Loading screen contest

Hey, folks. There's a little over a week left in our Design a Loading Screen Contest, which is our latest player-submitted content opportunity, and I wanted to encourage all of you to give it a shot if you haven't already.

The idea, of course, is to use your mad photography skillz to help create new, improved loading screens for use IN THE ACTUAL GAME. Now that Ultramode's available, it'd be crazy NOT to show it off in the loadscreens, and hey, if your work is accepted, you know what that means: bragging rights forever.

There are prizes of course, and you see how to enter/ check out the rules here:
http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=234986

Couple of useful notes:
--we've just updated the frames to be more download friendly and compatible with more versions of Photoshop
--a fan points out that if you run the zones through MA, you can keep npcs out of the pics (which helps us on the back end)

We've received lots of great entries so far, but with dozens of loadscreens to redo, you have plenty of opportunities to win.

Good luck!
NS

Most of the zones are actually missing NPCs, at least the ones that walk around.

You could have said you purposely turned them off for the contest.

Is it just me or do only Frames 1 and 7 download? The rest go to a page of HTML source.

Yes! Thanks a ton for the updated frames. They're all working perfectly for me. My apologies for being on your case in the discussion thread; I just wanted to be able to partake in this competition without any issues.

Interesting to see that you've merged all the framework into one layer and removed the text. I'll be happy now to go through the screens I've taken for the hero zones and drop them into my frames. It seemed like I had so long back when this competition was announced. Now I've only got five days to get them all in!



Note: HAZARD_LoadingScreen's layer called 'PASTE SCREENSHOT #3 HERE' doesn't have its clipping mask set up. This is easily fixed by right-clicking the layer, and selecting 'Create Clipping Mask'. Save it and it's ready to use.

I may give it a try for fun ... but I can never participate to these Oh well ...

Are you averse to us positioning certain NPCs to someplace a little more scenic to represent the zone? Or are we going for accuracy over style here?

Michelle
aka
Samuraiko/Dark_Respite

*post redacted because I prefer to think before I speak

Can you tell us if there are any zones with a lack of entries?

I tried to upload my entry to the site which was provided in the email responce I got from Avatea. However, it seems to just cut my internet off when I do it. I guess I can't enter

Hang in there, guys. We'll double-check the email.

Those folks complaining about Quebec and Rhode Island (especially RI) do realize that it's not Paragon Studios preventing you from entering, right? It's Quebec/Rhode Island.

Incidently, the email works fine, and we're continuing to receive new entries (thanks!). Make sure to use an intermediary like Sendspace.com to send us links to your finished files (as opposed to the files themselves). The inbox will not accept attachments that are too large.

Thanks!

Update! I've looked at all the submitted entries (hundreds of them), and I gotta say--you guys did a great job. You followed the art direction tips quite well, and no zone went unphotographed. We received multiple entries for every zone, and that's exactly what we were hoping for.

I'm going to sign off here before I give away any contest results by accident, but again, nice work everyone!

Stay tuned for announcements on this...