Community Keyboard Megapack 1.5 (Submissions OPEN)

[kommisar]

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in sm 3.95 it's nice to see the bg backdrop with the score

[Gundam-Dude]

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I mean yeah I still play with bgs visible by like 20% too, to each their own.

What I find odd is that if "99% of people play with backgrounds off" what is the point in even investing the time to create background graphics? To appeal to the apparent 1% demographic that play with backgrounds on? Why even bother converting png backgrounds to jpegs for an entire pack when you can completely skip the background creation process in itself? I mean clearly hard drive space is way more important than aesthetic is what he's implying.

[kommisar]

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yeah ofc.


same logic can be applied to any simfile we make ever cuz really only like 1% of people who play stepmania can play the hard shit we do

[DigitalS3r4ph]

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A file doesn't really feel complete without at least a set of graphics (bg/bn/cdtitle). I doubt the validity of the statement that 99% of people who play SM play with no background haha.

[Wafles]

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I mean yeah I still play with bgs visible by like 20% too, to each their own.

What I find odd is that if "99% of people play with backgrounds off" what is the point in even investing the time to create background graphics? To appeal to the apparent 1% demographic that play with backgrounds on? Why even bother converting png backgrounds to jpegs for an entire pack when you can completely skip the background creation process in itself? I mean clearly hard drive space is way more important than aesthetic is what he's implying.

The backgrounds are useful for score screens and themes that show it on song select. I'm just saying that a slight degradation in quality has more significant advantages than some might think.

[hi19hi19]

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If you got 100MB savings on pack size that's actually a really good argument for .jpg, I didn't realize it was THAT much.
I'll have to check how it changes with my next pack.
For some detailed BGs the quality drop is noticeable even at 1280x720 resolution, though, and I am a fan of my fancy GFX.

[gold stinger]

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I don't even create bg's for any of my files, only bn's & cdtitle's.

Does that trigger you? Literally 100's of files, with no backgrounds, just the banners & cdtitles?

[~Zero~]

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rottel-da-star

[kommisar]

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iz dat some higurashi

[choof]

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higur o shit son
got a few more charts, gonna check em out tonight
my mech kb finally crapped out on me

[cedolad]

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gonna poop out blade tonight

[fewwari]

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hit n slap so far feels kinda bland.. weird to say coming from me, but i don't see how it'd be even remotely interesting even barely past a quadbait file. i'll let someone else give that a go

maybe i'll step AA instead with a better mp3

[choof]

Re: Community Keyboard Megapack 1.5 (Submissions OPEN)

hit n slap so far feels kinda bland.. weird to say coming from me, but i don't see how it'd be even remotely interesting even barely past a quadbait file. i'll let someone else give that a go

maybe i'll step AA instead with a better mp3

make it a quadbait file then, it'll be fun on high rates I imagine

[AZVW_2]

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About gfx, for me, just find a random pic on Web resources and adjust to 800 * 600, then add song title text directly using Windows paint, as BG.
And crop random 512 *160 area, as BN.

lol... simple and saving sizes.

[Wayward Vagabond]

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dibs on carpet muncher and bbblow