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Posted by Gwil on Mon Aug 23rd at 2:26am 2004


yeah, smaller screenshots are the preferred ones, we have a contingent of 56k users ( i was one til a few months ago!) in our midst

theres a jpeg optimising tool here http://www.irfanview.com/ - good for resizing and optimising file size in Kb as well.


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Posted by DaanO on Mon Aug 23rd at 11:04am 2004


I know irfanview, just didn't count on those rules.



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Posted by Rumple on Mon Aug 23rd at 1:18pm 2004


read me before posting:
Posting map screenshots? Please make them at most 800x600 in size, and as small a filesize as possible! Try irfanview for a program that'll 'optimize' your image size for faster downloading.

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Posted by Myrk- on Mon Aug 23rd at 1:30pm 2004


Hes the type of person that complains to the hotel hes staying at after walking into a door that has PULL written on it... hehe

Looks like a nice map, although as Reno said I think or maybe ferret, it does look stale. Theres something about the lighting too, its rather plain and mono, try adding some red bits here and there or something, or putting some red in the sky to contrast.

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Posted by DaanO on Mon Aug 23rd at 4:27pm 2004


not really, i never complain really

anyway, i am very sure that red would kill the color scheme in this map (i'm an art school student, trust me on this one ). i am not changing this anymore.

i submitted the map for the contest, but it was a little late so i guess it has not been accepted. i wish good luck to all contestants, voted for paralaxation (sp?) as winner, runner-up reno's flatshaded map. have to admit, both are better than my map, but since i only spent about 12 hours totally on this map, that's no shame. so yeah good luck, and hopefully some of you will enjoy this map after all. try it. when i played it it was far from stale. everybody's circling around, jumping like crazy, gauss-boosting all over the place. the pool in the middle heals you a bit, so some people did try to stand there and defend the place but that's quite hard. beh just give it a try.... *please*





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Posted by Forceflow on Fri Aug 6th at 6:36pm 2004


I kinda like this ... good lighting, and the atmosphere is ok. GJ !



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Posted by Nugg3t on Fri Aug 6th at 10:15pm 2004


Very interesting architecture/layout. But I do think you want a tad overboard with the sprites. A few hanging around in inaccessable areas gives a nice atmosphere, but you sent it to a level of annoyance and it might even cause noticable performace problems in more archaic computers. <br> <br>Overall though, the texturing was done well and the layout was pretty cool.



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Posted by Gorbachev on Fri Aug 6th at 11:22pm 2004


I think the sky could be a blue-scale version of what you've got currently and it'd be a great theme.



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Posted by DaanO on Sat Aug 7th at 1:11am 2004


I'll think about that, thanks guys. I will remove some sprites, just put that on my fixlist. I'll consider what to do with the skyline as well. Thanks again for the feedback.



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Posted by ReNo on Sun Aug 8th at 1:09am 2004


Have you considered entering this into the contest? It just seems you've about finished it and the contest deadline is tomorrow (well, today now I guess) so it might be worth a thought if you have the time to complete it smiley



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Posted by DaanO on Sun Aug 8th at 5:11pm 2004


Hey man, i'm not really sure what contest you are talking about :S. Anyway, there's about half an hour of work left so i could finish this any day.



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Posted by DaanO on Sun Aug 8th at 6:33pm 2004


Ack, just re-read my post, doesn't sound too friendly hehe ^_^ <br> <br>I might just know what contest you're talking about, and i'll think about entering it, ok? smiley




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