Masomow

July 26, 2023

3 minutes ago, Zexos said:

Katspurr posted this information in reply to someone on the wurm discord about an hour ago about the replacement of images:

Just to be absolutely clear, my only role with the website is creating replacement images and backgrounds for the ones that are there now. I have nothing to do with any structural changes (that would need work from the outside company who originally created the website), nor do I have anything to do with text changes or how sections of the website are shuffled around. I'm just the image gal :). I can't speak for the other changes and improvements being made, but as far as my own work goes, it takes time to 1) create the images 2) Show them to the team and get feedback 3) try out different variations based on that feedback 3) get approval from GCG 4) do the final tweaks and fixes once everyone is happy 5) then do the final hi-res upscaled versions. Even after my work is done, it's handed over to other people to get them put in.

Yeah stuff like this can be surprisingly time consuming. There's so much back and forth, and with a remote team and folks being from various time zones, the feedback and reactions often come at a delay which further slow things down. But it's normal work stuff. Anyhow, I just wanted to make it super clear because having the weight of the entire website on my shoulders is not something I want haha!

Ah sorry, I hadn't seen anything on the forums about it since it was last mentioned a almost month ago, and wasn't aware of the discord. After the interesting launch, I think its normal to be curious about the lack of follow-up, but reading this makes total sense. I'm actually glad to see there's more back and forth going on, quality-control wise. Thanks, appreciate the update.

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I do still wish that before launch, a few of the images in particular had been been swapped out with literally anything else they look so close to being a videogame screenshot, but not this game. Feels false advertise-y. Though I get why GCG wanted it to look nice for their shareholders. 🤷‍♀️

July 26, 2023

So its been almost a month and there hasn't been time to swap out a few images?

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I know there's a bit more to it than that, but not by much. I think it took me longer to create this than it would to swap these out. This whole thing is bizzare, sad to see.

May 7, 2022

Cohne [2814, 2393]

October 27, 2021

So Adobe Photoshop added a new filter to it's AI Neural filters named 'Landscape Mixer' today, which allows you to take an image of a landscape and either mix it with another landscape as well as change the seasons/time of day. I tried playing around with several photos with pretty good results, but that got me thinking... what about Wurm?

This was a bit of a quick proof of concept so a few of the images used are from the screenshots thread for variety (I linked the source posts in their titles). It doesn't work the best for buildings, people, or pretty much any non-landscape object. I thought there were some pretty interesting results though, so here are a few:

Mountain overlooking M21 on Harmony:

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