http://www.home108.com/mousebranche/wal ... apers.html
they are NOT mine, so they're for private use only, but make up a pretty reasonable selection of which you can pick and choose (at least I think so).
enjoy, or not
j
I stumbled upon these backgrounds...
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Re: I stumbled upon these backgrounds...
Nice find jerohmjerohm wrote:http://www.home108.com/mousebranche/wal ... apers.html
they are NOT mine, so they're for private use only, but make up a pretty reasonable selection of which you can pick and choose (at least I think so).
enjoy, or not
j
Some nice one's there I have a great Wall-Paper site that I use quite often, and use for G-Force back grounds, you can download the res that fits your screen, mine is 1680x1050, which looks better when using G-Force in fullscreen. Not to sure if I will be allowed to link to that site here, if someone can say it's OK, then I will add link
It is a safe site Cheers...
Swifty
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You are his life, his love, his leader.
He will be yours, faithful and true, to the last beat of his heart.
You owe it to him to be worthy of such devotion.
You are his life, his love, his leader.
He will be yours, faithful and true, to the last beat of his heart.
You owe it to him to be worthy of such devotion.
Ok JayPro, you persuaded me.....My real nice wallpaper site:JayPro wrote:If Jerohm just did it, why can't you?
As long as the backies are used for the users' private purposes.
http://wall.alphacoders.com/
Got over 300 on my PC change my desktop weekly
Swifty
He is you friend, your partner, your dog.
You are his life, his love, his leader.
He will be yours, faithful and true, to the last beat of his heart.
You owe it to him to be worthy of such devotion.
You are his life, his love, his leader.
He will be yours, faithful and true, to the last beat of his heart.
You owe it to him to be worthy of such devotion.
Hello All
I realise that a lot of you guys are into 'Sprites' in a big way, so thought I too would download some pics and, see what all the 'fuss is about'.
Most of the pics were in color and, not really visible in GF, I converted them to grayscale but, that didn't really help much either. The question then is what do you do to the pics so that they are visible in GF?.
Regards BTT
I realise that a lot of you guys are into 'Sprites' in a big way, so thought I too would download some pics and, see what all the 'fuss is about'.
Most of the pics were in color and, not really visible in GF, I converted them to grayscale but, that didn't really help much either. The question then is what do you do to the pics so that they are visible in GF?.
Regards BTT
I personally believe background sprites add a lot to the GF experience. It is the melding of reality and surrealism that draws my fascination (simple things for simple minds, ya know). I think geometrics works the best ... in nature, architecture, engineering, or graphic designs too. Forcing the viewer to focus past the foreground activity is a noble effort (that whole forest through the trees thing). Very few are included in the distribution, I ASSUME due to copyright issues, but that shouldn't limit your personal library. Mine consists of over 500 files that I decided I like for one reason or another. Some work well, and others, obviously less so. Flowfield/Colormap selection have the greatest weight in determining the display detail... some combinations will totally obscure the background. I run shuffle/duration @ ~25 secs.
Okay, now the negative side. Preparing/starting the backgrounds' display seems to hit the FPS in a disproportionate negative fashion. I do NOT understand why, UNLESS it is a side-effect of also supporting Quicktime clips. IF that is the case, I WISH the user could opt OUT of *.MOV presentation capabilities. Typically, I just leave MY backgrounds as I download them; GF grey scaling/sizing doesn't seem to be the (grinding) contributing factor. That said, [pre-grey scaling]/[sizing < 100K] is probably a GOOD idea.
I discovered that Colormaps that use the first 64 positions as a straight grayscale map, will display the background pretty much as one would expect in B&W (Search my posts for October.map/png for a good example - also used in my (Extra) Stonehenge Screenshot ). I THINK it would be a good idea if GF would occasionly randomly 'create' colormaps from the existing and SUBSTITUTE the first 64 positions with the grey scale palette (This is actually a spinoff of Jaypro's desire for colormap unions ... which 'I' THINK has merit).
If you seek out my very first post, I played around moving sprites around the screen. I think this is very under utilized, but Andy explained to me once, why he has concerns about some negative implications. ... I like'm anyway
Okay, now the negative side. Preparing/starting the backgrounds' display seems to hit the FPS in a disproportionate negative fashion. I do NOT understand why, UNLESS it is a side-effect of also supporting Quicktime clips. IF that is the case, I WISH the user could opt OUT of *.MOV presentation capabilities. Typically, I just leave MY backgrounds as I download them; GF grey scaling/sizing doesn't seem to be the (grinding) contributing factor. That said, [pre-grey scaling]/[sizing < 100K] is probably a GOOD idea.
I discovered that Colormaps that use the first 64 positions as a straight grayscale map, will display the background pretty much as one would expect in B&W (Search my posts for October.map/png for a good example - also used in my (Extra) Stonehenge Screenshot ). I THINK it would be a good idea if GF would occasionly randomly 'create' colormaps from the existing and SUBSTITUTE the first 64 positions with the grey scale palette (This is actually a spinoff of Jaypro's desire for colormap unions ... which 'I' THINK has merit).
If you seek out my very first post, I played around moving sprites around the screen. I think this is very under utilized, but Andy explained to me once, why he has concerns about some negative implications. ... I like'm anyway
Hello All
I am kinda guessing that you guys that collect Wallpapers to use as Sprites will already know of this site. If not then I suggest you get on over there and, you will think it's Christmas all over again!!!
http://wallbase.net/
Regards BTT
I am kinda guessing that you guys that collect Wallpapers to use as Sprites will already know of this site. If not then I suggest you get on over there and, you will think it's Christmas all over again!!!
http://wallbase.net/
Regards BTT
Hey BTT, Just registered there..(and NO have not seen this site before)..Great site LIA!! (Love It Already)BTT wrote:Hello All
I am kinda guessing that you guys that collect Wallpapers to use as Sprites will already know of this site. If not then I suggest you get on over there and, you will think it's Christmas all over again!!!
http://wallbase.net/
Regards BTT
Thanks for sharing
Swifty
He is you friend, your partner, your dog.
You are his life, his love, his leader.
He will be yours, faithful and true, to the last beat of his heart.
You owe it to him to be worthy of such devotion.
You are his life, his love, his leader.
He will be yours, faithful and true, to the last beat of his heart.
You owe it to him to be worthy of such devotion.