The new retail Half-Life: Particle Fusion theme is finally here! Since I develop primarily still for the retail version of Half-Life rather than the Steam one, I had to make a theme for it. The new one is the animated GIF and the old one is the static image. Fun (or not) fact, this theme was created and finished TO THE DAY on the 10th anniversary of the creation of the original theme. The original theme was a joint effort between me and Xylemon, whereas the new theme is all my own efforts. Hooray!
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Wow this looks great. I love the old WON menus. How do the animations work? Are they just GIFs?
They're AVI files, you gotta dig out PaintShop Pro's Animator to create one with the correct era-appropriate codec though!
I WISH they were just GIFs! That'd be so much easier. But, nope. eukara is 100% correct. Valve made the videos using Jasc Software's Animation Shop which came with Paint Shop Pro back in the day. It's one of the only programs to this DAY that ever supported encoding in the MS-RLE video codec.
Ah yeah, I remember making this so long ago. Even though we released the HL Button Maker with Overturn, we still need to do some cleanup and re-up it separately as that wonderful tool was written for us to make those awful buttons with ease.
This reminds me so much of original 90s game menus. Looks very trendy given games such as Dusk or Ion Fury.
It's just the retail version's menu but reskinned for my mod.
Wait, the mod is alive?
Yes.
Do you have a release date?
Nope.