JonS Posted March 10, 2013 Share Posted March 10, 2013 Yes, my bad....again. ... Sorry I apologise too - I seem to have started a trend of picking the eyes out of these pictures. That wasn't my intent I was flicking through the individual images, and making note of anything odd or amusing that I noticed. Like Winkelreid, I have these installed Thanks for the mod Jon 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saferight Posted March 11, 2013 Share Posted March 11, 2013 Awesome work umlaut! does anyone know if theres a limit to how many force specific backgrounds one can have? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
umlaut Posted March 11, 2013 Author Share Posted March 11, 2013 Awesome work umlaut! does anyone know if theres a limit to how many force specific backgrounds one can have? Thanks When I made this mod I was a bit nervous if the game would only allow up pic no. 99. But as you can see, we´re now into three digit numbers, so I would imagine that we can have at least up to no. 999. But I guess only a test or an reply from BFC will clarify that. If any of you should want to make your own Force Specific Backgrounds, here´s how to do it: Save the pic as a bmp-file with the dimensions 1024x768 pixels. The highest numbers of my force-specific backgrounds are 147 for the germans (red) and 171 for the allies (blue). So in order to add to these you should number them sequentially from there, IE: The next german pic should be named force-specific background red 148 The first next allied pic should be named force-specific background blue 172 You can then place your bmp in your z-folder or - if you have a collection of FSBs - pack them with rezpack before you place them in the z-folder. It would be nice if you would also upload them to greenasjade´s site (and to the repository if the files do not exceed 100 MB). Cheers 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saferight Posted March 13, 2013 Share Posted March 13, 2013 Thanks When I made this mod I was a bit nervous if the game would only allow up pic no. 99. But as you can see, we´re now into three digit numbers, so I would imagine that we can have at least up to no. 999. But I guess only a test or an reply from BFC will clarify that. It would be nice if you would also upload them to greenasjade´s site (and to the repository if the files do not exceed 100 MB). Cheers will do, after skimming thru my pics see that i have maybe 50 or so Blue pics i could help add to your mod. Maybe just as many Red i have to check what you have already. pretty cool feature if one can have that many different pics always something new to look at while you wait. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saferight Posted March 13, 2013 Share Posted March 13, 2013 red 24 for sure is Fallschirmjager in Italy. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
umlaut Posted March 13, 2013 Author Share Posted March 13, 2013 red 24 for sure is Fallschirmjager in Italy. Might be, I didn´t add it. Pics 9 through 28 are from Jim Rinkenbergers first set of additional force-specific background. I included those to avoid numbering problems for those who hadn´t installed Jim´s pics. Looking forward to seeing for pics 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saferight Posted March 16, 2013 Share Posted March 16, 2013 i dont have time to re-name, resize, and fill in with black borders or anything sorry. if you want i can send you the the red and blue zip files i have. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
umlaut Posted March 17, 2013 Author Share Posted March 17, 2013 i dont have time to re-name, resize, and fill in with black borders or anything sorry. if you want i can send you the the red and blue zip files i have. Sent you a PM with a link to a dropbox folder 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonS Posted March 17, 2013 Share Posted March 17, 2013 umlaut, I'm happily using your images, and have one suggestion: I find the red captions on the images quite hard to read, partly I think because of their small size, and possibly because I'm a bit R-G colourblind. I'm not sure what colour would be better - black or white or shades of grey would merge into the black and white photos. Yellow is too close to white (and would therefore merge too, I think). A lot of blues are too close to black. Etc. Maybe bigger, and with a contrasting dropshadow or contrasting and partly transparent backing? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
umlaut Posted March 18, 2013 Author Share Posted March 18, 2013 Jon: I used red for exactly the reason you state above: I figured it would be the color that would stand out most clearly. After I had made the first few backgrounds I noticed that the red text was still a bit hard to read - so I did add a black background shadow to make it more readable. Do you also have problems reading the ones with the shadow? If so, I can try to make the text a bit bigger in the next addition. But I have to strike a balance to ensure that the text doesn´t dominate the picture too much. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
umlaut Posted November 7, 2017 Author Share Posted November 7, 2017 (edited) Just thought I'd share this funny experience: This summer the family and I spent some of our vacation in Normandy (guess who came up with that brillant idea?). And as we were entering Cherbourg I noticed a place and a sign from one of the photos I used in the background set. I of course had to go back and take a picture - and try editing it in with the original: On the way there I realised that another of the photos in the set was taken in the same street (Avenue de Paris, IIRC), so I took another photo - with my kids standing in for the GI's. Edited November 7, 2017 by umlaut typo 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heinrich505 Posted November 7, 2017 Share Posted November 7, 2017 Umlaut, Those pictures are really great. It is quite a feeling, standing in the places where history was made or preserved through photographs. I still remember the feeling looking out over the field where Picket's troops charged the Union position at Gettysburg. Heinrich505 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Warts 'n' all Posted November 8, 2017 Share Posted November 8, 2017 14 hours ago, umlaut said: Just thought I'd share this funny experience: This summer the family and I spent some of our vacation in Normandy (guess who came up with that brillant idea?). And as we were entering Cherbourg I noticed a place and a sign from one of the photos I used in the background set. I of course had to go back and take a picture - and try editing it in with the original: On the way there I realised that another of the photos in the set was taken in the same street (Avenue de Paris, IIRC), so I took another photo - with my kids standing in for the GI's. These look great, thanks for sharing them with us. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StieliAlpha Posted November 10, 2017 Share Posted November 10, 2017 Great work, indeed. A few years ago, I stumbled across a similar project. Pasting old pics over nowadays photos of the same place. Almost scary to see. Let me see if I find it again. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StieliAlpha Posted November 10, 2017 Share Posted November 10, 2017 Found it. Search for „Ghosts of War”.... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Erwin Posted November 10, 2017 Share Posted November 10, 2017 Ghosts of War seems to be a movie now. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StieliAlpha Posted November 11, 2017 Share Posted November 11, 2017 16 hours ago, Erwin said: Ghosts of War seems to be a movie now. Yep, but I thought of this project here: https://www.google.ch/search?q=ghosts+of+war&client=safari&hl=de-ch&prmd=ivn&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiA5vWK2LbXAhWBuBoKHfWFDqkQ_AUIEigB&biw=375&bih=553#imgrc=uK3WJLg5E7DEAM: 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
user1000 Posted November 24, 2017 Share Posted November 24, 2017 (edited) On 11/11/2017 at 9:05 AM, StieliAlpha said: Yep, but I thought of this project here: https://www.google.ch/search?q=ghosts+of+war&client=safari&hl=de-ch&prmd=ivn&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiA5vWK2LbXAhWBuBoKHfWFDqkQ_AUIEigB&biw=375&bih=553#imgrc=uK3WJLg5E7DEAM: It's actually here https://www.facebook.com/pg/thenandnowghostsofhistory/photos/?tab=album&album_id=391374130933139 Edited November 24, 2017 by user1000 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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