The SEIV Deluxe Load Screen Sucks

[JAFisher44]

I hate the load screen for SEIV Deluxe. I'm probably just anal, but it annoys me. "Why?" you ask. Well, because given the relative positions of the things in the picture its just not possible for it to look the way it does.

None of the shadows on any of the planets are the same. The blue/green medium sized plante has light coming almost straight down on it from the perspecitve of the cameral angle. The small grey moon looks like it might possibly actually be receiving light from the star in the distance, and the large yellow/brown planet looks like the light hitting it is coming from up and to the left. (You can see the terminator line moving diagonally from the bottom of the screen to the right of the screen near the "IV" in the game logo, ignore the shadow at the bottom as it is impossilbe for a terminator line to be there on a planet and is most likely there as a result of the game buttons.)

So, does this bother anyone else? If you never noticed before, does it now that I pointed it out? Anyway, just thought I'd vent since it annoys me every time I load up the game now. (Which is quite a lot.)

[Fyron]

You can find lots of fancy intro pics (several created as alternates for SE4 Gold 1.91 patch by the David Gervais himself) on SEnet:

SEnet Intro Gallery (http://www.spaceempires.net/home/modules.php?set_albumName=wallpapers&op=modload&na me=gallery&file=index&include=view_album.php&Galle rySession=baec9347f461e97d724914b92472175c)

I do agree that the 1.94 image is not that great, but more because the 1.91 with the killer Eee was so much more interesting than any artistic concerns.

[PvK]

What does the Deluxe image look like? I still haven't bothered to install the patch.

[Fyron]

http://www.spaceempires.net/files/albums/wallpapers/Intro.thumb.png (http://www.spaceempires.net/home/modules.php?set_albumName=wallpapers&id=Intro&op=m odload&name=gallery&file=index&include=view_photo. php)

[Captain Kwok]

I've edited the good old EEE vs Jraenar one with the Deluxe logo from the patch one. Perhaps I'll post it one day.

[PvK]

Thanks Fyron.

[Fyron]

Note that you can find many alternate intro screens on the gallery, made by various SE community members.

[Kamog]

Well, I like the new intro screen. I did like the old SEIV gold screen even better, though.

...the thing that is mildly annoying is that Strategy First logo that always comes up when you launch SEIV deluxe. That logo appears to have some sort of writing inside the circle but the lettering is stylized and I could never figure out what it says. It seems to say something like "I love LLL" and every time I see it, my mind tries to figure it out. It's getting frustrating because I don't understand what it says and yet I can't avoid seeing it all the time.

Do you know what it says inside the logo?

[Fyron]

You could always just take a screenshot. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif

[Kamog]

What does it say inside this logo?

http://www.shrapnelcommunity.com/threads/uploads/402269-strategyfirst.gif

[Fyron]

Even upon zooming in, I don't see any script. It looks like it's just fancy reflection effects to me, around the band of the outer ring.

[Kamog]

I mean the stuff inside the circle, not around the band.
...

...Oh, I see now!! That stuff inside the circle is a soldier, astronaut and football player. I always thought that it was words inside and I didn't recognize that it's pictures of people. Those arms look like "LLL" and the heads look like some word like "Love" or something. It bothered me because it's so hard to read.

I feel kind of dumb. But I also feel better now that it's not so mysterious what that logo is.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

And a knight on the left side.

[Ed Kolis]

Fools! It says, "One ring to rule them all, one ring to find them, one ring to bring them all, and in the darkness bind them!" http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/eek.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/tongue.gif

[Kamog]

I saw the knight a bit later. At first that guy on the left just looked to me like a shield and some unknown pineapple-looking object on top.

[PvK]

Clearly, it's "Knight with helm and shield, soldier with helmet, rifle, and pinapple grenade, astronaut with coffee cup, and football player with prosthetic arm falling off at the shoulder, stuffing up a golden ring of power in absolute blackness, with a subliminal message of 'I Love LLL1".

PvK