A plugin that allows you to customize the background on the loading screen and main menu.
An example of a customized loading screen.
An example of a customized main menu. (Yes that is my Red Dead Online character.)
An example of the clean loading menu feature.
The plugin selects random .png or .dds images in the LoadingScreenBackgroundImages folder to show on the loading screen. For the main menu, the plugin cheacks if there are any .png or .dds images in LoadingScreenBackgroundImages\MainMenuScreenBackgroundImages folder. If there are images, then it will pick a random .png or .dds image to show in the background of the main menu. Else, it will check if there are .wmv video files in LoadingScreenBackgroundImages\MainMenuScreenBackgroundVideos folder. If there is video files, it will pick a random video to play in the background of the main menu. If there are no new files in any folder in LoadingScreenBackgroundImages, then the main menu background will act like normal.
To use the plugin, please install PluginLoader. After you install PluginLoader successfully, go to the plugins menu from the main menu and select Custom Loading Backgrounds. Click Apply and you will be asked to restart the game. Click Yes to restart the game and you done! Manual Plugin Installation without PluginLoader is not supported!
NOTE: Only .png, .jpg, and .dds files are accepted. Any other files not ending in .png, .jpg, or .dds will be ignored.
- Go to
C:\Users\[Your Username]\AppData\Roaming\SpaceEngineers\LoadingScreenBackgroundImages. - Paste your images here. File name does not matter; file name must end in
.pngor.dds. - You are done!
NOTE: Only .png, .jpg, and .dds files are accepted. Any other files not ending in .png, .jpg, or .dds will be ignored.
- Go to
C:\Users\[Your Username]\AppData\Roaming\SpaceEngineers\LoadingScreenBackgroundImages\MainMenuScreenBackgroundImages. - Paste your images here. File name does not matter.
- You are done!
NOTE: Only .wmv files are accepted. Any other files not ending in .wmv will be ignored.
NOTE: Remove all image files in LoadingScreenBackgroundImages\MainMenuScreenBackgroundImages or custom videos will not work.
- Go to
C:\Users\[Your Username]\AppData\Roaming\SpaceEngineers\LoadingScreenBackgroundImages\MainMenuScreenBackgroundVideos. - Paste your images here. File name does not matter; file name must end in
.wmv. Image resolution does not matter, any images that is not 16:9 aspect ratio will be streched/squashed. - You are done!
There are configuration options for this plugin in the plugins configurations menu in the plugins menu.
-Clean Loading Menu: This enables the cleaner loading menu provided by this plugin when enabled.
-Loading Screen Overlay: This overlay shows up in the loading menu when enabled. It is the same overlay as the Main Menu Overlay.
-Main Menu Overlay: This overlay shows up in the main menu when enabled. It is faint lines that go across the screen.
-Main Menu Overlay 2: This overlay also shows up in the main menu when enabled. It is more visble than Main Menu Overlay. It is blue bordered squares with fading at the edges of the overlay. Overlays over Main Menu Overlay.
-Custom Main Menu Overlay: This overlay shows up in the main menu when enabled and when textures are in the CustomOverlays\MainMenu folder.
-Custom Loading Menu Overlay: This overlay shows up in the loading menu when enabled and when textures are in the CustomOverlays\LoadingMenu folder.
-Show Loading Screen Percent: Disable/enable the world progress percentage indication.