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[horselance]

Hi guys.
I was fixing my recent portrait. So i could find some time yesterday for loading screen at all.
Finished portrait of cameron >> http://forum.btanks.net/viewtopic.php?f=52&t=1330

Yesterday I created a sketch.
http://img146.imageshack.us/img146/5235/...347xs7.jpg

This is not a drawing but only to show you my idea. In fact I started from top to draw and that is why it looks so plain upper part.
Idea is :
We look from inside of a tank. And in the console, there are specific tank buttons that i'll be drawing. First i thought it could be a Zeppelin Console but it also can be HT too. I took a screenshot from BT and it is as high as a zeppelin flight.
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When i draw and import it to map as 1024*768, filesize is 1.6mb Because TGA files have no compression. But it can be changed to BLP and can be imported to existing loading screen, so a same sized BLP will be at most 200kb.

This was the first option. If you think 200kb is too much it can be reduced to half size but quality will be half too. ~60kb with low quality. ~200kb with high quality.

Second option is to do what Cdek did that i told him to do. Replacing the existing Banner with a new image. This will be a 256*256 pixel picture and size will be ~25kb with high quality. There can be only 1 tank picture at all.
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Now my sketch dont look so good at all because i copy-pasted a low size picture to it. When i draw, it will be in high quality and contrast. But i will take that cockpit as basis. I will change it to a zeppelin cockpit
In the scene there will be two tanks fighting. I couldnt cosider which tanks they will be but i think of a HT and a Helli. (dont make strategical assumption:)
Also i will extend the tanks to more realistic looking. But their shape will be nearly same. Atmosphere will be same as it looks in now but it will look more realistic at all. (Even the goblin trader:)
If you dont like the concept, I can change it to other thing.
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And I cant give you a sketch of my drawing because it is out of my working style. I attached files to show how i work. I work partial.

And thanks for reading this long post and looking all pictures I sent:)