Thread to end all lobby design threads

This is a thread about proposed design changes.

Related work can be found at:
http://zero-k.info/Forum/Thread/9155
http://zero-k.info/Forum/Thread/5798
http://zero-k.info/Forum/Thread/10046


Current idea is:
front screen:


right panels:

avatar and login detail:



Background is a cool image with cool music.

Contributions (especially 2D artist!) are welcome!

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I could paint up some of those screens.

Choose your destiny:

-> Darkhive
-> Shrakatheme

I think Carbon is default ingame skin.

Also Squared Darkhive exists for ingame.

Site currently has Darkhive.

IMO Multiplayer button should be above the Singleplayer button.

The current plan is to separate battle chat from "channels" though i dont know about separating PM, i think it sort of works good enough.

More horizontal space will be used due to the expandable right panels.

Regarding design I like darkhive and shraka. I like shraka more, but its not ingame/site consistent that much, though perhaps with a few recoloring touches it could be achieved.

I'd go with a 3 panel design:

On the left, Nav. Controls the active panel. Do it as a 2-tier tree, so individual chat-rooms are children of the Chat entry, and your active Battle is a child of the Singleplayer or Multiplayer entry (and the option does not appear if you're not in a battle). So like:

-Me (unlocks, comm config, donate, profile)
-Singleplayer
-Multiplayer
--Active Battle
-Browse (formerly Community, browses maps/replays/forum/missions)
-Chat (shows the chat-room browser)
--ZKAdmin
--ZK
--MyClan
-Config

In the middle, the active form or browser window.

On the right, notifications. A big scrollable space of every interactive temporary thing going on. This would include downloads, battle-votes, and PM threads.

looks pretty baller with the peewee background

Here is a mockup with a few more design elements, I lost my work but changes could include...

1. Big Glaive graphic instead of stars
2. Moving the ZKL logo to the other side of the screen and the profile info up
3. Higher res buttons, graphics, and addition of tabs etc (This is all just a dirty mockup).




Anyway, sorry I'm late getting onto this, I've told Shraka about this too and he might contribute something shrug we'll see.

The problem is Failer that at this resolution closed in in-game screenshots look ugly because most units are low poly and by often poorly textured (like glaive) so it would just look ugly.
The goal is to obtain more art pieces for lobby background image... but ZK kinda don't have the artists for it.