against or for custom portrait backgrounds

[mlmbd]

Personally, I am glad I thought of doing it, and did it. I like the way it makes the images (except in just a few cases) look.

mlmbd

[trooper]

Well it seems that most people dislike background pictures, or don't care about it.
So my pirate shipset will be... black.

A little poll is simpler than never ending threads...

[PvK]

I tend to prefer them without. In the example below for instance, although it's a neat portrait-like effect, and would look good as wallpaper, it makes it a bit harder to see the ship itself unless you spend more effort studying it to see what's the background, and what's the ship. Without a background, the lines of the ship itself are more visible.

PvK

[trooper]

The majority agrees with you. Maybe shipset authors will take this mini-poll into consideration when designing their next races.

Originally posted by PvK:
I tend to prefer them without. In the example below for instance, although it's a neat portrait-like effect, and would look good as wallpaper, it makes it a bit harder to see the ship itself unless you spend more effort studying it to see what's the background, and what's the ship. Without a background, the lines of the ship itself are more visible.

PvK

[Raging Deadstar]

I myself don't really mind backgrounds as long as they are nice, but i do lean more towards having a black background, i remember the tylmai weapon platforms annoyed me so much i edited in photoshop and gave it a black background

I do agree with PVK and others on this issue i'm afriad, but backgrounds do look nice, maybe for race portraits perhaps