Contest #16: Background challenge

[Silverthorn]

Oh, Alec, you bloody ninja
And you made me curious..... WORK ON IT! NAO!
As for dynamic effects, you could reverse-engineer one of the existing dynamic BGs. Or rather, just adjust the hit_j-values and opoint in action.dat (iirc) and you're done with that already

E: Meh, i suck at making bigger sprites like BG, so i give up D:

Sad.

Spoiler (Click to View)

You said it yourself: perfectly LF2-styled. That's definitely the big plus, the BG neatly integrates with the other original ones. The scrolling is smooth and looks natural.
The downsides which I experience are the following:
- upon moving, it is hard to actually determine your exact speed. A bit of texture at the bottom (inside the purple, for example) could help counteracting that.
- (just for the sake of pointing out the obvious) shadows. With a lot of good will, I can see them, but it wouldn't hurt to darken them down.
- The wire-mesh in the back. It looks a bit too regular, considering that something crashed right through the wall. Let them bend a little! Also, is it just me or are some parts inside the bricks and others in front of them? Bricks and steel-mesh, interesting combination...
- Whilst the back wall and the columns are both pretty damaged, the structure inbetween seems unaffected. Imo, giving it at least some cracks could help.
- Just generally, cracks or small chunks of broken stuff missing/laying around would make it look even better.

All I can think of now :P

im also finished with my sprites/arts/parts for my bg but still dont get the DCing part...
maybe there's someone who wants to collab with me and do the DCing stuff, nothing complicated anyway i think as i dont got animations for the bg....

As xmfcx suggested, check out Marshall's BG-tutorial, should help you in quickly getting a grasp about what to do. Also, nothing hinders you from basing your BG off an existing one (data-wisely, that is)

I've also started working on something. Now I begin to wonder whether my idea is far off from what others do. We'll see...

Just submit it; right now, you can, regardless of the final voting, become at least second


Also, the evil ghosts have driven me to work on a BG as well. Should be done pretty soon-ish

[Jahvansi]

Ice-World



Layered: Yes
Animated: No
Scrolling: Yes

Download

Okay this is my first background ever so i think the outcome is acceptable.
THX a lot to mh for teaching me the basic bg DCing!
Ideas for animations are highly appreciated as i didnt know what i could add ._.
Tell me what i could improve!
-> this is a beta and might be changed

Have fun testing it!

[DoIIIi]

niice i really like it mundvoll,

[mfc]

@mundvoll_: Best icy bg i've ever seen! The way that light reflects from the ground is just magical!

[Apocalipsis]

@Mundvoll
Best of that BG is the last layer with the clouds and lighting... sadly that's ripped from this wallpaper (blame my eidetic memory :p). In my opinion it would be better if you make a completly new one from scratch instead of ripping and editing, because I think you have the skills to do it.
Rest of the BG is really rough... and since you still have one whole week to the deadline, you should put more effort into it.


Also, I would like to kindly ask if we can extended the deadline by a week, mostly because my partner has almost finished all the datawork and I am not 100% sure if I can finish everything before the 30th, and it would suck for him if I don't make it in time. As there aren't that many entries, I think we can all use that extra week to improve the BGs. What do you think?

[Jernemies]

Also, I would like to kindly ask if we can extended the deadline by a week

I knew that would come up at some stage =D


(Not by that though, I have nothing against an extra week, seeing as I have laziness, a sky, and some failed parts of bg ready .)

[Jahvansi]

completly right and i really shame myself now but when this contest got opened i didnt really have an idea what to do...
if u look closly u will see tha this is the only part i didnt redraw but this doesnt care now.
Sorry! take this bg for fun, challenge accepted i do a 100% custom one now

[Apocalipsis]

completly right and i really shame myself now but when this contest got opened i didnt really have an idea what to do...
if u look closly u will see tha this is the only part i didnt redraw but this doesnt care now.
Sorry! take this bg for fun, challenge accepted i do a 100% custom one now

You don't have to say sorry, there's nothing wrong with using ripped images, but I'm trying to encourage you to do something from scratch since I think you can do it.

Edit: V It's gonna be worthwhile :p

[Silverthorn]

Apparently, there are enough guys to make an extension of the deadline worthwhile.... And it shall be done!


New deadline: 6^th November, 2011




Also, @mundvoll_: you got an extra-week, I hope this gives you enough time to do a fully custom bg

[Alectric]

For the Doubters:

Do you really want to spoil it so soon? (Click to View)

I still need to work out 2 or so graphical bugs (one of them is there on the left) and an animation or 2, then ill move to the special actions of the background ;D
I've been scribbling uber hard to get this done in free time. I hope it ends up being worth it!

Names so far: Alectric's Realm or Ducktopia?

Quick Description: "You have Challenged Alectric the ducklord to a battle? You must fight him in his own realm where he is king and controller of all. You don't stand a chance"
If i was an LF2 boss (possibly working on it ;D) You would have to fight me here.