to launch this anytime during play. It will also be how we integrate our ingame store.

Aside from this I have been working on an in-game inventory which is in it's very early stages. There is also art waiting to be integrated but it will take some time as Steve is busy fixing the physics and getting the tech end to be very stable. I will show more of these areas in the future.

Kevin(LoudCore) is also busy making a main theme song that will play over this menu screen.

We hope to have the first content for Hatch Point purchasers released at the end of the month. It will be the 3D Leaf Tileset.

You can read more about Atlas(the main planet) and it's moon in the newly updated lore page. A very special thanks to forum member Tarius for helping patch the lore.

http://www.starforge.com/lore.html

Hope you like the look of the main menu. Please let me know of your thoughts. - Will

Comments

[Martz]

Is the round planet a separate model or would it be possible for the camera to go to the surface of the planet to the level in real time?

Would be a kickass transition but I read the actual game world is only flat.

[Gujimass]

Looks great! i love interactive menu's. no one seems to do them these days. is it just panning? or can it be like a camera flying around in space that you can control? would be awesome if we could!

[William]

You will be able to control the camera and fly around in space. :)

[Gujimass]

AWESOME!!!!!!!

[Kp3]

Scrap unity before it's to late.

[boybente]

Also, After that can you make the HUD functional? like we can die, health actually goes down and we need to rest for a short time to sprint again etc.