[DC] Dark Crusade Wallpapers Megathread [107 sigs / 123 avatrs / updates soon I hope]

[Carl]

EDIT: just pulled 50 artworks from one PDF there, that should give you an accurate idea.

I also want to try somthing, might be able to paste em into paint, that would work.

[Hive_Node]

Im a red glow lover, will you update Kharn?

[Carl]

EDIT: It works, i can get em into paint, i should have no problems getting them all together (bar the time) and eithier putting em up on image shack or zipping them all up into one zip archive and loading them up somwhere.

EDIT: will put up a selection of the best artworks (IMHO) now, give me 10 mins to get em all into paint.

[havoc]

I dont want to pull you down now evilkillaruna but you wallpapers began to be dull.

I mean your walpapers are great but....
e...
Let me explain like this:
http://img139.imageshack.us/my.php?i...0x96036zz3.jpg
good wallpaper with black and white smoodges all over the wallpaper and original sample. it fits well.

This one:
http://img128.imageshack.us/my.php?i...0x96085fv3.jpg
Original sample pic with black pole in the corner with pasted DC logo.
Me not likes.

Nevertheless fine job!
Poland has to be good in stuff too you know what I mean...

[Carl]

Linky's to a few of the best from just one PDF file.

http://img208.imageshack.us/my.php?image=i1hm5.jpg

http://img128.imageshack.us/my.php?image=i2fn7.jpg

http://img128.imageshack.us/my.php?image=i3zj8.jpg

http://img128.imageshack.us/my.php?image=i4np0.jpg

http://img208.imageshack.us/my.php?image=i5ir5.jpg

http://img128.imageshack.us/my.php?image=i6kj9.jpg

http://img128.imageshack.us/my.php?image=i7wr0.jpg

http://img128.imageshack.us/my.php?image=i8hk7.jpg

http://img128.imageshack.us/my.php?image=i9hm4.jpg

They are all slightly scaled down even with a full window, and sorry for the amount of white space, they're rather large in the PDF (and look great as a full computer screen width at 200% zoom, so they should scale well upto 1600X1200).

As i said these are just 9 out of 41 from one file and i have around 200 files. Most files have at least 1 pic, and some have 50+. Go figure my workload to sort this lot out.

p.s. i think i'll use a Zip aArchive in furture as that took too long to do to even consider with 300+ images in one go.

[EvilKillaruna]

I dont want to pull you down now evilkillaruna but you wallpapers began to be dull.

But fortunately only in few examples . (I just found for example this Tau commander will be better without grey gradients in corner...)

@Carl:

Those samples are in many examples not suitable for 1600x1200. I hope will be good enough to 1280x960.

_________

I'm thinking about finish series at 100... but the last word should come from your side (together with high res samples - my galleries are almost exceeded) .

[Carl]

Okay, just so long as they are useful to you. Doing a load of others now. Anyone know somwhere free where i could host a zip Archive with all of them in once i'm done?

[wowdow]

Ok, these are getting very good, keep it up.

[EvilKillaruna]

Anyone know somwhere free where i could host a zip Archive with all of them in once i'm done?

Hmmm... I'm thinking about rapidshare...

Im a red glow lover, will you update Kharn?

[Carl]

Hmm, never used it, upto 30 pictures now in paint JPEG format, and still rising.

EDIT: I'll keep the updates on my progress to daily updates except for Important landmarks (i.e. finishing a set of PDF's off) as this is going to take a couple of week for them all at a geuss. Whilst i doubt EvilKillaruna can use em all i don't know what good and what isn't so i have to give him the lot.

So the First Major Landmark is getting the Rulebook PDF files for Inquisitor out of the way. I now need to do the Inquisitor extra rules PDF's. (Wish me luck).

[ChaosWarLord]

Great job evil. Keep up the great work. I actualy agree that you should stop at 100 because that's a nice round number where there enough wallpapers to please everyone without getting redundent. And i'm sure you need a brack by now too

[Shuma]

Great Work Killa, only 4 more Wallpapers, i find awesome what you did with the Necron Lord.

[Carl]

Another Major Milestone, I've finished the Epic PDF's (this is going quicker than i thought). Also some 300 pictures in there.

[闲人tau]

omfg, your...............not use anyt word to say....
i was wondering where do u get those pictures......i mean before u edit it.

[EvilKillaruna]

i was wondering where do u get those pictures......i mean before u edit it.

Mostly on GW official site and from forum members...

As a 100 wallpaper I have something special for you... I mean unorthodox wallpaper showing all armies members. The size is nice.. 2000x1500.
So now the total count is 100 . First page updated.

If I'll find something worth for wallpaper, you should have more than 100 :talk:.

[Shuma]

Awesome, and the necron is on top yay!, awesome wallpapers killa, congratulations on the 101.

[EvilKillaruna]

Thnx.

Ohh... please don't take the last wallpaper as race clasification. The order is random.

[Carl]

Just finished, a total of 480 pictures. 33 MB's when compressed to zip.

[EvilKillaruna]

480? Ummm... I see many future wallpapers here...

Fixed double same wallpapers. HF.

And I want to remind: direct link to this threat is on my signature. So you can jump here at any time.

[Carl]

Not neccissarilly, a lot of pics are saemy, and some arn't very good, i've just included them all for completness (i'll let you judge which are good and bad). Also i think there are more than a few repeats in there, but i'm not sure (i've spent 5 hours going "Left-Click to select, Ctrl+C to copy, Ctrl+N to open a new Paint Document, Ctrl+V to Paste, Ctrl+S to bring save screen up, Double-Click the Samples Folder, Input Numbers string for name, Rinse and repeat". Boring as hell.).

Anyway, you mentioned Rapidshare, how do i use it?

[Imperial Dane]

The one with all the seven races does look good.. but i'll stick to those made by shawn woods..

[ZellFish]

Have you put anywhere in your art that the original work is done by Games Workshop? You may want to, if you havent.. Avoid some legal issues.

[Carl]

Sorted it, it's uploading now, there a really funny pic of a grot riding a one wheeled bike in there too (E48 i belive).

[Shuma]

Looking at the first post is inspiring.

[NFXFSX]

Awesome wallpapers.

\m/ Necrons

[EvilKillaruna]

Have you put anywhere in your art that the original work is done by Games Workshop?

In ALL.
So don't worry.

Anyway, you mentioned Rapidshare, how do i use it?

Well... hard to say because I've never used it before. Probably as same as imageshack.us: go there, choose your file, upload, copy adress and paste here in your post.

I remember you can store file in size up to ~300 MB.

[Shuma]

Maybe you could do some wallpapers with this:

http://www.warseer.com/forums/showpo...2&postcount=26

http://www.warseer.com/forums/showpo...5&postcount=27

The Harlys, new Harlys by the way, you know... Relic based theyr Harlys on GW's New models.

[EvilKillaruna]

Indeed. As same as those in DC...

But for wallpapers... well.. I'm neutral. I can of course use this models but figures from TT are not "real" in terms of proportion. I've had that problem before on one from my first wallpapers: WL + Dread + Defiler (very similar to 1st and 2nd wallpapers on first page). I've had GW drawings with dread and defiler but no for WL. So I used TT model and effect wasn't perfect :/.

[Carl]

http://rapidshare.de/files/34192444/...mples.zip.html

is the linky to Rapidshare.

Evryone take a look at image E48, it's very funny.

[Shuma]

Well, you have used the models to a good extent, Hammerhead and Devilish i think.

[EvilKillaruna]

Thnx Carl
Downloading now.

If there is something about Hammer and Devil, then wallpapers should be a sure thing :talk: :talk:

[Dooks Dizzo]

My god...these are just sick. Very good work.

[Carl]

Ok Evilkillaruna.

@Evryone Else:

If you want a specific one from the list you'd better tell EvilKillaruna to do it as there are far too many there for him to do them all into wallpapers and a lot will only make a good wallpaper for a few people TBH. (allthough there is some excellent Wallpaper ones in there IMHO).

A list of good ones for Wallpapers IMHO: B1, B33 (a rare artwork of a Demurig Ship, bassicly they are the Squat remenants), B34, B39, B40, B71, B116, B118, B120, B121 (Planet Killier shots, they're of models, but of sufficent quality to warrent inclusion IMHO), B122, B130 (Nids), B132, B142, B144 (the only artwork of Dark Eldar ships that i know of), B145 (Nids), B152, B154 (planet killier again), B155, B156, B158, B159, B160, B161, B162, B163, B164, B170, B171, B172 (better quality version of an earlier pic listed BTW), B176, B177, B178, B179 (these last 4 are a single ship, the Divine Right, and her bridge crew), B181, B204 (sorry for the out of scale with the previous ship images, they had to be edited as they copyed across as stretched for some odd reason), B227, B228, B229, B235, B245, B246, B248, B243,
B254, B259, B261, B265 (Manta Pic), B268 (another Demurig), B275, B276 (Necron Tomb World), B280, B281 (Zonathorpe), B285 (one of 2 Pics of a craftworld), B291, E1, E2, E12, E13, E14, E15, E30, E31, E33, E34, E37, E39 (SL HWP in there), E40, E41, E43, E45, E48 (idea for Grabnutz'z Grotfest Mod Perhaps), E50, E62, E63, E75, E77, E78, E79, E80, E82, E83, E84, E85, E87, E88, E89, E90, E91 (VERY rare artwork of a Wraithguard), E93, E94, E96, E101, E102, E103 (only artwork of an Eldar titan i've ever seen), E104, E105, E106 (only artwork of a Deathwind Battery), I1, I2, I3, I4, I5, I6, I7, I8, I10, I11, I12, I13, I14, I15, I16, I17, I18, I19, I20, I21, I22 (Inquisitor Tyrus), I23 (Inquisitor Eisenhorn), I24 (Inquisitor Covenant), I25, I29, I36, I37, I38, I45, I68, I70, I71, I72, I75, I76, I79, I80, I81, I82, I84, I87, I88, I89, I92, I93, I95, and I96

B189 is the Sedito Optimare for those who love/hate this ship

B207 is a GK Strike Cruiser.

B252 is an Ork Space Hulk.

Also many of the ship side on's could be collaged together to create a few wallpapers.

Finnially, in some of the I numbers i've cropped the background images to foucus on the main character, if you want any without uncroped backgrounds let me know.

EDIT: also this is a great recource for mod teams needing model pics to do models/concept art from.

I could get about as many again from my fantasy related PDF's and Nercromunda PDF's

http://img59.imageshack.us/my.php?image=e48dc8.jpg


Linky to an imageshack upload of the Grot Biker.

Gonna go add this to the humour thread and he Grotfest Thread in Adeptus Mechanicus.

[EvilKillaruna]

I have a question to you guys.. what about copyrights? Can I have any "problems" due to using images from games-workshop.com? Everything is fine when I've put notifications (into wallpapers too) that all graphics are from games workshop?

[Carl]

I belive your okay, the IP can ceartinly be interpreted that way, It is GW property but as long as you don't hard link to anything (whatever hard liniking means) then your within your rights to use it if you credit GW with it.

P.S was what i sent you any good or haven't you had chance to look?

[Imperial Dane]

Well if GW doesn't like it. they'll let you know. So take it easy..

[BlackenedSky]

I have a question to you guys.. what about copyrights? Can I have any "problems" due to using images from games-workshop.com? Everything is fine when I've put notifications (into wallpapers too) that all graphics are from games workshop?

Well, technically Carl, everything is not alright. Just because you have credited GW as the source of the image does not give you the legal right to copy an image in which GW presumably owns copyright in. Even if you haven't used the entire image, you've presumably taken the figure depicted in the image, which is a substantial part of GW's copyright and you're still in a bit of trouble.

In short, you are unfortunately on shaky legal ground (hate to rain on your parade:sadpanda:...) I'm not going to write an essay on copyright here, but if you want to know a bit more, PM me, although by necessity, what I know about copyright law is limited to Australian (and by extension English) law, and not US law, which if the images came off games-workshop.com, is likely to be law that applies.

[Shuma]

The Worst thing they could do is tell you to burn the Wallpapers, and then spit on the ashes, nothing bad.

[ChaosWarLord]

or sue you, take your computer, and never let you buy DC...I'm sure it can get worse, it can always get worse. But nutz to them ahh we love GW and they love use...they better, we buy their stuff

[ChaosReigns]

!!!!!!!!!WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! those are incredible! "downloads wallpaper"

[Hasty Ambush]

These wallpapers are truly impressive, I like how you portray all the races in such a "gothic" light, it's very 40k, very cool. Now all you need is some more orks, a squiggy or some grots perhaps.....

lol, but in all seriousness, good freak'n job, I've got the big mek one as my background right now XD

KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK!!!

[EvilKillaruna]

P.S was what i sent you any good or haven't you had chance to look?

I've seen some of them and mainly they are good enough for wallpapers .

But going back to copyrights... Is there any member of GW on forum that I'll be able sent PM to him? Or maybe there is an e-mail to GW?

I believe this shouldn't be problem because whole thread and wallpapers are with notifications and all wallpapers was made with purpose: "for fun".

I wonder what the moderators think about it...

If there will be any problems anyway, I'll have to take down all wallpapers . Nevertheless it was a great pleasure and fun guys.

[Seo]

See if this web page helps Evil.

http://uk.games-workshop.com/legal/copyrights/

off topic discussion

I'm reading through it now

Added:
Found this, looks like a promising source of info

This document sets out our policy towards unauthorized and unlicensed use of our copyright imagery and trade marks by fans of our games as part of their hobby, rather than commercial gain...
Quoted from http://uk.games-workshop.com/legal/ip/1/

[EvilKillaruna]

I'm on us.games-workshop.com and probably (my English is weak like grot sometimes -,-) I can see problems here. I'll try to ask them personally: Legal@games-workshop.co.uk if nessesary. Jeeeezzz... few wallpapers and tons of doubts .

Could you give me clear point of view on legality of this wallpapers Molecule? :talk:
Thnx in advance.

[Eji1700]

Beautiful job man. Very nicely done.

[EvilKillaruna]

Themes

While we are likely to be happy for you to create your own desktop themes based upon our IP, please do not use our trademarks in those themes. In other words, do not use our logos and symbols, but please do draw your own version of a Wood Elf or Tyranid.

Hmmm.... does it mean I can't use their graphics on wallpapers? :disagree:

[Seo]

Could you give me clear point of view on legality of this wallpapers Molecule?
Quoted from Evilkillaruna

I'll certainly try, but I recommend that if you do want a clear and correct view on legality its best to contact a GW representive. I'll send you a PM if I find something.

[EvilKillaruna]

Ok. The proper question was sent to GW. I wonder when they send me and what will be their answer...

And I think the best solution will be to remove almost all wallpapers based on GW graphics - for sure. The process of sending them a question is also too difficult. :hdown:

BUT

This thread will be continued soon. Next time I'll try to use in-game graphics (just like those posted by Compeador) and focus more on effects... My DoW is working on 1024x768 so samples will be huge .

I hope you were enjoyed a lot as same as me.

Thnx for Molecule for help in understanding their policy and all warm (and cold too) posts. I'll try to learn all your suggestions and feedbacks and use them to make better and better wallpapers for the community.

Please understand me and be ready for new artworks. This time - my own. :yippee:

THEMES

While we are likely to be happy for you to create your own desktop themes based upon our IP, please do not use our trademarks in those themes. In other words, do not use our logos and symbols, but please do draw your own version of a Wood Elf or Tyranid.

***

So, If you are using or want to use our intellectual property and you do not have a written license with us, you must not:

• Use Games Workshop?s intellectual property in relation to any commercial activity ? this includes, for example, paying a printer to print some flyers for you, obtaining sponsorship, or selling non-Games Workshop materials using our trademarks.
• Make any direct copies and/or scans of Games Workshop publications, images, or other materials. This includes any Out-o- Production materials, web site materials, and White Dwarf articles. We would however suggest that you produce your own materials (as long as you follow the other requirements of this policy).
• Use our trademarks in respect of your domain name.
• Use our intellectual property in relation to any third party products or third party intellectual property.
• Alter our trademarks in any way.
• Use any of our IP without appropriately crediting the IP and using the appropriate disclaimers in accordance with this policy (see below).
• Create, distribute, or use any material that is not consistent with the functionality, atmosphere, and parameters of the Warhammer universe as created and owned by Games Workshop
• State that anything that you create using Games Workshop?s intellectual property is "official."
• Create, distribute, or use any material that is derogatory, obscene, or offensive.
• Create, distribute, or use any material that devalues any Games Workshop product in any way.

from http://uk.games-workshop.com/legal/...ant/1/#examples

[Seo]

(Confused)
Have you sent GW an email?

[EvilKillaruna]

Yes.

I hope you have all removed wallpapers on your HDDs already.

To remove all tears I'll sit again behind my comp and try to exchange units from last wallpaper with those from DoW directly...