Allow us to choose our splash screen


Chyll

 

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It'd be nice if we could set what splash screen we get on start up, and, if possible, whenever logging out of a character regardless of alignment, in-game. For example, I've been wanting to set my splash screen to only display Going Rogue since that's the new shiny expansion I have to play with. However, the only way to do that is by editing some line somewhere on a Windows or, if you're on a Mac, I'm not even sure how you'd do it. And even then, it's just the start-up, not after logging out too.


 

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A player, Leonard, I think, designed a program that let you do that. It also allowed you to put your own images in billboards.


 

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A player, Leonard, I think, designed a program that let you do that. It also allowed you to put your own images in billboards.
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Thanks Shadow State. Leandro, apparently. I had all the letters right, at least.


 

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Not quite what I'm talking about (and that program's no good on a Mac anyway). I mean choosing between the three defaults (Heroes, Villie, and GR), not getting in-game support to import whatever splash image we want.


 

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I could be wrong but as I recall there's something you can add to the command line to make the game load the hero, villain or GR splash screen when it first starts up.

Edit: Yup, checking on Paragonwiki confirms. For CoV you add '-cov', and for GR you add '-uiskin 2'. I suspect '-uiskin 1' would give the CoV one too, just it has an easier alias while the GR one doesn't.


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I can't get that to work on a Mac though. And we shouldn't have to use command lines to do this.


 

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I had a lot of fun with this for a while.
Some great screenies out there to us.

I uninstalled it recently tho... and not its stuck on the last random selections rather than the defaults.

I really probably should fix that.


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Originally Posted by Chyll View Post
I had a lot of fun with this for a while.
Some great screenies out there to us.

I uninstalled it recently tho... and not its stuck on the last random selections rather than the defaults.

I really probably should fix that.
I still use it, but I'm looking for a way, IF it's even possible, to use it with the new launcher?


 

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I still use it, but I'm looking for a way, IF it's even possible, to use it with the new launcher?
The only thing the new launcher should have changed is how the game selects which of the 3 client themes to use at start up. Any modification you've done to those themes, be it through splasher or other means, should still work.