Use alternative German main menu buttons

[zenseii]

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I noticed that there is another set of assets for German buttons in the main menu that get loaded first in the original game when loading the main menu and can be seen during the fading animation from high score to main menu.

I marked this as a question, because I would like to hear some opinions on this, even though I think the buttons you can see in the fading look much better than the ones used in fheroes2 now, I haven't looked at where in the resources these files are located.

Had to slow down after exiting the high scores. They can be seen at 14 seconds in the clip.

https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/12501091/160217731-3b19b114-8142-4bd0-b5cb-93bb373f7d59.mp4

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[ihhub]

Hi @zenseii , many resources related to non-English versions of the game have background with different buttons. It's applicable not only for Main Menu but for other dialogs as well. The biggest issue here is that a button must have at least 2 images: released state and pressed state and the main image (background) has only state.

[zenseii]

Yes, the buttons will generally need images for released and pressed state, and for the main menu it only needs an additional highlighting when hovering over the buttons. There is no pressed state and released state. When I looked through the assets I found this alternative menu to be in the expansion assets' heroes2x.agg within heroes container. The intention seems to have been to provide a visually improved main menu. Not sure if the assets include a highlighted asset for the buttons.

Button highlighting animation is located in heroes2.agg in btnshngl.

Here is a png conversion

As for highlightng you might just need a yellow border around it similar to how is done with the French assets.

Looking through other assets I can see that the Polish version is already using the heroes2x.agg main menu since the one in heroes2.agg is the English original.