MIITW Desktop Background competition (now closed)

[Myrddraal]

UPDATE: The competition winner and full results can be seen here:

http://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showthread.php?t=68669

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The aim of the competition:
Make a desktop background for MIITW!

The prize:

Direct from CA, a copy of Total War Era's pack.



This pack contains all the games released so far and their expansion packs, from Shogun and Mongol invasion, through MTW and Viking invasion and ending with RTW and Barbarian Invasion.

It also contains postcards, posters, documentaries on the making of the game, MIITW stuff and more bonus material...

It's a great pack for those of you who've only played Rome, time to discover some of the earlier classics!

You know what you must do now :- Get hold of some MIITW screenshots, and get making those desktops!

Many thanks to *The Shogun* of CA for offering the prize


To help you get started, barocca has compiled some useful borders and logo's into a kit here




To kickstart this:



http://img80.imageshack.us/img80/5199/1highqi4.jpg
http://img80.imageshack.us/img80/113...600highxd3.jpg

[barocca]

^i'm kinda intimidated by the quality of that one!!!^
excellent work!

here's my lame attempt
click the thumb for full size (full size is 250k - filesize reduction courtesy of kekvitirae)


770K version


B.

[barocca]

and we did this for Rome,
maybe reviewing them will give you all some ideas

Fan Created Rome Pre-Release Wallpapers

[barocca]

Here's my base collection of usefull files,
frames similar to the one above, a CA.gif (transparent), a mix of M2TW logo's both black BG and transparent - not the worlds cleanest, but more than suitable for this,
and a mix of TW badge's - i do HAVE the burning one here, somewhere, on one of my CD or DVD archive discs, but i cannot locate it today.

M2TW_WP-helper-KIT.zip

samples of logo and badge (larger and smaller versions in the kit)


you do not have to put wallpapers in frames, i just like to with most of mine

edit about half these files are photoshops - if thats not suitable give me a holler and i'll translate them to bmp and gif

Cheers
B.

[barocca]

click the thumb for full size
B.

[barocca]

- 800x600
or
1024x768
B.

[x-dANGEr]

Give us a break.. I'm busy with some DVD editing right now. So.. What is the dead time?

[x-dANGEr]

Oh, and can the wallpaper be GIF?

[The Spartan (Returns)]

i choose the first a long time ago (RTW wallpapers) now i feel like changin!

[PROMETHEUS]

Here Is My Version Of The Wallpaper....
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[TB666]

Well here comes one from a newbie

[barocca]

PROMETHEUS and TB666 - cool!!

files types - gif's, jpeg, bmp - all fine

[Myrddraal]

Well here comes one from a newbie

The quality is great. And @PROM, you've proved your desktop skills elsewhere, I'm not surprised you can pull out stuff like that - I just hope nobody is put off for fear it theirs isn't as good as yours.

[PROMETHEUS]

The quality is great. And @PROM, you've proved your desktop skills elsewhere, I'm not surprised you can pull out stuff like that - I just hope nobody is put off for fear it theirs isn't as good as yours.

Thanks , btw I posted a preview of the unit you long ago requested me , if you are still interested let me know or otherwise I could place on for the ones wo would like it to have .....

[barocca]

click the thumb for full size

B.

[The Shogun]

Guys these are great I have a copy of the Eras pack on my desk that I just wrestled from another member of staff. When you have picked the winner let me know and I'll get it in the post.

[Myrddraal]

Cheers Shogun

So the winner gets a prize from CA. Great stuff. Back to work...



EDIT: econ, could you add the prize to the thread title?

[Tamur]

wow, some great work already here...

barocca, that's the best help kit I've seen, thanks! Fun fun... *off to plan*

[Tamur]

I think I got the click-on-for-full-size thingy figured out. I think.

Here's mine, not quite what I was supposed to do I guess but it's the first thing that came to mind.

[Duke John]

Thanks for the pack, Barocca!

I went a bit over the top with putting bits and pieces together, but it's hard to stop once you get going



Higher resolutions:
800x600
1024x768

Sub-competition:
The person who can say which screenshots I used gets a cookie!

[tibilicus]

Duke John thas amazing! Time for a new wall paper on my pc. :P

[PROMETHEUS]

Hey I didn't thought there where prizes and was a true competition , must have changed now .... need to change my submission then...

[PROMETHEUS]

In that case thats my true contribution ..... here ....sorry but there wan't the prize in game befoure ^^ ....

[The Spartan (Returns)]

gotta get a prize! planning..

[The Spartan (Returns)]

hm... where did you get those M2TW Pics?

[Duke John]

I guess that you mean the English Knight Prometheus used. It is a new, not entirely, official wallpaper:
http://img86.imageshack.us/my.php?im...80x1050mc9.jpg
http://www.gamewallpapers.com/wallpa...2%3A+Total+War

[The Spartan (Returns)]

no i mean all of you. i wanna download some M2TW pics so i can edit them.

[Duke John]

Look here: http://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showthread.php?t=66534
The GameSpot gallery has the most.

[Myrddraal]

Very nice DJ and Prom... Very nice indeed.

The more contributions, the better. It's not all about the prize

I'm working on another now. I'm not in the competition, since myself and barocca are judging we can't win it (besides we both have the games anyway)

[Duke John]

I'm not competing for the price either (I don't need it), but if mine wallpaper is actually used as a desktop wallpaper by someone than I'm happy enough