The Competition has now ended.

Thank you all for your entries We will be converting them to loading screens in the next couple of days, and we hope to announce any winners before wednesday (+10GMT - Australian time).

Stay Tuned for announcments!

Methos.

P.S. The webhost that holds my website account where I normally host my pictures has stopped providing free accounts, so any links I made to that website are now dead. Sorry for any inconveniance.

Screenshots looking good folks Keep up the good work.

*Dont forget: Competition ends this saturday (7/5/05)... So dont leave your entries to the last minute on saturday because the competition could end at any time that day*

Methos.

Unofficially however... If we get a set of really nice screenshots, its highly likely that the devs will like them and use them as loading screens in the near future.

Just remember: There is no \"definate yes\" that they will be used... But take some really awesome shots and the chances get higher Its all up to you guys.

Methos.

Thanks everyone who has entered so far But an extra thanks goes out to Cherppow for being the first to actually LINK their photo\'s and not post them directly onto the forum.

*Dont forget when taking screenies that the most visible area thats going to be visible when they are made into loading screens, will be the right hand side of the picture.... anything on the left will be either covered over or very hard to see *

Originally posted by Platyna
Plain screeshots? Means without the window decoration/characters etc?
I have quite a few nice screenshots, including Carkarass etc. ;-)

Regards.

Yes Platyna, a plain screenshot mean without the window decoration/characters or any other windows on your screen.

Originally posted by chriskl
The loading screens are all 800x600, so no point taking higher resolution ones.

All screenshots can be taken in as high a quality as you like... When the screenshots are larger it means there is room for moving it around to get the best look for a loading screen... and since the loading screens center is actually 800x600 we cant go any lower than that.


NOTE: Although this isn\'t an \"official\" competition (meaning its not actually run by the devs) a few of the devs will be seeing the final products so ultimately it will be they who judge.

Methos.

Welcome to the Planeshift Screenshot Competition!     18/04/2005

This is a Competition for all around to see who can take the finest screenshots in planeshift which will be used for the purpose of new loading screens in Planeshift. The BEST screenshots will be used as loading screens in Planeshift,
*one screenshot selected for each area of the game (excluding the forest/road to Ojaveda)*



*Here is an example of an acceptable screenshot:
http://free.angeltowns.com/methos/Pics/planesewers.jpg*

*This is an example of what that screenshot will turn out like as a loading screen:
http://free.angeltowns.com/methos/Pics/loading_sewers.jpg*


RULES & REQUIREMENTS:

1. The screenshots must have NO forground menu\'s visible, if there is a small amount of forground (likely the topmost button menu) on the screen you must move the menu bar up enough so that it can be hidden behind the later added images.

2. I will be adding all the extra graphics myself so please only send plain screenshots. Non-plain images will NOT be accepted sorry.

3. Please link all your images to another website like \"imageshack.us\" or \"free.angeltowns.com\"
*DO NOT POST YOUR SCREENSHOTS DIRECTLY ONTO THE FORUM.*

4. All screenshots are to be taken in no less than 800x600 resolution.

5. We are in need for screenshots for all areas of the game except the forest/road to Ojaveda. These areas include:
Ojavada
Death Realm
Sewers
Dungeon
Hyddla Plaza
The Arena
-Any others I may have missed

*Only ONE screenshot for each area will be chosen, however you may send in as many screenshots as you like*

6. Please save the files in .BMP format... (I do understand that most servers wont let you upload large files so if you cannot upload your original .BMP then please save a second copy of your screenshot in .JPG format and upload that.
*.BMP files are a higher quality than .JPG files so please keep your original so it can be used if your image is chosen*

7. The competition will end on the 7th of May 7/5/2005.


1st prize for each of the BEST screenshots will be the grand satisfaction that your screenshot will be used as a loading screen on the area you have captured.


Disclaimer: I reserve the right not to use any particular screenshot, should no suitable screenshot for a particular area be entered in the competition. All screenshots are subject to the scrutiny of the higher powers in Planeshift AKA - The Devs. Also it is entirely possible that no screenshots will be selected at all in the event of (but not limited to): The Devs deciding not to use these new loading screens, My death, Natural disasters, etc etc.

I hope they do something... I just bought the whole set

Methos.

Ok I muddled around a bit and came up with a fix.

For some reason the error was simply caused by the updater not closing itself in order to update... when (or if you recieve this message) just close the updater window and click RETRY.

I\'m currenty updating the planeshift files and all seems well now.... I\'ll see how it goes and post again in the unlikely event that another error should occur from this.

If I dont post again then all is good

Methos.