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So Many New Beautiful Loading Screens! Show us your favorite?
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ZOS_IcymodGreetings,
After further review we have decided to move this thread to a category we think is more appropriate for this topic.
Thank you for your understanding.
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Araneae6537✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭✭✭I like the new loading screen featuring Khamira, but some of the others don’t look as nice as previous additions, and the framing on some isn’t great, even before the unfortunate cropping makes it much worse.Edited by Araneae6537 on 16 March 2023 13:590 -
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How is this community creations? This topic is discussing the new loading screens created by ZOS, right? I am confused.2 -
Hoghorn✭✭✭i like the one that encourages us to ogle Lyris's breasts. perhaps npcs in the new expac will not have heads or lower extremities, save zos development money in the long run.0 -
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Yes, in the "Community Creations" thread list, this thread just looks completely out of place.Araneae6537 wrote: »
How is this community creations? This topic is discussing the new loading screens created by ZOS, right? I am confused.PC(Steam) / EU / play from Melbourne, Australia / avg ping 3901 -
code65536✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭✭✭Not a fan of them.
Why not?
First, the new character load screens are all glammed-up in-game renders (like Crown Store images), and maybe some people like that, but I much rather prefer the old hand-painted ones that are not just prettified screenshots. There's a certain quality to hand-crafted artwork that you just don't get with screenshots.
The next problem is that some of the images are very poorly-framed.
The image posted in the first post of this thread is in a 4:3 aspect ratio, which is why it looks fine. But take a look at the image when it's in the 16:9 aspect ratio that the vast majority of players will see:
You're missing a good chunk of her head.
For reference, the original image as extracted from the game's data is this:
All ESO load screens are in a 16:10 aspect ratio. So when they're displayed at the 16:9 aspect ratio of most people's monitors, the top and bottom are cropped. Furthermore, there's space reserved at the top and bottom that gets covered in black (it serves as the background for the spinning logo and load screen text). So the end result is that a large chunk of the top and bottom are cut off on most people's screens, first from the cropping from 16:10 to 16:9, and then again from the back backgrounds that are added to the top and bottom.
Here's another example; the first is the raw load screen image that I extracted from the game's data, and the second is how it actually appears to players on a typical 16:9 monitor in-game.
And the worst one:
So, no, not a fan. The old hand-painted screens had more character. And better framing.Edited by code65536 on 16 March 2023 20:19Nightfighters ― PC/NA and PC/EU
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Displaced_Salad✭✭✭As someone who has a 16:9, the previous poster hit the nail on the head. Never a problem in the past, but now, I'm certainly not head and shoulders above the rest. Mostly since they seem to be missing from many of the loading screens
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✭✭✭✭✭I'm echoing code65536 and the other latest replies with that I'm not a fan. I much prefer the painted loading screens over these glorified and badly cropped screenshots. Sure minus the bad cropping they aren't bad, but between them and the painted art I go with the latter every time.
This is just so much nicer to me:
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