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Old 07-17-2009, 04:49 PM
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Feel free. I just threw it together after refreshing my memory on a few DOS commands.

If anyone's concerned about how exactly it works, these are the steps:

1. Verifies that it can see Resources\Loadscreens\load*.jpg

2. Makes sure there's a backup of your original Resources\loadscreen.jpg

3. Runs through the list of files in Resources\Loadscreens to randomly pick one to copy as your loadscreen.

4. Starts EQ and waits for it to finish

5. Restores your original loadscreen from the backup in #2

The way it randomly picks a loadscreen is that it deletes your original loadscreen.jpg file (after having backed it up), then runs through all of the load*.jpg files in Resources\Loadscreen and, for each one, picks a random number from 0-32767 ("%Random%"). If the random number for that particular file is less than 1000 (~1/33 odds), it makes it your loadscreen. If it runs through the whole list of files and none of them ended up getting the 1/33 random chance, it runs through them again until one does.

Pretty simplistic, but it gets the job done.
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Old 07-18-2009, 01:00 PM
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Math makes my head hurt and Baby Jesus cry.
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Old 07-20-2009, 11:16 AM
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These are badass, love them. I cannot wait till I get them installed. Want me to host a rar of them for you ? I am pretty sure I have unlimited bandwidth and unlimited storage space on my server account.
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Old 07-20-2009, 01:17 PM
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Sure. Filefront just hosed my login account for some reason, so it would probably be a good idea to get it now since they delete files due to inactivity. I'll let you know when there's a new pack or something so you can update the link whenever possible.

Thanks again.
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Old 07-20-2009, 01:50 PM
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So are you giving me permission to host your files on my server ? Are the pictures copywrite protected at all before I do this ?
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Old 07-20-2009, 06:14 PM
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Yeah sure, go ahead. I already put a readme file with credits and everything you could imagine to make it as "legal for personal usage" it could be.
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Old 07-21-2009, 05:55 PM
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But is that all that is needed ? I am a little worried about the legalities of that. Did you contact said companies and clear it with them. Most people have a cow when you modify there work and then rebrand it.
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