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Can there be people/characters/npcs in them?

Can there be people/characters/npcs in them?

In moderation and artistically, yes. If there are just a bunch of stormtroopers and reborns in their scripted places, probably not.

 

Definitely a map by someone like Sith-J-Cull, Darth NormaN or MaceCrusherMadunusus.

 

Would like to NOT see any NPC's in the background.

Definitely a map by someone like Sith-J-Cull, Darth NormaN or MaceCrusherMadunusus.

 

Would like to NOT see any NPC's in the background.

Right. I'd say if there are any NPC's in the image, it will lessen the chances of being picked.

 

Oh OH! What about the skybox from Darth Normans Battle Over Coruscant siege map? That would look awesome!

 

EDIT: And no one even THINK about using mb2_dotf as a background image.

With jaMME you can capture a screenshot with any size using off-screen capture, like that, so guys with low res monitors can take a part too.

 

UPD: you can also use FBO mode (r_fbo 1) and will be able to take screenshots directly w/o off-screen manipulations with batch files etc.

Also, I think it should be added to main post because some people with low res monitors could know they have chance too.

With jaMME you can capture a screenshot with any size using off-screen capture, like that, so guys with low res monitors can take a part too.

Nice! I actually took my picture of @@Circa's jesus with Jamme, but I didn't know there was a command for high res pictures without increasing the resolution! Thanks xD.

 

EDIT: I solved the problem with the JKA blackscreen for the mod by placing GLDirect's opengl32.dll inside the gamedata folder. You gotta do what you gotta do...

Can there be people/characters/npcs in them?

I don't see why not. Someone made a screenshot of one of my maps with NPC's in them and it works . . .

 

This is a great idea. Wouldn't mind actually seeing a rotation of levels. Far as a polished site goes I really like Ford Dyes site @ www.levelforge.com. For those who don't know, Ford used to be a level maker for RAVEN.

This is a great idea. Wouldn't mind actually seeing a rotation of levels. Far as a polished site goes I really like Ford Dyes site @ www.levelforge.com. For those who don't know, Ford used to be a level maker for RAVEN.

I clicked on that link and waited for it to load. I got to 35% before I gave up on waiting. That's probably how it would be if we had a rotating background: slow load times. It would be cool though.

 

I clicked on that link and waited for it to load. I got to 35% before I gave up on waiting. That's probably how it would be if we had a rotating background: slow load times. It would be cool though.

That's unrelated; has more to do with the entire site being made in poorly-written (and bad-looking) Flash than anything.

That's unrelated; has more to do with the entire site being made in poorly-written (and bad-looking) Flash than anything.

Well, a rotating background would still hinder the load times of the site greatly. And slowing it just a tad gets a certain someone a bit on edge.

 

Unless he means rotating with every refresh. Which would make more sense. Could also be cool. Not sure if we'd do such a thing though.

 

Well, a rotating background would still hinder the load times of the site greatly. And slowing it just a tad gets a certain someone a bit on edge.

 

Unless he means rotating with every refresh. Which would make more sense. Could also be cool. Not sure if we'd do such a thing though.

Neither one would impact load times significantly, supposing it's coded correctly. The most significant load times will come from the actual caching/loading of the images on the user's end, which should only happen once.

I'm concerned that this might be more distracting than anything though.

I'm concerned that this might be more distracting than anything though.

Agreed.

 

OR.. rotate 1 each day...or week?

You could, yeah. You just need to amass that many images. And that also means again, you have to load a super high-res image every day. Bing manages to pull this off quite well on phones, though.

That's unrelated; has more to do with the entire site being made in poorly-written (and bad-looking) Flash than anything.

Precisely. My website is just a bunch of HTML pages with some Java scripting which I use to "rotate" images, especially on my Download page, which features a slideshow of my released maps . . .

 

 

Well, a rotating background would still hinder the load times of the site greatly. And slowing it just a tad gets a certain someone a bit on edge.

 

Unless he means rotating with every refresh. Which would make more sense. Could also be cool. Not sure if we'd do such a thing though.

 

Instead of an entire background, a portion of an image can be used as in a banner of something . . .

 

We can barely see any background at all. Having a picture or screenshot as a background is not really useful for a site with a theme looking like this. At most you can see a little more on the right and some skies on the top (currently). That's just how I feel about it

Now if the text windows were slightly transparent...

We can barely see any background at all. Having a picture or screenshot as a background is not really useful for a site with a theme looking like this. At most you can see a little more on the right and some skies on the top (currently). That's just how I feel about it

The people that use the Fixed Width theme would probably disagree with that.

 

They are cool, but there is lack of anti-aliasing.

 

P.S.: hiding big images under spoilers for noobs

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Great work, Si! My top three are above.

They are cool, but there is lack of anti-aliasing.

 

P.S.: hiding big images under spoilers for noobs

 

I've never been a fan of anti-aliasing, I always turn it off in games I play which allow it

@SiLink