Material for Quakeone.com Banners !

[Mindf!3ldzX]

Here are some example's , I tried uploading them to two image hosting sites I have accounts with and both told me to go fuck myself basically, pictures are too big lol. Whatever bro......

click pic for a RAR archive that includes 3 5440x1530 screenshots.



note : I took these initial screenshots just as examples. I would like for anyone who wants to create a Quakeone.com banner and would like a mega-screenshot to work with as their starting point, all you need to do is take a screenshot of what you want me to take a screenshot of. where to stand/what to look at/any other details.



Edit : Note, I can do different resolutions! 5440x1530 is my maximum, but can do almost anything inbetween to varying degrees.

[Spiney]

Fart...
I tried those screenshots, but I think it's better to use more recent maps with prettier brushwork and textures as a base.

http://www.spiney.me/files/etc/quakeonebanner1.jpg
http://www.spiney.me/files/etc/quakeonebanner2.jpg
http://www.spiney.me/files/etc/quakeonebanner2b.jpg -- *upd: tweaked text colors to match forum colors

Yeah doesn't tile and all, but whatever. Was looking for an excuse to play through Tronyn's magnum opus again

[powerzord]

Why don't you just take a pic of your buns?

[damage_inc]

Why don't you just take a pic of your buns?

WTF is wrong with you?

No, seriously, what... the... fuck... is... WRONG... with... you! You have like ZERO social and/or discussion skills. You add nothing of "value" to a forum. Maybe it's a form of self mental masturbation and that's pleasurable to you! I don't know, it's just the strangest board behavior I have ever seen?!

[Spiney]

why don't you just take a pic of your buns?

excellent idea!

[Mindf!3ldzX]

WTF is wrong with you?

No, seriously, what... the... fuck... is... WRONG... with... you! You have like ZERO social and/or discussion skills. You add nothing of "value" to a forum. Maybe it's a form of self mental masturbation and that's pleasurable to you! I don't know, it's just the strangest board behavior I have ever seen?!

I know the feeling. He is a social enigma who displays communication skills of a fucking parrot.

Polly wanna cracker?
Touch Buns?

I try not to let his idiocy get to me though and just let it go be whatever its gonna be. Much like when the forums was heavily getting Trucked, I've been socially hardened to ignore the misfits of the Quake1 community as much as possible. Nothin good comes from giving them more attention than they are worth

[damage_inc]

^^^^ Yeah yeah, but... but.. you're right!

Still, I just had to "type" it ONCE! Felt good to get it out of my system

[Mindf!3ldzX]

Fart...
I tried those screenshots, but I think it's better to use more recent maps with prettier brushwork and textures as a base.

http://www.spiney.me/files/etc/quakeonebanner1.jpg
http://www.spiney.me/files/etc/quakeonebanner2.jpg
http://www.spiney.me/files/etc/quakeonebanner2b.jpg -- *upd: tweaked text colors to match forum colors

Yeah doesn't tile and all, but whatever. Was looking for an excuse to play through Tronyn's magnum opus again

You gave me an idea, Photoshop has a feature inside it where you can create a Panorama photo using multiple smaller source photos. (stand in one spot of a map to your liking, take a screenshot, turn 90degrees, another SS,turn 90,rinse repeat 4-6 times and create full Panorama banners !!! Tiled or Mirror'd banner is cheesy compared to the idea of a fully 360 degree conjoined SCALING banner.....

Using this feature you can make ultra-crisp photos as well, the more sources you provide the better the results!

Other peoples thoughts on that idea? I could create the panorama's but I couldn't create a
adequate logo, your examples you posted are sweet.

I'll try my hand at making a Quake panorama later today for now, here is an example ...
http://knightway.org/Fred/hiking/Apr...onPanorama.jpg

^^^^ Yeah yeah, but... but.. you're right!

Still, I just had to "type" it ONCE! Felt good to get it out of my system

LOL.. It really does make you feel better, because otherwise it seems like everyone isn't seeing the huge 4ton elephant in the room and you're left wondering 'Am I the only one seeing this fn thing?'

[damage_inc]

While it's cool you're thinking outside the box MindZ, static panorama's seem just like one big lonnnnnnng horizon shot! You don't really get the 360 degree "feeling" with 'em.

Could be just MY brain holding me back from enjoying though!!!

I think the current banner has an interesting layout if it wasn't for it being mirrored. Say a level with that actual corner architecture and different monsters waiting on the "other" side after the Shambler battle.

Really liking Spiney's effort.

[MadGypsy]

@mindz - it already takes a year for the site to load and you want images that are heavier than the entire page * 50?

Bad bad decision brah. I already rage quit loading the site as it is. If I have to come here and watch a banner load a line at a time ( a banner that I can't even see all of) Imma just rage quit period. I can't be the only one that will get sick and tired of some mega banner loading.

Also, a mirrored banner isn't necessary, that is simply Solecords current "fix". All you need is 2 separate images. The logo with background transparency and the actual banner. The banner should be medium sized and set to scale 100% of the container dimensions. Then simply position the logo absolutely wherever you want it as an overlay of the banner.

This way the logo is always the same size and the banner being midsized will allow it to be scaled up or down some without any real distortion. If you want to go with html5, I have another similar method that takes advantage of hidden overflow and sizing/positioning the image as a background image of a div. Unforftunately html5 is not fully supported across all browsers so whereas many people would see it correctly, it will break for everyone else.

[Mindf!3ldzX]

Image compression! I didn't say we should use 5mb image files in the banner, I figured anyone who has enough skills to create a banner also has the skills to compress the damn image @ the end of their work / get it into a more viable filesize.

[MadGypsy]

well yes and no - compression will eliminate colors within a certain range but that will also make the image less detailed. Making the image dimensions smaller can only go so far. It still needs to fit in the banner spot.

PNGs do not scale well and JPEG is a lossy format. What else are you going to use? BMP? lol that would be a mega huge file. SVG? How would you post that as an image?

I think you're wishing. The size of the banner alone even if it was solid white is gonna make for a huge filesize.

[Mindf!3ldzX]

I'll just undertake making a shitty proof of concpet banner at minimum, I would double the width of the current banner, this would be the elimination of tile/mirror effect and still come out looking decent.

Also I'll take a stab at a panorama left makes it right /etc.,be back later with some stuff.

Gonna be using Gimp tho, haha.

[Mindf!3ldzX]

^-------------------------- fu white bars----------------------------^

I didn't go out of my way to overly compress this image as it was already under 1mb when I was done, but conforms to the 1864x250 specification as requested. Working on panorama next, which will break conformity with the requested resolution width but remain @ 250px height. Be back later again

ps : yes, I suck at making banners I'm just eager as hell to see Quakeone.com get a facelift and want to be apart of that process if possible.

pss : PHOTOFUCKET RESIZED MY SHIT. I'm really tired of websites resizing my images, if I desired for my image to be resized I would do it on my own. Oi..... maybe I should just stick to gaming pew pew pew... before I give up im gonna take a stab at using GIMP + this fokn Panorama Stitch python script file I downloaded. Even if for my own shits and giggles,and I definately won't be using PhotoFUCKET or Imageshack. bleh!

[MadGypsy]

actually, if you just added a gradient bevel to the lettering your banner wouldn't be half bad. Oh, BTW - I am about touch my keyboard with the intent to program. I will be working on my banner idea, well, right now. It will take me longer than an hour. I have been thinking about this for 3 days. I have some more ideas that will accommodate all of the ideas I have heard so far. I also want to make it absolutely portable - meaning there will not be any need to try and mush my idea into QuakeOne it will be stand-alone, just include it in the header and done. One part I need to overcome though is the method of retrieving the banner content. Since this isn't going to change day to day, there is no point in accessing the database every time a page loads. This can be done with JSON or XML

form to database to (append to) XML or JSON. PHP loads up that info, picks a random banner from the selection and passes the JSON or XML to Javascript. If a user doesn't have Javascript turned on they still get a random banner, otherwise Javascript will take over to perpetuate the rotation. I want to include a way to distinguish a
"static" banner from a content one (in the code) so customizations can be made to adjust rotation content without losing ....errr this is way too hard to explain. Just know I got some friggin ideas and I need to get poppin.