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Custom Login Screen

0th_Power

By 0th_Power,
Posted on: 2007-08-15 03:25 in Multi-Media Fan Creations

 

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On another note, I should have named the "Character Selection Screen" something else instead: the "Screen Used Almost Everywhere". It never noticed the same background was shared in so many places; but I have to admit, it's pretty cool when you find the background in places you didn't expect.

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Very good job.
When I'll be back home next week, I'll start to sink time a lot I think.

So many art to tranform into game screens

 

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These are really bad ones, as I'm not very computer savy or artistic in any way...But here they are anyway.

Login Screen

Loading Screen

 

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Crossposting is bad... but I have a good reason! Really!

What's New in v0.90!
* Splash Randomizer! You can now save different images for the Login and Character Selection screens, and get random ones each time you start the game!
* Will now remember the last path to CoH/CoV you used. The Randomizer will start the game from this location.

Download it from here!

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Oh geez. Now I'm going to have to do these again!! Heheh....

Random screens FTW. Thank you.


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I get the custom screens oky, but I can't seem to make the randomizer work. All I ever get is whatever I saved to that particular button last (ie: hero selection or villain login)

 

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I get the custom screens oky, but I can't seem to make the randomizer work. All I ever get is whatever I saved to that particular button last (ie: hero selection or villain login)

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Steps to use the randomizer, using Heroes Login as an example:

1. Add several screens to it by clicking the "Heroes Login" button several times with different input files.

2. At this point, you should have several different files in the folder City of Heroes\Splasher\RandomHL. If there are no files in there, something is wrong.

3. If you have the different files, hit Start, Programs, Splasher, and start "Splash Randomizer". It will randomly select a file in the RandomHL folder and start COH.

Tell me what part of it doesn't work.

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That's probably what Buck's not doing, is using the splash randomizer to 'call' the game after selecting a set of screens to use.

Now, does the randomizer change the screens for just that one session? or do they change throughout gameplay, such as the 'splash' screen you get before zone load screens?


"City of Heroes. April 27, 2004 - August 31, 2012. Obliterated not with a weapon of mass destruction, not by an all-powerful supervillain... but by a cold-hearted and cowardly corporate suck-up."

 

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Do I need to uninstall the old version first before installing the new one? And if I do, will it mess up my loading screens to the game (I mean like not having any)?

 

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Do I need to uninstall the old version first before installing the new one? And if I do, will it mess up my loading screens to the game (I mean like not having any)?

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If I read things right, yes to the first question, and no to the second.

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I installed the new version and it replaced the old version automatically, or so it seems. And yes, I did not launch the game from the Randomizer. I didn't know you could do that. If it was in the instructions, I didn't read it. I'm a man, we don't read instructions.

 

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I installed the new version and it replaced the old version automatically, or so it seems. And yes, I did not launch the game from the Randomizer. I didn't know you could do that. If it was in the instructions, I didn't read it. I'm a man, we don't read instructions.

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RTM

 

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I love that artist... beautiful prints.

 

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Now, does the randomizer change the screens for just that one session? or do they change throughout gameplay, such as the 'splash' screen you get before zone load screens?

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Just that session, for two reasons. First, it's likely the game loads the texture when you start it and keeps it in memory forever, so changing the file during gameplay won't do a thing (I haven't tested this though). Second, you wouldn't want a program in the background using memory and accessing the disk while playing; the last thing I need is to be blamed because the two seconds of lag killed someone's character.

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This is what 3700 heroes in a single zone looks like.
Thanks to @EnsonsDeath for the GVE code that made me VIP again!

 

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Do I need to uninstall the old version first before installing the new one?

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You don't need to. I advised uninstalling v0.80 before instaling v0.86 because v0.80 used two files (the black bars) that aren't used in any of the later versions, and I hate leaving unneeded files in the harddisk. If you don't mind losing 480KB of disk space, you don't have to uninstall anything.

And yes, I know 480KB is nothing nowadays. I still hate wasting hard disk space.

Uninstalling Splasher doesn't remove any of the screens you added to the randomizer. Those are stored in City of Heroes\Splasher instead.

www.SaveCOH.com: Calls to Action and Events Calendar
This is what 3700 heroes in a single zone looks like.
Thanks to @EnsonsDeath for the GVE code that made me VIP again!

 

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too freakin' cool, Leandro!!

i haven't even downloaded it yet, but you can be certain i will be after i make this comment.

to everyone else, there are some AMAZING screenshots/artworks shown here and some very creative shots to boot.

such an awesome boost to the art community!

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ok, took a few minutes (Edit: ok, so maybe it was closer to an hour and a 1/2 once i got everything done) and whipped these up for now:
(villain screens)

i want to work on getting some better screens, although i do have a few others to thriow in the randomizer.. but, that'll be for another day. (i want to actually get in and play some CoX!)


Login

Character Select

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@CybinMonde: Nethershift - (50) - Dark/Regen/Dark scrapper (Infinity)
@Solunis: Desumater - (27) - Elec/Dark brute (Pinnacle); Syrah - (23) - DB/WP scrapper (Pinnacle) (proud member of Pinnacle on Tap)

 

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These login screens are pretty cool. Cryptic/NCSoft should do this with their own screenshots !