Intro & Closing

The Intro

The screen opens in the dark:

1. Your logo condenses out of the dark from its centre, dimmed and colourless
2. A light sweep crosses it and switches it on — the colour fills in exactly where the light has been
3. A small burst of particles leaves the logo, and dust drifts through the light behind it
4. Your server name rises letter by letter beside the logo
5. The name sinks away, the logo flies on an arc to the top-left corner, and the dark opens onto your background video from where the logo was
6. The menu, the links and the loading line come in, and the music fades up

The whole intro takes a little over two seconds at the designed pace. Short sound cues play with it and finish before your music starts.

Logos Without Transparency

A logo saved as a JPG, or a PNG on a solid square, is lifted off its background colour automatically (Config.server.logoBackground = 'auto'), so the glow and the light sweep follow its real shape. Set it to 'keep' to show the file exactly as it is.

Colours From Your Logo

With Config.intro.effects.logoColors on, the burst and the glow take their colours from the logo itself: a spark leaving the top-left corner carries the colour of the top-left corner. A logo with no colour of its own uses the accent colour.

The Closing

When the game is ready, the screen does not snap away:

1. The menu flies back out the way it came in
2. The dark closes back over the background
3. The logo flies home from its corner to the middle of the screen
4. The light that switched it on at the start runs back across it and switches it off
5. The screen takes itself down the moment it is black

The music fades out with it (Config.outro.musicFade). The closing takes under three seconds and can be sped up, slowed down, given a longer hold or turned off.

Info

The closing needs the screen to be taken down by this resource rather than by the game. This is already set in the resource's fxmanifest.lua (loadscreen_manual_shutdown 'yes'). If the screen ever fails to answer, it is taken down anyway after Config.game.closeTimeout seconds.

Configuration

Option	Default	Description
Config.intro.enabled	true	Off skips straight to the logo in its corner
Config.intro.speed	1	Pace of the intro, 0.5–2
Config.intro.hold	0.5	Seconds the finished logo and name hold before the handoff
Config.intro.sound.enabled	true	Sound cues for the intro and the closing
Config.outro.enabled	true	Off takes the screen down the moment the game is ready
Config.outro.showName	false	Bring the server name back under the logo as it comes home

Every option is listed in Intro Settings and Closing & Game Settings.