G&K "Loading" screen questions - and they are lame

[Colonel Travis]

Sorry, this is probably the most pointless series of questions on here. The picture you look at while the game first loads - sometimes it appears to be a frame from the intro video, sometimes it's a watercolor-looking thing. Presumably the images are stored in a folder somewhere in the case of the watercolors? Same for the (ostensible) intro video screenshots, or does it actually pull a random frame out? If that's the case, how do you do such a thing? Is there screenshot software in there? I've never seen a repeat of the ones from the video, rarely do I see it with the watercolors. Once there was one from the video that had absolutely nothing interesting in the shot, all the action was happening on the sides, with very little to look at in most of the screen. Or is it pulling the same thing off a 2K server for everyone, or picking out something at random for each individual starting the game?

Again - sorry, I'm not this OCD about 99.999% of everything in life. Unfortunately this just falls into that 0.001%.

 

[CivCube]

I've had the same one pop up several times.

 

[triheptyl]

I've seen a couple of the screens multiple times, but have never seen a still from the intro movie as a loading screen.

 

[Colonel Travis]

I've seen a couple of the screens multiple times, but have never seen a still from the intro movie as a loading screen.

I've seen several. The most recent was Mr. Telescope at the 1:25 mark. Two have been from the part at 0:40. One of them was a frame where the camera is panning from right to left - somewhere between 0:40 and 0:41 - and no one is in the frame. This is why I asked the question because who the heck would pick a screen that pointless?


Link to video.

 

[gozpel]

I turned off the intro before and now I just get some dull picture, so I never saw this.

But why are all ppl doing stuff left-handed? Now and before.

 

[crasher_pt]

They're historical figures. Galileo, Leonardo, etc. Some were actually left-handed.

 

[SammyKhalifa]

Is anyone having problems getting the intro movie to play? Mine is in inverse color, which I'm sure is something wrong with my player or something but I've never seen it anywhere else. Not that it's huge deal, but I'd like to see it once.