Splash Screens! Vega Strike Ad Agency :)
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Splash Screens! Vega Strike Ad Agency :)
Hi all.
I'm starting an Advertising Agency in Atlantis and I got 2 commissions today.
Here are the previews:
For the Shmrn Medical Consortium:
And an obscure shipping company that apparently ran an Aeran Blockade:
Full 1024x768 res Pics available at:
http://www.deeplayer.com/Oblivion/Botet ... Splash.JPG
http://www.deeplayer.com/Oblivion/SMC%20Splash.JPG
And the images I squared especially for y'all, ready to be included into your loadscreens (don't know how? check the wiki! or the documentation in VS root)
http://www.deeplayer.com/Oblivion/SMC%2 ... reRes).JPG
http://www.deeplayer.com/Oblivion/BoteteMFSplash.JPG
Enjoy!
I'm starting an Advertising Agency in Atlantis and I got 2 commissions today.
Here are the previews:
For the Shmrn Medical Consortium:
And an obscure shipping company that apparently ran an Aeran Blockade:
Full 1024x768 res Pics available at:
http://www.deeplayer.com/Oblivion/Botet ... Splash.JPG
http://www.deeplayer.com/Oblivion/SMC%20Splash.JPG
And the images I squared especially for y'all, ready to be included into your loadscreens (don't know how? check the wiki! or the documentation in VS root)
http://www.deeplayer.com/Oblivion/SMC%2 ... reRes).JPG
http://www.deeplayer.com/Oblivion/BoteteMFSplash.JPG
Enjoy!
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Nice pics!
How about adding some spam to the pics somewhere, like "translating from deeplayer.com - the best server available for your message"
No offense to www.deeplayer.com, just an idea
How about adding some spam to the pics somewhere, like "translating from deeplayer.com - the best server available for your message"
No offense to www.deeplayer.com, just an idea
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deeplayer is chuck_starchaser's.
Hehe. APOLOGIZE!
Spam would be obvious. This are meant for billboards in my base renders that were eventually transmuted into load screens.
Maybe in the future... Like Luddite spam! yeah!
Hehe. APOLOGIZE!
Spam would be obvious. This are meant for billboards in my base renders that were eventually transmuted into load screens.
Maybe in the future... Like Luddite spam! yeah!
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...That would be a Confed Ad? Warning the civ population about the dangers of Luddite lunacy? Will try. Why not try to make splash screens too? Post it here! It's an advertisement section that has infiltrated the VS forums, anyway. lol
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I meant that a luddie virus is showing their religious tracts in your nav computer. I'll try to make something too, but now I need to finish the observatory. Maybe even make an ad like this "We're watching you. Don't do anything stupid."[/b]
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I think splash screens are supposed to let off some clue about the universe background story - so try to fill the "ads" with nice historical details, or details about the races/factions, to make it fit in - with that fixed, they could totally be counted in.
Moreover, whenver 3D bases come, I'd totally put them in bases as "random ads"
Moreover, whenver 3D bases come, I'd totally put them in bases as "random ads"
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I think that these do fill that purpose. A lot of the splash screen ads now are stuff like ads for pleasure worlds, "tripezian premium" ale, ships, and confed propoganda. The "medical consortium" ad has cultural information about the prevalence of biotechnology and cybernetic enhancements in the VS universe; the shipping ad has a nice allusion to the human cost of the aeran/human war.klauss wrote:I think splash screens are supposed to let off some clue about the universe background story - so try to fill the "ads" with nice historical details, or details about the races/factions, to make it fit in - with that fixed, they could totally be counted in.
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Yep. But a little deeper than that. They actually give a hint to the VS fiction. See first ad. It's an ad commissioned by the Shmrns, who are good at healing.
Try to read the smaller words. They give out ideas as well. Including different models of pleasure borgs for different VS species offered. Don't try to read the really small letterings though, they are random.
And the second ad. It features an unknown shipping company. It shows a fleet of oxen(? : ). Relates about a past blockade by Aerans in the "testimonial". AND.... the bottom right shows " A Subsidiary of CMT Shipment Group", come on guys... CMT means Cherryh Merchants *Something* (Can't remember it offhand); but basically CMT is what we popularly call the "Merchants" faction in VS. A big monopoly.
Try to read the smaller words. They give out ideas as well. Including different models of pleasure borgs for different VS species offered. Don't try to read the really small letterings though, they are random.
And the second ad. It features an unknown shipping company. It shows a fleet of oxen(? : ). Relates about a past blockade by Aerans in the "testimonial". AND.... the bottom right shows " A Subsidiary of CMT Shipment Group", come on guys... CMT means Cherryh Merchants *Something* (Can't remember it offhand); but basically CMT is what we popularly call the "Merchants" faction in VS. A big monopoly.
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New Splashscreens!
Hehe. Before and after infection:
Original 1024x768 images:
http://www.deeplayer.com/Oblivion/TumpyAdUnadorned.JPG
http://www.deeplayer.com/Oblivion/LudditeVirus.JPG
Enjoy.
Hehe. Before and after infection:
Original 1024x768 images:
http://www.deeplayer.com/Oblivion/TumpyAdUnadorned.JPG
http://www.deeplayer.com/Oblivion/LudditeVirus.JPG
Enjoy.
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I don't know - for an ad, there's too much information shown there. Or too much detail. You know, usually the ads show only the most important information about something. Perhaps if you like detailed images (I can't say I don't like them), you could make a splashscreen of an important battle, about a star explosion or something like that.
But still, great work.
But still, great work.
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Something like this?Kangaroo22 wrote:Perhaps if you like detailed images (I can't say I don't like them), you could make a splashscreen of an important battle, about a star explosion or something like that.
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Yeah, something like that. I could make the ad if MY F*****G HARD DISK WAS OK!!!! I had to use the "emergency exit" - a 15 GB disk with Fedora Core 2 on it, of what I have no idea how to use! ok, I'm not that dumb, but still, all my favourite drawing programs are on Windows.
Damn!!!
Damn!!!
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Sorry I know nothing about hardware. And I do like details though. They're supposed to be interactive advertisements. Kinda like html. hehe. So clicking on parts will take you to the purchase screen, etc.
Will try making ads like the commercials today when I get to it.
All the wiki pictures are under gpl right? So I could use them in splash screens?
Will try making ads like the commercials today when I get to it.
All the wiki pictures are under gpl right? So I could use them in splash screens?
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All of what wiki pictures? Ones on the VS wiki? Or wikipedia?
You can basically use anything from the VS gallery or the game data set, along with any other content you find with an appropriate license or public domain status.
And yes, all of VS, including the dataset (models, etc.) are licensed under the GPL. (GPL isn't a great license for content IMO, but we can get into that some other time. )
You can basically use anything from the VS gallery or the game data set, along with any other content you find with an appropriate license or public domain status.
And yes, all of VS, including the dataset (models, etc.) are licensed under the GPL. (GPL isn't a great license for content IMO, but we can get into that some other time. )
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Andolian Protectorate ummmm....
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http://i80.photobucket.com/albums/j200/ ... 24x768.jpg
Shmrn Designer Clothing
1024x768 res
http://i80.photobucket.com/albums/j200/ ... 24x768.jpg
Shmrn Designer Clothing
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TV probably. Or Cosmic Rays.
Also probably from neutrinos drifting through my brain.
The Shmrn ad is hohum. I just used the unfinished version of the clothed Shmrn I was trying to model. I gave up but some renders looked nice, so I made it into an ad.
I wish I could make the andolian renders nicer. I'll try to. Will find better models of humans in .3ds meshes.
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There's a list of the yet unfilled cargo pics on the wiki. If you're interested in making new ones.
For the existing pics, it's in the VegaStrike root directory inside texture/cargo. Or you could try to contact Zeog.
For the existing pics, it's in the VegaStrike root directory inside texture/cargo. Or you could try to contact Zeog.
A Step Into Oblivion
Dreams of things that will never be,
Songs of thoughts only I can hear,
Leave me be to sleep forever,
To dream my dreams,
And sing my hymns,
Of things that will never be...
Dreams of things that will never be,
Songs of thoughts only I can hear,
Leave me be to sleep forever,
To dream my dreams,
And sing my hymns,
Of things that will never be...