Fix unsupported Velopack splash icon

[smallketchup82]

• Should be deployed with Fix ugly installer splash screen osu-deploy#173

Turns out that Velopack doesn't support transparent .png's as the splashicon, leading to issues like this on installation:

Velopack supports a:

• High Resolution JPG
• PNG with non-transparent background

This PR reuses https://github.com/ppy/osu/blob/master/osu.iOS/Assets.xcassets/AppIcon.appiconset/300076680-5cbe0121-ed68-414f-9ddc-dd993ac97e62.png for the icon. Though, alternative designs are welcome.

Preview:

You can use this release to test it (you must not have lazer installed first)

See ppy/osu-deploy#173 for testing details

[peppy]

@arflyte got anything to use here? if you can search up the specs required and provide something by wednesday that would be good.

[arflyte]

Not exactly sure what Velopack is. Made JPGs.

Additionally, if it helps:

https://www.figma.com/design/9dyAxJqsNqwRIiAJMAxeko/osu!Cookie-v4b?node-id=0-1&t=rvYv91eIyBvg8IJA-1

[bdach]

Velopack = installer.

That said we already have opaque icon stuff for mobile platforms: see https://github.com/ppy/osu/blob/master/osu.iOS/Assets.xcassets/AppIcon.appiconset/300076680-5cbe0121-ed68-414f-9ddc-dd993ac97e62.png. Maybe we can do the same here (as the OP already does) rather than non-descript single colour fill?

[arflyte]

What do you guys actually need. I humbly request context and I WILL provide the goods.

[bdach]

We use an external tool to provide the game with an installer. It's called velopack. Currently it does this when launched (apology for janky video but it chooses itself to run on my primary monitor and I can't be bothered to change it just for this):

2024-09-09.22-25-12.mp4

It displays a splash window while it's silent-installing and the splash window looks terrible because it can't do transparency anymore (it used to). We need something better - non-transparent - to replace it. Notably probably with a bit of a gap underneath so that the progress bar can stop clipping the bottom of the logo. Also notably the docs claim animated GIFs are supported contrary to what the OP says but I did not test this myself at this time so I cannot verify the veracity of that claim.

Do note that we're not in control of the duration of display of the thing so it should probably be best to keep it a static image. Or if we wanna try animated then it should be like those "spinner"/"scrubber" style displays but osu!-themed probably. Maybe one of us should confirm whether GIF works first though to avoid a waste of time.

[arflyte]

Created 2 types of PNG, which rounded corners and sharp. And another with JPG. It's rectangle for stylistic purposes. It seems fairly quickly, so not sure if animated GIF is worth it.

The rounded corners has no gradient alpha channels, so try that one first, may fix the weird issues.

[peppy]

Rounded corners obviously won't work. The bottom bar is not rounded.

@smallketchup82 want to test the very vertical images and see if they look good?

[smallketchup82]

Here's what it looks like with the vertically stretched version (also this is a windows 11 vm that's skinned to look like windows 7, sorry if it's a little misleading)

I think it's a bit too big, might be wise to scale it down a bit

[peppy]

I still think we can do better than just the osu logo. Some kind of loading text? Something special to make new users feel special? This just feels a bit of a cop-out.

[smallketchup82]

If we don't want just a simple osu! logo, maybe we could draw from the fanart contests? Or do a contest specifically for the splash icon? That might be overkill for something that'll only display on windows, and will probably only show for 10 seconds, but it's an idea nevertheless. If I were a new player, I'd enjoy a cozy osu! themed drawing while installing.

[peppy]

@smallketchup82 is there a reason this PR isn't just opened at osu-deploy side? it doesn't seem that this resource needs to be over on this repository for any good reason.

[smallketchup82]

Not really no, I was just doing as was done before. It should be completely fine to move the image to osu-deploy. Would you like me to do that when I have the time to?

[peppy]

I think it's probably best to have it in the same place it's being used, yeah. Less moving pieces for making modifications.

[smallketchup82]

Will be closing this now, I'll move everything to this PR