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If you like Impact and want to support it, here's your chance :)

This Plugin defines a new pre-loader that shows the (animated) Impact Logo while loading. It also fades from a white screen to your game after everything is loaded.

You can see it in action for Z-Type or (larger) for Biolab Disaster hqx.

Get the plugin from Github:
https://github.com/phoboslab/impact-splash-loader

The logo is drawn with the canva's lineTo() and bezierCurveTo() methods, and thus scales nicely. I converted the logo from Adobe Illustrator to canvas using this awesome Illustrator plugin and shortened the output with a bit of manual search and replace.

Please feel free to modify this to show your own logo or whatever you like :)

Excellent. Thank you Dominic.

Very useful code, thanks!

Looks great! I'll get it added to my projects today :)

this is a sick logo, love it!

quick question:

I don't have Adobe Illustrator. How do I recreate the same splash screen using... say GIMP?

PS: it seems that the ai2canvas plugin allowed you to apply some sleek animations before conversion. Dang!

The animation was actually added by hand afterwards. The whole splash screen is a vector graphic, so it was easy to take some of the points and randomly move them around.

If you don't have Illustrator, try the open source Inkscape for vector graphics. There's also a plugin that exports to canvas operations: https://github.com/karlisson/Ink2canvas


Another thing you could do, is to load an image file (png/jpg) as the splash screen, but you'd have to make sure to load this image first, before you begin loading all the other assets.

This should definitely ship with the core Impact code! Even if it's not enabled by default, it shows off how to use a custom folder (plugins) and it's classier than the basic loading bar. I think most people would turn it on.

This is a fantastic plugin, Dominic. I was actually searching online to see if anyone had attempted recreating the fade-in from Z-Type, and was surprised to see you've released it yourself. Thanks for this.

I just threw this in my game and WOW does it make a difference. Such a sweet loading screen.