Official Custom Player Flag Contest

[ssgjames]

Leiavoia of the Orion Sector, myself (the Grand Potato), and Infogrames have just initiated a contest over at the Orion Sector. We're taking submissions for an Official Player Flag pack. Up to 75 flags will be included in the pack, depending on number of submissions and quality.

The coolest part is, this is all OFFICIAL. This flag-pack will be included as an official download (possibly included in the first patch, as well). Oh, yeah, and the top five flag-designers get FREE COPIES OF MoO3!

Anyhoo... head on over to the Orion Sector for more details.

[Arnelos]

I saw this yesterday evening when I visited Orion Sector. Sounds like a good deal.

[Straybow]

...and now we know why you've adopted the title "the Grand Potato."

Is the person on the couch the Lesser Potato?

[GhengisFarbâ„¢]

Anybody got any suggestions for flag designs I can work on?

[BreadMan]

As far as creating the png's goes, should the background be black or transparent, or does it matter?

[ssgjames]

Originally posted by Straybow
...and now we know why you've adopted the title "the Grand Potato."

Is the person on the couch the Lesser Potato?

It should be "a Grand Potato" because it is a title meant for two people. Myself, and my associate, and (skinny) co-Potato, Chad.

It's a long story, began as a freshman in college, and would be at www.ssg.org if my host weren't a ****ER.

https://www.grandpotato.com

And on the couch is my bride-to-be Mandy.

[ssgjames]

Originally posted by BreadMan
As far as creating the png's goes, should the background be black or transparent, or does it matter?

In-game, transparent areas will be over black, but at the race-select screen, it will be over moo blue.

In other words, transparent is preferable to black.

[GhengisFarbâ„¢]

I'll start working on some but I doubt I'll have any done before next week as this is my drill weekend.

Is there an image of what flags the game already comes with? I don't want to make a bunch that look too close to the originals.

[ssgjames]

There's a thread over at IGMoo called "Player Flags - Examples"

For me, it's buried on the second page now, since it's not stickied.

[ssgjames]

Hell, here's the URL to where I stored the images. The GIFs are examples of what the white flag looks like against MoO blue, and the PNGs are the actual game files.

http://www.iusb.edu/~jolowe/flags/

[ammt603]

Does anyone know if you have to use Adobe Photoshop to make a flag or can you use something like Microsoft Paint?

[leiavoia]

Anything that can save to PNG format will do. Photoshop is NOT required (otherwise, i'd be out for sure).

I would recommend the GIMP for Windows, which is powerfull and free also:

http://www.gimp.org/

i also recommend Paint Shop Pro 7, which is worth buying but can also be downloaded for trial:

http://www.jasc.com/

[ammt603]

cool

thanks leiavoia

[GhengisFarbâ„¢]

Originally posted by ssgjames
Hell, here's the URL to where I stored the images. The GIFs are examples of what the white flag looks like against MoO blue, and the PNGs are the actual game files.

http://www.iusb.edu/~jolowe/flags/

Thanks, wow, I was WAY OFF in the direction I was going.

Here's one of the crappier ones I was practicing with.

[General Ludd]

Originally posted by ssgjames
Hell, here's the URL to where I stored the images. The GIFs are examples of what the white flag looks like against MoO blue, and the PNGs are the actual game files.

http://www.iusb.edu/~jolowe/flags/

Those do not seem to be consistent with the tutorials, they do not use transparent backgrounds and the contest information says that white stands out the best and changes acording to the empire colour, where as grey is the only shade that turns blue in those examples.


Or is the grey supposed to represent the transparent background?


Either way, I wish there was some way of accurately previwing what they look like - fiddling with layers isn't very effective.