Just to make available some more images if anyone wants to create splashes from them, I found a few of these to have nice lighting effects with the setting sun.
http://s512.photobucket.com/albums/t325/barefootr/FlightGear%20Screen%20Shots/ Peter On Feb 19, 2010, at 7:47 AM, John Denker wrote: > On 02/19/2010 01:48 AM, Erik Hofman wrote: >> I've created a new set of splash screens based on the images Durk >> created about two weeks ago. >> Does anyone have any objections to committing them or does anybody have >> other possible splash screens to choose from? >> >> http://home.telfort.nl/sp004798/emh/Splash1.png >> http://home.telfort.nl/sp004798/emh/Splash2.png >> http://home.telfort.nl/sp004798/emh/Splash3.png >> http://home.telfort.nl/sp004798/emh/Splash4.png >> http://home.telfort.nl/sp004798/emh/Splash5.png > > > 1) This is important. It is always nice to make a good first > impression. The splash screen is the first thing a new user > sees. > > 2) The composition of the pictures is nice and artistic. > > 3) The resolution is not sufficient to survive zooming to > fit a large HD screen. Jaggies appear in the image. The > jaggies are particularly noticeable along sharp edges, > such as the leading edge of aircraft, and on the lettering. > > Obvious options include > -- Shipping hi-res and low-res versions of each image. > -- Shipping some images hi-res and other images low-res. > -- Shipping only hi-res images and scaling them down > "on the fly" when running on a screen with fewer pixels. > -- Over a *small* range of sizes, don't zoom at all, but > rather show a less-than-fullscreen image in the middle > of the screen, surrounded by tasteful wallpaper. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval > Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs > proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. > See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev > _______________________________________________ > Flightgear-devel mailing list > Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
