Requests closed until we know whether the 1.5 patch killed MPQ editing or not.
Edit: Decided to do a complete retheme based on art by Shirogane Usagi. Took me a pretty long time, so gonna feature it up here for a while just 'cause I can. http://imgur.com/a/URNuj#0
I've decided to continue accepting custom background requests indefinitely for now, but may put it on hold at any time depending on how busy I am or my willingness to put more of my time towards it. If at any point I do put it on hold, only commissioned requests will be considered. Anything else will be put on an indefinite waiting list. This will purely be a thread for sharing and requesting, not discussing whether or not people are getting banned for doing it. Which they aren't. If you want to argue, do it in another MPQ modding thread.
If you have your own DDS files you want to share, post an in-game image displaying it as well as the link to the DDS file and I'll add it to the OP archive.
DDS files will be organised by the background they were originally designed for. They can of course be used for other backgrounds by changing the name, but they won't fit perfectly unless you re-dimension them. So just to keep it simple, that's how I'll be organising it. There's going to end up being a lot of images in the OP archive, so they'll all be displayed in thumbnails. Click the thumbnail to get the download. If the thumbnail isn't big enough to make out the image, you can find fullscreen versions of each image at http://telikostarcraft.com/backgrounds/
Codes to use when renaming DDS images for other backgrounds + optimal dimensions: + Show Spoiler +
Main Menu (1500×808) c9a309d4dd98195a94c061fb6e4a698c9668740c
*** These two can be problematic. Not recommended to swap TO these two from other DDS images unless you're willing to spend some time in Photoshop. If that's not an issue, go to http://telikostarcraft.com/modifications/customise-background-images/ and scroll down to the section titled "Photoshop" to learn how to do these properly.
Basic rules for making a request. If these rules are broken, I will be the cause of the 2012 apocalypse. + Show Spoiler +
One request per post. If your request has been completed, you may only make another request if there is no one else waiting for theirs. If you request two at once, I'll ignore one.
All requests must be acceptable for public display (i.e. no porn/camwhores/gore) It has happened.
Do not spam me with emails/PMs asking why a request might be taking so long. I'll do them when I have the time. If you remind me, your request will be ignored.
Do not give me a description of an image you would like. Link the image you want done, the background you want it done for (main menu, T, Z, P etc) and make sure the image is decent resolution. Images smaller than roughly 1200x600 will probably turn out shit as I'll have to stretch them. Recommended minimum dimensions are 1500x800 or 1300x800 for Terran and 1400x800 for Zerg. I'm not going to hunt down a high resolution version of your image if you only post a thumbnail.
Do not ask me to PM you a link to the download when it's done. It'll be posted in the thread in bulk along with all the other requests. It takes you a lot less time to check if I've posted it yet then it takes me to make it. If you don't want to be checking every day, just wait a week and check back then, it rarely takes me longer than that to finish requests.
Take the effort to rehosting your desired image to a website like imgur or fileshack to minimize the chances that I won't have access to the image, making everyones life easier.
Do not show off your own work unless you're willing to share the download link. This obviously isn't really related to making a request, but if you don't share your work, all you're going to do is annoy people by showing off. It's not going to be appreciated if you keep it to yourself.
If you want to be kept up to date on new DDS releases or just modding for SC2/other various games, I'll be posting stuff on these things
Go to C:\Program Files (x86)\StarCraft II\Battle.net and open Battle.net.MPQ using the MPQEditor (Backup the MPQ somewhere safe first incase you want to undo the changed you've made later.)
When browsing inside the MPQ via the editor, navigate to Battle.net\Shared and drop the download in there, replacing the previous file.
For loading screen images, you need to go to C:\Program Files (x86)\StarCraft II\Mods\Core.SC2Mod, open enGB.SC2Assets with the MPQEditor (could also be enUS, zhTW, koKR, ruRU etc based on region you play on) then navigate to Assets\Textures and drop the DDS there, remembering to backup the MPQ first incase you change your mind later.
Archive: Look through here before posting your request. There's been some pretty incredible requests in the past that turned out really nicely with the SC2 interface, you might find something you like.
Edit: The image cap for this post has been maxed out :// I've moved all of the Main Menu, Loading screen, Custom game lobby, Score screen and Co-op images to the post beneath this one.
Edit Edit: New backgrounds will rarely be added to this list from this point on as there's already a pretty large selection. I'll make exceptions if I get really awesome requests. I also be doing requests in bulk from now on and uploading them in packs instead on individually, it just helps make things easier for me. Because of this, I'll usually wait three or four days before I start completing requests.
As two additional releases, this one makes your quick match a lot cleaner to display more of your custom image. The image I used as an example was pretty bad because it wasn't that covered up to begin with, but you get the idea. Follow the instructions.txt in the download for getting this to work. If your game begins patching after installing this, you can fix it by reading this.
If this turns out good I'm probably going to make my own versions with your guide on your site for the other races. It was hard tracking down an image and hard to pick a race to use it with first....haha.
I already use your older backgrounds they are awesome.
WOW! Good contribution, whether I use them or not, its neat to know its doable. Has the community come to a conclusion regarding ToS and/or Warden concerns with stuff like this?
On March 06 2012 19:01 Crushgroove wrote: WOW! Good contribution, whether I use them or not, its neat to know its doable. Has the community come to a conclusion regarding ToS and/or Warden concerns with stuff like this?
Long ass thread that was made a long time ago when this first came around.
On March 06 2012 18:49 RaLakedaimon wrote: Looks good man! You are always helpful with getting things set up too, great to have people around that know there stuff.
<3
On March 06 2012 18:56 AyameStarcraft wrote: Race: Zerg
If this turns out good I'm probably going to make my own versions with your guide on your site for the other races. It was hard tracking down an image and hard to pick a race to use it with first....haha.
I already use your older backgrounds they are awesome.
This is awesome! Even if you weren't taking requests, just the organization of the OP (trying to find a cool one in the "Wow, Medic" thread was such a pain.) and the easiness of getting downloads and what not is simply fantastic. But not just that, you are taking requests, so you're even more awesome! Also much thanks for the + Show Spoiler +
If this turns out good I'm probably going to make my own versions with your guide on your site for the other races. It was hard tracking down an image and hard to pick a race to use it with first....haha.
I already use your older backgrounds they are awesome.
Best I can do. Because of the permanent blue left side of Zerg/Terran backgrounds, it's difficult to make bright images look decent.
On March 06 2012 20:01 slam wrote: This is awesome! Even if you weren't taking requests, just the organization of the OP (trying to find a cool one in the "Wow, Medic" thread was such a pain.) and the easiness of getting downloads and what not is simply fantastic. But not just that, you are taking requests, so you're even more awesome! Also much thanks for the + Show Spoiler +
On March 07 2012 02:09 AeonStrife wrote: Furturefives' hydra pic. Zerg 1v1 and 2v2! Thanks. Not sure if you have to adjust it to the right to make it look cool.
On March 07 2012 03:39 battyone wrote: Before I dredge up the picture I want, I know you want specific dimensions but does image format/compression matter at all?
Compression, no. Format, jpg, png would be easiest for me.
If this turns out good I'm probably going to make my own versions with your guide on your site for the other races. It was hard tracking down an image and hard to pick a race to use it with first....haha.
I already use your older backgrounds they are awesome.
Best I can do. Because of the permanent blue left side of Zerg/Terran backgrounds, it's difficult to make bright images look decent.
Bugger, had a feeling this might happen. Image cap was hit on my OP. Loading screen and custom matches/lobby/score screen/Co-op images have been moved to reserve post.
On March 07 2012 09:34 AyameStarcraft wrote: Thanks a lot man, turned out better than I expected :D
Time to dig out my mpq editor again
Glad you liked, wasn't sure about it myself.
On March 07 2012 11:08 kanada wrote: the second last picture in the victory screen section (nova one) links to a rapid share that has a password. Was that meant to be that way?
Oh, that one was a contribution, not one of mine. No idea why he'd put a pass on it. Try "battle.net"
On March 07 2012 19:25 Teliko wrote: Bugger, had a feeling this might happen. Image cap was hit on my OP. Loading screen and custom matches/lobby/score screen/Co-op images have been moved to reserve post.
On March 07 2012 11:08 kanada wrote: the second last picture in the victory screen section (nova one) links to a rapid share that has a password. Was that meant to be that way?
Oh, that one was a contribution, not one of mine. No idea why he'd put a pass on it. Try "battle.net"
Can you please do this for Terran quick match edit: sorry if its too small got to redo my post later when i get home ^_^ it would be greatly appreciated =D thank you very much!! + Show Spoiler +
Edit: if that first one doesn't work, im sorry, can you please try this one =D!! sorry i can't find any really good pictures of my that are more wide than long.It would really make my day =D!!! + Show Spoiler +
Hi Teliko, just wanted to thank you for the step by step guide you put up on your website. I have changed all of my backgrounds using your guide. Thank you for the Clean IU instructions as well, I will try that out when I get the time.
To those waiting on requests, I'll have them done by the weekend. Don't really have a chance to do them right now.
On March 08 2012 04:48 TuElite wrote: Hi Teliko, just wanted to thank you for the step by step guide you put up on your website. I have changed all of my backgrounds using your guide. Thank you for the Clean IU instructions as well, I will try that out when I get the time.
It should be mentioned that if you want to take say a terran background and use it for protoss you can just download the file and grab the name of the protoss file from the op and bam you have it for protoss now!
Few more requests done. Sorry for taking so long, I just usually prefer doing them at the weekend. To anyone still waiting, haven't missed them, just wanted to get these ones out for now and I'll get around to the rest when I get the chance.
On March 07 2012 23:04 MeLo wrote: Cam I make my second request?
On March 08 2012 03:01 Lokk wrote: Can you please do this for Terran quick match edit: sorry if its too small got to redo my post later when i get home ^_^ it would be greatly appreciated =D thank you very much!! + Show Spoiler +
Edit: if that first one doesn't work, im sorry, can you please try this one =D!! sorry i can't find any really good pictures of my that are more wide than long.It would really make my day =D!!! + Show Spoiler +
Tried my best with this one, but because of the vertical dimensions and bright foreground and background, made it really difficult to get this to fit in without the contrast standing out too heavily. Had to manually erase the background near the bunny ears and tshirt because they were too bright to select. Kinda disappointed with how the hair turned out too, but it's the best I can do without spending an hour on it.
You also gave me an excuse to experiment with a tablet I've had lying around for like two years that I got for college but never actually bothered using. The bunny ears were driving me insane trying to erase the background with a mouse, never realised how awesome tablets actually are.
Inverted the image so she wouldn't be hid behind the menus, rescaled her head slightly because her eye was cutting across the interface, ended up getting it to align with the Protoss selection. Mildly amusing.
I'll probably do some more stuff tomorrow. If not then, it'll probably be in 2-3 days.
On March 11 2012 17:16 Madera wrote: I'd like to request a Zerg version of the BW background you did above me using this image: http://i.imgur.com/J72mp.jpg Thank you. <3
Really cool, good to get a bit of variation when waiting for the next match but do you think you can make something with Boxer for the terran quickmatch screen and maybe get the SNSD pic at the score screen to, that would be nice :D
btw a friend of mine asks if you could make something with DRG aswell.
anyways thanks for making such epic pics :D keep on the good work.
Edit: Nevermind about that boxewr thing, looked through a second time and found it :D
On March 11 2012 19:46 RayOfTheVoid wrote: Really cool, good to get a bit of variation when waiting for the next match but do you think you can make something with Boxer for the terran quickmatch screen and maybe get the SNSD pic at the score screen to, that would be nice :D
btw a friend of mine asks if you could make something with DRG aswell.
anyways thanks for making such epic pics :D keep on the good work.
Edit: Nevermind about that boxewr thing, looked through a second time and found it :D
There's loads of SNSD pictures in the archive. Find one you like and rename it to 28a0d83f17ab2011a755f61b8c838fec3cbd734e then install. Tell your friend he needs to provide the picture he wants. I don't know what pictures of DRG he likes.
Whenever I try to download the MMA picture, the IU one comes up instead. Can you explain why this might happen? the mediafire file is exactly the same for both links
On March 12 2012 09:33 SonKiE wrote: Can you get banned for background modifications?
Yes technically. But it seems that nobody so far has gotten banned and there's a lot of people using this. Search "medic main menu" for the thread that discusses this
I uploaded it as a PNG for transparency but its obviously didn't retain when uploaded to imgur should I do something different? I was thinking of its position like this: + Show Spoiler +
I uploaded it as a PNG for transparency but its obviously didn't retain when uploaded to imgur should I do something different? I was thinking of its position like this: + Show Spoiler +
Hey Teliko, I've been attempting with paint.net to make this image look good as the backdrop for my Protoss quick match. Always super fuzzy. Any assistance would be fantastic! Thanks.
Hey Teliko, I've been attempting with paint.net to make this image look good as the backdrop for my Protoss quick match. Always super fuzzy. Any assistance would be fantastic! Thanks.
Images like this usually really annoy me because I don't like keeping the bright background in the SC2 interface, but creating a transparent effect on something like the flames at the bottom can be a huge chore. However, I'm really happy with how it turned out, and this is probably one of my favourite releases so far. Some of the edges are still a bit rough, but I'm pretty satisfied with it.
I uploaded it as a PNG for transparency but its obviously didn't retain when uploaded to imgur should I do something different? I was thinking of its position like this: + Show Spoiler +
Hey second request for terran, if you get a chance, finally found a good size picture of woories ~_~. Thanks for the first one, i love it =3, and thank you in advance!!! + Show Spoiler +
Thanks for the nice guides. I was able to make my own and add the gradient stuff without too much hassle. It's awesome that you're doing it for other people too. Keep up the good work =D!
Adding a pretty decent collection contributed by RoKetha which is a complete background redesign to a pony theme. Ponies not exactly my thing, so I'm not going to comment on it, but I'm sure some of you will be interested in it.
Also includes a TL logo decal by default for Zerg, but can obviously be adjusted. Installing decals not quite as simple as backgrounds, will probably require renaming or changing your current decal. To learn more about it, you can read up on it here. Client side change, file in the download above.
I uploaded it as a PNG for transparency but its obviously didn't retain when uploaded to imgur should I do something different? I was thinking of its position like this: + Show Spoiler +
I have getting a clean right side, but my left side where the rank icon is still has overlay. I install the dds file in the patch.MPQ, but it just repatched my SC2 and stays the same. Has anyone else got it to work?
Just wanted to share this--some dds I made and posted on the "Wow, medic in SC2 main menu" thread. I noticed Teliko posted one for zergs with the new Hydralisk. My version is less saturated and positioned so the head isn't obscured by the FFA button. Enjoy!
On March 13 2012 14:25 lSasquatchl wrote: Is anyone else trying to us the CleanUI?
I have getting a clean right side, but my left side where the rank icon is still has overlay. I install the dds file in the patch.MPQ, but it just repatched my SC2 and stays the same. Has anyone else got it to work?
When you placed the file into the patch.mpq, did you get a prompt confirming to replace a previous file? Or did the file just drop in without any questions asked?
On March 13 2012 06:46 Lokk wrote: Hey second request for terran, if you get a chance, finally found a good size picture of woories ~_~. Thanks for the first one, i love it =3, and thank you in advance!!! + Show Spoiler +
On March 13 2012 20:55 Linwelin wrote: I want to thank you again for my first request I love it. Here's my 2nd request for Zerg this time http://i.imgur.com/2cIH7.jpg
i have now done it myself with your pics and i ve got to say, they re awesome!!! your instructions are great, everything was easy! thanks for that, keep up the great work!
If you have no problem with resizing, it would be cool to have this for Zerg. Sorry about the dimensions, as the other verson I have is thumbnail size, so yeah. Here you go.
I'm not really that good at knowing peoples personal preferences, so I'll only be putting it in plain white font unless you want to add it yourself and then send me that one to make instead.
On March 15 2012 05:55 FecalTank wrote: If you have no problem with resizing, it would be cool to have this for Zerg. Sorry about the dimensions, as the other verson I have is thumbnail size, so yeah. Here you go.
I'm not really that good at knowing peoples personal preferences, so I'll only be putting it in plain white font unless you want to add it yourself and then send me that one to make instead.
Waiting for a response to this before I start work on it.
On March 16 2012 04:31 Arisen wrote: I think team based backgrounds are really cool/desirable for people. For instance, this one is pretty cool for TL fans
I tried making my own but my PS4 didn't have the .DDS format option, even after I downloaded the NVIDIA plug-in for it. Paint.Net seemed to be take over by some other site too, idk if that's just me though. Anyways I would appreciate it if you could make this for my Protoss background
On March 17 2012 09:11 Sovano wrote: I tried making my own but my PS4 didn't have the .DDS format option, even after I downloaded the NVIDIA plug-in for it. Paint.Net seemed to be take over by some other site too, idk if that's just me though. Anyways I would appreciate it if you could make this for my Protoss background + Show Spoiler +
On March 17 2012 09:11 Sovano wrote: I tried making my own but my PS4 didn't have the .DDS format option, even after I downloaded the NVIDIA plug-in for it. Paint.Net seemed to be take over by some other site too, idk if that's just me though. Anyways I would appreciate it if you could make this for my Protoss background + Show Spoiler +
On March 17 2012 12:43 slytown wrote: I got a message after inputing several images that there wasn't enough space in the MPQ. How do i fix that?
Can honestly say that in over a year of mpq editing, I've never seen that message :/ SC2 MPQs go up to like 3gigs or something, and the one used for the backgrounds is only around 113mb, or at least for mine. How big is yours currently?
On March 17 2012 17:44 slytown wrote: Can I get a GG score screen. Maybe a shot of the button or something?
On March 06 2012 18:10 Teliko wrote: Basic rules for making a request. If these rules are broken, I will be the cause of the 2012 apocalypse. Do not give me a description of an image you would like. Link the image you want done, the background you want it done for.
Teliko mind doing another similar one like my last one. Maybe alittle easier cause there is no flames. If u dont really want to bother ill get a simpler image ^^
On March 19 2012 06:59 Tabbris wrote: Teliko mind doing another similar one like my last one. Maybe alittle easier cause there is no flames. I u dont really want to bother ill get a simpler image ^^
Link the picture and I'll have a go at it when I get the chance.
On March 19 2012 06:59 Tabbris wrote: Teliko mind doing another similar one like my last one. Maybe alittle easier cause there is no flames. I u dont really want to bother ill get a simpler image ^^
Link the picture and I'll have a go at it when I get the chance.
On March 19 2012 06:59 Tabbris wrote: Teliko mind doing another similar one like my last one. Maybe alittle easier cause there is no flames. I u dont really want to bother ill get a simpler image ^^
Link the picture and I'll have a go at it when I get the chance.
Outlines still kinda heavy, I had my background eraser tolerance set to 100%, but it just refused to apply to the outline. I refined a lot of it in a layer mask, but any more and the stuff flying around would have started to be removed, and manually removing the remaining outline takes effort -_- If you have another one similar to the style of the previous two, I can make you one for the main menu, if you want. These look pretty awesome.
On March 19 2012 06:59 Tabbris wrote: Teliko mind doing another similar one like my last one. Maybe alittle easier cause there is no flames. I u dont really want to bother ill get a simpler image ^^
Link the picture and I'll have a go at it when I get the chance.
Outlines still kinda heavy, I had my background eraser tolerance set to 100%, but it just refused to apply to the outline. I refined a lot of it in a layer mask, but any more and the stuff flying around would have started to be removed, and manually removing the remaining outline takes effort -_- If you have another one similar to the style of the previous two, I can make you one for the main menu, if you want. These look pretty awesome.
On March 19 2012 06:59 Tabbris wrote: Teliko mind doing another similar one like my last one. Maybe alittle easier cause there is no flames. I u dont really want to bother ill get a simpler image ^^
Link the picture and I'll have a go at it when I get the chance.
Outlines still kinda heavy, I had my background eraser tolerance set to 100%, but it just refused to apply to the outline. I refined a lot of it in a layer mask, but any more and the stuff flying around would have started to be removed, and manually removing the remaining outline takes effort -_- If you have another one similar to the style of the previous two, I can make you one for the main menu, if you want. These look pretty awesome.
Alright Teliko. I did some searching around and found 6 images that would look pretty baddass on the main menu. I narrowed it down to 2... I honestly cant decide which one i perfer so I'm going to let you decide for me. Pick the one you would like to do I'm fine with either.
On March 19 2012 10:51 Tabbris wrote: Alright Teliko. I did some searching around and found 6 images that would look pretty baddass on the main menu. I narrowed it down to 2... I honestly cant decide which one i perfer so I'm going to let you decide for me. Pick the one you would like to do I'm fine with either.
On March 19 2012 10:51 Tabbris wrote: Alright Teliko. I did some searching around and found 6 images that would look pretty baddass on the main menu. I narrowed it down to 2... I honestly cant decide which one i perfer so I'm going to let you decide for me. Pick the one you would like to do I'm fine with either.
On March 19 2012 10:24 Marinechan wrote: Any picture of MKP would be amazing :3
There's a lot of MKP images out there, please link one you like.
On March 19 2012 10:51 Tabbris wrote: Alright Teliko. I did some searching around and found 6 images that would look pretty baddass on the main menu. I narrowed it down to 2... I honestly cant decide which one i perfer so I'm going to let you decide for me. Pick the one you would like to do I'm fine with either.
On March 19 2012 11:23 Clamchop1 wrote: Hey Teliko, I admire your work. I've only got 1 request and I hope you can spare some time on it. I want this as a loading screen, thx. IMAGE
This image has a large file size because it has such a hugely powerful gradient, when scaled up, the quality goes to shreds in DXT5 interpolated alpha format, so I had to save it in A8R8G8B8 instead to maintain a decent quality. DDS files tend to eat up quality a lot, no one really notices it unless it's got huge gradients like this though. So yeah, it's maintaining the same quality at the cost of 8 more mb. Shouldn't effect anything though, just explaining in case you're wondering about the bigger file.
Not nagging anyone, but, anyone who's said they're going to donate, could you please let me know when you do, either in this thread or PM. I've had some troubles with paypal in the past and want to be sure it's functioning properly again.
Don't think I did, but if I missed anyones request, feel free to shout at me. Bit sleepy, so might have inadvertently skimmed a post. Will get anything I missed done tomorrow, off to get some sleep for now.
woah, thanks!, if its not too much of an hassle, could you possibly remove the starcraft 2 and blizzard icon off the hydra zerg picture? i think that way it will look even more badass
Haha Nice man. It really shows that you just keep getting better at doing these since my first request. It looks pretty tight. This was so well done. I am just amazed how well your doing this.
On March 19 2012 23:41 Tabbris wrote: Haha Nice man. It really shows that you just keep getting better at doing these since my first request. It looks pretty tight. If I was to nitpick I would say maybe the Black fog around the feet is a bit much, But again that was just picture choice this was so well done. I am just amazed how well your doing this.
Yeah, I was thinking that too, which is why I was tempted to just zoom the picture beyond the feet and have it focusing on the head to the torso, but again, the picture is generally too awesome to deny any visual to it :/ Whoever drew these is incredible.
On March 19 2012 23:41 Tabbris wrote: Haha Nice man. It really shows that you just keep getting better at doing these since my first request. It looks pretty tight. If I was to nitpick I would say maybe the Black fog around the feet is a bit much, But again that was just picture choice this was so well done. I am just amazed how well your doing this.
Yeah, I was thinking that too, which is why I was tempted to just zoom the picture beyond the feet and have it focusing on the head to the torso, but again, the picture is generally too awesome to deny any visual to it :/ Whoever drew these is incredible.
On March 19 2012 23:41 Tabbris wrote: Haha Nice man. It really shows that you just keep getting better at doing these since my first request. It looks pretty tight. If I was to nitpick I would say maybe the Black fog around the feet is a bit much, But again that was just picture choice this was so well done. I am just amazed how well your doing this.
Yeah, I was thinking that too, which is why I was tempted to just zoom the picture beyond the feet and have it focusing on the head to the torso, but again, the picture is generally too awesome to deny any visual to it :/ Whoever drew these is incredible.
God damn.. Had a look through some of his stuff, pretty impressive.
For this one, I tried to make the clouds stand out a lot more than the previous ones. I had to keep the outline on the right a lot thicker than the left to make up for it because the cloud joins up with the character, else there'd be an obvious transition in the pink from where I increased and decreased the tolerance, but I went over the edges lightly at the end so it wasn't too bold in contrast.
This picture generally is also a pretty good example of the clean UI mod coming into good use. I moved the character so she wasn't hidden behind any buttons like the FFA, without the clean UI, a lot of the pink on the right would be hidden behind the blue menus in the foreground. Anyway, again, awesome picture. Love this artist.
On March 19 2012 23:41 Tabbris wrote: Haha Nice man. It really shows that you just keep getting better at doing these since my first request. It looks pretty tight. If I was to nitpick I would say maybe the Black fog around the feet is a bit much, But again that was just picture choice this was so well done. I am just amazed how well your doing this.
Yeah, I was thinking that too, which is why I was tempted to just zoom the picture beyond the feet and have it focusing on the head to the torso, but again, the picture is generally too awesome to deny any visual to it :/ Whoever drew these is incredible.
God damn.. Had a look through some of his stuff, pretty impressive.
For this one, I tried to make the clouds stand out a lot more than the previous ones. I had to keep the outline on the right a lot thicker than the left to make up for it because the cloud joins up with the character, else there'd be an obvious transition in the pink from where I increased and decreased the tolerance, but I went over the edges lightly at the end so it wasn't too bold in contrast.
This picture generally is also a pretty good example of the clean UI mod coming into good use. I moved the character so she wasn't hidden behind any buttons like the FFA, without the clean UI, a lot of the pink on the right would be hidden behind the blue menus in the foreground. Anyway, again, awesome picture. Love this artist.
Haha like i said it always seems you just keep making these better and better. TY.
Aight this is going to be my last request for awhile. Since everything seems complete. Maybe I'll think of a loading screen request tomorrow and that will be it. http://imgur.com/IXMWD Random quickmatch This one might be challenging but Im not familiar with Photoshop. This isnt my favorite image but I wanted all the images to be pretty diverse so I chose it over this one http://imgur.com/nBzGK which I prefer but thought was to similar to request #2 .
Also I told some of my sc2 buds about the thread who are interested.
On March 19 2012 23:41 Tabbris wrote: Haha Nice man. It really shows that you just keep getting better at doing these since my first request. It looks pretty tight. If I was to nitpick I would say maybe the Black fog around the feet is a bit much, But again that was just picture choice this was so well done. I am just amazed how well your doing this.
Yeah, I was thinking that too, which is why I was tempted to just zoom the picture beyond the feet and have it focusing on the head to the torso, but again, the picture is generally too awesome to deny any visual to it :/ Whoever drew these is incredible.
God damn.. Had a look through some of his stuff, pretty impressive.
For this one, I tried to make the clouds stand out a lot more than the previous ones. I had to keep the outline on the right a lot thicker than the left to make up for it because the cloud joins up with the character, else there'd be an obvious transition in the pink from where I increased and decreased the tolerance, but I went over the edges lightly at the end so it wasn't too bold in contrast.
This picture generally is also a pretty good example of the clean UI mod coming into good use. I moved the character so she wasn't hidden behind any buttons like the FFA, without the clean UI, a lot of the pink on the right would be hidden behind the blue menus in the foreground. Anyway, again, awesome picture. Love this artist.
Haha like i said it always seems you just keep making these better and better. TY.
Aight this is going to be my last request for awhile. Since everything seems complete. Maybe I'll think of a loading screen request tomorrow and that will be it. http://imgur.com/IXMWD Random quickmatch This one might be challenging but Im not familiar with Photoshop. This isnt my favorite image but I wanted all the images to be pretty diverse so I chose it over this one http://imgur.com/nBzGK which I prefer but thought was to similar to request #2 .
Also I told some of my sc2 buds about the thread who are interested.
Ah, I see you what you mean. Second one definitely a lot more impressive, but the dark red matches the zerg request too much D: Shame. Anyway, I'm probably going to have to release these as a set at some point now that there's one of everything. These are by far too impressive to not let more people know about them. Would use them all myself, but I don't get a chance because I make new ones for other people so much and need to test them out before releasing -_- Once I get around to it, I'll probably add some more for the lobby or score screen or something, I'll have to take another look at some of his stuff.
If you can find a big enough one for the loading screen, that'd be awesome, but it'd probably need something going on in the background too.
If you ever figure out how to fix the way zerg screen is lame on the left (compared to protoss that can use the whole backdrop) do let me know! I spent hours on it before but couldn't make it happen. Would pay for the solution!
Yeah it's possible, the league icons are split between the same mpq for these backgrounds and patch.mpq in the same folder. Oh right, I should probably take that down at some point. After I moved home with a few friends, I was intending to start coaching, but I didn't really think it through because there's usually three other people in the same room as me, so I don't really have anywhere private to coach seeing as my bedroom is like a freezer.
On March 20 2012 09:52 Lumi wrote: If you ever figure out how to fix the way zerg screen is lame on the left (compared to protoss that can use the whole backdrop) do let me know! I spent hours on it before but couldn't make it happen. Would pay for the solution!
Afraid I've found no way around it, you just need to disguise it with photoshop.
I would like to get one done for my friend, and then, of course, some for myself, if you have the time/nobody else is ahead of me. Thank you so much for doing this, you are awesome.
On March 20 2012 16:06 DYEAlabaster wrote: Hello Sir, I love what you are doing here.
I would like to get one done for my friend, and then, of course, some for myself, if you have the time/nobody else is ahead of me. Thank you so much for doing this, you are awesome.
So Sorry if I've done something wrong. Thank you again for this <3
Kind of an awkward image. Had to flip it so the character wasn't hidden behind the UI which lead the white edge to be against the awkward offsets, leading to it having to be gradiented out. I haven't slept in almost two days either which doesn't help, but I gave it a shot anyway.
On March 20 2012 16:06 DYEAlabaster wrote: Hello Sir, I love what you are doing here.
I would like to get one done for my friend, and then, of course, some for myself, if you have the time/nobody else is ahead of me. Thank you so much for doing this, you are awesome.
So Sorry if I've done something wrong. Thank you again for this <3
Kind of an awkward image. Had to flip it so the character wasn't hidden behind the UI which lead the white edge to be against the awkward offsets, leading to it having to be gradiented out. I haven't slept in almost two days either which doesn't help, but I gave it a shot anyway.
On March 20 2012 16:06 DYEAlabaster wrote: Hello Sir, I love what you are doing here.
I would like to get one done for my friend, and then, of course, some for myself, if you have the time/nobody else is ahead of me. Thank you so much for doing this, you are awesome.
So Sorry if I've done something wrong. Thank you again for this <3
Kind of an awkward image. Had to flip it so the character wasn't hidden behind the UI which lead the white edge to be against the awkward offsets, leading to it having to be gradiented out. I haven't slept in almost two days either which doesn't help, but I gave it a shot anyway.
On March 21 2012 03:06 Ssoulle wrote: /stupid question, where do the Loading Screen.dds's go ? They aren't listed anywhere and I can't find them in the MPQ
On March 21 2012 08:10 Clamchop1 wrote: Can we please stop with all of the Anime requests? We need more variety and less every-single-character-of-every-single-anime requests.
Looks like it's ranting time. Where to begin with you... First off, can we not make demands in other peoples threads? I'd much prefer 100 anime requests from weaboos as opposed to 100 semi-naked model requests from peoples dicks any day. This is not a thread where we come up with ideas for requests to share to the community. This is a thread where people request what they like and would want for themselves, which then gets shared with the community anyway in case somebody else has their shared interest. If anime happens to be the most in demand, that means it's what the community wants, so it's what the community gets. No one is stopping you from requesting whatever appeals to you more.
Why should variety be a necessity? People are getting what they like, so everybody's happy. If people see something they like, they can get it. If they don't see it, they can request it and then make it available for others who might like it too. I honestly don't understand how you can complain when this has the potential to appeal to anyone's interests. What you're saying is the equivalent of going to the Olympics where there's multiple events to appeal to people's different interests, then you decide to jump up and shout "Why the fuck are there so many people watching the swimming events? Swimming is gay, lets all go watch the high-jump!"
On March 21 2012 08:10 Clamchop1 wrote: Can we please stop with all of the Anime requests? We need more variety and less every-single-character-of-every-single-anime requests.
Lol. This is a request thread. You want something then request it
All the parts for my new computer arrived today, need to set everything up, transfer everything from my laptop and generally make it perfect, will do new requests in the next few days seeing as I don't even have photoshop on this yet.
can you put the PNG or JPEG downloads in th OP please? I want the korean girl with the snowball for protoss not random, but I can't because there's no file in the thread (just spent 15 minutes going through every post...
On March 22 2012 11:54 Trufflez wrote: can you put the PNG or JPEG downloads in th OP please? I want the korean girl with the snowball for protoss not random, but I can't because there's no file in the thread (just spent 15 minutes going through every post...
Not quite sure how it can take 15 minutes to skim a 9 page thread, but fair enough.
On March 06 2012 18:10 Teliko wrote: Codes to use when renaming DDS images for other backgrounds + optimal dimensions:
On March 22 2012 11:54 Trufflez wrote: can you put the PNG or JPEG downloads in th OP please? I want the korean girl with the snowball for protoss not random, but I can't because there's no file in the thread (just spent 15 minutes going through every post...
Not quite sure how it can take 15 minutes to skim a 9 page thread, but fair enough.
Could you make this one into a loading screen? I know it's quite small, but I couldn't find a bigger size. Also, I tried downloading some of the other loading screens, but most of them are links to a .rar file with several stuff in and it's password protected. Don't know if it's meant to be like that.
On March 22 2012 11:54 Trufflez wrote: can you put the PNG or JPEG downloads in th OP please? I want the korean girl with the snowball for protoss not random, but I can't because there's no file in the thread (just spent 15 minutes going through every post...
Not quite sure how it can take 15 minutes to skim a 9 page thread, but fair enough.
On March 06 2012 18:10 Teliko wrote: Codes to use when renaming DDS images for other backgrounds + optimal dimensions:
On March 22 2012 11:54 Trufflez wrote: can you put the PNG or JPEG downloads in th OP please? I want the korean girl with the snowball for protoss not random, but I can't because there's no file in the thread (just spent 15 minutes going through every post...
Not quite sure how it can take 15 minutes to skim a 9 page thread, but fair enough.
On March 06 2012 18:10 Teliko wrote: Codes to use when renaming DDS images for other backgrounds + optimal dimensions:
well probably more like 6 minutes. But still Dx I want the girl and the snowball!
You can just download the file and rename it to 36276c7561a180810757b037865c7c34e08ce351 Don't know how we can explain any more thoroughly.
On March 22 2012 23:09 L1ghty wrote: Could you make this one into a loading screen? I know it's quite small, but I couldn't find a bigger size. Also, I tried downloading some of the other loading screens, but most of them are links to a .rar file with several stuff in and it's password protected. Don't know if it's meant to be like that.
On March 22 2012 11:54 Trufflez wrote: can you put the PNG or JPEG downloads in th OP please? I want the korean girl with the snowball for protoss not random, but I can't because there's no file in the thread (just spent 15 minutes going through every post...
Not quite sure how it can take 15 minutes to skim a 9 page thread, but fair enough.
On March 06 2012 18:10 Teliko wrote: Codes to use when renaming DDS images for other backgrounds + optimal dimensions:
On March 22 2012 23:09 L1ghty wrote: Could you make this one into a loading screen? I know it's quite small, but I couldn't find a bigger size. Also, I tried downloading some of the other loading screens, but most of them are links to a .rar file with several stuff in and it's password protected. Don't know if it's meant to be like that.
I just to curious to see how this pic turns out to let is slip by. thx ^^
Another main menu? D: How about something like score screen or custom game lobby?
score is fine
Face gets covered unless you're on the graph menu and I had to stretch it a bit because the wing ends at the edge suddenly, but not too bad of a turn out.
On March 22 2012 23:09 L1ghty wrote: Could you make this one into a loading screen? I know it's quite small, but I couldn't find a bigger size. Also, I tried downloading some of the other loading screens, but most of them are links to a .rar file with several stuff in and it's password protected. Don't know if it's meant to be like that.
Thanks for doing all of this, my menus already look sick good thanks to you!
I gave it a go, but it had to be stretched way too much and looked pretty terrible. Loading screen DDS' have to be 2100 pixels wide. Stretching 700 to 2100 doesn't end well. Sorry.
On March 23 2012 04:52 Ssoulle wrote: Didn't realise the loading screen had its own MPQ practically, I looked everywhere Q_Q
Yeah, took me a while to find it. Not sure why they made it so awkward.
Just as a quick note to any requesters from this point on, I won't be providing screenshots any more unless I actually like the image and how it turned out, you'll just need to trust my experience and try it out. The reason for this is because since publishing this thread, the bandwidth on my website has been exploding and my webhost isn't very happy about it. I went past my monthly limit in the first two weeks, so I need to start slowing things down because I can't really afford to increase the limit.
On March 27 2012 15:04 Non0 wrote: Just wondering, why are you hosting the backgrounds personally instead of using a site like imgur?
I use Imgur when I want to display example pictures for something in the middle of a guide, but in terms of displaying huge galleries like the one background images has gathered, WordPress is pretty awkward at displaying them in such big numbers in a decent layout. I can't display them how they're currently being shown without rehosting them onto my domain. If I try to display an image from a target URL instead of my computer, it reuploads the image anyway instead of just displaying it from the source.
Chances are I've just missed something, but the first time I ever encountered WordPress was when I got this domain specifically for SC2 stuff, so I'm still learning about it.
Hey Teliko, big fan of your work here. The only request I have is for a loading screen! http://www.windows7wallpapers.com/wallpapers/Loading-Bar-Wallpaper.jpg Thanks!~ EDIT: If possible could you mask the "75%"? If it makes it look worse then don't bother but it would be cooler without it.
On March 27 2012 15:51 AxisXI wrote: Hey Teliko, big fan of your work here. The only request I have is for a loading screen! http://www.windows7wallpapers.com/wallpapers/Loading-Bar-Wallpaper.jpg Thanks!~ EDIT: If possible could you mask the "75%"? If it makes it look worse then don't bother but it would be cooler without it.
lawl, nice request. Not going to add a screenshot because it's a loading screen and there's only so many ways they could turn out Masked the 75 also.
On March 29 2012 14:16 powerofwar wrote: Is it possible to just change the "find match" button to its korean counterpart?
I don't have a Korean client because I use a Chinese account to play on Korean servers, and I don't really intend on installing one just to find that one file. If someone can send me the Korean Battle.net.mpq, I could find it for you.
On March 23 2012 13:46 Teliko wrote: I gave it a go, but it had to be stretched way too much and looked pretty terrible. Loading screen DDS' have to be 2100 pixels wide. Stretching 700 to 2100 doesn't end well. Sorry.
That's alright, I figured it might not work out. Thanks for trying anyway .
On March 29 2012 14:16 powerofwar wrote: Is it possible to just change the "find match" button to its korean counterpart?
I don't have a Korean client because I use a Chinese account to play on Korean servers, and I don't really intend on installing one just to find that one file. If someone can send me the Korean Battle.net.mpq, I could find it for you.
Wait... Not sure what I was thinking when I said this. The text on the button isn't applied to the texture of the button. It's overlayed in the UI in the location of the button, but the yellow button itself is completely blank. You'd have to change the language of the entire client to do that, which I haven't found a reliable method for doing without making the game crash.
Wasn't one of mine, I've never seen that picture before. Plus I never used megaupload for hosting, but yeah I'll do it once I get the rest out of the way.
http://imgur.com/eLUNg could you do this? i tried doing some editing but i did it all in paint.net and i cant seem to get the gradient... it seems like it does nothing and i cant fade
On March 31 2012 11:29 kl0wn64 wrote: http://imgur.com/eLUNg could you do this? i tried doing some editing but i did it all in paint.net and i cant seem to get the gradient... it seems like it does nothing and i cant fade
Just edit them as you like and see how it'll suit the UI best.
Thanks a bunch!
Man... This guys work... Can't get over him. Probably wouldn't have put as much effort into these as I did because of how long they take if he wasn't so awesome.
The method I usually use to remove backgrounds when there's light colours was completely destroyed by this image because of how she's surrounded by blue with no pure white to source discontiguous removal from without ruining the overall tolerance fading. This took a long goddamn time, and you better take it to the grave with you.
On April 02 2012 06:45 qwertyindeed wrote: awesome work Teliko! I was wondering if you have done any kittens for the different races and random before.
I actually think I did at some point over a year ago when I was first getting into this stuff, but it was somewhere in the medic thread which is like 60 pages long and it was all before I started archiving all my work, so good luck finding it :/ Plus I was a lot worse at it back then too. Just make a request and I'll make some new ones, can't go wrong with extra kittens.
Just finished a Shirogane Usagi full retheme. I don't usually put stuff on Reddit, but please upvote to spread awareness of both me and the awesome art of Usagi <3
If you're referring to the font in my screenshots, that's just a mod I use for my client, it's not included in backgrounds. As for the Taiwan sc2 bar, no idea what you're referring to o_O
Edit: Oh, do you mean at the top of my game client replacing the default logo? Thought you were talking about an advertisement in the screenshot or something. All that stuff is completely separate. You won't get it unless you install it individually.
H'm... Was installing the clean UI on my new computer, turns out this client has the patch bug. Going to be spending the next few days trying to get around this, will take care of the rest of the requests in the next couple of days.
On April 04 2012 03:07 bAftermath wrote: ADDSAJBHDGSAHIOJHA AOI SPHGAHJ AIKJHAHAIOLHJ
NOT ZERG OP! ZERG UNDERPOWERED!
PLZPLZPLZ
Nope
On April 04 2012 07:19 EienShinwa wrote: @Teliko You are fucking amazing my man. Will spread the word about your site and work!!
Hi, Teliko! I can not make the correct dds at the current resolution pictures. Could you make this as zerg, please? http://i.imgur.com/nZYD2.jpg Big thanks!
I find it amazing how you're taking our requests for custom backgrounds. I was wondering if you could do this picture for zerg ^_^ The resolution is slightly higher than you recommend, but hopefully you can work with it. + Show Spoiler +
Sorry those who've been waiting, I'm moving around from house to house a lot this week because of easter. Pretty interesting development for those experiencing the patch bug. It seems to be caused by the network permission/antivirus/firewall of the computer it's installed on, not the client itself. I've reinstalled various regions of sc2 several times and get the same results every time. On my new desktop, I get the patch bug every single time, but on my laptop, I don't get it at all. The result is the same regardless of installing via CD or downloaded clients.
After I go back home prior to easter, I'll be bringing a portable version of a non-patch bugging client that was installed on my laptop via a portable harddrive and see what answers I can get when I try running it on the desktop that is patch bugging. Once that happens, I should be able to solve this once and for all. Won't be for a while though as I'm staying at my parents house for the next week or so, so I've no access to my desktop.
On April 04 2012 22:25 bAftermath wrote: Yo I have a problem!
Yesterday, shared and the other maps we're there but today there is no shared or anything so I cant change background: http://i.imgur.com/rzQ23.jpg
Whai is it so?
Can honestly say I've never seen that. Seems like you may have pressed a wrong button in the MPQEditor. Does your sc2 still work normally?
On April 07 2012 08:47 mengak wrote: Hi, Teliko! I can not make the correct dds at the current resolution pictures. Could you make this as zerg, please? http://i.imgur.com/nZYD2.jpg Big thanks!
On April 07 2012 11:30 Shin_Gouki wrote: I find it amazing how you're taking our requests for custom backgrounds. I was wondering if you could do this picture for zerg ^_^ The resolution is slightly higher than you recommend, but hopefully you can work with it. + Show Spoiler +
You'll probably need to use the files in folder A from the clean UI download, else the right side of the picture will be really hidden behind the blue boxes.
p.s. i hope its not too much to ask for but if you can just pm me the DL link, just incase my post gets buried under here and can't find it. i appreciate so much
p.s. i hope its not too much to ask for but if you can just pm me the DL link, just incase my post gets buried under here and can't find it. i appreciate so much
Will do as a once off because I never stated otherwise, but people will just need to take the 10 seconds of time out of their day to check from this point on. If it takes too much effort, wait a week and check then, I usually get requests done by that length of time at most. http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?739eap0p05kokfa
Have possibly found an awesomely simple workaround for the people experiencing the patch bug, but to be sure, I need to get confirmation from other people.
Could anyone who was experiencing the patch bug please replicate the bug, obviously backing up your files beforehand, confirm that you still have it and then go to C:\Program Files (x86)\StarCraft II\Support and then run SC2Switcher.exe? It seems that by doing this, you bypass the patch confirmation phase of the launcher and just go straight into the game. This also won't cause any problems when future patches are actually released, because upon attempting to log in, it'll realize your client is out of date and then begin to update anyway.
So, can anyone else confirm this is actually working and not just for me?
Hello, could you do this as a background for Terran? on the Multiplayer tab, right side of the "find match" button, so its hopefully not blocked out too much. http://imgur.com/Kf1GE,PMzq0 Many thanks!
On April 11 2012 01:33 Teliko wrote: Have possibly found an awesomely simple workaround for the people experiencing the patch bug, but to be sure, I need to get confirmation from other people.
Could anyone who was experiencing the patch bug please replicate the bug, obviously backing up your files beforehand, confirm that you still have it and then go to C:\Program Files (x86)\StarCraft II\Support and then run SC2Switcher.exe? It seems that by doing this, you bypass the patch confirmation phase of the launcher and just go straight into the game. This also won't cause any problems when future patches are actually released, because upon attempting to log in, it'll realize your client is out of date and then begin to update anyway.
So, can anyone else confirm this is actually working and not just for me?
Its working for me, I use to have the patch bug too but when I launch SC2 through SC2switcher.exe it just go straight to the loading screen :D
On April 11 2012 01:33 Teliko wrote: Have possibly found an awesomely simple workaround for the people experiencing the patch bug, but to be sure, I need to get confirmation from other people.
Could anyone who was experiencing the patch bug please replicate the bug, obviously backing up your files beforehand, confirm that you still have it and then go to C:\Program Files (x86)\StarCraft II\Support and then run SC2Switcher.exe? It seems that by doing this, you bypass the patch confirmation phase of the launcher and just go straight into the game. This also won't cause any problems when future patches are actually released, because upon attempting to log in, it'll realize your client is out of date and then begin to update anyway.
So, can anyone else confirm this is actually working and not just for me?
Its working for me, I use to have the patch bug too but when I launch SC2 through SC2switcher.exe it just go straight to the loading screen :D
:OOO Thanks for the feedback. This is pretty incredible if it fixes it for everyone. People have been having issues with the patch bug for the model edits for over a year now, can't believe the resolution is this simple ://
On April 11 2012 01:33 Teliko wrote: Have possibly found an awesomely simple workaround for the people experiencing the patch bug, but to be sure, I need to get confirmation from other people.
Could anyone who was experiencing the patch bug please replicate the bug, obviously backing up your files beforehand, confirm that you still have it and then go to C:\Program Files (x86)\StarCraft II\Support and then run SC2Switcher.exe? It seems that by doing this, you bypass the patch confirmation phase of the launcher and just go straight into the game. This also won't cause any problems when future patches are actually released, because upon attempting to log in, it'll realize your client is out of date and then begin to update anyway.
So, can anyone else confirm this is actually working and not just for me?
Its working for me, I use to have the patch bug too but when I launch SC2 through SC2switcher.exe it just go straight to the loading screen :D
:OOO Thanks for the feedback. This is pretty incredible if it fixes it for everyone. People have been having issues with the patch bug for the model edits for over a year now, can't believe the resolution is this simple ://
EDIT: After a second attempt it worked perfectly for me!
On April 11 2012 01:33 Teliko wrote: Have possibly found an awesomely simple workaround for the people experiencing the patch bug, but to be sure, I need to get confirmation from other people.
Could anyone who was experiencing the patch bug please replicate the bug, obviously backing up your files beforehand, confirm that you still have it and then go to C:\Program Files (x86)\StarCraft II\Support and then run SC2Switcher.exe? It seems that by doing this, you bypass the patch confirmation phase of the launcher and just go straight into the game. This also won't cause any problems when future patches are actually released, because upon attempting to log in, it'll realize your client is out of date and then begin to update anyway.
So, can anyone else confirm this is actually working and not just for me?
Its working for me, I use to have the patch bug too but when I launch SC2 through SC2switcher.exe it just go straight to the loading screen :D
:OOO Thanks for the feedback. This is pretty incredible if it fixes it for everyone. People have been having issues with the patch bug for the model edits for over a year now, can't believe the resolution is this simple ://
EDIT: After a second attempt it worked perfectly for me!
Awesome, four positive feedbacks so far. Seems like this definitely solves the patch bug once and for all.
Getting more requests than I'm willing to upload to my website at this stage, so as a way of speeding things up for me, I'll be doing things slightly differently from now on. When I finish a batch of requests, I'll be uploading them all at once in a compressed folder. If I quote your request, it's in the download. The download will have several folders with each quoted persons name on it. The folder with your name has your request in it.
As it turns out, DDS files compress incredibly well too, so it'll speed up uploading for me and makes things less confusing for me on my mediafire profile. This first batch of four requests compressed from 4.4mb to 1.8mb. Pretty surprising for image files.
On April 11 2012 05:45 IcedteaSC2 wrote: Thank you so much for all your work ^^
On April 11 2012 03:14 Assaulter wrote: Hello, could you do this as a background for Terran? on the Multiplayer tab, right side of the "find match" button, so its hopefully not blocked out too much. http://imgur.com/Kf1GE,PMzq0 Many thanks!
On April 12 2012 10:41 Teliko wrote: Getting more requests than I'm willing to upload to my website at this stage, so as a way of speeding things up for me, I'll be doing things slightly differently from now on. When I finish a batch of requests, I'll be uploading them all at once in a compressed folder. If I quote your request, it's in the download. The download will have several folders with each quoted persons name on it. The folder with your name has your request in it.
As it turns out, DDS files compress incredibly well too, so it'll speed up uploading for me and makes things less confusing for me on my mediafire profile. This first batch of four requests compressed from 4.4mb to 1.8mb. Pretty surprising for image files.
On April 11 2012 03:14 Assaulter wrote: Hello, could you do this as a background for Terran? on the Multiplayer tab, right side of the "find match" button, so its hopefully not blocked out too much. http://imgur.com/Kf1GE,PMzq0 Many thanks!
On April 12 2012 10:41 Teliko wrote: Getting more requests than I'm willing to upload to my website at this stage, so as a way of speeding things up for me, I'll be doing things slightly differently from now on. When I finish a batch of requests, I'll be uploading them all at once in a compressed folder. If I quote your request, it's in the download. The download will have several folders with each quoted persons name on it. The folder with your name has your request in it.
As it turns out, DDS files compress incredibly well too, so it'll speed up uploading for me and makes things less confusing for me on my mediafire profile. This first batch of four requests compressed from 4.4mb to 1.8mb. Pretty surprising for image files.
On April 11 2012 05:45 IcedteaSC2 wrote: Thank you so much for all your work ^^
On April 11 2012 03:14 Assaulter wrote: Hello, could you do this as a background for Terran? on the Multiplayer tab, right side of the "find match" button, so its hopefully not blocked out too much. http://imgur.com/Kf1GE,PMzq0 Many thanks!
Teliko, you are a god thank you so much! Also I have a question. The image I requested was for terran, and I kinda wanted to switch it to apply to toss, but when I did, the image shifted to the left, so her head is covered by the "terran zerg protoss random" bar .__.
I do have paint net, but I don't know how to do your awesome fade effect (which looked awesome btw), and I also don't know how to resize to optimal resolution without messing up the resolution (it becomes like 1504 x 930 or something when I try it, i'm a noob at picture editing lol)
This should be at the lowest priority but thanks a lot!
On April 13 2012 17:28 Ea wrote: Teliko, you are a god thank you so much! Also I have a question. The image I requested was for terran, and I kinda wanted to switch it to apply to toss, but when I did, the image shifted to the left, so her head is covered by the "terran zerg protoss random" bar .__.
I do have paint net, but I don't know how to do your awesome fade effect (which looked awesome btw), and I also don't know how to resize to optimal resolution without messing up the resolution (it becomes like 1504 x 930 or something when I try it, i'm a noob at picture editing lol)
This should be at the lowest priority but thanks a lot!
No fade effect required for Protoss, I only do it for Terran/Zerg because the offsets for their displays are unfavourable, it just keeps it looking clean. Used full fresh image for this.
On April 13 2012 17:39 DarkLegend wrote: Hi this is awesome! Do you think you could do me one just for the home screen (the one after you log in)
On April 13 2012 20:55 SuperDell wrote: Love your work! Made an account just to ask you . Could you do this one for 1v1 quickmatch Terran? Many thanks!
On April 14 2012 08:33 agfoxGnom wrote: By the way" any idea how to remove "view ladder" button? and wins/bonus pool too?
Those aren't images, they're text assets actually embedded into the interface. Removing them isn't worth the effort/time it would take to research the location of the assets in the MPQ. The blue surrounding on "View Ladder" is an image, but too small an image to find. I found the two on the right and one in the middle because they're so big, I just arranged every DDS in the MPQ by size and skimmed through the ones at the top. To find the View Ladder one, you'd have to skim like 40,000 images without any clues to its location due to the number of smaller images.
On March 21 2012 08:10 Clamchop1 wrote: Can we please stop with all of the Anime requests? We need more variety and less every-single-character-of-every-single-anime requests.
Lol. This is a request thread. You want something then request it
Lol this is so arrogant. "Anime"? If he's referring to shirogane usagi's works, it is actually from a video game series, but even so, I don't think he realizes that there is a big distinction in styles from western animation/animated-characters from those of the east. It's like he's just saying he hates eastern/asian character designs. And if he did realize that, it's still a bit silly to try to stop people from requesting what they want.
I LOVE Shirogane Usagi's work, wow o.o The faces/expressions of the characters are quite simple but effective -- but most impressive is the coloring, pose, and all the other stuff, like the clouds or fire surrounding each character. Such eye candy =D
Hello, I was wondering if you could put this picture of naniwa on for the Protoss 1v1 screen. If it's too large, feel free to remove some of the fat from it http://i.imgur.com/0ekSH.jpg
If i run official SC2, my client starts patching. What i doing wrong? Client: ruRU. Mods: quick start (all races), Clean UI, Chinese logo. (if i copy A part of clean ui, i copy B part to Battle.net-patch.MPQ too). Thanks. Sorry for my english.
P.S. Client version is 1.4.3.21031 P.P.S. Stronger Team Color installed on this client.
On April 15 2012 15:14 BurningLikeFire wrote: If i run official SC2, my client starts patching. What i doing wrong? Client: ruRU. Mods: quick start (all races), Clean UI, Chinese logo. (if i copy A part of clean ui, i copy B part to Battle.net-patch.MPQ too). Thanks. Sorry for my english.
P.S. Client version is 1.4.3.21031 P.P.S. Stronger Team Color installed on this client.
I'll be writing a more detailed page about this on my website soon, still working on various other problems to make sure the sc2switcher is compatible with everyone.
I made multiple startup wallpapers as can be seen in the google plus ablum. I ended up using this one, which is included in the download in dds format. I don't have the other ones in dds format included in the zip file. If you want a specific one, let me know and I'll convert it for you, or of course you can convert it yourself
On April 14 2012 20:06 oGsKneecap wrote: Hello, I was wondering if you could put this picture of naniwa on for the Protoss 1v1 screen. If it's too large, feel free to remove some of the fat from it http://i.imgur.com/0ekSH.jpg
Sorry you had to wait so long, was hoping to get more requests than this before I started because I prefer to do requests in bulk, but has been pretty quiet thus far.
With the help of many awesome people, the resolution to the patch bug has been confirmed. If your client started to patch after installing parts of the clean UI, you can find a fix for it here.
Those waiting on requests, I'll start them once I get a few more. I'll only be doing them in bulk from now on, unless of course it's taking a week to get more than two or three requests or something.
Hey Teliko, I dont know if this has been answered, but I am having a problem with getting my new image to show. Ive already changed in and out images quite a few times, but I am trying to do it again with Terran quickmatch, and whenever I log back in after I copy and paste my image into the MPQ using MPQeditor, it still ends up showing the old image. Even when I open the dds file in the MPQ it shows my NEW image. Does it just take some time for it to start showing it?
On April 19 2012 18:26 EZBreeZ wrote: Hey Teliko, I dont know if this has been answered, but I am having a problem with getting my new image to show. Ive already changed in and out images quite a few times, but I am trying to do it again with Terran quickmatch, and whenever I log back in after I copy and paste my image into the MPQ using MPQeditor, it still ends up showing the old image. Even when I open the dds file in the MPQ it shows my NEW image. Does it just take some time for it to start showing it?
When you copied the DDS into the MPQEditor, did you get a prompt to replace a previous file, or did it just drop in without any questions? Also, did you make this file yourself or download it, or change the filename yourself?
Doing this somehow messed my sc2 the first time when it tried 2 update. Made me reinstall the game. Since then I never tried it. Maybe the problem was not related with changing the background? Well I don't know. But now I'm not playing sc2 taht much anymore.
On April 19 2012 18:31 Teliko wrote: When you copied the DDS into the MPQEditor, did you get a prompt to replace a previous file, or did it just drop in without any questions? Also, did you make this file yourself or download it, or change the filename yourself?
It definitely replaced it, and I copied the file-name you gave on your blog-site. Has it ever taken some time to actually show for you?
On April 19 2012 18:32 Heouf wrote: Doing this somehow messed my sc2 the first time when it tried 2 update. Made me reinstall the game. Since then I never tried it. Maybe the problem was not related with changing the background? Well I don't know. But now I'm not playing sc2 taht much anymore.
That's not really enough information for me, but only changing backgrounds has never messed anything up for anyone, you possibly did something wrong. The clean UI can be a problem for various people if you were using that, but this has since been resolved.
On April 19 2012 18:31 Teliko wrote: When you copied the DDS into the MPQEditor, did you get a prompt to replace a previous file, or did it just drop in without any questions? Also, did you make this file yourself or download it, or change the filename yourself?
It definitely replaced it, and I copied the file-name you gave on your blog-site. Has it ever taken some time to actually show for you?
No, it'll always be instant. Do you have multiple versions of sc2 installed? And what image was it?
On April 19 2012 18:31 Teliko wrote: No, it'll always be instant. Do you have multiple versions of sc2 installed? And what image was it?
It was the Terran Quickmatch background image. I made it myself in Photoshop. Ive changed it before so I don't know what I could have done wrong this time. Could it be how I saved it in Photoshop? I just used the defaults. Also, I was able to change my startupimage.dds and the Protoss Quickmatch background today using same method.
On April 19 2012 18:31 Teliko wrote: No, it'll always be instant. Do you have multiple versions of sc2 installed? And what image was it?
It was the Terran Quickmatch background image. I made it myself in Photoshop. Ive changed it before so I don't know what I could have done wrong this time. Could it be how I saved it in Photoshop? I just used the defaults. Also, I was able to change my startupimage.dds and the Protoss Quickmatch background today using same method.
The Nvidia plugin I use for Photoshop can sometimes cause issues. While I've never experienced what you're getting, it could still be a possibility. Open the image in Paint.NET and then save it as an interpolated alpha dds.
On April 19 2012 18:31 Teliko wrote: No, it'll always be instant. Do you have multiple versions of sc2 installed? And what image was it?
It was the Terran Quickmatch background image. I made it myself in Photoshop. Ive changed it before so I don't know what I could have done wrong this time. Could it be how I saved it in Photoshop? I just used the defaults. Also, I was able to change my startupimage.dds and the Protoss Quickmatch background today using same method.
The Nvidia plugin I use for Photoshop can sometimes cause issues. While I've never experienced what you're getting, it could still be a possibility. Open the image in Paint.NET and then save it as an interpolated alpha dds.
Just in case someone brings this same problem to you. I had to change the image in both my Battle.net mpq file and my Battle.net-patch mpq file. I am not sure why, but it works now, thanks for the help.
On April 19 2012 18:31 Teliko wrote: No, it'll always be instant. Do you have multiple versions of sc2 installed? And what image was it?
It was the Terran Quickmatch background image. I made it myself in Photoshop. Ive changed it before so I don't know what I could have done wrong this time. Could it be how I saved it in Photoshop? I just used the defaults. Also, I was able to change my startupimage.dds and the Protoss Quickmatch background today using same method.
The Nvidia plugin I use for Photoshop can sometimes cause issues. While I've never experienced what you're getting, it could still be a possibility. Open the image in Paint.NET and then save it as an interpolated alpha dds.
Just in case someone brings this same problem to you. I had to change the image in both my Battle.net mpq file and my Battle.net-patch mpq file. I am not sure why, but it works now, thanks for the help.
Weird that that would happen considering the patch.mpq doesn't have any of the quickmatch backgrounds inside it in the first place, but thanks for the heads up. Nice find.
On April 17 2012 13:18 Blasterion wrote: Since I just requested but if you have nothing on hand and have a chance please do this =P + Show Spoiler +
Terran Zerg
Protoss
Random
Image for random didn't turn out too great, sides had to be really stretched to help make the image fit, best I could do without cutting out too much of the main image itself considering how low the resolution was.
On April 17 2012 19:43 SuperDell wrote: Hihihi! Love your work and wanted to request. Could you do this for Zerg 1v1 Quickmatch? Thanks !
On April 17 2012 22:50 mengak wrote: Hi, Teliko. Big thanks for your work! Could you make this picture as protoss and random, please? http://wallbase.cc/wallpaper/1808098
"blondes nipples boobs women cleavage models pornstars" Really? You're lucky the image already had pretty optimal dimensions or I wouldn't be bothering.
On April 17 2012 13:18 Blasterion wrote: Since I just requested but if you have nothing on hand and have a chance please do this =P + Show Spoiler +
Terran Zerg
Protoss
Random
Image for random didn't turn out too great, sides had to be really stretched to help make the image fit, best I could do without cutting out too much of the main image itself considering how low the resolution was.
On April 17 2012 22:50 mengak wrote: Hi, Teliko. Big thanks for your work! Could you make this picture as protoss and random, please? http://wallbase.cc/wallpaper/1808098
"blondes nipples boobs women cleavage models pornstars" Really? You're lucky the image already had pretty optimal dimensions or I wouldn't be bothering.
On April 21 2012 05:03 Seam wrote: Any chance you could do http://i.imgur.com/lRzeI.jpg as Terran or Zerg?(Whichever the dimensions is better for ya ^-^'')
Although I haven't requested something from you, I would like to say that you are awesome for keeping up with the thread despite the many many people that have asked for images.
On April 24 2012 04:34 ReketSomething wrote: Although I haven't requested something from you, I would like to say that you are awesome for keeping up with the thread despite the many many people that have asked for images.
On April 24 2012 04:51 Darksoldierr wrote: Hey there, i would really love, if you could make dds files out of these two picture, if you have time for it
On April 24 2012 05:15 .kv wrote: just wondering..how do i remove the boxes on the right like where it says cooperative, custom games, the rank, etc
On March 06 2012 18:10 Teliko wrote: As two additional releases, this one makes your quick match a lot cleaner to display more of your custom image. The image I used as an example was pretty bad because it wasn't that covered up to begin with, but you get the idea. Follow the instructions.txt in the download for getting this to work. If your game begins patching after installing this, you can fix it by reading this.
On April 24 2012 04:51 Darksoldierr wrote: Hey there, i would really love, if you could make dds files out of these two picture, if you have time for it
On April 24 2012 04:51 Darksoldierr wrote: Hey there, i would really love, if you could make dds files out of these two picture, if you have time for it
Well it dosen't matter since i can just rename the file, but then toss and random if you could.
M'kay, sure. And it does matter for T and Z, they need extra work with gradients. You can't use P and random images for Z and T unless you're ok with it looking ugly.
On March 06 2012 18:10 Teliko wrote: As two additional releases, this one makes your quick match a lot cleaner to display more of your custom image. The image I used as an example was pretty bad because it wasn't that covered up to begin with, but you get the idea. Follow the instructions.txt in the download for getting this to work. If your game begins patching after installing this, you can fix it by reading this.
On April 24 2012 05:15 .kv wrote: just wondering..how do i remove the boxes on the right like where it says cooperative, custom games, the rank, etc
On March 06 2012 18:10 Teliko wrote: As two additional releases, this one makes your quick match a lot cleaner to display more of your custom image. The image I used as an example was pretty bad because it wasn't that covered up to begin with, but you get the idea. Follow the instructions.txt in the download for getting this to work. If your game begins patching after installing this, you can fix it by reading this.
On April 24 2012 04:51 Darksoldierr wrote: Hey there, i would really love, if you could make dds files out of these two picture, if you have time for it
Well it dosen't matter since i can just rename the file, but then toss and random if you could.
M'kay, sure. And it does matter for T and Z, they need extra work with gradients. You can't use P and random images for Z and T unless you're ok with it looking ugly.
Oh, i didn't knew that, then P and Random if you could
On April 24 2012 04:51 Darksoldierr wrote: Hey there, i would really love, if you could make dds files out of these two picture, if you have time for it
On April 24 2012 09:15 Blasterion wrote: Dear Teliko, first allow me to confess my love for you second can I get this + Show Spoiler +
Home Wall Custom Game Lobby Wall
On April 24 2012 09:59 SuperYo1000 wrote: could you have this done for Protoss 1v1 ladder? + Show Spoiler +
EDIT: you can forget my request. Just used the guide to do it myself. Thanks :D
Bah, sorry I couldn't get around to you, usually waiting a few days before I start requests so I can do them in bulk now, but thanks for taking it off my hands.
Thank you very much . Appreciate all the hard work you've done.
This image was kinda awkward, too narrow to stretch and I couldn't gradient or trim any of the edges because her arm is half cut out of the side of the image so it'd look kinda silly. I've just fit it in unedited for now, but if you can think of a way you'd prefer it, let me know.
@Teliko, aww sorry that it was too awkward ><. Sorry to make you do it again but can you make this one Protoss 1v1 Quickmatch (sorry about the edits, this was the original request :D) LINK
Oh and if you have time could you do one of these for Random 1v1 as well ? LINK A1 or LINK A2
I only ask so that I can get your professional opinion on which one would turn out better . I'd rather not have the same situation like last time ><! Thanks for taking your time to do this ♥♥♥♥
On April 27 2012 05:45 Existor wrote: FUnny to see, that there are no starcraft-themed picture requests. Mostly anime or girls, but no requests for nice zerg/terran/toss/etc arts
i actually dont find sc art all that cool. except for toss art. but im terran lol
On April 27 2012 05:45 Existor wrote: FUnny to see, that there are no starcraft-themed picture requests. Mostly anime or girls, but no requests for nice zerg/terran/toss/etc arts
cause ppl dont want to alt tab to fap! why not just fap to sc2's background if u can heh heh heh....
its already sc2, why stare at sc2 art if you dont have to :p
Next batch of requests should be done during the weekend.
On April 27 2012 04:27 SuperDell wrote: I only ask so that I can get your professional opinion
Giggled at this. Only the best professionals learn everything they know from Google <3
On April 27 2012 05:43 radiantshadow92 wrote: Take as long as you need. oh, and i donated btw, love the work :D
So I saw, thanks a million for that. Donations are quite rare, so It'll actually be a huge help in supporting the website seeing as it's starting to take up more bandwidth than my webhost is amused by. Stay awesome <3
On April 27 2012 05:45 Existor wrote: FUnny to see, that there are no starcraft-themed picture requests. Mostly anime or girls, but no requests for nice zerg/terran/toss/etc arts
To be fair, there have been quite a few. I'd say around 30% of requests made are SC theme-based. The whole point of the backgrounds is to make them what people want, and not everyones interests revolve around SC, so it's understandable. The NSFW ones can be confusing though, I've never understood people who have that kind of stuff as their wallpapers etc, and I'd probably be embarrassed if I had my wallpaper like that and someone else wanted to use my computer, but I guess it's just what most teenagers interests revolve around anyway.
hey teliko, thanks for sharing all of this info with us <3
if you have the time, would you mind making these backgrounds? i did the toss and random on my own but i don't have photoshop and even if i did, i couldn't work the same magic as you do :D. and thanks again, the guide on how to get bw music for sc2 was genius.
On April 30 2012 06:06 Truthful wrote: hey teliko, thanks for sharing all of this info with us <3
if you have the time, would you mind making these backgrounds? i did the toss and random on my own but i don't have photoshop and even if i did, i couldn't work the same magic as you do :D. and thanks again, the guide on how to get bw music for sc2 was genius.
On April 30 2012 06:06 Truthful wrote: hey teliko, thanks for sharing all of this info with us <3
if you have the time, would you mind making these backgrounds? i did the toss and random on my own but i don't have photoshop and even if i did, i couldn't work the same magic as you do :D. and thanks again, the guide on how to get bw music for sc2 was genius.
On April 30 2012 06:06 Truthful wrote: hey teliko, thanks for sharing all of this info with us <3
if you have the time, would you mind making these backgrounds? i did the toss and random on my own but i don't have photoshop and even if i did, i couldn't work the same magic as you do :D. and thanks again, the guide on how to get bw music for sc2 was genius.
On April 27 2012 04:27 SuperDell wrote: @Teliko, aww sorry that it was too awkward ><. Sorry to make you do it again but can you make this one Protoss 1v1 Quickmatch (sorry about the edits, this was the original request :D) LINK
Oh and if you have time could you do one of these for Random 1v1 as well ? LINK A1 or LINK A2
I only ask so that I can get your professional opinion on which one would turn out better . I'd rather not have the same situation like last time ><! Thanks for taking your time to do this ♥♥♥♥
On April 27 2012 05:43 radiantshadow92 wrote: Hello! i have a few more requests
Take as long as you need. oh, and i donated btw, love the work :D
Awesome choices, Death Note easily my favourite anime. Owling and drinking tea pretty much defines me, me and L would be such bros. FMA high in my favourites, too.
On April 30 2012 06:06 Truthful wrote: hey teliko, thanks for sharing all of this info with us <3
if you have the time, would you mind making these backgrounds? i did the toss and random on my own but i don't have photoshop and even if i did, i couldn't work the same magic as you do :D. and thanks again, the guide on how to get bw music for sc2 was genius.
All these images were pretty awkward and didn't turn out as well as I'd liked them to have, the white background makes it almost impossible to make a well disguised gradient without the blend being blatantly obvious and standing out. The second Zerg one probably the worst because she's so close to the edge of the image that I couldn't gradient much without cutting her out. I could have done a detailed selection refine to separate her from the background, but that'd take like half an hour and I've already spent a long enough time on requests tonight as it is :/ Sorry I couldn't do better.
Also, the bottom two images have X's at the beginning of the name so they don't replace each other. Make sure you remove the X before installing them or they won't work.
The hydralisk image that's first (top left) in the Zerg section should have the Starcraft II logo removed from it, because it's really repetitive since it says Starcraft II right above it in between your portrait and the multiplayer tab.
On April 27 2012 04:27 SuperDell wrote: @Teliko, aww sorry that it was too awkward ><. Sorry to make you do it again but can you make this one Protoss 1v1 Quickmatch (sorry about the edits, this was the original request :D) LINK
Oh and if you have time could you do one of these for Random 1v1 as well ? LINK A1 or LINK A2
I only ask so that I can get your professional opinion on which one would turn out better . I'd rather not have the same situation like last time ><! Thanks for taking your time to do this ♥♥♥♥
Take as long as you need. oh, and i donated btw, love the work :D
Awesome choices, Death Note easily my favourite anime. Owling and drinking tea pretty much defines me, me and L would be such bros. FMA high in my favourites, too.
On April 30 2012 06:06 Truthful wrote: hey teliko, thanks for sharing all of this info with us <3
if you have the time, would you mind making these backgrounds? i did the toss and random on my own but i don't have photoshop and even if i did, i couldn't work the same magic as you do :D. and thanks again, the guide on how to get bw music for sc2 was genius.
All these images were pretty awkward and didn't turn out as well as I'd liked them to have, the white background makes it almost impossible to make a well disguised gradient without the blend being blatantly obvious and standing out. The second Zerg one probably the worst because she's so close to the edge of the image that I couldn't gradient much without cutting her out. I could have done a detailed selection refine to separate her from the background, but that'd take like half an hour and I've already spent a long enough time on requests tonight as it is :/ Sorry I couldn't do better.
Also, the bottom two images have X's at the beginning of the name so they don't replace each other. Make sure you remove the X before installing them or they won't work.
On April 30 2012 14:19 corose wrote: The hydralisk image that's first (top left) in the Zerg section should have the Starcraft II logo removed from it, because it's really repetitive since it says Starcraft II right above it in between your portrait and the multiplayer tab.
Starcraft II Starcraft II
(cool hydra pic)
It's the request I received, not my choice. Someone else requested a similar image without the logo in it in this thread somewhere, but I've stopped archiving stuff, so you'll have to look through the thread if you want it
On April 30 2012 14:22 radiantshadow92 wrote: bahh L can suck it, kira4lyfe<3
ill donate again when i get the chance, thanks again :D
Pffft, the only thing I'll agree with kira on is potato chips. Thanks for the suppot man, always makes a difference <3
On April 27 2012 04:27 SuperDell wrote: @Teliko, aww sorry that it was too awkward ><. Sorry to make you do it again but can you make this one Protoss 1v1 Quickmatch (sorry about the edits, this was the original request :D) LINK
Oh and if you have time could you do one of these for Random 1v1 as well ? LINK A1 or LINK A2
I only ask so that I can get your professional opinion on which one would turn out better . I'd rather not have the same situation like last time ><! Thanks for taking your time to do this ♥♥♥♥
Take as long as you need. oh, and i donated btw, love the work :D
Awesome choices, Death Note easily my favourite anime. Owling and drinking tea pretty much defines me, me and L would be such bros. FMA high in my favourites, too.
On April 30 2012 06:06 Truthful wrote: hey teliko, thanks for sharing all of this info with us <3
if you have the time, would you mind making these backgrounds? i did the toss and random on my own but i don't have photoshop and even if i did, i couldn't work the same magic as you do :D. and thanks again, the guide on how to get bw music for sc2 was genius.
All these images were pretty awkward and didn't turn out as well as I'd liked them to have, the white background makes it almost impossible to make a well disguised gradient without the blend being blatantly obvious and standing out. The second Zerg one probably the worst because she's so close to the edge of the image that I couldn't gradient much without cutting her out. I could have done a detailed selection refine to separate her from the background, but that'd take like half an hour and I've already spent a long enough time on requests tonight as it is :/ Sorry I couldn't do better.
Also, the bottom two images have X's at the beginning of the name so they don't replace each other. Make sure you remove the X before installing them or they won't work.
hmmm i dont know what im doing wrong, but every time i put one of the custom backrounds into the battlenet shared file with the MPQ editor, it doesn't launch the game afterwards, it just stays blank at the planets. i followed youtube guides and the instructions but it didnt work still. I could just live with normal starcraft and redownload it but i want a custom picture ^.^ (im not to good with computers btw)
On May 01 2012 06:46 conut wrote: hmmm i dont know what im doing wrong, but every time i put one of the custom backrounds into the battlenet shared file with the MPQ editor, it doesn't launch the game afterwards, it just stays blank at the planets. i followed youtube guides and the instructions but it didnt work still. I could just live with normal starcraft and redownload it but i want a custom picture ^.^ (im not to good with computers btw)
On April 21 2012 05:03 Seam wrote: Any chance you could do http://i.imgur.com/lRzeI.jpg as Terran or Zerg?(Whichever the dimensions is better for ya ^-^'')
If anyone is feeling froggy I've got a crazy idea that could end up doing more good for the community. Just want to see if someone is willing to test it out and see what happens :O
If you're interested shoot me a PM and I'll get you the pictures/information to do a DDS background.
Image kinda way oversaturated, looks like a completely different person which I'm guessing you did to try and disguise the image from cutting out on the left, but is still slightly distinguishable. Have you tried adding gradients on overlays to blend them out instead?
On May 02 2012 07:07 FT.aCt)Sony wrote: If anyone is feeling froggy I've got a crazy idea that could end up doing more good for the community. Just want to see if someone is willing to test it out and see what happens :O
If you're interested shoot me a PM and I'll get you the pictures/information to do a DDS background.
I couldn't flip the Terran one because of the awkward Terran coordinates a gradient would take away too much from the image, so you'll need to use the two side images from the Clean UI if you want to see it properly. Info near the bottom of OP.
On April 30 2012 19:39 PassionPRO wrote: Hey Teliko, I hope you can help me do a main menu. + Show Spoiler +
Poo :/ I actually recall making this one before among one of the first I'd ever done nearly a year ago, but I wasn't archiving anything back then. Have a fresh one.
On May 01 2012 09:52 Xarow wrote: It might be a bit higher than the recommended resolution but I figured you could pull it off.
Not sure which of the two you wanted in the end, so included both. If you want to use the second one, remove the X from the start of the file name. Alternatively you can rename the first one to c9a309d4dd98195a94c061fb6e4a698c9668740c and use it as a main menu, then remove the X from the second and use that as the Zerg background.
thanks so much! however, I'm having a problem. see, while I was waiting, I decided to try and make one for myself. it looked like crap but I kept it until someone with more experience made one. now that you've made it, I tried replacing it, but the old image (that I put on there) keeps showing up instead. any idea what's wrong and/or how to fix it?
edit: nvm i fixed the problem thanks a million :D <3
I couldn't flip the Terran one because of the awkward Terran coordinates a gradient would take away too much from the image, so you'll need to use the two side images from the Clean UI if you want to see it properly. Info near the bottom of OP.
I did that and I see why it was difficult to modify this background. The clean UI though makes this very sweet. Thanks for your hard work on this, it's much appreciated!
Yeah, you need really heavy gradients on the left to disguise it. When I'm editing pictures in Photoshop, I usually have a layer with nothing but black on it and keep it on the bottom of my layer list and turn it on after I apply gradients to get a rough idea of how it'd look in-game.
Don't see any reason to. From what I can make out in the screenshots, none of the old backgrounds will be affected, it just adds new ones. The new ones will more than likely be applied to the Battle.net-patch.mpq instead of the Battle.net.mpq which is where all the current backgrounds are kept. There's a chance it might set them back to default or rename the codes used for them or something, but it's unlikely. If anything changes, I'll work it out after the patch. For now, nothing needs to be done.
PLEASE help me out I've been working on this for hours! I recently came across what you were doing and got completely motivated to change my entire Sc 2 game. I've been searching and reading and trying to make some of my own but its hard when the pics are very vertical and i also can't seem to do it correctly. Btw for the Dark mercenary pack I can't find the StarCraft II\Mods\Liberty.SC2Mod\enGB.SC2Assets folder needed for putting the model mods in =/.
Terran (possibly have the reaper on the top cropped down a bit so the pic doesnt have to be shrunk to fit the screen)
Protoss
Zerg (If possible can you take the "Starcraft II" logo off of the top right? would really make a difference)
Thank you in advance if you do it!
Add me on Sc 2 if you'd like xOKiri.248
p.s. I know you said not to mention how i want the picture, i was just pulling up how i'd prefer it and if you chose not to do it i wouldn't mind.
It wont always be enGB. It could be enUS or krKR or something, it varies based on what region you play on and what language your client it. It'll be something with four letters, two non-caps at the start and two caps at the end.
Sorry to those waiting on backgrounds, but as I'm sure most of you are aware, Diablo is kinda out now, so I'm either sleeping or playing. I'll aim to get some done at the weekend or so, maybe earlier if my group can clear inferno by the end of the week hurrhurr.
On May 15 2012 06:54 TORTOISE wrote: To the OP: I love you. My SC2 game client looks so much prettier now with Kpop girls and Haruhi Suzumiya ^_^
Hey there ive run into a bit of a problem, i ended up downloading the wrong protoss picture so i went in and deleted that picture file from the MPQ so i could replace it, the problem is now when i try to replace it with the file i want nothing shows up when i click protoss, no zeratul or anything just the standard blue background. Does anyone have some knowledge on this that could help me please?
Think I'm going to call this off for a while. I've done close to 500 of these at this stage over the last year and it's getting really boring for me right now. I enjoyed doing them for ages, but now it's really just becoming a chore, and I'm not that involved with sc2 right now anyway especially with D3 out.
Closing all requests, I might start again in a few weeks when Diablo dies down, but no promises. I'll still accept commissions obviously, feel free to PM me if you're interested. Other than that, I need a break from these.
Sorry guys. And sorry to those who were still waiting on theirs.
Thanks for all your hard work Teliko! Glad I got my requests before you decided to close it lol
Anyway it is actually pretty easy to do if you just simply follow the guide that Teliko has laid out for us. If anyone wants the random/zerg that I made
Not bad. I might consider making a more detailed photoshop template document to make it easier for people to make their own until I decide to start taking free requests again, or a more detailed video guide. I'll see if I get the chance in the next week or so.
On March 23 2012 00:46 Teliko wrote: If you're referring to the SNSD ones, they're not mine. I don't know why the guy who contributed them added a password. It should be just "battle.net"
I'll get the requests done in the next couple of days.
I installed SC2 on my new computer and wanted to add one of those loading screens from the rar. It seems to be gone from the first posts though. Does anybody know perhaps where I could find it again?
On March 23 2012 00:46 Teliko wrote: If you're referring to the SNSD ones, they're not mine. I don't know why the guy who contributed them added a password. It should be just "battle.net"
I'll get the requests done in the next couple of days.
I installed SC2 on my new computer and wanted to add one of those loading screens from the rar. It seems to be gone from the first posts though. Does anybody know perhaps where I could find it again?
It's in the second post ._. there was a message about it in the first post
On March 23 2012 00:46 Teliko wrote: If you're referring to the SNSD ones, they're not mine. I don't know why the guy who contributed them added a password. It should be just "battle.net"
I'll get the requests done in the next couple of days.
I installed SC2 on my new computer and wanted to add one of those loading screens from the rar. It seems to be gone from the first posts though. Does anybody know perhaps where I could find it again?
It's in the second post ._. there was a message about it in the first post
I'm sorry, I did see that one, but thought it was only Kpop stuff. So sorry and thanks. Edit: yup, just Kpop, not the one I meant. Thanks for looking anyway. Edit 2: Alright, now I found it, it was another file than the one you linked. Nice to have it back
Damn, this sucks... not just for us but for Teliko who put all his time into these custom backgrounds. The UI is changing =/
Though, we could "salvage" all this effort by still replacing those new race pictures with the pictures we have; it's just that it would be much smaller, and we would probably have to edit our pictures to make them fit well into the new dimensions.
Though, seems like changing the background for other pages may be fine! :D (loading screen, custom games, SC2 start up screen)
H'm... Haven't been too involved with the beta, so I'm not sure how much this'll set things back. I do intend to keep up to date with it all once it goes live, though. Obviously this new UI is a lot clunkier in terms of hiding the background, but I'll do what I can to make it more visible once they finalize it. No point getting to work now seeing as anything could change. Rest assured, I'll be working on keeping custom backgrounds going and improving the UI however I can as soon as the patch is out and I know exactly they've changed.
Have decided to start taking requests again until the end of the month. Expect at least 3 or 4 days after posting your request for it to be completed. The more requests I get, the faster they'll be done, as I prefer to do them in bulk.
On July 18 2012 05:05 Teliko wrote: Have decided to start taking requests again until the end of the month. Expect at least 3 or 4 days after posting your request for it to be completed. The more requests I get, the faster they'll be done, as I prefer to do them in bulk.
This is great news, will definitely come back once I find some cool pics. Btw, do you know if it's possible to change the login screen?
On July 18 2012 05:05 Teliko wrote: Have decided to start taking requests again until the end of the month. Expect at least 3 or 4 days after posting your request for it to be completed. The more requests I get, the faster they'll be done, as I prefer to do them in bulk.
This is great news, will definitely come back once I find some cool pics. Btw, do you know if it's possible to change the login screen?
Haven't done any work on it myself, but Existor covered it pretty well.
First batch for all the requests above me. As a reminder of how I do this now, all of your requests are in this one download. Extract the .rar and you'll each find a folder with your name which has the .dds you requested inside it.
First time using Photoshop in a few months, so a bit out of practice, but everything seemed to turn out alright.
ONLY IF YOU HAVE TIME! (I understand it's 1 per user per issue, so I am just putting this if you find a vacancy!) I will just re-request next issue ^^ hehehe) + Show Spoiler +
"Leagues and ladder" (like that random planet, change with this please^^!!) + Show Spoiler +
Also wanted to say the work you do... Like it made my sc2 experience better just having the ugly boxing removed because of your Clean UI. You're work is amazing, thank you!!
On July 24 2012 23:28 Vexxile wrote: Hi there, Is it possible to make everything except the loading screen a picture of Misa Campo? The exact picture you used to make the zerg one?
Thanks!
Please link the picture, I've no idea who that is.
On July 24 2012 23:28 Vexxile wrote: Hi there, Is it possible to make everything except the loading screen a picture of Misa Campo? The exact picture you used to make the zerg one?
Thanks!
Please link the picture, I've no idea who that is.
ONLY IF YOU HAVE TIME! (I understand it's 1 per user per issue, so I am just putting this if you find a vacancy!) I will just re-request next issue ^^ hehehe) + Show Spoiler +
"Leagues and ladder" (like that random planet, change with this please^^!!) + Show Spoiler +
Also wanted to say the work you do... Like it made my sc2 experience better just having the ugly boxing removed because of your Clean UI. You're work is amazing, thank you!!
I can't seem to find the image for the replay background in either the Battle.net.MPQ nor the Battle.net-patch.MPQ. No idea why :/ Sorry man. I did the second image instead, but to install this one you need to put it in the Battle.net-patch.MPQ. Sorry for the inconvenience. Feel free to request the same image for a different background instead.
On July 24 2012 23:28 Vexxile wrote: Hi there, Is it possible to make everything except the loading screen a picture of Misa Campo? The exact picture you used to make the zerg one?
Thanks!
Please link the picture, I've no idea who that is.
Zerg: http://www.mediafire.com/?brm2gg2y6gt3wji#2 i know u made thise one for toss but could u ramke it for zerg for me?.. i did try to find the link to the original image but coudnt...T.T
On July 28 2012 16:36 PhoenixA wrote: Zerg: http://www.mediafire.com/?brm2gg2y6gt3wji#2 i know u made thise one for toss but could u ramke it for zerg for me?.. i did try to find the link to the original image but coudnt...T.T
ok i oculdnt find the original image so heres a different one..http://dony910.deviantart.com/art/Wallpaper-Goku-Ssj-vs-Vegeta-Ssj-311641941 could u do that for zerg for me
Sorry for the delay so far, not currently at home and don't really want to update my client on this computer off a 2mb broadband connection. Should be able to get them done tomorrow.
So apparently the patch hit SEA today and EU/NA will be in the next day or so... seems like a waste of time to do any more requests until we can confirm whether or not the patch killed MPQ editing or not. Requests closed until we've gathered more info.
On August 01 2012 17:41 PhoenixA wrote: well i can still have a custom homepage.. cause mine still has my custom picture.. so there arte ways u can do it
Eh? Would you mind sending me a screenshot of that? And extracting the DDS so I can take a look at it.