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Title: April 2013 Screencap Contest
Post by: Axem on April 04, 2013, 10:21:50 pm
This month's theme: Outnumbered. Give me a sense of dread, show me a lost cause that will still go down in history! One Sided battle of Endors! 'Splosions! Beams! Everything!
Title: Re: April 2013 Screencap Contest
Post by: NeonShivan on April 04, 2013, 11:03:46 pm
Oh this is gonna be fun :P, Shadow Genesis and Dusk Wars time!
Title: Re: April 2013 Screencap Contest
Post by: aeon48m on April 05, 2013, 01:28:36 am
Boop time!

(http://i.imgur.com/BQ0w3Hx.jpg)
Title: Re: April 2013 Screencap Contest
Post by: X3N0-Life-Form on April 05, 2013, 01:52:31 am
Hmm, I actually might already have one screenshot handy at home. :) Will post next week once RL's crazyness settles down.
Title: Re: April 2013 Screencap Contest
Post by: azile0 on April 07, 2013, 04:17:45 am
I'm already FREDing something up. :D
Title: Re: April 2013 Screencap Contest
Post by: Mobius on April 07, 2013, 04:26:10 am
Isn't that the SJ Dante?
Title: Re: April 2013 Screencap Contest
Post by: Lorric on April 07, 2013, 07:14:54 am
Wings of Dawn attachment.

I suggest when you get to this point in the game, you follow the advice of this Ork, and imagine it is speaking for the enemy:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXFBH-NimJA

I thought of this instantly on seeing the theme of the contest.

[attachment deleted by ninja]
Title: Re: April 2013 Screencap Contest
Post by: Nyctaeus on April 07, 2013, 07:57:17 am
Isn't that the SJ Dante?
Looks like shivanised ACv Mochlos from ASW2
Title: Re: April 2013 Screencap Contest
Post by: Mobius on April 07, 2013, 09:08:02 am
Well, it's far bigger than a corvette...
Title: Re: April 2013 Screencap Contest
Post by: FreeSpaceFreak on April 07, 2013, 11:51:27 am
Betrayal is right, that's definitely a Mochlos. If it's bigger than a corvette, that means it's been rescaled.
Title: Re: April 2013 Screencap Contest
Post by: Mobius on April 07, 2013, 12:08:36 pm
:wtf: oh well, thanks for the explanation. :)
Title: Re: April 2013 Screencap Contest
Post by: Nyctaeus on April 07, 2013, 02:27:16 pm
IMHO it's not acting well as shivan juggernaut or something, the same as shivan Akrotiri somebody posted some time ago.
Title: Re: April 2013 Screencap Contest
Post by: aeon48m on April 08, 2013, 08:08:16 am
Actually, it's just a perspective thing, seeing as I never resized it.
Title: Re: April 2013 Screencap Contest
Post by: Luis Dias on April 08, 2013, 10:03:28 am
SO I SAW 12 answers and expected 12 pictures.

I am disappoint.

(and now 13!)
Title: Re: April 2013 Screencap Contest
Post by: mjn.mixael on April 08, 2013, 11:56:11 am
(http://img132.imageshack.us/img132/517/aprilscreencapcontest.png)
Title: Re: April 2013 Screencap Contest
Post by: Lorric on April 08, 2013, 11:58:41 am
... I've lost  :lol:
Title: Re: April 2013 Screencap Contest
Post by: General Battuta on April 08, 2013, 11:59:02 am
ahahahahaha
Title: Re: April 2013 Screencap Contest
Post by: Lorric on April 08, 2013, 12:04:26 pm
It's magnificent though, it's supposed to be the juggernauts taking out the Capella sun, right?

If it wasn't so good, I'd pick holes in it for a supernova having nothing to do with being outnumbered  :lol:

Anyway, Axem said he wanted to feel dread, and this is the ultimate expression of naked Shivan power, so I'm fine with that. Thinking outside the box. If anyone thinks they can top it, I'm looking forward to seeing their attempts!  :)
Title: Re: April 2013 Screencap Contest
Post by: headdie on April 08, 2013, 12:12:06 pm
the star is sure as hell out numbered lol
Title: Re: April 2013 Screencap Contest
Post by: Lorric on April 08, 2013, 12:14:35 pm
I really do love that picture.

I just had to go to the link:

http://img132.imageshack.us/img132/517/aprilscreencapcontest.png

And grab the full size one for my own picture collection. Wonderful work.

EDIT: It occurs to me I've never looked at a Sathanas from the back before.
Title: Re: April 2013 Screencap Contest
Post by: mjn.mixael on April 08, 2013, 12:16:04 pm
But it does have something to do with being outnumbered. This is the culmination of the entire FS2 story where the GTA is so completely outnumbered and outgunned that they destroy entire nodes just to survive! So this screenshot is more subtle than perhaps what most people thought of for the topic. It gives the sense of dread and, in a round about way, it reminds you just how many Saths the Shivans have since they even sacrifice a few to destroy a star.

And just to be clear, this is an in-game screenshot. No post production was done on it at all. I kept the mod pack in case I have to prove it.
Title: Re: April 2013 Screencap Contest
Post by: Axem on April 08, 2013, 12:23:58 pm
Psh, what a Shivan-centric way of thinking. Those Hydrogen and Helium atoms outnumber those Saths 10 trillion billion kajillion:1.
Title: Re: April 2013 Screencap Contest
Post by: mjn.mixael on April 08, 2013, 12:31:37 pm
Also, why for did the January contest winner get posted to the Wiki but February and March got the shaft? :( Scroll to the bottom-ish. (http://www.hard-light.net/wiki/index.php/Screenshots)
Title: Re: April 2013 Screencap Contest
Post by: MatthTheGeek on April 08, 2013, 12:42:12 pm
Cause people are lazy.

It's a wiki. That means you can also do it.

Unless you're lazy.
Title: Re: April 2013 Screencap Contest
Post by: mobcdmoc3 on April 08, 2013, 01:23:37 pm
Though I don't think I'll be able to top the Sathanas spam, I can at the least throw something in.

I do recall that there was a script or something dedicated to taking screenshots in which camera movement was freed and mission-time was nearly frozen. Does anybody else remember this and/or have it, or am I just imagining things? :nervous:
Title: Re: April 2013 Screencap Contest
Post by: MatthTheGeek on April 08, 2013, 01:27:14 pm
http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php?topic=82173.0 (http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php?topic=82173.0)
Title: Re: April 2013 Screencap Contest
Post by: Black Wolf on April 08, 2013, 09:53:11 pm
Also, why for did the January contest winner get posted to the Wiki but February and March got the shaft? :( Scroll to the bottom-ish. (http://www.hard-light.net/wiki/index.php/Screenshots)

Cause people are lazy.

Actually, because people go away to work for weeks at a time and the wiki doesn't seem to like the satellite internet conenction out there, and then people go away overseas and have more interesting things to do. :p

I'll sort it out tonight.
Title: Re: April 2013 Screencap Contest
Post by: MatthTheGeek on April 09, 2013, 01:06:59 am
It's faster to just say "lazy".
Title: Re: April 2013 Screencap Contest
Post by: redsniper on April 09, 2013, 08:20:15 am
(http://homepage.ntlworld.com/karajorma/Misc-Pics/HercSwarm4.jpg)

Credit to kara for breaking FSO once upon a time and taking pics.
Title: Re: April 2013 Screencap Contest
Post by: karajorma on April 09, 2013, 08:33:42 am
I'd almost forgotten about doing that. :D

EDIT : Here (http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php?topic=35794.0)'s the original thread.
Title: Re: April 2013 Screencap Contest
Post by: CommanderDJ on April 09, 2013, 08:45:26 am
Mjn, is it me, or is the subspace warp in your pic different from the normal one (other than in colour)? If so, which one are you using?
Title: Re: April 2013 Screencap Contest
Post by: mjn.mixael on April 09, 2013, 08:52:28 am
It's a special custom effect I whipped up for the shot.
Title: Re: April 2013 Screencap Contest
Post by: CommanderDJ on April 09, 2013, 08:54:00 am
Can haz? :D
Title: Re: April 2013 Screencap Contest
Post by: karajorma on April 09, 2013, 08:59:36 am
From that thread, I'm going to submit this pic.

(http://homepage.ntlworld.com/karajorma/Misc-Pics/MoreShoals09.jpg)

Yeah, I'm trying to win the competition with an 8 year old screenshot. :p
Title: Re: April 2013 Screencap Contest
Post by: mjn.mixael on April 09, 2013, 09:01:35 am
Can haz? :D

It's not exactly useful, ATM. It's just a still texture with transparency pasted on a box ship model. However, Axem also asked for it. So I told him if he figures out a way to place the effect as an 'effect' and not a 'ship' then I'll finish it up, all animated and everything.
Title: Re: April 2013 Screencap Contest
Post by: redsniper on April 10, 2013, 08:22:03 am
[TheSkyFullofHercs.jpg]

Credit to kara for breaking FSO once upon a time and taking pics.

From that thread, I'm going to submit this pic.

[AresMissileRushZOMG.jpg]

Yeah, I'm trying to win the competition with an 8 year old screenshot. :p

It was a good thread. I hear Flight of the Valkyries when I see those screenshots. :D
Title: Re: April 2013 Screencap Contest
Post by: 0rph3u5 on April 10, 2013, 12:59:42 pm
[TheSkyFullofHercs.jpg]

Credit to kara for breaking FSO once upon a time and taking pics.

From that thread, I'm going to submit this pic.

[AresMissileRushZOMG.jpg]

Yeah, I'm trying to win the competition with an 8 year old screenshot. :p

I was thinking of the shoal of Lokis when I got saw this month's theme ... but well it opporunity has come and passed while I was not looking
Title: Re: April 2013 Screencap Contest
Post by: An4ximandros on April 10, 2013, 01:48:03 pm
Given the recent image quality...
(http://imageshack.us/a/img22/5387/lulzest.png)
 BTW, thanks QuantumDelta! =P
Title: Re: April 2013 Screencap Contest
Post by: Luis Dias on April 10, 2013, 07:07:55 pm
thats completely shopped. can tell by da pixels. ya know im a pro.
Title: Re: April 2013 Screencap Contest
Post by: Axem on April 10, 2013, 07:26:31 pm
An4ximandros is the clear front runner for this month's Dekker Effort Award.
Title: Re: April 2013 Screencap Contest
Post by: Lorric on April 10, 2013, 07:33:35 pm
An4ximandros is the clear front runner for this month's Dekker Effort Award.

Excuse me, are you referring to a specific event with this "Dekker Effort Award"?
Title: Re: April 2013 Screencap Contest
Post by: Axem on April 10, 2013, 07:48:16 pm
Nope! T'was merely a joke aimed at a picture with a certain amount of effort that could be considered Dekkerian.

I don't really want to make it a thing, as people would just try to make really bad pics and win that award instead.
Title: Re: April 2013 Screencap Contest
Post by: Lorric on April 10, 2013, 07:51:10 pm
Nope! T'was merely a joke aimed at a picture with a certain amount of effort that could be considered Dekkerian.

I don't really want to make it a thing, as people would just try to make really bad pics and win that award instead.

Right. Thanks.
Title: Re: April 2013 Screencap Contest
Post by: X3N0-Life-Form on April 24, 2013, 02:34:51 am
Outnumbered eh?
Looks like the NTF is.
(http://i.imgur.com/1ScY4BD.png)
(http://i.imgur.com/tkOnhPP.jpg)
Well, actually the Alliance is too.
(http://i.imgur.com/z1MOBhy.jpg)
Title: Re: April 2013 Screencap Contest
Post by: Colonol Dekker on April 24, 2013, 05:11:26 am
I was going to screen-grab a still from the colossus cutscene. One of the GTVA flyby about ten seconds in...

But.................................... :nervous:


I don't want that reputation.
Title: Re: April 2013 Screencap Contest
Post by: mobcdmoc3 on April 30, 2013, 12:19:53 pm
Perhaps a bit late to the party, but here's what I managed to get

(http://imageshack.us/a/img856/1665/screen0006z.png)

(http://img22.imageshack.us/img22/8358/screen0004a.png)

(http://img12.imageshack.us/img12/3885/screen0003a.png)

Rakshasas are kings of the tightest capship beam cluster :p
Title: Re: April 2013 Screencap Contest
Post by: An4ximandros on April 30, 2013, 12:45:59 pm
I was going to screen-grab a still from the colossus cutscene. One of the GTVA flyby about ten seconds in...
Wow, you really deserve the king of loll title, Dekker. :p At least I used GIMP for my joke!

 Dem Rakhsa pics look guud!