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#1 ShazamO

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Posted 30 September 2014 - 02:26 PM

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Halloween is coming Dragon Saga Players and it's time to show off how scary you can really be~ With your talents of the mystic arts, you could have a chance to have your talents shown to ALL in Dragon Saga. So put on your favorite Costume and get to creating the best Halloween Theme Loading Screen! Art would be preferred but screenshots would be accepted(The more Chibi the characters, the better) The Top 10 Loading Screens will be added for the reminder of October and some of November.

 

The Theme will be: Halloween/Scary!


To be consider for a loading screen images must follow these guidelines(like the last LS Event):

  • 1024x768 (I know that's low but that's the native resolution for the game) (Anything not THIS SIZE will not be considered as entries)
  • No layers
  • .png or .psd format
  • Under 500Kb
  • Make sure to leave a blank space on the bottom for us to add the loading screen bar.
  • Please post your entries on this thread(also post your IGN!)

If your Loading Screen is picked, you will win…

  • X1 Costume Set from the Event Tab
  • X10 W-Coin
  • X2 Super Party EXP Package!

Entries will end October 21st, 2014!


Edited by VModPopcorn, 29 October 2014 - 01:44 PM.

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#2 noxis

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Posted 30 September 2014 - 03:32 PM

 

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Halloween is coming Dragon Saga Players and it's time to show off how scary you can really be~ With your talents of the mystic arts, you could have a chance to have your talents shown to ALL in Dragon Saga. So put on your favorite Costume and get to creating the best Halloween Theme Loading Screen! Art would be preferred but screenshots would be accepted(The more Chibi the characters, the better) The Top 10 Loading Screens will be added for the reminder of October and some of November.

 

The Theme will be: Halloween/Scary!


To be consider for a loading screen images must follow these guidelines(like the last LS Event):

  • 1024x768 (I know that's low but that's the native resolution for the game) (Anything not THIS SIZE will not be considered as entries)
  • No layers
  • .png or .psd format
  • Under 500Kb
  • Make sure to leave a blank space on the bottom for us to add the loading screen bar.
  • Please post your entries on this thread(also post your IGN!)

If your Loading Screen is picked, you will win…

  • X1 Costume Set from the Event Tab
  • X10 W-Coin
  • X2 Super Party EXP Package!

Entries will end October 21st, 2014!

 

 

any WINNING entries in CHIBI style will also receive 5k gold from me. 


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#3 ShazamO

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Posted 30 September 2014 - 04:33 PM

Big spender. :ok:


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Posted 01 October 2014 - 02:27 AM

can you be more spesific for the guidelines?  "a blank space on the bottom" < what size should i give for this blank space?


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Posted 01 October 2014 - 04:55 AM

can you be more spesific for the guidelines?  "a blank space on the bottom" < what size should i give for this blank space?

 

The original loading screens have a blank (black) space at the bottom of about 1024 x 170 (width x height).


Edited by VModPopcorn, 01 October 2014 - 04:56 AM.

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Posted 01 October 2014 - 05:49 AM

so the exact size should i make is 1024x598 pixel?  (widht x height) thank you

 

The picture you create must have 1024 x 768 pixels in size. But you should left the lower 170 pixels just black.

But 1024 x 598 pixels can be painted on.

 

If the picture is not 1024 x 768 it can't be used as loading screen and will not be accepted as entry.

 


Edited by VModPopcorn, 01 October 2014 - 05:52 AM.

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Posted 01 October 2014 - 06:28 AM

http://forums.warppo...screen-contest/   ill just leave this here. we already had a similar contest, so maybe it will help.

 

basically some people took the loading screen ss and simply erased text from it and a picture, but generally got the guidelines for how big a loading screen picture should be.

 

depending on your screen resolution you will still need to shrink/enlarge it to fit the contest size tho.

 

dragonsaga14100117332112_by_sigeel-d8175

 

i could be completely wrong tho  :ani_swt3:


Edited by sigeel, 01 October 2014 - 06:40 AM.

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#8 ShazamO

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Posted 01 October 2014 - 08:23 AM

Thanks guys~ Sigeel, that example is fair :ok: Just enough space at the bottom for us to have the appropriate loading bar.


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Posted 03 October 2014 - 12:43 AM

If you want to, leave the blank space at the top, the loading screens are displayed like an original one then.

But I think, this blank space on the top is not important, because there is no logo and no loading bar, etc.

It seems it's just for the "look".

 


Edited by VModPopcorn, 03 October 2014 - 12:43 AM.

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Posted 06 October 2014 - 11:43 AM

In what format you save it?

 


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Posted 07 October 2014 - 01:03 AM

For a .png it can have this size.

What program did you use for it? 


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Posted 07 October 2014 - 01:31 AM

any WINNING entries in CHIBI style will also receive 5k gold from me. 

^ Hoping you are really mean it :DD 


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Posted 07 October 2014 - 01:34 AM

i think bigger prize would lead to more people joining this contest.. :) maybe you can add more prize?


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Posted 07 October 2014 - 02:47 AM

i use paint tool sai..i already try to make it smaller but it reduce the quality 

 

Due to .png is usually a lossless compressed format, the compression rate is not as high as for lossy formats such as JPEG.

It is also not common, that the png format can lose quality. 

From the point of the png-developers view, the png image format has not been created for supporting high compression rates with loss of quality, but to create a file with moderate compression rates but absolutely lossless in quality. 

 

Usually the png format is compressed line by line with ZIP compression, or it's uncompressed.

But it supports different types of color modes. The smallest and for Dragon Saga suitable format would be RGB, 8-bit and you can save it without alpha channel if your tool is able to. Saving without alpha channel would usually make the file a bit smaller.

Alpha channel is the transparency, but transparency is not useful for a Dragon Saga loading screen.

 

There is no other way to get the png file smaller. So please check if your color format is 

RGB, 8-bit (and maybe without alpha channel/transparency).

 

But if you use the Windows Paint Tool, you can't change any options of saving this png file. 

 

 

Edit: btw, I also found out, that - depending how much color you use and what way you paint - the file is much bigger than 500kb. I'll ask ShazamO about that later when he's in.

 


Edited by VModPopcorn, 07 October 2014 - 02:55 AM.

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Posted 07 October 2014 - 07:51 AM

i posted the image above in png format in case people want to use this border as a guideline.

png has an option to save transparency as.. well transparent space (the white surface that you see is not flattened white surface, its actually the color of thread we are all chatting on now) , so when you load it into any program you only have the filled space (in this case- border) visible, so you can  paste it over your image, or work under the border, or whatever you need.

 

i dont prefer png. format either unless  i am making stickers or something simmilar that needs to have transparent background. so i save all my final versions in jpg.

 

either way, as far as size is concerned, you can still work on a bigger size image but when saving the final image to post here you simply resize it for web. that way you can work on all the details you always wanted while in the end managing to post a preferred image size.


Edited by sigeel, 07 October 2014 - 07:54 AM.

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Posted 07 October 2014 - 08:02 AM

For a .png it can have this size.

What program did you use for it? 

 

Photoshop, Paint.net, Gimp, etc~

 

i think bigger prize would lead to more people joining this contest.. :) maybe you can add more prize?

 

The prize pack is much bigger then it was for the last loading screen event! 


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Posted 07 October 2014 - 08:11 AM

Photoshop, Paint.net, Gimp, etc~

 

 

The prize pack is much bigger then it was for the last loading screen event! 

 

ShazamO, thanks for the info. I just answered to a player who has hidden his posts meanwhile and wanted to know which tool he uses.

But this info can be really interesting for the others.

 


Edited by VModPopcorn, 07 October 2014 - 08:14 AM.

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Posted 08 October 2014 - 04:13 AM

Sorry, .jpeg seems to be not a valid format. 

 

If you have tools like Photoshop or GIMP available, you could save the PNG file with indexed colors, which reduces the filesize significantly, but then there is a limit of 256 colors. All other colors will be mixed by so-called dithering. For some pictures you don't really see that, for others it's extremely visible.

 

I talked to ShazamO about the 500kb filesize limit, but the answer I can give you is neither satisfying for you, nor for me.

I was told the Dragon Saga client can't handle files with a size over 500kb.

 

I hope that can be tried out again for a next contest, but it seems not for this time. Sorry.

 


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Posted 08 October 2014 - 07:43 AM

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here's mine  :ok:

 

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Posted 08 October 2014 - 07:48 AM

All kinds good spooky~

 

Great stuff valianasandraa!


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Posted 08 October 2014 - 09:16 AM

amazing valianas. definitely into chibi category.  :no1:


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Posted 08 October 2014 - 01:52 PM

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here's mine  :ok:

 

IGN : valianas

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Posted 08 October 2014 - 05:55 PM



any WINNING entries in CHIBI style will also receive 5k gold from me. 

 

shazamo doesn't know how to do prizes well.

 

i'll throw in: 

 

 

+20 shade wings (x1)

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+20 shade wings (x1)

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+20 paris wing (x1)

10* ancient caracha solar ring (x1)

Christmas Fairy Set (legend grade ie. 100 soulforce) (x1) 

 

only 1 item per winner. top 5 winners only.

 

1st place winner (if it exists) gets first pick, otherwise will be distributed among the top 5 winners randomly.

 

good luck everyone.

 

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**the prizes i'm including into the event are my sole responsibility and not the responsibility WarpPortal or any WP staff (ShazamO). DO NOT send any tickets or inquiries regarding the prizes I've listed above to any WP staff/GM. Any questions should be directed to messaging me via forums. Thanks.


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Posted 08 October 2014 - 06:20 PM

here is my entry

I saved in jpeg, because in png. or psd. format i could not save the 1024x768 size under 500kb, it always counted 600kb and more.(even when i flattened all the layers)

 

this one is around 200kb, so its not heavy at all and yet the quality is still here. some of us posted in jpeg like this on the valentine event too so why not now?

 

oh well.. here goes nothing  :ani_swt:

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username: Sigeel


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Posted 09 October 2014 - 08:28 AM

Another grand entry sigeel~ :ok:


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