*sam* Posted Jul 31, 2010, 2:24 pm	This patch adds a nice new feature: player-uploaded 'Scenes of Evan' pictures. You'll find a new option on the Suggestions page (for subscribers only) that lets you upload screenshots and specify the map that they're from. If they're good enough, I'll validate them and then they will dynamically patch into the 'Scenes of Evan' slideshow in the game client, and will also sometimes be used as the event loading screen background image for that map. Uploaded images must be either 400x300 or 800x600, jpg format, max filesize 250kB. Please avoid GUIs, damage text etc. as much as possible in the image as it will otherwise likely look poor when reduced in size for the slideshow. edit: I have just made it so you can click on any "Scenes of Evan" image to set it as your background image in the lobby
*Ayjona* Posted Jul 31, 2010, 2:41 pm	Very nice feature! Ah, the irony, that I just formatted and lost 1 GB of saved Darkwind screenshots, including one where a phoenix was lifted several meters into the air by seven different rocket launcher attacks during one of the famous mass scouts.
Groove Champion Posted Jul 31, 2010, 3:24 pm	Very nice!
*Grograt* gary.r.horder@gmail.com Posted Jul 31, 2010, 3:33 pm	I have hundreds. from a lot of sources ill load em up later
*sam* Posted Jul 31, 2010, 3:37 pm	Please avoid GUIs, damage text etc. as much as possible in the image as it will otherwise likely look poor when reduced in size for the slideshow. A lot of my own ones won't work so well because of this requirement..
*jimmylogan* Posted Jul 31, 2010, 3:43 pm	Sam - just a suggestion - your shot of "The Pits By Sam" would look better as "The Pits" by Sam.
*Bastille* Posted Jul 31, 2010, 3:52 pm	Nice Feature
Crazy AL Posted Jul 31, 2010, 4:13 pm	This is very cool. Any chance we could get a little credit where it's due like "shot taken by the awesome and talented CRAZY AL" down near the bottom in small text somewhere?
metrocube Posted Jul 31, 2010, 5:46 pm	countdown until someone uploads a picture of their private parts.. 3..2..1...
*Grograt* gary.r.horder@gmail.com Posted Jul 31, 2010, 5:56 pm
*Rezeak* reecestensel@hotmail.co.uk Posted Jul 31, 2010, 8:06 pm	How long (roughly) will it take for screenies to be put into the game after being submitted? - assuming they are good enough to be displayed.
*sam* Posted Jul 31, 2010, 8:31 pm	Crazy AL said: This is very cool. Any chance we could get a little credit where it's due like "shot taken by the awesome and talented CRAZY AL" down near the bottom in small text somewhere? Yeah, they display the author name
*sam* Posted Jul 31, 2010, 8:33 pm	*Rezeak* said: How long (roughly) will it take for screenies to be put into the game after being submitted? - assuming they are good enough to be displayed. Same as car skins, it just waits until I next log in and check them to sign them off. I'm gonna be fairly stringent with quality though as they lead to a mandatory download for everyone in the lobby
Lord Foul Posted Jul 31, 2010, 9:21 pm	*sam* said: This patch adds a nice new feature: player-uploaded 'Scenes of Evan' pictures. You'll find a new option on the Suggestions page (for subscribers only) that lets you upload screenshots and specify the map that they're from. If they're good enough, I'll validate them and then they will dynamically patch into the 'Scenes of Evan' slideshow in the game client, and will also sometimes be used as the event loading screen background image for that map. Uploaded images must be either 400x300 or 800x600, jpg format, max filesize 250kB. Please avoid GUIs, damage text etc. as much as possible in the image as it will otherwise likely look poor when reduced in size for the slideshow. edit: I have just made it so you can click on any "Scenes of Evan" image to set it as your background image in the lobby Are there any you'd like me to upload Sam that are already in the scenes of Evan thread or do you already have all of them downloaded from before to add as you go along? Also, if anyone would like me to upload a specific photo from the scenes of evan thread to the client so you can use it as a background image, please let me know.
*Grograt* gary.r.horder@gmail.com Posted Jul 31, 2010, 9:25 pm	we need the populated towns for sure
*Tinker* Posted Jul 31, 2010, 11:37 pm	*sam* said: Uploaded images must be either 400x300 or 800x600, jpg format, max filesize 250kB. Please avoid GUIs, damage text etc. as much as possible in the image as it will otherwise likely look poor when reduced in size for the slideshow. Any chance it could support 1920 x 1200? Also is it possible to have an option for a plain background again? and the option not to have the scenes of Evans? Asking because all the pictures pixellate from being blown up on a 1920x1200 screen
*Tinker* Posted Aug 1, 2010, 12:50 am	Don't see any credits just the name, and it's cut using windowed mode 1920x1200
*Bastille* Posted Aug 1, 2010, 8:20 am	sam said: Please avoid GUIs, damage text etc. as much as possible in the image as it will otherwise likely look poor when reduced in size for the slideshow. A lot of my own ones won't work so well because of this requirement.. Ahh,.. the pits by sam seems to have some text  Quote: we need the populated towns for sure YES PLZ!!! Definitely, these are great! be nice to replace the current town screens too. Add: Brilliant Feature! Lovin' It!
*sam* Posted Aug 1, 2010, 7:46 pm	Lord Foul said: *sam* said: This patch adds a nice new feature: player-uploaded 'Scenes of Evan' pictures. You'll find a new option on the Suggestions page (for subscribers only) that lets you upload screenshots and specify the map that they're from. If they're good enough, I'll validate them and then they will dynamically patch into the 'Scenes of Evan' slideshow in the game client, and will also sometimes be used as the event loading screen background image for that map. Uploaded images must be either 400x300 or 800x600, jpg format, max filesize 250kB. Please avoid GUIs, damage text etc. as much as possible in the image as it will otherwise likely look poor when reduced in size for the slideshow. edit: I have just made it so you can click on any "Scenes of Evan" image to set it as your background image in the lobby Are there any you'd like me to upload Sam that are already in the scenes of Evan thread or do you already have all of them downloaded from before to add as you go along? Also, if anyone would like me to upload a specific photo from the scenes of evan thread to the client so you can use it as a background image, please let me know. Could you upload them LF? That way they'll get credited to you.
*sam* Posted Aug 1, 2010, 7:48 pm	Thanks for uploading some pics, guys. I rejected several because I didn't think they were very good - chaotic scenes of carnage generally don't make good screenshots. There needs to generally be some nice scenery and/or fairly large vehicles in the shot. I'm hoping to keep up LF's high standard. I have validated several too so you should see them coming thru in the game client.
*Wolfsbane* Posted Aug 2, 2010, 12:12 am	Bastiel said: Quote: we need the populated towns for sure YES PLZ!!! Definitely, these are great! be nice to replace the current town screens too. Thirded.  The populated towns are much nicer than the current empty ones on the website.
*Bastille* Posted Aug 2, 2010, 4:43 am	sam said: I rejected several because I didn't think they were very good - chaotic scenes of carnage generally don't make good screenshots. Ahh, gotya! It was late, I was excitable and the upload finger was itchy
Lord Foul Posted Aug 2, 2010, 4:53 am	*sam* said: Lord Foul said: *sam* said: This patch adds a nice new feature: player-uploaded 'Scenes of Evan' pictures. You'll find a new option on the Suggestions page (for subscribers only) that lets you upload screenshots and specify the map that they're from. If they're good enough, I'll validate them and then they will dynamically patch into the 'Scenes of Evan' slideshow in the game client, and will also sometimes be used as the event loading screen background image for that map. Uploaded images must be either 400x300 or 800x600, jpg format, max filesize 250kB. Please avoid GUIs, damage text etc. as much as possible in the image as it will otherwise likely look poor when reduced in size for the slideshow. edit: I have just made it so you can click on any "Scenes of Evan" image to set it as your background image in the lobby Are there any you'd like me to upload Sam that are already in the scenes of Evan thread or do you already have all of them downloaded from before to add as you go along? Also, if anyone would like me to upload a specific photo from the scenes of evan thread to the client so you can use it as a background image, please let me know. Could you upload them LF? That way they'll get credited to you. Unfortunately the website it way to picky about the size and 99% of my photos are not exactly 800x600. Trying to resize and cut pieces out on each one to perfectly match 800x600 would take ages. I also notice all my photos are in hi res and are above the 250k max size allowed, so even if I manage to resize a photo down to an exact 800x600 the file size is still to big and the website says no. The populated towns also won't work, sorry guys. Sam, since you've already used many of my photos in the scenes of evan and they were not 800x600 it might be best for you to do what you did before and add them manually if you see ones you like. Or if you can accept up to 1900x1200 I'll be able to do upload without issue.
Crazy AL Posted Aug 2, 2010, 6:15 am	What ^ he said.
*Bastille* Posted Aug 2, 2010, 9:14 am	Quote: The populated towns also won't work, sorry guys. Bummer - Oh well, I seen em, I can use my imagination.
Lord Foul Posted Aug 5, 2010, 6:02 am	Good news, I found software that does a good job a resizing my photos and it keeps the size managable too. Populated towns have been uploaded to Sam.
*Bastille* Posted Aug 5, 2010, 7:52 am	Awesome your Foulness!
*Longo* Posted Aug 5, 2010, 3:09 pm	Lord Foul said: Good news, I found software that does a good job a resizing my photos and it keeps the size managable too. Populated towns have been uploaded to Sam. Good to hear Lord F.
*sam* Posted Aug 5, 2010, 9:19 pm	Great, thanks LF! I was going to offer to do them for you in photoshop, if you were stuck edit: actually some of them look a bit too squashed in one direction.. I intended for them to be cropped rather than distorted to fit the 800x600 size.. let me know if you want to email me a bunch and I'll fix them up
Lord Foul Posted Aug 5, 2010, 9:59 pm	*sam* said: Great, thanks LF! I was going to offer to do them for you in photoshop, if you were stuck edit: actually some of them look a bit too squashed in one direction.. I intended for them to be cropped rather than distorted to fit the 800x600 size.. let me know if you want to email me a bunch and I'll fix them up Yeah, forcing an image from 1200 down to 800 did squish some of the photos. Cropping might work, but it could turn a great phot into just a meh photo. Do you want to just grab the ones I have in the scenes of evan thread and go from there or send you a few hundred photos at a meg or so each? lol
Deathangels Shadow Posted Aug 5, 2010, 10:03 pm	The trick is, first you scale them so that either your width is 800 or your height is 600, whichever makes the other dimension greater than or equal to the correct value - THEN You crop. That will lose the least detail. So, for example, if you're running in 1920x1200, then you have more horizontal pixels than vertical, so scale to 50% (960x600), and then crop what's left to 800x600.
d0dger Posted Aug 8, 2010, 3:57 pm	Any chance we'll get to submit scenes of Evan for the racetracks and combat arenas?
*sam* Posted Aug 8, 2010, 5:07 pm	You already can d0dger
Lord Foul Posted Aug 11, 2010, 4:47 am	Just a quick reminder/suggestion to those that submit photos to Sam. Please move your mouse arrow out of the way before taking a picture. I see multiple photos that Sam approved with the mouse arrow in the middle of the picture. It's the first thing I see/look for whan looking at a photo for the first time. It can turn a great photo into just an ok photo if you have a mouse arrow floating about in the scene.
*Bastille* Posted Aug 11, 2010, 6:25 am	I have this on so many of my screen shots. I try and be really aware to move it out of the way now. A good TO always helps line up that perfect shot and get everything off the screen. I recently used a car I had not used for months, with one of the first skins I made. I had pasted a screenshot over the vehicle(forever yellow skies sunset shot). On the front right quarter panel there is a great fat mouse arrow. Oddly I had never noticed before {damn mouse arrow}.
*sam* Posted Aug 11, 2010, 8:45 am	Lord Foul said: Just a quick reminder/suggestion to those that submit photos to Sam. Please move your mouse arrow out of the way before taking a picture. I see multiple photos that Sam approved with the mouse arrow in the middle of the picture. It's the first thing I see/look for whan looking at a photo for the first time. It can turn a great photo into just an ok photo if you have a mouse arrow floating about in the scene.  Ugh, I didn't see that LF (I only view them as thumbnails while approving them). Any chance you could PM me the names of the offending images and I'll manually fix them?
d0dger Posted Aug 19, 2010, 1:01 am	Could we randomize the order of rotation, and/or the starting scene on initial load?
Lord Foul Posted Sep 4, 2010, 5:15 am	Noooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!! The mouse arrow strikes again. Ninesticks, your pic with the BPU in the pits was nice until I noticed you were carrying cargo. Unfortunately your cargo was the mouse arrow..arggggggg
*Ninesticks* Posted Sep 4, 2010, 5:22 am	Whoops, didn't notice that - was an old pic. Will take another.
*Bastille* Posted Sep 4, 2010, 6:00 am	Seeing where it is, a simple copy and paste spot treatment may do.... I like Sams Pit photo
*Grograt* gary.r.horder@gmail.com Posted Sep 4, 2010, 10:25 am	I am not seeing any of the info for who uploaded the picture, is there supposed to be some ?
*Tinker* Posted Sep 4, 2010, 10:51 am	d0dger said: Could we randomize the order of rotation, and/or the starting scene on initial load? Could we please have an option to turn this off? For Pete's sakes. Every time i log i have click the little x to close it, and sometimes miss it and have to live with a new background I'm perfectly happy with just random load screens while loading into events
*sam* Posted Sep 4, 2010, 8:37 pm	I'll put in an option to stop new 'scenes of evan', sure tinker. What's so annoying about it, that means you have to close it every time?
d0dger Posted Sep 4, 2010, 9:05 pm	*sam* said: I'll put in an option to stop new 'scenes of evan', sure tinker. What's so annoying about it, that means you have to close it every time? Not sure what it is, but I turn it off everytime I log in as well (since before the new scenes were added even), and have had the same 'oops' misclick and then get stuck with a background I didn't want.
*TheEvilChaos* Posted Sep 5, 2010, 12:23 am	Also is there anyway we can use the old backround? Call me old fashion but I never found a reason to change it.
*Tinker* Posted Sep 5, 2010, 9:12 am	*sam* said: I'll put in an option to stop new 'scenes of evan', sure tinker. What's so annoying about it, that means you have to close it every time? yup sorry, just like something static in lobby, guess it's just me?