kout

You're right, it has 16 colours and is 640 x 400. Well spotted.

SF:CGA ?

Yeah -- when I was working on the original WOE menu I asked TK whether he had a utility for the menus but as I recall he used an excel spreadsheet...

Can imagine -- I'm not a little proud myself. Planning map screen:

The blast deflectors still don't deploy on the carrier, do they?

And the pilot record screen WIP:

I thought the original desert terrain was based on mozambique, turned 90 degrees? The boxes don't highlight if you change/select a campaign or terrain; I was hoping to make them link to an info page (using "Destination=[xxxx]" in the ini file) but unfortunately the campaignscreen.dll doesn't seem to support this (i.e. the destinations for cancel and accept are hardcoded in the dll).

Some more WIP screens (Dave: all 1680x1050):

Thanks Baltica - if you use the stock SF1 WoE you were already using my UI Does anyone have any thoughts on resolution - I'm working in 1920 x 1200 but I assume I'm in the minority. Would 1680 x 1050 be the most mainstream resolution or should I go even lower? Time for a poll?

File Name: Strike Fighters - North Atlantic New Mainscreens - The "I don't want to change anything else" Edition File Submitter: kout File Submitted: 27 March 2012 File Category: SF2 Patches and Tools Strike Fighters - North Atlantic ____________________________________________________________________ New Mainscreens - The "I don't want to change anything else" Edition ____________________________________________________________________ Notices_____________________________________________________________ (1) May overwrite files - back up first if this bothers you. (2) Provided "as is" - use at your own risk. Installation Instructions___________________________________________ The Strike Fighters 2 automatically scales the background image of the menu's to fill your screen at its native/desktop resolution. This distorts the image if you have a widescreen monitor. This mod therefore includes to variants -- one for regular screens with a 4:3 aspect ratio (e.g. 1024x768px or 1600x1200)which should also work on screens with a 5:4 aspect ratio (1280x1024). There is also a widescreen variant for screens with an aspect ratio of 16:10 or 16:9 (e.g. 1920x1200 or 1920x1080). > The regular aspect mainscreens are located in the folder "Normal" > The widescreen mainscreens are located in the folder "Widescreen" Each folder contains two subfolders, "A-6" and "F-14". > Decide whether you want an A-6 or a F-14 themed mainscreen and copy the relevant "mainscreen.bmp" file to the MENU folder in your Strike Fighters North Atlantic mods folder. > For more information on the mods folder, please see: http://combatace.com/topic/62302-what-is-the-mod-folder/ > If you don't have a MENU folder, create one by selecting File > New > Folder in the explorer menu. > Copy the file named MAINSCREEN.INI to your MENU folder as well. That's it. ____________________________________________________________________ © 2012, Kout These files are made available under the Creative Commons - Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 license. This basically means you are allowed to modify and redistribute these files, but that you should (1) give fair credit to me; (2) distribute work based on these files under the same conditions as I did; and (3) you may not use these files or works based on them for commercial purposes. For details: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ ____________________________________________________________________ Click here to download this file

One of the concepts I'm exploring for the rest of the menu system:

Stingray77: No, that's actually pretty easy to do (see my WOI screens) but requires some editing of mainscreen.ini which I was to lazy to do. jeanba: Easy: edit the MainMenuText in mainscreen.ini

I've uploaded two basic versions with regular and widescreen variants which should work without making any other changes to the menu's.

1. Try PrtScrn instead of CTL-PrtScrn

Thanks everyone. I'll start with releasing these two @1920x1200 -- can anyone confirm that the SF2 engine automatically scales down or should I go for a lower resolution? I'll see if can work on some other parts of the menu. Skatezilla -- good luck with the audio files -- probably an even worse job than placing all the menu items "by hand"!

Thanks - tried that but the screenshots didn't show up. Will give it another go.

Thanks everyone for your kind words - will try to get this finalised asap. Perhaps throw in some F-14 shots similar to the A-6 ones - btw, does anyone know how to get better screenshots than the default compressed jpegs (which have some nasty artifacts)?

Thanks for the feedback! alternative for A-6 fans:

File Name: SF2 - USNF - Mainscreen File Submitter: kout File Submitted: 29 January 2012 File Category: SF2 Patches and Tools My USNF '97 style mainscreens, updated for SF2. Includes ATF, USMC, USNF and USAF variants. No other menu screens included. Includes installation instructions. Click here to download this file

Well, if you mean the official set that shipped with WOE, I still have all the original files

File Name: SF2 - Wings over Israel - Mainscreen File Submitter: kout File Submitted: 21 January 2012 File Category: SF2 Patches and Tools This is an update of my mainscreen for the SF1 version of WOI. 1024x768. Two variants. Installation instructions included. Let me know any bugs/issues you encounter. Click here to download this file

Thanks guys. Updated some more oldies.