Yeah I sure did. I don't see the white parts on the Mark of Khorne on the other page in my post. One on photobucket is fixed too.

Didn't get no karma for your mark

Oh, for the backgrounds, I'm just picking pics from those races/factions that I think look cool and that are big enough to make a background with. If either of you have any Favorite pictures you want me to convert into backgrounds those especially just put a link to the pic here and I'll use it. Those are really easy to do because all I have to do is resize them and save them as PNGs. So you find your favorite pics for those and I can do those in like 2 minutes flat.

On the Necrons I really like that second pic, the greenish blue one, not the yellow greenish one above it which kind of looks funny the way I had to resize it. Maybe someone else will like the yellow greenish one better though so I'll leave it. If you have specific one's you really want for a faction though and it's big enough to make a background that's no problem. No thumbnail size pics though. If the pic is too small it doesn't enlarge well and comes out pixelated so the bigger the better for background pics.

The foreground leader pics are usually the ones that take the longest if you want me to do a good job as they require finely detailed cropping. If it's a pic I'm personally going to use I'll go all the way down to the 1x1 pixel scale to get perfection so I'll literally spend an hour just cropping out pixels to make sure it looks perfect in game. Even now that "you can do better" bug is in the back of my head telling me to find a better pic of the Emperor to use where I don't have to cut his shoulders off to make him fit into the picture.

Yes scaling down looks good. The most detailed pics are the ones that start big and then scale down. I mean the reverse, don't pick a small image like 400x300 and want a 1920x1080 out of it, that would look horrible and be pixelated. Scaling down good, scaling up from a small source bad. The white still being in the logo was probably a lack of refresh or something. I've noticed these forums being a bit buggy/laggy at showing things updated. The edit fix and repost of the image took me less than 5 minutes from the time I noticed it but who knows how long the forums took to refresh the post, no worries.

I was only kidding about the karma btw..lol.

But yeah find some of your favorite pics for specific backgrounds you want and I can whip those up in minutes. The bigger the image I start with the more detail it'll have when I scale it to 1920x1080 for the background. Which it then compresses a bit smaller to be displayed in game. Depending on your resolution 1920x1080 is what most decent graphics cards set your default desktop resolution to, or a common wallpaper size image. We can get away with a little smaller than that and still look good in game though so it doesn't necessarily have to be that big, just not small. Small to large equals crappy image.

Added some more. Also the background here isn't mine. It's from 00zim00's Starship Troopers pics http://imgur.com/a/3aJyo#0 , but Khorne looks awesome standing on it so I mirrored it on the photobucket. Credit for that background goes to Him though, not me. Also added the Black Legion's logo.

That Khorne took a good while. I did a lot of little small tweaks, put holes in his chains and wings and the heads he's holding. Also I noticed when looking for a background for him I was going to give him a glow, but the glow makes him stand out real bad unless it happens to match the background color image so I'll hold off on a glow until you pick a background, or leave him with no glow so he can go with just about any background. I notice most created factions leaders don't have glows, probably so they can better go with different backgrounds and not seem out of place. He does look sweet standing on 00zim00's Mars looking background though. I'll see if I can't get a Portrait of him up some time tonight too so you can start a full game with him.

True. We just got lucky on the Imperial and Necron's glow. The Emperor's glow looks good with his background, the Necron glow looks good on that greenish-blue background. With Zim's background there Khorne could look cool with a flaming kind of redish-orange glow. Just the thing is if we use glows for the main FG's we have to pretty much pair them with specific backgrounds for them to look cool. On any other background they'd look out of place or shitty. Doing the glow effects on the small portraits work though as there's no specific background tied to them that looks off that I've seen. So unless we find awesome looking paired backgrounds we'll leave the glows off the main FG's and just put them on the matching logos and small portraits.

Note: I looked up the colors for the Black Legion on the wiki there and it said black and gold so their logo got that gold glow to it.

That Khorne portrait will be up some time tonight, I'll add a red fire-ish glow to him for the portrait and I'll try a FG variant and see if I can match it up with that background and it still look good.

Got a question on Abaddon. I've found a couple good pics to work with, problem is he has a shin tone variant or alt. In some pics he has a flesh toned head, and in others a blue skinned head. Both sets look cool as hell, but accuracy counts and I don't know which is accurate to current lore. The blue one might just be a paint variant as the pic I'm thinking of using is a photograph of a painted miniature, but I want his skin tone to be lore accurate so if he isn't actually blue I'll go with the flesh tone image I found.

So blue skin or flesh tone for Abaddon?

Was going to go with one of these:

Or

I've got some good close-ups of the bluer one too, but if flesh is accurate that first one looks pretty awesome.

Here's Khorne's portrait:



Firey glow looks good on the portrait. Loaded up a full faction to make sure it looks good. His leaderFG with this portrait and the background from Zim plus the Khorne logo. All ties together nicely . Haven't tested how the leaderFG will look with a glow on the background yet but I'll check that out before I start Abaddon. I want to see if I can find another pic of that Abaddon model only without the blue skin. Shame it's not the right color because the facial close-ups of that model look awesome.

Np bro, glad you like them.  I do however expect to hear the galaxy howl my name with it's blood gurgled last gasp for life before being extinguished into the abyss forever...mwahaha.

Really though a couple of screen shots from the diplo and information screens and such after you're a good ways into the game would be cool. I always enjoy seeing my work in action. Would be cool to see what types of ships you guys come up with for these as well. I don't know if there are any ship images for them out there but I've seen some Necron ship designs from the various 40K artwork so you might find some designs or pics to go by when making some of them.

Any chance you'll get to Orcs?

Awesome work Ghazef , well done indeed. That looks Awesome .

I'll get to doing some more soon when I can. Been pretty busy dealing with stuff and squeezing in some Arkham Knight the last few days but I'll get to more custom race pics soon. I thought Lord_Proteus did some Orcs already? I can always do my own version or a alternate version. I don't want to take away from his contribution though.