StormSurvivor

Fantastic to hear. Thanks a ton, Mr. Savage.

Think I'll finally push my efforts up a gear now I can just forget about getting those final frames. The thought of not being able to submit any hazard zones or use one of the hero frames put me off getting on with my entries, but now I'm eager to get on and relax.

It is useful, yes, but it is a gift.

Oh, certainly only once in a while. I didn't say it in my post, but I definitely think it should be a very low chance. Anything more than a low chance, and the frequency of runners that we get alone could mean that were they to alert groups of players' presence, we'd get pretty swamped pretty fast.

You may well be right here. If they can open the files fine at the other end, then there shouldn't be a problem. I will admit, this is partially just paranoia that I'll do some wonderful work, and then whoever opens it gets a 'this file is corrupt' message, therefore throwing my work out before it's even considered.

However, this doesn't ring as true with the two frames I've been unable to open at all. If I were to submit my entries at this point, I would be unable to submit anything at all with the third hero frames, or with the hazard frames.

In any case, I haven't let it stop me getting on with things. I've been going around and snapping shots of the world, and storing them away. I don't really need the frames until towards the end, but I just want to make sure I know where the frames stand before it comes to the time where I want to submit.

So funny. Thanks, Michelle. It's so painful to read, but it never fails to give me the giggles. I thought it fairly fitting for this thread.

*CRUSADER ARC SPOILERS*








Actually, there is one arc in the Crusader storyline where you kidnap a PPD officer to interrogate him. When he doesn't sing, you kidnap his family. Once he's talked, he gets shot in the head, and you get to choose whether to blow his family up or not.

Charming, eh?








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Then go change your difficulty at a Noteriety-
Oh yeah.

I'm actually suprised these aren't in yet. The map markers were in a couple of weeks before public release, so I thought they would be in soon. I'm hoping that they're in before long. Ideally I'd like an AnnahBeldam as well, but they're not as critical.

You're aware that PFF doesn't phase you or anything, right? Regular foes are capable of hitting you through it; it's just unlikely. Said AV is a tad more impressive than your average hellion.

Opening these documents anyway indeed does often result in corrupted pixels, that appear green in colour. Working with these, while plausible, would be a headache to the art team when sent back. The pixels in question are in horizontal rows on the layer containing the actual artwork for the 'windowframes' (layer 183 on H_LoadingScreen_1 for example). Disabling layer blending effects does not affect the corrupted pixels.

Other times, I get this: (Whilst opening H_LoadingScreen_2 in this case)
Opening this opened up the file in question, but could not load up the layer effects for 'Layer 132'. (Note the lack of 'fx' dropdown menu). This, like H_LoadingScreen_1's Layer 138, was the layer containing the art for the 'windowframes'.

The third error message I'm sometimes getting is:
There isn't really much to comment on this one. It simply won't open.

Other times I am able to save and open the file without a problem, although this is around 5% of the time. Sometimes these 'working' files will later switch to one of the above error messages, and cannot be used. I have backed up the 'working' files to try out later. However, all of these files have a perfect-looking preview in the Bridge Browser, including those that produce any of the above errors.

I think that these files were either corrupted before the were uploaded, or part of the uploading/downloading process is messing up that one particular layer. Canine's results would imply to me that it is an issue with our versions of Photoshop, as we're getting different errors. As I said at the beginning of my post, I'll be trying this out on different software to compare.

Thanks, Avatea. I'll have a gander and pipe up in a bit.

As we're sending back photoshop projects rather than bitmaps, we don't really need to have the appropriate font to make our submissions. Screens will likely be tweaked by the art team before they're put forward for the game, and fixing fonts and spelling errors would be a part of that process.

I'd quite like this too, if at all possible. If it'd be a problem, then it can of course wait for some dev attention, but to have access to the blue screens sooner would be great.

On the note of no NPCs if you can avoid it, can I assume that Monster Island is an exception to this rule? The current screen has a Quarry on it, and without the monsters, Tempest Quay isn't really worth snapping.

I'm also curious as to how the person who'll be opening the emails would prefer multiple submissions. If I were to submit one screen for each zone, for example, would one attachment per email be preffered, or as many attachments per email as I can manage? I understand this may not be up to Mr. Savage, but I'd like to know before the competition's over, obviously.

This is what I had with CS4. Villain screens loading fine, Hero ones playing up. After I fiddled about and saved the hero screens a couple of times each, they started working okay. The hazard frame however, has not worked at all for me thus far.

Edit: Scratch that. Trying to open the hero frames I had saved isn't working today. The annoying thing is, it can load up a perfectly fine preview in Bridge, but just can't open it. Gah.

May I ask what the issue was? I'm getting similar messages on CS4 and am clueless as to what I'm doing wrong.