New Loading Screens from me

From the readme:

Loading Screens 3 - beta (I suppose, since i didn't put a whole lot of work into them.)

Mostly a bunch of screenshots I took before my nice computer died a terrible horrible death back in February, and I thought they looked pretty nice without embellishment. You might recognize a few of the shots from various projects that I've worked on. There are also some loading screens based on the UT2004 fansite kit, using graphics from the original UT2004 box. Gotta laugh at the scene with laser blasts coming out of grenade launchers. Also I've added the single player mode victory and story screens to the list. The textures for those are already on your computer, so just enjoy!

By the way, if there are any screens you don't like, just put a semicolon in front of its entry (called commenting out a line.) The 'best' ones have 2 entries, feel free to comment out those duplicates from your list as well. I've tried to make the entries as descriptive as possible, so it should be easy to figure out which is which. Or you could just load the textures in unreal ed to visually confirm what's what. Most of the loading screens of maps have the name and mapper listed at the bottom of the texture, viewable in unreal ed. Same thing with the custom skins, most are ones I made, just google "Jefe UT2004" to download those characters. Yoda, Agent Smith, and of course the default skins depicted are exceptions. - Jefe 2010-11-12

Search for this:

[GUI2K4.UT2K4ServerLoading]

and add this to the list:

Backgrounds=jefeload3beta.UNREAL_COVER_final
Backgrounds=jefeload3beta.UNREAL_COVER_final
Backgrounds=jefeload3beta.UNREAL_COVER_final_nologo
Backgrounds=jefeload3beta.UNREAL_COVER_final_nologo
Backgrounds=jefeload3beta.unreal_flap_FinalCC
Backgrounds=jefeload3beta.unreal_flap_FinalCC
Backgrounds=jefeload3beta.Albatross
Backgrounds=jefeload3beta.Albatross
Backgrounds=jefeload3beta.BurlyGirlyBrawl
Backgrounds=jefeload3beta.CTF-FBU-Barcelona
Backgrounds=jefeload3beta.CTF-TFC-Solemn
Backgrounds=jefeload3beta.DM-BespinTribute_ImperialBattleDroid
Backgrounds=jefeload3beta.DM-Bloom
Backgrounds=jefeload3beta.DM-DagobahSwamp-Yoda
Backgrounds=jefeload3beta.DM-DG-Tanjung
Backgrounds=jefeload3beta.DM-PerfectDarkTemple
Backgrounds=jefeload3beta.DM-PueblinCanino2k5
Backgrounds=jefeload3beta.DM-Samodiva
Backgrounds=jefeload3beta.DM-TCMP-DG-1on1-Waterfall
Backgrounds=jefeload3beta.DM-TDB-CartwrightHall
Backgrounds=jefeload3beta.DOM-Deserted
Backgrounds=jefeload3beta.ONS-Torlan-MegamanLegends-TeiselBonne
Backgrounds=jefeload3beta.ONS-Torlan-Scorpion-Titans
Backgrounds=jefeload3beta.DM-Goliath-Cylon
Backgrounds=jefeload3beta.DM-Hyperblast2-CylonCommander
Backgrounds=jefeload3beta.DM-Sweet-Death-Cylon
Backgrounds=LadderShots.BRShot
Backgrounds=LadderShots.CTFShot
Backgrounds=LadderShots.DOMShot
Backgrounds=LadderShots.TeamDMShot
Backgrounds=LadderShots.ChampionshipShot
Backgrounds=LadderShots.BRMoneyShot
Backgrounds=LadderShots.CTFMoneyShot
Backgrounds=LadderShots.DOMMoneyShot
Backgrounds=LadderShots.TeamDMMoneyShot

DOWNLOAD:
http://www.filefront.com/17508457/JefeLoadingScreens3-beta.zip/

If you'd like to grab my previous Loading Screen packs (made way back in 2004) download them here:

Volumes 1 and 2:
http://ut2004.levels4you.com/downloads.l4y?review=16955&cat=480
http://unrealtournament2004.filefront.com/file/Jefes_Loading_Screens;27844 (Volume 1)
http://unrealtournament2004.filefront.com/file/Jefes_Loading_Screens;30367 (Volume 2)

Milkdrop:
http://ut2004.levels4you.com/downloads.l4y?review=16952&cat=480
http://unrealtournament2004.filefront.com/file/Jefes_Milkdrop_Loading_Screens;30368

ok let me get this strait ...these are additional or replacement start up map screens?

Additional. Whatever you put in that list is selected randomly. You can also disable the normal ones if you're tired of them, by commenting them out with a semicolon.

Actually, there's one of Xan that's commented out by default when you install UT2004. So just remove that semicolon.

For reference, the normal UT2004 loading screens are:

Backgrounds=2k4Menus.Loading.loadingscreen1
Backgrounds=2k4Menus.Loading.loadingscreen2
Backgrounds=2k4Menus.Loading.loadingscreen3
Backgrounds=2k4Menus.Loading.loadingscreen4

Hmm nice, nice. But is there a way to lock a specific loading screen to a specific map. For instance most games nowadays give a preview of the map that is about to be played in the loading screen with quick simple picture of how it looks.

Jefe wrote:

Backgrounds=2k4Menus.Loading.loadingscreen1
Backgrounds=2k4Menus.Loading.loadingscreen2
Backgrounds=2k4Menus.Loading.loadingscreen3
Backgrounds=2k4Menus.Loading.loadingscreen4

So which one of these is the xan loading screen, and according to what you said, you must take off the semicolon?

[GUI2K4.UT2K4ServerLoading]
Backgrounds=2k4Menus.Loading.loadingscreen1
Backgrounds=2k4Menus.Loading.loadingscreen2
Backgrounds=2k4Menus.Loading.loadingscreen2
Backgrounds=2k4Menus.Loading.loadingscreen4

That's the default i pulled from Defuser.ini. I forgot what was actually there. What you do is change one of the 2's to a 3 to get the xan screen.

And no, there isn't a way to tie screens to maps. A few mods run custom loading screens, but that's on a per-mod rather than per-map basis.

They look awesome Jefe