This looks great!

I think I'll have a go at turning this into a proper scoreboard program. Already wrote my own custom version of Starboard from the ground up, this should be do-able.

The only problem I could see is that you'll lose the ability to have a drop shadow if I use a chroma key.

KadaverBB

Germany25657 Posts

September 14 2012 00:30 GMT

#63

I really like this, looks great.

Nazeron

Canada1046 Posts

September 14 2012 01:54 GMT

#64

holy crap, thats really nice looking, GJ TB!!
hope to see it be used

Steelavocado

United States2123 Posts

September 14 2012 03:54 GMT

#65

TB, this is a great idea and should be used in every tourny.
Good work sir!

Kharnage

Australia920 Posts

September 14 2012 03:59 GMT

#66

TotalBiscuit? More like TotalBALLER!

Treisk

United States59 Posts

September 14 2012 04:24 GMT

#67

I would switch the positions of the race/team logos. You said the next "version" would have the split in the middle be vertical, too, which facilitates this a bit more. Some team logos operate better in the confines of a perfect square. You could also move the race icon to the inside (towards the middle) of the supply counts and use the middle as the tournament logo. I just think it would flow better and fits everything best.

GaiusBaltar

Germany63 Posts

September 14 2012 04:31 GMT

#68

It's unfortunate that this has to be done by the community via the use of workarounds and out of game resources instead of Blizzard directly implementing the functionality for this by updating their UI. Though I heard they are finally working on clan support for HotS, so maybe that will be a step in the right direction.

That being said: good effort TB.

Brett

Australia3821 Posts

September 14 2012 04:52 GMT

#69

Great stuff, TB!

TheDna

Germany577 Posts

September 14 2012 04:52 GMT

#70

Lets face it battle.net 2.0 is a huge letdown. What we were hoping for is what valve made possible with dota 2. Its such an awesome client and it has really EVERYTHING esports needs. And its still only beta.

Oh yeah and on topic awesome work TB as usual.

CatNzHat

United States1599 Posts

September 14 2012 05:04 GMT

#71

If I have the time this semester I'll add this to starboard. If someone else feels inclined then feel free to do it yourself, ascend has made starboard an open source project, you can view and download the C# .NET project on github here: https://github.com/ascendedguard/starboard-sc2
Like the initiative from mr. biscuit, would like to be able to bring this to not only "proffessionally" run tournaments like the SCI, but make a system so that teams can put together their own banner and upload it to a hosting site and then have the scoreboard autmatically populate the sponsor images from a list of teams, of course leaving the option for custom images to be used.
This would require standardizing the resolution of the images, which will require some testing to determine the optimum solution.

Dubzex

United States6994 Posts

September 14 2012 05:55 GMT

#72

Very nice.

xsksc

United Kingdom1044 Posts

September 14 2012 06:24 GMT

#73

Good job. I hope others in the scene will follow your example.

RTSDealer

286 Posts

September 14 2012 06:32 GMT

#74

This is definitely a step into the right direction.

Blizzard should be taking down notes on everything Valve is doing with Dota 2.

Starcraft 2 team pennants anyone?

Tone_

United Kingdom554 Posts

September 14 2012 06:43 GMT

#75

This is brilliant that Totalbiscuit is really following up on his initial post. Can't wait to see it in action and we really need to see swarms of large scale tournaments following on. I mean MLG need to pick this up asap.

What time is the broadcast?

Ownos

United States2147 Posts

September 14 2012 07:55 GMT

#76

It's too bad Blizzard doesn't allow any ingame banners. It can be done, it's just a custom object/texture added into the map. I've seen some in chinese/taiwan? matches a long time ago. But I think Blizzard might have to relax their policy if e-sports sponsors see more money in DOTA2.

I think Blizzard fears there could be backlash because it's "ingame advertising" which gamers hates! I'm sure if it's limited to tournament maps it would be ok. Its should be fine and shouldn't break immersion for the immersion peeps because they're not good enough anyway to play in a tournament.

Striding Strider

United Kingdom787 Posts

September 14 2012 08:45 GMT

#77

I like this idea. At least how the second screenshot implements it; I think the in game banners are too OTT.

It looks much cleaner and pleasing with the sponsors logo's next to each players name, and definitely beats having EGIdrARC etc in the players name which just makes things look cluttered as fuck.

Zojukanji

China393 Posts

September 14 2012 09:01 GMT

#78

Great idea. You rock TB!

Liquid`Nazgul

22427 Posts

September 14 2012 09:08 GMT

#79

YESYESYES

-orb-

United States5770 Posts

September 14 2012 09:12 GMT

#80

Great idea. Anything we can do to help encourage sponsors to invest in esports and give them a more direct and consistent ROI is a good thing.

Keep in mind (you probably know this already but you'd be surprised the people I've had to tell this to) you can turn the visbility of the menus off that are taking up part of the top-left of your screen. This can help clear up the clutter and give more space for these types of scoreboards.