When I'm bored I search around for things to do and something I think would be cool would be to make a menu background map for dod.

If your clueless as to what I am talking about SEE HERE (http://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Menu_Background_Map) for more info.

Anyways, the only thing stopping me is the dod.fgd's lack of a info_player_logo which stops the team/class menu's and HUD from coming up. So I went to the CS:S fgd and stole it's player logo stuff hoping it would work.
@PointClass base(Angles) studio("models/editor/playerstart.mdl") = info_player_logo :
"This is for logo maps for demos. All players will spawn here, and there will be no " +
"class menu, team menu, or HUD."
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It didn't.
Can anybody smarter than me think of something creative to make it work?
Or will this just not be possible till the DoD Dev Team makes it?

Try using a point_viewcontrol entity, that'll just be a camera filming the scene, but that's what I can think of

I attached the VMF and latest compile if anybody wants to look around. Nothing much just simple to test it. 32KB

Use the map_background bgtest command to start it in-game. It will give you the error that info_player_logo isn't a valid entity.

I guess this means the only way to get this active would be to petition the dev team to add it.

Screenie?


I doubt the dev team will add it as they will no doubt have no use for a dod version (background menus take too long to load and take up resources...)

These first two is the SDK Base background with most of it's stuff packed into the bsp because I was too lazy to go drag all the stuff it needed into my dod folder. Missing the sky of course ;p



These second two are the simple map I made to test.


I turned off the hud by typing cl_drawhud 0, it can't be turned back on though.

The SDK Base one is so nice i have actually had thoughts of just loading it up as a screensaver ;p Not so sure my GFX card would like that, it could handle it though.

it would be very cool if they had some npc you could have run around and what have you.