Forum Backgrounds

Pezzalis wrote:

A'right well heres a draft, blank background spiral galaxy I whipped up (In about an hour)
I'll repost it soon (Probably a few days) with a full starfield/spacey background.

Just checking in and seeing if this is the kinda stuff you are looking for

https://2img.net/r/ihimizer/img19/2793/galacticao.jpg


Sweet

It's nice, but the contrast could be downed a bit and some bloom could be added (you know what bloom is right?). Right now, as koiboi stated, it's too resemblant of the Spore galaxy.

I also noted you followed a tutorial to do this, not sure which. Maybe this one?

Pezzalis wrote:

A'right well heres a draft, blank background spiral galaxy I whipped up (In about an hour)
I'll repost it soon (Probably a few days) with a full starfield/spacey background.

Just checking in and seeing if this is the kinda stuff you are looking for

https://2img.net/r/ihimizer/img19/2793/galacticao.jpg


Sweet

I like, but it's the wrong way. 1200 x 1600 should be height then width for most computer screens. Seeing as it's a draft, there is a few effects needed for polishing. Things like the bloom and contrast edit that Noit talked about. Right now i think you've tried to make it shine with the contrast instead of it giving off a glow. Does that make sense?

US_of_Alaska wrote:

Pezzalis wrote:

A'right well heres a draft, blank background spiral galaxy I whipped up (In about an hour)
I'll repost it soon (Probably a few days) with a full starfield/spacey background.

Just checking in and seeing if this is the kinda stuff you are looking for

https://2img.net/r/ihimizer/img19/2793/galacticao.jpg


Sweet

I like, but it's the wrong way. 1200 x 1600 should be height then width for most computer screens. Seeing as it's a draft, there is a few effects needed for polishing. Things like the bloom and contrast edit that Noit talked about. Right now i think you've tried to make it shine with the contrast instead of it giving off a glow. Does that make sense?

Looks good, what Alaska said.

@Noitulove: Yeah I did use that tutorial

Yeah It actually does look a bit too similar to the spore galaxy. Probably the colours (And also the fact that its a spiral galaxy :P)

Bloom - I know what it is but Im not entirely sure how to do it in photoshop.

I've looked up how-to's but they are mainly for entire photos not layers and they dont really fit the space lighting

Im still a semi-begginer to photoshop, so what I might do is make some concept/draft psds and upload them somehwere - and if they are good enough and there are any more experienced people here who would like to maybe fix them up a bit and add the fine details (Which I am terrible at)

For example, I'll upload the PSD of my galaxy soon (Downside is its quite big) and if you think its good enough you can fix it up and add it to a space scene in any concept art/forum background

Thanks

The forum backgrounds should have seams, or be bigger (1920x1080 is my screen res), otherwise they look messed up in bigger screens.
This is an example of a seam:
http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:jz3j6fGaID-8cM:http://www.modyourpanties.com/images/080117205013-skinedit.jpg&t=1
You can see that at the edges its the same colour, so the texture can be tiled.

If you think any of these could work as Backgrounds

Pezzalis wrote:

If you think any of these could work as Backgrounds

I'll modify them a little bit to smooth the logo in better, but after that, they should be pretty good.

Can terragen files be exported as 3d models?

Darkov wrote:

Can terragen files be exported as 3d models?

Yes. I'm not sure if you need a plugin to do it but it is possible...

It uses the basic black and white heightmaps... You can save the height map you create as .ter files
These can be converted to 3d files I'm pretty sure...
Theres a whole section here of intergrating TerraGen with other 3d Apps:
http://www.planetside.co.uk/terragen/resources.shtml


As for Terragen 2, You can pretty much add any 3d model into it... I think you have to buy it though =/


@Sciocont: Right Thanks

I'm afraid the renders are much too small to be bagkgrounds, but i will add them to our ModDB page.

~sciocont wrote:

I'm afraid the renders are much too small to be bagkgrounds, but i will add them to our ModDB page.

Ok

How's this?

Pezzalis wrote:

How's this?

Pezz, that's beautiful! I think We'll have a new background soon!

~sciocont wrote:

Pezzalis wrote:

How's this?

Pezz, that's beautiful! I think We'll have a new background soon!

Just make sure it doesn't prevent us from reading the text.

Tenebrarum wrote:

~sciocont wrote:

Pezzalis wrote:

How's this?

Pezz, that's beautiful! I think We'll have a new background soon!

Just make sure it doesn't prevent us from reading the text.

I think if there is a dark gray fill for posts and text boxes with white text it would look ok.

Strangely, I'm somewhat used to this one now.

Mysterious_Calligrapher wrote:

Strangely, I'm somewhat used to this one now.

Great! Now let's change before we start getting sick of it!

Haha, I see, although it's not quite bad, some of the text blends in with the upper background, like the names on the posts. I like the background, but I kind of don't like the foreground. If you check out my youtube's background: www-youtube-com/wtfberserk , you'll see what I did for my background. If you guys like, I could try and create a background with an evolution theme to it, but fade it out at the bottom so it'll be clean and all the art will be towards the top so you can see the text and such a lot more clearly. It would be similar to the one we have now, but it wouldn't move with the scroll bar.

WTFBerserk! wrote:

Haha, I see, although it's not quite bad, some of the text blends in with the upper background, like the names on the posts. I like the background, but I kind of don't like the foreground. If you check out my youtube's background: www-youtube-com/wtfberserk , you'll see what I did for my background. If you guys like, I could try and create a background with an evolution theme to it, but fade it out at the bottom so it'll be clean and all the art will be towards the top so you can see the text and such a lot more clearly. It would be similar to the one we have now, but it wouldn't move with the scroll bar.

I have a new background from pezzalis planned.

~sciocont wrote:

I have a new background from pezzalis planned.

Gotcha.

~sciocont wrote:

I have a new background from pezzalis planned.

Any ETA?

Pezzalis wrote:

~sciocont wrote:

I have a new background from pezzalis planned.

Any ETA?

Maybe this weekend. I finally have some free time, which means an overhaul of the biome system and probably a new background.

ADMIN has made the changes requested.

I think it works quite well with the gray white and purple theme

I have a pair of sneakers in this color scheme.