Playing around with Menus

I've been playing around with some menu concepts for Maze Rover. I'm pretty sure I'm going to go ahead with the Mars Rover, i.e. robot exploring a planet theme, so I had a little think about how the menus would look.

Since I'm no artist, I couldn't just sketch up a lovely looking menu system and see how it looked. What I could do was actually make a 3D menu background and see how that looked.

So, a new version is up, 0.1.6. Here I actually created 3D models of planets and used them as parts of the menu.

I got the awesome planet textures from JHT's Planetary Pixel Emporium which is a great resource for textures as well as bumpmaps. I don't think my knowledge of Unity Materails does them justice but it is just a test after all.

I'm thinking that with some nice fog/atmosphere effects, the zoom down onto the planet could work really well.

For the main menu I wasn't sure what to do so I just made a simple solar system. If you wait long enough there is an eclipse :-).

Version 0.1.6 is playable here.