.hack's Altimit OS Clone

waraiotoko · Post by **waraiotoko** » Wed Nov 30, 2011 8:36 am

Hiya,
I haven't posted in about a month, school has been too busy unfortunately. I've picked up an old project of mine, the goal of which is to emulate the looks, feel, sounds and features of a fictional operating system featured in the first four .hack video games. I started making it in Rainmeter, but it was too slow and frustrating so I gave up. Now I'm making it in Love2D, which is fast and easy to use! I'll be posting new videos when I add features, if you've played the games and have recommendations let me know.

EDIT: Added source! Couldn't upload here for some reason, it just wouldn't let me. Too big? Let me know if you found any bugs. Only controls are mouse and "escape" to close a window.

New source as of 1/1/2012
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=Z2GO9IR6

TechnoCat · Post by **TechnoCat** » Wed Nov 30, 2011 2:02 pm

Long ago I tried making my desktop look like that OS after watching .hack//SIGN.
Very cool looking.
How did you make the spinning icons?

coffee · Post by **coffee** » Wed Nov 30, 2011 2:10 pm

TechnoCat wrote:How did you make the spinning icons?

I kinda have the same question. I started to look for ways of animate tiles.

Good looking project. I will be glad to see developments on that.

Taehl · Post by **Taehl** » Wed Nov 30, 2011 3:01 pm

Looks very nice (though I've never played .hack). Are you planning on making it actually "do" anything, or is it just practice and/or eye candy? One suggestion for something practical would be to make that "News" page show RSS feeds.

waraiotoko · Post by **waraiotoko** » Wed Nov 30, 2011 5:11 pm

TechnoCat wrote:Long ago I tried making my desktop look like that OS after watching .hack//SIGN.
Very cool looking.
How did you make the spinning icons?

I modeled the icons in Google Sketchup, and used the built in scene/animation tool to make them spin. Google includes a .png sequence exporter so with a little Photoshop cleanup they looked great.

Taehl wrote:Looks very nice (though I've never played .hack). Are you planning on making it actually "do" anything, or is it just practice and/or eye candy? One suggestion for something practical would be to make that "News" page show RSS feeds.

Smart people on this board! Yeah I'm planning to make most of the "applications" functional, and since I'm going in order I'm making the "mailer" app first. Not sure if I want to just read headers or whole messages yet, I don't know the ramifications of formatting emails within a textbox...At any rate News is the only other hard one, and I probably will use RSS feeds.

TechnoCat · Post by **TechnoCat** » Wed Nov 30, 2011 6:33 pm

waraiotoko wrote:
TechnoCat wrote:How did you make the spinning icons?
I modeled the icons in Google Sketchup, and used the built in scene/animation tool to make them spin. Google includes a .png sequence exporter so with a little Photoshop cleanup they looked great.

What an excellent tip. Thanks.

waraiotoko · Post by **waraiotoko** » Mon Dec 12, 2011 6:41 am

Oh man, look how sweet my scrollbars are!

TechnoCat · Post by **TechnoCat** » Mon Dec 12, 2011 10:52 pm

Haha, some epic Windows 95 style scrollbars going on!

Kazagha · Post by **Kazagha** » Wed Dec 14, 2011 12:43 am

Very impressive stuff, Google Sketchup is a good idea. Good to see it's all coming together.

-Kazagha

waraiotoko · Post by **waraiotoko** » Sat Dec 17, 2011 6:28 pm

Added a .love to the first post, don't judge me too hard.

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