Oolite Bulletins

Pure awesomeness here again, Griff & co. !!!

another_commander wrote:

It is a very nice picture, but for the reasons DaddyHoggy mentioned it cannot be an official splash screen Although I understand that a splash screen may not necessarily have to reflect in-game content and could be also of artistic nature, the false expectations issue is not to be overlooked. Additionally, there is a bug in 1.73.4 (which was fixed in trunk about 45 seconds ago), that allows only square splash screens for the Win/Linux builds, so if you want to replace the original one with it, it needs some tweaking of its dimensions before it can be used.

I didn't think of the false expectations issue - but on the other hand, as you say, the splash-screen could be seen as an artistic intro that doesn't have to reflect ingame graphics. And with the adding of oxps, it could even come to do that, too, that's just a player decision from then on.

The squareness bug was squashed too, and as I understand that there are also other issues (info which should stay on the splash screen making it ... unique) these could be solved too. Just pack the infos from the existing loadscreen onto the nice new one, I suggest.

There has been some talk as to how let people get an adequate picture of what to expect in oolite, and I for one believe the current load screen is a bit dated. Perhaps a thought or two could be extended onto replacing it with something like DeepSpace's desktop themes? I'd really like to see something like that on startup.

DeepSpace wrote:

Here's a desktop theme. It features Griffs ships and feels quite epic. Just click on the pic to embiggen' (1280x960)
I appologise in advance if this is the wrong thread to post it on.



Well its Sunday and I've nothing better to do...

Enjoy.

PS. thinking about it, this would look AWESOME on a mouse mat..mmmm

A killer screen VERY good.

Right this is the definate final Desktop and its an epic!!! I've gone completely the opposite direction to the last one...
You definately can't use this for anything but a desktop as all the artwork (characters etc) are probably copyright (I just got them from the net). But it looks good.

As usual click on the image to embiggen' (1280x960)



Who are these characters? What do they do? who knows, they just look cool.

Enjoy...

What can I say.
I wish I could look at such good race characters. BTW I like also the new font that came with the oxp.

No prob. Glad you like the pic.
The new font is rather groovy and works pretty well.

pagroove wrote:

DeepSpace wrote:

Here's a desktop theme. It features Griffs ships and feels quite epic. Just click on the pic to embiggen' (1280x960)
I appologise in advance if this is the wrong thread to post it on.



Well its Sunday and I've nothing better to do...

Enjoy.

PS. thinking about it, this would look AWESOME on a mouse mat..mmmm

A killer screen VERY good.

I've just scaled it to 1600x1200 (to keep the aspect ratio correct) for my work laptop with a 1920x1200 screen (the black borders are useful for placing my icons without spoiling the vista!)

Nice one DH. I might defo get a mug or mouse mat with one of these images on it
I got a mug done once cost about £8 but it was really well done, I think the same place do mats, t-shirts, hat etc... ha ha

DeepSpace wrote:

Nice one DH. I might defo get a mug or mouse mat with one of these images on it
I got a mug done once cost about £8 but it was really well done, I think the same place do mats, t-shirts, hat etc... ha ha

Just had a little play on cafepress.co.uk - £18 will get you a uniquely designed T-shirt...

I want explosions like that Krait for my IN-GAME experience.... To hell with realism... It looks good.

The problem with the T-Shirt things is they never look as good as they do on the PC, the image quality drops by ALOT, and the image eventually fades, or worse peels off.

Your probably right ADCK. Here's my T-Shirt if I was gonna order it... £15 at T-Shirt Studio.

cafe press product are pretty good and are properly printed, not transfers. the colours tned to be a little muted but i reckon you'd be happy w/ the result.

I'd like to see DeepSpace's pictures, but they're all Error 404: page not available.

Commander McLane wrote:

I'd like to see DeepSpace's pictures, but they're all Error 404: page not available.

Yeah, that's the problem with uploading huge wallpaper images to your webspace then linking them to a forum - everytime someone loads up a page, your bandwidth trickles away... Especially is everyone quotes the original picture...