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  • thlaylierahthlaylierah Member Posts: 2,987 Arc User
    edited April 2013
    A screensaver... now there is an idea...

    I actually have used several of these as screen savers in the past, 1920 x 1200 res.
  • organicmanfredorganicmanfred Member Posts: 3,236 Arc User
    edited April 2013
    I never liked British humor. Exept for Little Britain :P

    Anyway, Gimp works too, but.. it needed about a minute to open it, and my pc was on the edge of collapsing, so I had to close it.

    But the graphics are very sharp sir gg
  • artan42artan42 Member Posts: 10,450 Bug Hunter
    edited April 2013
    Yes, I will update the Dreadnought with that note later this week with the other changes.

    I also saw that the Andorian Escort 3 pack makes no mention of the mix and match when all three are owned.
    I never liked British humor. Exept for Little Britain :P

    You might want to try our humour, that extra u gives it a lot more laughs :D.
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  • starfish1701starfish1701 Member Posts: 782 Arc User
    edited April 2013
    Updated to Version 3.1 (16.7 MB)
    http://starfish1.co.uk/chart1.jpg

    Removed console error from Advanced Heavy Cruiser Retrofit
    Corrected Mobius and Wells bridge images
    Added 'Frame Guide' to footer of chart
    Added that Venture X skin is unlockable via C-Store for the Dreadnought.



    New Video:
    STO Tutorial - Using Ship Charts [5 min YouTube video]
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhoz4uaFZyE

    This video may not tell you anything new, or anything that you already didn't know about Windows 7 split screen shortcuts, but I've put it out there in the hopes it helps at least someone. I will add it to the first post of the Klingon Fleet Chart which I will upload later in the week.

    Many apologies for the quality of the audio in this video, I went out and bought a new microphone that ended up being worse than the one I already had. If anyone can recommend a make and model I will consider buying it in case I do any more tutorials.

    Many thanks again for all the support. :)
  • organicmanfredorganicmanfred Member Posts: 3,236 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    hmm..

    I dont know what I am doing wrong, but I still have trouble opening the pic.

    None of my 8 different graphic viewers/programms can handle the pic proper.
    Some can't open it (I get an erros message about the file code) and like with Quick Time Viewer the pic is stretched.

    Irfan View can open it, but the zoom function is terrible.

    Gimp can open it, but it takes a horrible time and it slows my pc very much. The program even can't handle the moving around in the picture without slowing down very much.

    I converted the pic with Irfan View to a smaller volume down to about 5 MB, but still not better.

    Looking at the last SpiderMitch pic, that is about 9 MB and opens without problems in the Windows Picture Viewer.
  • lordhavelocklordhavelock Member Posts: 2,248 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    Starfish, the latest Chart is awesome! I especially love the LCARsyness of it. The video is also neat/informative.

    >Stands and applauds<

    In the video you show a KDF Chart. Where might I find that, please?

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  • starfish1701starfish1701 Member Posts: 782 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    Starfish, the latest Chart is awesome! I especially love the LCARsyness of it. The video is also neat/informative.

    >Stands and applauds<

    In the video you show a KDF Chart. Where might I find that, please?

    Thanks for that. I certainly enjoyed updating it, and much prefer the way it looks now.

    I will upload the Klingon Starship Chart when I get back from work. I was still working on it yesterday, but I did use a draft version of it in the video.

    It's only the fleet ships to begin with, and it will have a thread of it's own, so I can keep all the suggested corrections together with the chart itself.

    Thanks again for the feedback. Much appreciated. :)
    hmm..

    I dont know what I am doing wrong, but I still have trouble opening the pic.

    None of my 8 different graphic viewers/programms can handle the pic proper.
    Some can't open it (I get an erros message about the file code) and like with Quick Time Viewer the pic is stretched.

    Irfan View can open it, but the zoom function is terrible.

    Gimp can open it, but it takes a horrible time and it slows my pc very much. The program even can't handle the moving around in the picture without slowing down very much.

    I converted the pic with Irfan View to a smaller volume down to about 5 MB, but still not better.

    Looking at the last SpiderMitch pic, that is about 9 MB and opens without problems in the Windows Picture Viewer.

    I'm really sorry to hear that you are having issues with opening the chart. My PC is Windows 7 and about 3 years old now, and it's opening with the Windows Photo Viewer that came on the computer. I can't see what version my Windows Photo Viewer is, it doesn't seem to say.

    I know you can't use MS Paint to open it anymore, because it's too big now to open with that program. So when I do a new version I basically have to rebuild it section by section.

    My chart is considerably larger than Spidermitches though, owing to the amount of ships now available, so I'm not surprised it will open that one but not mine.

    I am uploading the Klingon chart when I get back from work this evening, it's about half the size of this Fed one, so see if you can open that one. If you can, I might have to do a version of the Fed chart split in two for you.
  • organicmanfredorganicmanfred Member Posts: 3,236 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    Hey hey,

    no worry. No extras for me. It may be my pc who s having the problem on its own, not your pic. Seems everyone else can work with it :D

    Just go on with that great work of yours.
  • thlaylierahthlaylierah Member Posts: 2,987 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    Whay are these threads not Stickied!?

    Unless Cryptic wishes to do something similar, Starfish is providing a valuable service to this community.

    The least they can do is give him the tools to continue like Stickying this thread.
  • takeshi6takeshi6 Member Posts: 752 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    Whay are these threads not Stickied!?

    Unless Cryptic wishes to do something similar, Starfish is providing a valuable service to this community.

    The least they can do is give him the tools to continue like Stickying this thread.

    /Seconded :D:cool:
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  • armedbushidoarmedbushido Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    Whay are these threads not Stickied!?

    Unless Cryptic wishes to do something similar, Starfish is providing a valuable service to this community.

    The least they can do is give him the tools to continue like Stickying this thread.

    Got my vote!!!


    Great work - loved the video tutorial also...
  • johngazmanjohngazman Member Posts: 2,826 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    Very, very nice. Chance of a KDF and Romulan one in the future?

    Also, something worth noting - the Steamrunner Retrofit does not come with the Resonance Casdcade Console. It is only found on the T1 Steamrunner class. As I recall, the T5 Steamrunner doesn't come with anything except standard weapons and equipment :\
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  • armedbushidoarmedbushido Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    johngazman wrote: »
    Very, very nice. Chance of a KDF and Romulan one in the future?

    Also, something worth noting - the Steamrunner Retrofit does not come with the Resonance Casdcade Console. It is only found on the T1 Steamrunner class. As I recall, the T5 Steamrunner doesn't come with anything except standard weapons and equipment :\


    Here is the Klingon one Starfish1 started:

    http://sto-forum.perfectworld.com/showthread.php?t=650421&highlight=Starfish1

    and yes I would love to see one for the Romulians...
  • toivatoiva Member Posts: 3,276 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    My belated thanks for completing the FED chart. It's a joy having a large "wallpaper" to browse around in.

    I hope people will still be able to open it as it might grow, though. Cryptic just keeps on adding new versions (like fleet or mirror).

    Thanks again and keep up the great work. ;)
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  • starfish1701starfish1701 Member Posts: 782 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    johngazman wrote: »
    Very, very nice. Chance of a KDF and Romulan one in the future?

    Also, something worth noting - the Steamrunner Retrofit does not come with the Resonance Casdcade Console. It is only found on the T1 Steamrunner class. As I recall, the T5 Steamrunner doesn't come with anything except standard weapons and equipment :\

    Yes to the Klingon one, it's at:
    starfish1.co.uk/chart2.jpg
    Though it's only the fleet ships for now, next week will probably see it expanded to all end game ships (then I will wait to see what changes are in store after the 21st)

    Absolutly right about the Steamrunnuner. How embarrasing, I have that ship as well. I should have known better. I will get that error on the list for the next update.
    toiva wrote: »
    My belated thanks for completing the FED chart. It's a joy having a large "wallpaper" to browse around in.

    I hope people will still be able to open it as it might grow, though. Cryptic just keeps on adding new versions (like fleet or mirror).

    Thanks again and keep up the great work. ;)

    Yes, I am continuing with the KDF chart, though it won't be as big as the Fed one as there are far fewer ships. I have to say - If anyone has issues opening the large Fed chart, please say, and I will split it into two smaller sections, it really is no trouble for me to do that, and I will do it at the next update.
    Here is the Klingon one Starfish1 started:

    http://sto-forum.perfectworld.com/showthread.php?t=650421&highlight=Starfish1

    and yes I would love to see one for the Romulians...

    Oh, you beat me to it (regarding the link). Thanks for that.

    Yes, I am planning on doing a Romulan one in the next couple of weeks. Hopefully the day before the official launch.
  • armedbushidoarmedbushido Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    Keep up the good work and thanks for taking the time to do these...
  • starfish1701starfish1701 Member Posts: 782 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    Updated to version 3.2
    http://starfish1.co.uk/chart1.jpg

    Addition of Tal Shiar vessels
    Updated all cross faction ship frames to their new brown colour scheme
    Updated the Mirror Assault and Star Cruiser acquisition details to include the Tal Shiar lockbox
    Removed the module from the T5 Steamrunner (you still get it, but it's unlocked with the T1 version)

    For those that have difficulty opening this chart (which is now two rows deeper)

    The upper half
    http://starfish1.co.uk/chart1a.jpg

    The lower half
    http://starfish1.co.uk/chart1b.jpg

    Hope that helps.

    Regards,
    Starfish1
  • kerne1127kerne1127 Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited June 2013
    I like the idea of setting it up so you can print them 9 per sheet like cards, then you can move em around and compare side by side, and waiting with baited breath for the rest of the klingon chart
  • keiichi2032keiichi2032 Member Posts: 129 Arc User
    edited June 2013
    Holy frakking TRIBBLE.... this is amazing.

    Nevermind accuracy or service providing, but the sheer effort of putting this together, and layout of abilities and specifications in such a way... its absolutely beautiful (from one artist to another).

    What program did you use? I wanted to say Photoshop, but the lines seemed a bit too clean. Did you do this in Illustrator?
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  • kerne1127kerne1127 Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited June 2013
    Earlier in the thread he said he used nothing but word and paint
  • starfish1701starfish1701 Member Posts: 782 Arc User
    edited June 2013
    kerne1127 wrote: »
    I like the idea of setting it up so you can print them 9 per sheet like cards, then you can move em around and compare side by side, and waiting with baited breath for the rest of the klingon chart

    Funny you should mention the Klingon chart. The completed version will be uploaded tomorrow. :D

    Sorry for the wait.
    Holy frakking TRIBBLE.... this is amazing.

    Nevermind accuracy or service providing, but the sheer effort of putting this together, and layout of abilities and specifications in such a way... its absolutely beautiful (from one artist to another).

    What program did you use? I wanted to say Photoshop, but the lines seemed a bit too clean. Did you do this in Illustrator?

    Thanks for the compliments. I enjoy making these.

    I only use MS Paint and MS Word. Word to create the ship frame with the stats, which I then screen dump into Paint, crop and then copy and paste it into the larger rank block, which is again in Paint. I then assemble the rank blocks to make a new version (which is all I need to do tomorrow to complete the KDF chart).

    The design isn't in the same league as Spidermitches charts, but I made it like this so it's easy to update and maintain. I thought the easier I made it for myself, the more likely I would be to update them.

    Many thanks again. :)
  • kerne1127kerne1127 Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited June 2013
    Out of curiosity I converted the fed ship chart to PDF and looked to see how many sheets would print to do it full size, 190 pages, 10 sheets by 19 sheets, I would love to be able to help make pdfs of 9 ships per page, but you would need to put required rank for the ship in the picture, so if you cut it into cards you would still have that, as I said I can convert to pdf and scale it for you, I just need the pictures with the 9 ships per page in a landscape format
  • starfish1701starfish1701 Member Posts: 782 Arc User
    edited June 2013
    kerne1127 wrote: »
    Out of curiosity I converted the fed ship chart to PDF and looked to see how many sheets would print to do it full size, 190 pages, 10 sheets by 19 sheets, I would love to be able to help make pdfs of 9 ships per page, but you would need to put required rank for the ship in the picture, so if you cut it into cards you would still have that, as I said I can convert to pdf and scale it for you, I just need the pictures with the 9 ships per page in a landscape format

    That's a lot of pages! I had no idea it was that big. :eek:

    Thanks for the offer of help, I really appreciate it. I have considered adding in the rank to each ship specifically for the card printing idea, and also for a screensaver too. I don't know when I would get around to it, but I would need to add the rank into each frame first before doing either of those things.

    Hmmm... That's probably going to be the next big update to the charts I think. I can't see me doing that for a while though. :o
  • kerne1127kerne1127 Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited June 2013
    Well let me know, you can pm me on this site and I can send you my email for any collaberations, I may be able to help, I did send you a friend request. In fact I would just need the pics of the individual ships with rank added, or tiar, like tier 1 2 3 4 5 5.1 and fleet, then I can arrange them and make pdfs
  • organicmanfredorganicmanfred Member Posts: 3,236 Arc User
    edited June 2013
    New signature, new content?

    Star, what are you planing?
  • starfish1701starfish1701 Member Posts: 782 Arc User
    edited June 2013
    New signature, new content?

    Star, what are you planing?

    LOL!

    I just made several new signatures, including this one for the pets. I thought it would be kind of fun. :D
  • starfish1701starfish1701 Member Posts: 782 Arc User
    edited June 2013
    Updated to version 3.3
    http://starfish1.co.uk/chart1.jpg

    Added the Risian Corvette

    Also updated the previously mentioned version 1a for those that can't open the full chart.

    Any issues, let me know. :)
  • kerne1127kerne1127 Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited June 2013
    Well I was bored so I started putting you ship charts into word in a 3x3 pattern, it worked great except for one thing, not printable. Due to the fact it's a black background it 1. uses too much ink and 2. not easaly visible once printed
  • starfish1701starfish1701 Member Posts: 782 Arc User
    edited July 2013
    Updated to version 3.4
    http://starfish1.co.uk/chart1.jpg

    Updated the Risian corvette images
    Added the Suliban Cell Ship

    Also updated version 1b (links below) for those that can't open the full chart.

    Any issues, let me know. :)

    The upper half for those who have issues opening the full version
    http://starfish1.co.uk/chart1a.jpg

    The lower half for those who have issues opening the full version
    http://starfish1.co.uk/chart1b.jpg

    Hope that helps.

    Regards,
    Starfish1
  • starfish1701starfish1701 Member Posts: 782 Arc User
    edited August 2013
    Updated to version 3.5
    http://starfish1.co.uk/chart1.jpg

    Added the Elachi Ships
    Updated text for Mirror Deep Space Science Vessel
    Updated text for Mirror Reconnaissance Science Vessel

    Also updated version 1a (link below) for those that can't open the full chart.

    Any issues, let me know. :)

    The upper half for those who have issues opening the full version
    http://starfish1.co.uk/chart1a.jpg

    I am wondering if those who use this chart (and the others) think that maybe I should now have one thread for all three factions now that the charts are complete.

    If you agree with this, where on the forums do you think would be best for me to put the combined chart thread? I am open to suggestions. :)

    Regards,
    Starfish1
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