Defcon Wallpapers

[NeoThermic]

video standards guideline

Is it a bad sign that my screen's native res isn't listed?

What would you call 1280x800, anyway? WXGA+? QWQXGA? 16xCGA?

Thats a 16:10 resolution, so it would be WXGA (covers 1280×720, 1280×768, 1280×800, 1360×768, and 1366×768).

Neothermic

[WNivek]

What would you call 1280x800, anyway? WXGA+? QWQXGA? 16xCGA?

Thats a 16:10 resolution, so it would be WXGA (covers 1280×720, 1280×768, 1280×800, 1360×768, and 1366×768).

Cool, thanks

[Kuth]

This one came before the first one I posted (the idea anyway), but I made the simpler one first.

I appologize in advance if people don't like my color biases for the nations (green = USA, Red = Russia, Blue = UK/europe, yellow = china)

[Montyphy]

Looks like theres something wrong with your battleship.


EDIT: What symbol would people associate with Africa?

[bshock]

Keep it up, Kuth. Those rock.

[Kuth]

Of the battleship... meh, blame it on Soviet intelligence.

Not sure what I'd color for Africa... Most of the big superpowers involved in the Cold war were, obviously, the US (either Blue or Green), Russian (ALWAYS red), the scattered nations in Europe (Spearheaded by Britan). China became a nuclear power and for some reason I always see them as being yellow on tactical displays.

One answer to that is to use what the origional RISK did for it's colors- (NA=yellow, SA=teal, EUR=blue, AFR= Red, ASIA=Green, AUS=purple). In DEFCON though, the colors aren't that exact (There is only one shade of green, and pink replaces purple).

In the end I don't know of any nuclear-capable nations that acted on their own during the cold war. They were influenced by the US or Russia in some way like the middle east was. And though China and GB can be seen as 'affiliates' to the larger superpowers, they still pretty much acted on thier own, and weren't pawns in the nuclear chessgame (as Soviet-Sino relations fell through, eventually).

Anyways, the point of my last wallpaper was to get some of the unit icons down and associate them with some equivelant used in the coldwar. I wanted to use the carrier for the U.S. and the Submarine as a soviet variant, but I decided to include more than just the US-USSR, since this isn't a 2 player game.

Yeah, vector graphics are fun in Illustrator.

[Montyphy]

I think you misunderstood me. I was asking what symbol not colour. I'm trying to knock up a few wallpapers and just wanted to know what I could use to represent Africa

[Kuth]

Well as I said I didn't discriminate by symbol. If anything it was color. I just wanted the unit icons in there.


Anyone got a closeup of the SAM icon?

[Montyphy]

Well as I said I didn't discriminate by symbol. If anything it was color. I just wanted the unit icons in there.

You still seem to be misunderstanding me. My inquisition about a symbol for Africa is something for my wallpaper design, it has nothing to do with your wallpaper or my comment previous to that which was pointing out a mistake in your battleship.

[Kuth]

appologies for the misunderstanding...

And for people who want something other than the red radar for my first Wallpaper...

http://home.comcast.net/~norsehound/Defconwall1Blue.jpg
http://home.comcast.net/~norsehound/Defconwall1green.jpg
http://home.comcast.net/~norsehound/Defconwall1yellow.jpg

Yellow has my idea of what a defense sattelite would be like. Might replace it with something else later...

[NeoThermic]

appologies for the misunderstanding...

And for people who want something other than the red radar for my first Wallpaper...

http://home.comcast.net/~norsehound/Defconwall1Blue.jpg
http://home.comcast.net/~norsehound/Defconwall1green.jpg
http://home.comcast.net/~norsehound/Defconwall1yellow.jpg

Yellow has my idea of what a defense sattelite would be like. Might replace it with something else later...

Noo! You're too good at this, and now I have to decide which image to use

NeoThermic

[xander]

appologies for the misunderstanding...

And for people who want something other than the red radar for my first Wallpaper...

http://home.comcast.net/~norsehound/Defconwall1Blue.jpg
http://home.comcast.net/~norsehound/Defconwall1green.jpg
http://home.comcast.net/~norsehound/Defconwall1yellow.jpg

Yellow has my idea of what a defense sattelite would be like. Might replace it with something else later...

Noo! You're too good at this, and now I have to decide which image to use :|

NeoThermic

Get a Mac. Then, you can cycle through them, and not have to decide :)

xander

[NeoThermic]

appologies for the misunderstanding...

And for people who want something other than the red radar for my first Wallpaper...

http://home.comcast.net/~norsehound/Defconwall1Blue.jpg
http://home.comcast.net/~norsehound/Defconwall1green.jpg
http://home.comcast.net/~norsehound/Defconwall1yellow.jpg

Yellow has my idea of what a defense sattelite would be like. Might replace it with something else later...

Noo! You're too good at this, and now I have to decide which image to use

NeoThermic

Get a Mac. Then, you can cycle through them, and not have to decide

xander

Oh please, I could spend just 10% of the cost and get two extra monitors and not need to choose

NeoThermic

[Montyphy]

I'm no American but I've become quite attached to this one...

http://img206.imageshack.us/img206/1997 ... perpi7.jpg

[Kuth]

An odd one. Wanted to use a quote for one of these... found the one by Bradley and applied it, since I'm one of those who is trying not to think too hard about nuclear warfare in the real...