Spawn menu

I noticed that nobody has thought of the spawn menu yet, so I would like to give my opinion on how it should be: It, in my opinion, should be a bit different than rigs of rods; it should have a "bar" on the left side with the vehicle type selection, then a big box in the middle with the pictures of the cars and their name. Then, on the right, another bar with all the info on the car (speed, beams, etc.).
The spawn menu would be like this:

 

That still looks, basically, kind of like RoR's spawn menu.
But I think one of the Dev's already wrote somewhere that they already know how they're going to make the menu & have made it (I think, not sure about made part).
Right now we can just speculate on what they would have in mind.

I don't have any ideas as of now, at this late hour to give you though

btw, I like Gabe's car having a top speed of 2,374,982,357 kph (two billion, three hundred seventy four million, nine hundred eighty two thousand, three hundred fifty seven - kilometers per hour )

 

Crashing that car would crash the game......

 

twice the speed of light? I'd love to see a car achieve the velocity of 2.2c

 

I think a good example for a spawn menu might be the following:
I might be alone with this opinion but it's pretty user-friendly and has most of the essentials for car selection.
I threw it together in MS Paint at work.. lol

As for maps I guess the layout could work pretty much in the same way haha.

 

Exactly.
FYI, if you didn't understand, I was just joking, since that was what was written in your picture

That's not a bad design joytech, I like the Favorites section, really hope they implemented that.

 

That's actually way better than my design! I hope they put this in the game!

 

as GUI's go, these are quite bad. Somehow I think we should leave the layout and aesthetics to our resident artist, Gabester. Just based purely on what I've seen. Besides, only the dev team knows the ins-and-outs of the game so far.

 

For a second I thought there was actually a beta already

 

dammit, my bad.

 

I don't know.. I've designed entire enterprise products (around ease-of-use) so I know what I'm doing when I post a design for a GUI.. Haha. (Albeit rushed in paint with a spare 10 minutes).
I do agree with you on leaving it to them though, they know the ins-and-outs of the game, so they'll definitely design their GUI around what they know compared to me making huge guesses. lol

 

I got bored and had a go at designing UI even though i know it will probably look nothing like the one that will be made for final/beta release. Anyway it's fun and inspirational (click the enlarge pic) I know this is only a quick sketch but you get the idea

 

Only he says. Also great music.

 

I wish. But that's not gonna be for quite a while, unfortunately.

 

Major bump, I know.
But it would be nice to have a "nicer" spawn menu, with car preview pics etc I like the ones posted above.

 

The car and map chooser are going to be HTML eventually