The legendary Thread of Heroic Art

[crypel]

Hail to you, my viking brothers!

I've made two wallpapers, they could later be used as loading screens as well with some changes. Thanks to Svensk Viking for uploading original photos.

If somebody would wish to have this a smaller way in signature, just tell me.

Much more to come in this thread.

[tnick777]

Wow that is great!

The only thing that would be nice is if the mod name was somewhere on it



They're true masterpieces though. I'm really happy to have you with us!!!!!!!

[Tsar Stefan Dusan IV]

AWESOME, btw do u know something about skining, like skining menu items and such ?

[crypel]

Happy you like them, gonna add the mod's name too.

I have never done any skinning work or created banners, but if you could give me some kind of tutorial I could do something in this direction of course.

[tnick777]

Yea and banners?

[Kythras]

Nice. Gotta love filters

[tnick777]

For skinning find the tutorial in RTW modworkshop... but we'll get to that further down the line..

until then keep making those amazing load screens

[tnick777]

Could you make something with longships?

[Evenstuen]

Another contribution to loadingscreens. This one is very much a crude draft.

The main image with the helmet is taken from an artist named Thomas Klevjers website www.klevjer.no
Go take a look at his website for the rest of the images.

He has given us permission to use his paintings in the mod and will mail me highres scans of the pictures on the website. We are free to use these in any way in the mod as long as his webadress is included with the picture. We are also free to use parts of the images as we see fit.

The screen added is not much yet as we must decide upon a general layout of the screens. The progressbar must get a defined space and I believe that it should be perhaps like this:

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BKGBKGBKGBKGBKGBKGBKG
BKGIMAGEIMAGEIMAGEBKG
BKGIMAGEIMAGEIMAGEBKG
BKGIMAGEIMAGEIMAGEBKG
BKGIMAGEIMAGEIMAGEBKG
BKGIMAGEIMAGEIMAGEBKG
BKGBKGBKGBKGBKGBKGBKG
BKGBKGPROGRESSGBKGBKG
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with the main image taking up app. 70% of the height.

We also need one defined background as well.

Any suggestions is appreciated and very much welcome. The sooner we can agree the better as I would like to get on working with the screens.

[Tsar Stefan Dusan IV]

Something is wrong with the link....

[tnick777]

VERY NICE!!!

I like the sword idea for the loading

[Evenstuen]

Thanks for the feedback on the progressbar. I've been putting some more work into it today, and work for a suggestion to a backgrond to go with the progressbar and images.

Tyler: Is it you who have created the logo? I could need one set up plain and simple with just the fonts. Would save me time rather than cutting out background to get to the text.

Until Thomas is done scanning the paintings I put my efforts into the rest of the loadingscreen and the pencilwork images.

To whoever posted the other images on the top of this thread. ( Forgot the name, sorry! ) They are good. Dark, brooding and good!

[tnick777]

I just kinda wrote it using a CS2 font.. Do what you will with the font, but make it semi-blended

[Athokas]

Really cool picture: http://www.jjcurling.k12.nf.ca/block...cs/vikings.jpg
I think it would make an awesome loadingscreen though i'm not sure about copyright 'n stuff.

Btw. I bought Photoshop 2 days ago. Would like to help. Do any of you know where to find GOOD and relevant tutorials or something? Or could you make one??

Cheers! Let the Mead flow!

[BuchVecny]

the first one is not really good... its kinda too artistic (OVERFILTERED TO BE PRECISE) the second one is nice tho

[tnick777]

The one Athokas posted is too artsy. I like the style that crypel posted.

[crypel]

Push!

Does anybody know about Evenstuen? Is he still on work? If not, I will start to design a general loading screen and if wished a start menu. Something with a loading bar in a sword may be as shown before. Still current: If somebody has nice pictures (real, no art), show me please.

@tnick/tsar stefan

Do we have a lack of skinners? If so, I'll learn it this week to help out.


For the rest of the team: Whoever doesn't have WOTN in his signature yet, here are the official sigs again!

[Tsar Stefan Dusan IV]

Actually, we lack scripters.....

We could use extra hand for skinning, ofcourse. Can't have enough, do we? There is no paycheck or something.

Translation: You are in.

[Methoz]

all looks very nice

[tnick777]

We have a few people doing load screans.

I would like about 10-15 loadscreens