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Originally posted by ares1:
**Hey, that's pretty cool. But is it supposed to be sort of grainy? It may have lost quality when you converted it or something.

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That's the original Tritanium armor graphic, only I've indented part of it and changed the colors. The grainy stuff is simply the quality of the original EV graphics, so what you see now is as good as it will look in your plugin.

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-Cap'n Skyblade
(url="http://"http://www.saberstudios.f2s.com")Saber Studios(/url) - Your source for original EV/O/N graphics.
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Upgraded Rocket:

Upgraded Rocket Launcher:

Upgraded Rocket Sprite:

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-Cap'n Skyblade
(url="http://"http://www.saberstudios.f2s.com")Saber Studios(/url) - Your source for original EV/O/N graphics.
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Um... did you desaturate the Rocket sprite completely on purpose? I think it would probably look better in color.

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Originally posted by Macavenger:
Um... did you desaturate the Rocket sprite completely on purpose? I think it would probably look better in color.;)

I disagree. I think that being colorless, it makes it obviously different and more sleak looking.

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--ares
"If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving an infant's life, she will choose to save the infant's life without even considering if there are men on base." -- Dave Barry
Check out my EV website: (url="http://"http://home.cfl.rr.com/aresev/")The Legion(/url).

ares; Yeap, that was my intention. Simply changing the green in the sprite to red just didn't seem to change much...

Hydrogen Cannon

Hydrogen Turret

Hydrogen Beam Sprite

Hydrogen Torpedo

Hydrogen Torpedo Launcher

Hydrogen Torpedo Sprite

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-Cap'n Skyblade
(url="http://"http://www.saberstudios.f2s.com")Saber Studios(/url) - Your source for original EV/O/N graphics.
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Point, but the flame trail being gray just looks... wrong. That was the real one that caught me.

As for quality, I think I'm doing alright on that. One example, tell me what you think:

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- Macavenger | e-mail: (url="http://"mailto:e-gamerguy1@home.com")mailto:e-gamerguy1@home.com(/url)e-gamerguy1@home.com

Er... There is no Hydrogen Torpedo. It's the Epsilon torpedo... the graphics I have for those are great.

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--ares
"If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving an infant's life, she will choose to save the infant's life without even considering if there are men on base." -- Dave Barry
Check out my EV website: (url="http://"http://home.cfl.rr.com/aresev/")The Legion(/url).

Macavenger, that is still kind of blurry, but I suppose it will work. Keep em coming.

Skyblade, I am going to use the blue torpedo graphics, and the red hydrogen turret graphics, so that there is some contrast. It will look better during gameplay.

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--ares
"If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving an infant's life, she will choose to save the infant's life without even considering if there are men on base." -- Dave Barry
Check out my EV website: (url="http://"http://home.cfl.rr.com/aresev/")The Legion(/url).

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Originally posted by ares1:
**Macavenger, that is still kind of blurry, but I suppose it will work. Keep em coming.
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I know. The problem is that if I try very hard to fix the blurriness, it becomes overly grainy... I'm looking to see if I can get a better balance between the two. The blurriness seems to be the best solution to how blocky it is when you double the size of an image.

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- Macavenger | e-mail: (url="http://"mailto:e-gamerguy1@home.com")mailto:e-gamerguy1@home.com(/url)e-gamerguy1@home.com

ares, after playing around a bit more with those images, I can't really find a way to make them look much sharper. Any significant change leaves them very grainy looking. I think they actually look fine as they are there.

Another problem I've noticed is that the Landing scene graphics on the site have been rerendered at 612x285 for Nova. I might be able to create a workaround for that too, but it would require using only Landing pics at that size - the original EV ones wouldn't match. It would be a matter of changing the game to fit the images - obviously a drastic rescaling on images like that is going to turn out terrible, and there's nothing I can do about that.

I'll let you decide what you want on that and get back to me here. Also, do you still want the planet graphics if the landing scenes won't work?

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- Macavenger | e-mail: (url="http://"mailto:e-gamerguy1@home.com")mailto:e-gamerguy1@home.com(/url)e-gamerguy1@home.com

Actually, the landing graphics work great. I plugged them into the game just to see what would happen, and they look fine. I don't know if EV resizes them or something, but it really lookes fine. I may go in and change the image size, but I don't think we need to worry about the landing graphics.

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--ares
"If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving an infant's life, she will choose to save the infant's life without even considering if there are men on base." -- Dave Barry
Check out my EV website: (url="http://"http://home.cfl.rr.com/aresev/")The Legion(/url).

I have to go in about 5 seconds, so here...

Plug one of the planets into the game and just look at it. If it looks nice and smooth enough to be in the game without being an eye sore, make the rest of the planets. If not, then don't. All that I really need are the stations.

It's your call if you think it will look good enough in the game. I would do this, but I'm going somewhere as a family thing and I really won't have time today to do any work on our plugin. :frown:

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--ares
"If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving an infant's life, she will choose to save the infant's life without even considering if there are men on base." -- Dave Barry
Check out my EV website: (url="http://"http://home.cfl.rr.com/aresev/")The Legion(/url).

ares: Use whichever graphics you like best. Remember, the names I give them are only temporary, and you're more than welcome to change them. After all, you are the developer.

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-Cap'n Skyblade
(url="http://"http://www.saberstudios.f2s.com")Saber Studios(/url) - Your source for original EV/O/N graphics.
the Confederation Graphics Expansion Set: Coming soon

(quote)Originally posted by Captain Skyblade:
**ares: Use whichever graphics you like best. Remember, the names I give them are only temporary, and you're more than welcome to change them. After all, you are the developer.;)

Ok, well... I did not get to work today, and now I have a ton of homework. I don't think I will get much done for a while... Keep the graphics coming, though.

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--ares
"If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving an infant's life, she will choose to save the infant's life without even considering if there are men on base." -- Dave Barry
Check out my EV website: (url="http://"http://home.cfl.rr.com/aresev/")The Legion(/url).
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(quote)Originally posted by ares1:
**Developer? My title is Project Facilitator.

(quote)Originally posted by ares1:
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Ok, well... I did not get to work today, and now I have a ton of homework. I don't think I will get much done for a while... Keep the graphics coming, though.
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Alright then, I'll try to get some extra graphics posted here soon. Good luck with the math.

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-Cap'n Skyblade
(url="http://"http://www.saberstudios.f2s.com")Saber Studios(/url) - Your source for original EV/O/N graphics.
the Confederation Graphics Expansion Set: Coming soon

I converted all of the landings to 333x271 for EV. Now I have a problem....

Need to get on hotlinks to get some more landings for uninhabited planets (all that Andre makes are with buildings and stuff), but f2s is not working for me. Are you having problems connected to f2s sites, too?

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--ares
"If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving an infant's life, she will choose to save the infant's life without even considering if there are men on base." -- Dave Barry
Check out my EV website: (url="http://"http://home.cfl.rr.com/aresev/")The Legion(/url).

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Originally posted by ares1:
**I converted all of the landings to 333x271 for EV. Now I have a problem....

Need to get on hotlinks to get some more landings for uninhabited planets (all that Andre makes are with buildings and stuff), but f2s is not working for me. Are you having problems connected to f2s sites, too?

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Yeap, Saber Studios currently isn't loading. I guess the entire f2s server is just having one of its typical problems at the moment. I really need to move my website over to evula.net soon...

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-Cap'n Skyblade
(url="http://"http://www.saberstudios.f2s.com")Saber Studios(/url) - Your source for original EV/O/N graphics.
the Confederation Graphics Expansion Set: Coming soon

Speaking of evula.net, I've got to update my page...

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Skyblade, about how long until it is back up? I know you can't say for sure, but if you have experience with f2s's down-times....

corey, you have some good ideas for the missions?

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--ares
"If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving an infant's life, she will choose to save the infant's life without even considering if there are men on base." -- Dave Barry
Check out my EV website: (url="http://"http://home.cfl.rr.com/aresev/")The Legion(/url).

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Originally posted by ares1:
**Skyblade, about how long until it is back up? I know you can't say for sure, but if you have experience with f2s's down-times....

corey, you have some good ideas for the missions?

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Last time f2s was down (that I remember), it was for about a day. This also isn't helping me out either, since I can't post your graphics or Mac's...

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-Cap'n Skyblade
(url="http://"http://www.saberstudios.f2s.com")Saber Studios(/url) - Your source for original EV/O/N graphics.
the Confederation Graphics Expansion Set: Coming soon