ISDG as background

[Matrix]

How Fanatic are you?

I thought it would be fun to have our map as background in Windows. It will also make you get more acquainted with the map.

 

[Cheetah]

I don't want to ruin your idea, but the map is everexpanding - and my screenresolution is 1600x1200.

 

[Matrix]

Right now the map is changing too often so I didn't save the original. But with DDPP I have also created a background in which I only change parts of the map that have changed. Very easy to do with Paint Shop Pro. And furthermore, the fact that it is everexpanding is no issue because I only resize at the end. What I attached here is only the end result.

And if you want a background for 1600x1200, I can make one for you next time.

 

[NeoDemocrat]

haha brilliant

 

[Ankka]

Nice idea, I think I won't use it though, I'm not the only user on this comp...

 

[NeoDemocrat]

Me too Ankkaf

 

[RegentMan]

How obsessed does one get if they use the mini-map as their background?

 

[Ankka]

You mean an enlargened one? I can make one... Wait a sec.

 

[Ankka]

 

[Matrix]

New updated map. This time in two sizes!

 

[Ankka]

Very nice quality.

 

[Matrix]

I don't know if anyone has even been interested, but I made one for myself. Might as well share it with you.

 

[Pegster]

rofl

Nice work!

 

[Ankka]

How do you do these? I mean, you yhave an enormous screen size or what?

Quite a widescreen screen, I see, too.

 

[Hygro]

I've replaced the picture of myself (an awesome picture too), with this map.

 

[RegentMan]

The latest picture is much more eye appealing than the first one. Soooo much darkness...

 

[Rik Meleet]

The picture in post #12 is now on my desktop.

<Off-topic> I always have a really dark or black background. I don't like the standby-mode so my monitor is very often powered-on. If you use a white background you use about 7 times as much electrical-power than with a black background.
When I do leave my PC; I just use the monitor-powerbutton to power off my mon.

 

[Matrix]

Cool, you actually use them.

@Ankka: I just make a lot of screenshots and paste them together in an image of 6400x3232. Then I resize it to 1024x517 (and add a white line at the bottom and top of the image, so you know where the poles are).

@Rik (Off-Topic): good thinking!

 

[Rik Meleet]

see (I blurred all icons, they only distract you :

 

[Matrix]

Cool.

Don't you want the background centered instead of stretched?