Official Image Collection - Page 6

Suicide Junkie · #51 January 28th, 2002, 04:16 AM

I.F., how did you create (if you are the creator) the solar system planets at the end?
The generic planets I can reasonably accept, but venus through saturn look very much like NASA photos, just from the minis.

I'm gonna have to ask for a fresh credits.txt packaged with every image ZIP from now on.
(Requirement #5 on the Image ModPack page, Last but not least important)

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Andr�s · #52 January 28th, 2002, 05:24 AM

Ok here they are
http://se4kdy.cyberwars.com/temp/planets.zip
They're also from pics I found in that sire scifi3d, I'll check the authors for credits.
I also have a few comp pics but as they may change and be added others while I revise and deepen the starwars part before adding it to the crossover mod.

I hate having the same picture used in different mods as completely different components. It's very confusing, the primary function of those pictures is to let you know what a component is in a fast and intuitive way without having to right-click to read its name or something.

I just realized that this entire project will make the same problem to happen with all pictures that used to be mod-exclusive.
On the other hand modders will have more pictures to choose from and it will be less likely to happen.

Fyron · #53 January 28th, 2002, 10:50 AM

SJ, I didn't create those planets. I downloaded them from Shrapnel months ago, and I didn't feel like looking for it in the archive section. I have no idea who created these planets.

Fyron · #54 January 28th, 2002, 10:56 AM

Ahh. I was downloading the updated picture packs and got this message when I tried to download the third file:

"The web site you are trying to access has exceeded its allocated data transfer."

Fyron · #55 January 28th, 2002, 07:07 PM

I think it said that the site would be available within the hour when I looked at it Last night. I was tired and didn't want to stay up for an extra hour to download it.

Is there a reason why you're not hosting these on Shrapnel?

Has anybody asked Hadrian Aventine if we could use his pictures from the Ultimate Mod? There are some cool pictures in it.

Also, are there any plans of incorporating the system pictures in "SEIV\Pictures\Systems" into this collection?

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Suicide Junkie · #56 January 28th, 2002, 07:40 PM

quote:
Is there a reason why you're not hosting these on Shrapnel?

Yes. The primary reason is that I'm uploading over 4MB of almost-identical ZIPs multiple times each day.

If I was using shrapnel as a host for these, I wouldn't be able to delete the old ones, and Richard would have about 50 Megs of obsolete bitmaps by now.

quote:
Also, are there any plans of incorporating the system pictures in "SEIV\Pictures\Systems" into this collection?

That depends entirely on how much interest there is, and how big the files will get. The account I'm using to host the image mod is already half full, but I could expand it if nessesary.

quote:
I think it said that the site would be available within the hour when I looked at it Last night. I was tired and didn't want to stay up for an extra hour to download it.

Was that the whole site, or just the downloads?

PS: Wow! 15 hits already today! Not many download slots left!
It is definitely too bad that incremental updates are almost as big as the full installs

I am definitely going to have to mirror these files somewhere...

Fyron · #57 January 28th, 2002, 07:44 PM

I've got some sites that have plenty of storage available that I volunteer to help mirror these files.

Isn't there some place that you can delete you're files from Shrapnel?

Val · #58 January 28th, 2002, 10:21 PM

SJ:

The pics that look like NASA pics are shrunk down NASA pics - I actually have several of them from NASA's edu department - so either the artist copied and shrank or is REALLY good!

Do you want me to pack and E*Mail you all the B5 stuff we have to date, or do you have it from the other thread? I have quite a few more weapons to add, so maybe holding off to keep them grouped together would be a better idea.

I really liked the spiral beam, very excellent!

Suicide Junkie · #59 January 28th, 2002, 10:40 PM

IF:
That would be useful. Post the link, and I'll add it to my site. Do these mirrors have any transfer limits?
I have two other possibilities lined up, but the more the merrier.

AFAIK, the old shrapnel upload system associated the uploader with the files & allowed you do delete, but the new system is much less flexible.
I've only seen an upload option so far.

VAL: You might as well send two Groups: everything you've got so far, and then the rest later. But don't bother sending until Tuesday, since I can't do any work on them till then.

Fyron · #60 January 29th, 2002, 12:03 AM

http://galileo.spaceports.com/~kazha...CombatPack.zip

I'll get the other ones uploaded later.

Edit: Hmm, thats weird. The download doesn't work if I click on the links. If I paste the url in the address bar, the files download fine. I hope they'll work on your webpage SJ. If not, I'll copy your web page and put it on my site.

Oh yeah, the bandwidth is 500 Mb/day and 5 Gb/month. So, my site shouldn't run out of server space.

Edit 2: The facility pack didn't upload properly. Weird.

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