Uiridium_Chimera
Swell Supporter
- Joined
- Oct 25, 2015
[Last Updated: 10/27/2017]
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Description:
I really missed those art content fan art loading screens. They seem to do the contests quite a lot but the winning artwork doesn't stick around in the game for very long. And on top of that, the base game's loading screens are ungodly bland and dull, as well as there being only like 5 that you see with any regularity.
What this mod does is it takes samples from all of the past art contests and replaces the bland base game's loading screens with them (including some works that did not win but were very high quality nonetheless).
Buuut I only chose the Elin ones because, well, I prefer Elin personally.
Additionally I did *try* to replace the loading screens with the most similar works, but with a limited pool to work with this isn't always gonna be the case. What I mean is that like hypothetically if the loading screen replaced depicted a battle scene, I tried to replace it with a battle scene (if I found artwork for something similar).
*Also note that I did not replace every single loading screen. There are quite a few locational ones for things like specific instances that I didn't replace, as well as a couple base game ones that I felt were fine as-is (like the "community" one). Most of them were replaced, though.
**I tried to keep these generally "SFW". This means that the level of sexualization on display in any of the loading screens I chose is never more than what gets "approved" by the devs for the art contests or is already shown off in the game itself (i.e. skimpy outfits or suggestive poses).
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Screenshots:
*Some of these screenshots are a bit out of date and are from before I fixed the color "washout" (should be fairly obvious which ones). I will try to get some more current screenshots when I can.
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- Some of the loading screens look really "washed out". I'm not really sure what's causing this and I already attempted to fix it once (by lowering the brightness and increasing the contrast), but it only helped so much. I don't think it looks all that bad, though, so w.e. EDIT: I have attempted to fix this, with mixed results.
- An inevitable result of having to change the aspect ratio of some of the original artwork means that they appear stretched slightly wider than the originals. Nothing I can really do about this, and none of them look that bad anyways, just thought I'd mention it.
For technical specifications, the game's loading screens were all 2048x1024, and most of the artwork I used were 1920x1080, so there was a very small stretch horizontally when resizing them.
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Installation:
- Extract the "LoadingImages.gpk" file into the directory "TERA/Client/S1Game/CookedPC/Art_Data/Packages/_S1U1/".
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Download:
TERA - Loading Screen Replacers (with Elin fan art) v1.3.7z
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v1.0:
- Initial Release
v1.1:
- Attempted to fix some of the "washed out" look that some of the screenshots got by raising their contrast quite a bit.
- Added one new loading screen (forget what it applies to, see screenshots section for preview - it's now the first one in the section).
v1.2:
- Updated for the Valkyrie Class Patch (Valkyrie loading screens were not playing). I may try to find some artwork to replace the new loading screens later.
v1.3:
- Added a few more replacers for loading screens that did not have any.
- Moved a couple of loading screens around to fit better with the original's theme/location.
- Initial Release
v1.1:
- Attempted to fix some of the "washed out" look that some of the screenshots got by raising their contrast quite a bit.
- Added one new loading screen (forget what it applies to, see screenshots section for preview - it's now the first one in the section).
v1.2:
- Updated for the Valkyrie Class Patch (Valkyrie loading screens were not playing). I may try to find some artwork to replace the new loading screens later.
v1.3:
- Added a few more replacers for loading screens that did not have any.
- Moved a couple of loading screens around to fit better with the original's theme/location.
Description:
I really missed those art content fan art loading screens. They seem to do the contests quite a lot but the winning artwork doesn't stick around in the game for very long. And on top of that, the base game's loading screens are ungodly bland and dull, as well as there being only like 5 that you see with any regularity.
What this mod does is it takes samples from all of the past art contests and replaces the bland base game's loading screens with them (including some works that did not win but were very high quality nonetheless).
Buuut I only chose the Elin ones because, well, I prefer Elin personally.
Additionally I did *try* to replace the loading screens with the most similar works, but with a limited pool to work with this isn't always gonna be the case. What I mean is that like hypothetically if the loading screen replaced depicted a battle scene, I tried to replace it with a battle scene (if I found artwork for something similar).
*Also note that I did not replace every single loading screen. There are quite a few locational ones for things like specific instances that I didn't replace, as well as a couple base game ones that I felt were fine as-is (like the "community" one). Most of them were replaced, though.
**I tried to keep these generally "SFW". This means that the level of sexualization on display in any of the loading screens I chose is never more than what gets "approved" by the devs for the art contests or is already shown off in the game itself (i.e. skimpy outfits or suggestive poses).
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Screenshots:
*Some of these screenshots are a bit out of date and are from before I fixed the color "washout" (should be fairly obvious which ones). I will try to get some more current screenshots when I can.
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- An inevitable result of having to change the aspect ratio of some of the original artwork means that they appear stretched slightly wider than the originals. Nothing I can really do about this, and none of them look that bad anyways, just thought I'd mention it.
For technical specifications, the game's loading screens were all 2048x1024, and most of the artwork I used were 1920x1080, so there was a very small stretch horizontally when resizing them.
Installation:
- Extract the "LoadingImages.gpk" file into the directory "TERA/Client/S1Game/CookedPC/Art_Data/Packages/_S1U1/".
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Download:
TERA - Loading Screen Replacers (with Elin fan art) v1.3.7z
TERA - Loading Screen Replacers (with Elin fan art) v1.2.7z
TERA - Loading Screen Replacers (with Elin fan art) v1.0.7z
TERA - Loading Screen Replacers (with Elin fan art) v1.1.7z
TERA - Loading Screen Replacers (with Elin fan art) v1.0.7z
TERA - Loading Screen Replacers (with Elin fan art) v1.1.7z
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