Re: Dominions User-Made Banners and Desktops
 

Man, you work is amazing.

Just to throw an idea, why don't you do a screen saver?

Re: Dominions User-Made Banners and Desktops
 

So awesome, thank you again! 8 )

Re: Dominions User-Made Banners and Desktops
 

Another great one! :up: (maybe your next animated ones could use having shorter "logo times"? Just a thought :) )

Re: Dominions User-Made Banners and Desktops
 

It gave the impression. But I think only if someone already knows Dominions. Im not sure that the choices, or the speed, would work for someone who doesnt know the game.

Re: Dominions User-Made Banners and Desktops
 

Alright... just for fun (and to complement your new background). Check them out, they are cursors. These two are meant to be used together.

Lich normal select cursor
Lich working in background cursor
Lich link select

(On Windows XP, to use these go to control panel, then to mouse, then pointers. Click normal select and if you double click you will have a chance to browse folders. Find lichcursor.cur and select it. Then follow the same steps to set working in the background to lichbusy.ani. The spot for clicking is the lich's staff.)

Re: Dominions User-Made Banners and Desktops
 

I had actually thought about it, but it seems that there is coding involved (unless I do a power point type screensaver or pay for a program). I found a program to create screensavers but it worked a lot like Windows MyPictures and I could not make the images fullscreen. I then thought about gathering a compilation of screenshots that users could run through using my pictures in Windows, but that probably wouldn't be available to people on other OS.

As a standard question, are people happy with the signature sizes and such? Are they too big or too small? I would make some mega desktops but my own monitor resolution only goes up to 1280 x 1024 (which I usually stop there for resolutions).

By the way, critiques are always welcome. If you think something could be improved in the future then let me know. Unfortunately, my break is ending shortly and then I will not be able to produce near as much.

Also, please excuse typos in previous posts because after a certain point I cannot edit them.

Now you can have your whole dominion on your desktop. Make sure to check out the test link below (it was only a test, but it turned out pretty interesting. If you would like me to make a version using the test just let me know).

<img src="http://filebox.vt.edu/users/dduckett/Dominions%203%20Desktops/Dom3%20Maps%201024%20x%20768.jpg" alt="Dominions Desktop 4">

Test
800 x 600
1024 x 768
1280 x 1024

Re: Dominions User-Made Banners and Desktops and Cursors
 

I've never heard of a cross platform screen saver engine. So your options are either not make one at all or make on for the different platforms, or just for windows.
Can you use power point to create a screen saver?

Re: Dominions User-Made Banners and Desktops and Cursors
 

I can use powerpoint, but the way it works is it exports a bunch of images as .bmp and then the user would use the screensaver "My Pictures Slideshow." So, in that case, a collection of screenshots would be all that the user would need. It wouldn't be very pretty, but it would work (likely only on Windows).

Re: Dominions User-Made Banners and Desktops and Cursors
 

I'm not too sure about all the options out there, but pretty much every GUI has an option to go through a bunch of images as backgrounds out of the box.