Creativity Contest!

[GM-Rahice]

Help your server, be creative and win prizes!

• [Rules & Guidelines]
  
  
• Deadline: February, 12th at 10 PM (server time, EST GMT-5)
  
• A player may submit as many entries as they want in any, some or all categories listed below.
  
• 1 participation prize per player regardless of amount of entries submitted, however a player may win more than 1 winning prize (max 3).
  
• Any entries submitted may be used for heRO in the future, regardless if it wins or not.
  
• Please put all your entries in the same post (unless you reach the image limit, in which case put a link to your next post that contains entries), feel free to edit your post(s) until the deadline.
  
• If your image streches the forum, use thumbnail or link instead.
  
• Start your post with [In game character name for rewards: "Name"], put your character name in the quotation marks, exactly as it is spelled in game (case sensitive). You'll collect your participation reward on that character via a NPC.
  
• Do NOT steal someone else's work, if using artwork or other material made by someone else please ask them / credit them in your post.
  
• Keep things PG-13
  
• Must be RO related (avoid images from other games, anime, etc.)
  
• More than 1 player may participate in the creation of an entry, however only 1 person may submit it and collect the participation/reward prize for it, that person is then responsible for prize distribution or any other deal agreed to by the players involved.
  
  
  [Categories]
  
  Banner:
  
• Size: Big Banner (728 x 90) OR Small Banner (468 x 60)
  
• Format: Jpeg (.jpg) OR PNG or GIF
  
• Animated GIF preferred
  
• Must display the server name and rates (5/5/3)
  
• Optional: can display the server logo
  
  Loading Screen:
  
• Size: 1600 x 1200 (preferred) OR 1024 x 768 OR 1280 x 1024
  
• Format: Jpeg (.jpg)
  
• Must display the server logo somewhere on the loading screen, even if very small
  
  Video:
  
• At least 30 Seconds
  
• Host it on Youtube
  
• Showcase 1 or several feature(s) of heRO to promote it to an outside user
  
• Must display the server name and rates (5/5/3)
  
• Have the following tags: "heRO", "Ragnarok", "Ragnarok Online", "heRO RO", "heRO Ragnarok", "Ragnarok Private Server", and "heRO Promo" you can add more if you wish
  
• Format: any that YouTube accepts (.mov, .mpeg, .wmv, .avi)
  
• Video sequence preferred to screenshots and still images
  
  
  Card Drawing:
  
• Monster pictures will be provided upon request
  
• Format: Bitmap (.bmp) or .png
  
• Size: 300 x 400
  • Bombporing
    
  • Quah Nomag
    
  • Besmal
    
  • Harthoon
    
  • Rainbowring
    
  • Santa Girl
    
  • Master Poporing
    
  • Master Marin
    
  • Mane
    
  • Life Drinker
    
  • Soul Eater
    
  • Applering
    
  • Greenapplering
    
  • Nekoring
    
  • Pouring
    
  • Herb Card featuring: Blue Plant, Green Plant, Red Plant, White Plant, Yellow Plant & Shining Plant
    
  • Poring Smash Card featuring: Teddyring, Mooring, Lovering, Cupcakering & Whispering
    
  
  Featured: Bombporing, Cupcakering, Mooring, Whispering, Lovering, Master Poporing, Master Marin, Teddyring, Red Applering, Nekoring (x2 for tail), Rainbowring, & Green Applering
  
  
  Featured: Santa Girl
  
  Headgear Sprite: ????
  
• Must provide the 8 files for your creation which are:
  • Collection (description) picture in Bitmap (.bmp) size 75 x 100
    
  • Item (inventory) picture in Bitmap (.bmp) size 24 x 24
    
  • Drop sprite file (.spr)
    
  • Drop sprite actor file (.act)
    
  • Female sprite file (.spr)
    
  • Female actor file (.act)
    
  • Male sprite file (.spr) can be the same as female
    
  • Male actor file (act) can be the same as male
    
  
  
  
  Note: If you would like to contribute a creation to the server that would not fit in any of the categories listed above, please suggest it in this thread and we may add it.
  
  
  [Rewards]
  
  Prize for participating: For submitting at least 1 worthy* entry a player will be rewarded once with the following:
  
• 1 Haircut Coupon
  
• 1 Event Bag
  
• 1 Crown Hat:
  If the claiming character is female: Crown of Queen (Left)
  If the claiming character is male: Crown of King (Right)
  
  Both hats have the same stats:
  Def 5, +500 HP & Obtain zeny from monsters upon their defeat
  Upper Headgear, Weight 30, Required Level 50, All Jobs
  Refinable, tradable, sellable and each can be equipped by both gender.
  
  Prize for winning entries: Winners will get their participation prize, as well as their choice from the list below, multiple winners can pick the same prize. There will be between 5 and 20 winning entries.
  
  
• Choice 1: 1 Angeling Backpack
  
• Choice 2: 1 Deviling Backpack
  
• Choice 3: 6 OCA, 6 Jewelry Box, 6 Hat Voucher, 6 Wrapped Mask & 6 Event Bag
  
• Choice 4: 25 BG Points, 50 BG Keys, 5 Ghost Scroll & 5 Guild Megaphone
  
• Choice 5: 3 Enriched Oridecon & 2 Enriched Elunium
  
• Choice 6: 10 real home made cookies** by Pandora + regular shipping (North-America recommended)
  
  * To be considered a worthy an entry should look like at least more than 30 minutes was spent on it, we reserve the right to refuse entries deemed too "cheap" (avoid stick figures XD).
  
  ** Choice 6 (the cookies) will only available up to 2 weeks after the contest results have been posted.
  
  There may also be Special Mention prizes if we see a need for it.
  
  
  [Tools]
  
  
• tinypic (to host images for free without resizing, no registration required)
  
• photobucket (to host images for free without resizing, needs registration)
  
• GIMP (for image editing)
  
• Paint.net (for image editing)
  
• Anyone know of a good Video Recorder?
  
• Audacity (for editing sound for your video, if needed)
  
• GRF Factory (to unpack a GRF to find existing sprites)
  
• unbollox (to convert Unicode filenames to ASCII of an extracted GRF)
  
• heRO Logo
  
• actOR2 (to create .act files)
  
• SPR Conview (to convert bmp to spr files and vice versa)
  
• UnBollox (it converts unicode to/from ascii)
  
  
  
  
  [Accepted Entries] (Last updated?Monday, February 11th, 2013):
  
  (Format: "Name" [Link to entry 1] [Link to entry 2] ... )
  
• "Mr. Charcanine" Banner , Banner, Small Version , Shining Plant Card , Herb Group Card , Life Drinker Card , Mane Card
  
• "Nayrin Krieger" Nekoring Card , Cupcakering Card , Rainbowring Card , Light vs Dark Loading Screen(updated)
  
• "Bran Flakes" Santa Girl Card
  
• "Experiment XIII" Bombporing Card ,? Santa Girl Card , Mooring Card
  
• ".Yoko." Fairy Queen Pixie, Loading Screen , Santa Girl Card , Red Applering , Green Applering Card , GM-Rahice Loading Screen , GM-Forge Loading Screen , Intern-Kaenec Loading Screen , Harthoon Card
  
• "Kittie-" Cupcakering Card , Hopping heRO Drops , Hopping heRO Drops Continued , There Is No Such Thing As An Inappropriate Time For Tea Hat! , There Is No Such Thing As An Inappropriate Time For A Tea Kettle To Go With A Tea Cup!
  
• "Disease" Blue Plant Card
  
• "Emerald Weapon"
  Pouring Card , Poring Smash Card
  
• "Kriya"
  Red Applering Card
  
• "Mrs. Charcanine"
  Green Applering Card , Harthoon Card , Quah-Nomag Card
  
• "Lolitica"
  Master Poporing Card
  
• "+Natsume"
  Cupcakering Card , Werewolf Loading Screen , Rainbowring Card
  
• "Tessara"
  heRO Loading Screen
  
• "Aanwal"
  Shining Plant Card
  
• "Rasha"
  Santa Girl Card , Besmal Card
  
• "Chumbly" Red Applering Card , Lovering Card , Whispering Card , Harthoon Card , Santa Girl Card , Soul Eater Card , Teddyring Card version 1 , Teddyring Card version 2 , Rainbowring Card , Master Marin Card
  
• "Beauty's Slave" Poring Loading Screen , Rainbowring Card , Nekoring Card
  
• "ShAvEnZ" Besmal Card
  
• "Marco 720" Red Applering Card
  
• "Danjuro Baisotei" Quah-Nomag Card
  
• "Laroc" Whispering Card , Lovering Card
  
• "~BabyPink~" Nekoring Card
  
• "Not goal" Rainbowring Card
  
• "Lala Satalin Deviluke" Cupcakering Card
  
• "Solry" Fishing Loading Screen
  
• "Valkyrja" Santa Girl Card
  
  
  [Questions]
  Ask and we shall answer!
  
• Is there a chance you could add custom made sprites for the server as a category too?
  Answer: Added!
  
  
• Are we getting new cards?
  Answer: Possibly! I haven't heard a definite Yes or No about it yet. I'll try to keep you updated.
  
  
• Do we need to test the headgear on our own server?
  Answer: You don't have to! You can rename the sprite and move it into your data folder, to see it in game. Only you will see the change by doing this. (Updated)
  
  
• Do Armors count for the Sprite making category?
  Answer: No, they do not. Since it isn't a visible sprite. We're looking for Upper, Mid and Lower headgears that are seen when equipped.
  
  
• What about wings?
  Answer: Yes you can do Wings since they hit the Lower headgear slot as well.
  
  
• Why isn't Pouring on the list?
  Answer: Well, he wasn't! But now he is!
  

[Judges]
Your GM Team!

[Vhaerun]

Well, I'm horrible at drawing but I've got some good card ideas in mind that I might have to create somehow someway!

[Mr. Charcanine]

OMG WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

[MrsCharcanine]

EEEE I'M SO EXCITED~ THIS SOUNDS SO FUN =D

Also, please send me a pic of Santa Girl! \O Thanks!

[demishock]

Does this mean we're getting another slew of custom cards? *really excited to see what the effects will be*

CURSE MY INABILITY TO DRAW! D; Maybe I can figure something else out...

ETA: Can I get pics of the poring-type monsters, please? And can I add them to the wiki? (I know, I'm a brat; sorry guys. >.>; )
Bombporing
Rainbowring??
Master Poporing
Master Marin
Applering
Greenapplering
Teddyring
Mooring
Lovering
Cupcakering
Whispering

[Kittie]

Is there a chance you could add custom made sprites for the server as a category too :D? I got some idea's but it would be nice if i could use them for a contest too.

[Aaronock]

Sounds fun, I think I have the perfect image idea already in mind for a loading screen. :>

[Draco]

This is going to be fun and with so much time I can only imagine how many entries we will be seeing. I want those cookies darn it :<

[GM-Rahice]

Hey guys! Glad to see some responses here.

I know there were a few questions~??
Kittie, Yes!!
Laroc, yours has been addressed.

Laroc - Request for the Custom Porings, I'll start working on it and update as soon as possible. Due to the posting limit of 10 pictures a thread. I'll update the very first post with as many as I can squish in and edit the rest into this one ^_^

**Updated**

Kittie's question answered, still working on the pictures.

[GM-Rahice]

Updates!

Photos of the Custom Porings provided, and we added Nekoring to the list and to the pictures.

Added .SPR and .ACT to the Tools for usage.

New Category! - Headgear Sprite.