Tag: backgrounds

Changes: theme facelift and more

Lukas Rox non-eve , ,

Torchwood Archives isn’t dead – actually far from it. Being involved in a couple of projects has a side effect of not having enough time to write new posts 🙁 . As most of said projects are closer to finish now, the lack of time thing is bound to change soon. First off, I’ve given my theme a much-needed facelift, namely a new background (chosen out of over a hundred screenshots) and some CSS shadow under the content frame. Additionally, background is now scaled to fit the browser resolution (CSS 3 background-size: contain)

Here you can see, how the site used to look like before, and what other backgrounds I have tested before finally settling with the one you can see on Torchwood’s front page now:

This is how it used to look like First Second
Third Fourth Fifth
The images used as backgrounds can be great EVE themed wallpapers, so I’m posting them here.

I am also testing a script, which can load specific backgrounds for specific pages, but it isn’t quite ready yet. I am also thinking about changing the front page. While the news list looks like a typical blog should, modern sites use multiple columns layout, short news excerpts, and featured sliders.

Fear not, the most important thing – new content – is also coming this way.

Stay tuned!

– Lukas

New backgrounds in EVE

Lukas Rox EVE Online, Games , , , , ,

The Winter Expansion is focused on “Flying-in-Space” experience, so it is not a surprise, that the new nebulae announced together with updated turret models will make it to this expansion. I must admit that the art departament at CCP really did a great job. The new nebulae look very detailed and quite realistic, much better than the current ones.

There is one more change. Existing backgrounds are different for each constellation, but there is not much sense in how they are placed. The new backgrounds will be different for each region instead, but as you travel around the New Eden, you will see some phenomena closer and some further away, giving a feeling of distance and adding more immersion.

New backgrounds will affect one more thing as well: the reflections. This will cause ship textures to look slightly different, depending on the nebula and sun colours. Similar effect can be seen with the current backgrounds, especially when jumping from a red-background system to one with blue or green nebula. Art department promised however, that all the ships will be just as cool with the new backgrounds in place.

Knowing EVE community, one thing is certain: the new backgrounds will witness some serious boat violencing. EVE is a serious internet spaceship game after all 😉

Since one image is worth thousand words, CCP will swap this dull red cloud:

with these pretty nebulae: