As you might know I created many custom login screen themes for the game. Now I did found out that the six 24-bit tga graphics do get stitched and converted into a single 16-bit (or lower) graphic when the login screen does appear after starting the game. As an example that does mean that 88,000 colors do get reduced to 17,000 colors. On many themes that is hardly visible but on those with many and smooth colors (like skin) it is a big difference which I will show you here. Take a look at the eyes (color), face, hair, necklace (color) and bra. Everything did get speckled and the color saturation/resolution reduced. To the left is the original 24-bit tga graphic that I made and to the right a 24-bit png screenshot from the login screen in action at the window mode. Both are lossless file formats. Zoom factor is 800%. Click on the picture to enlarge ! Those are the six 24-bit graphic files that do get used to create a login screen. EQLS_background_01.tga EQLS_background_02.tga EQLS_background_03.tga EQLS_background_04.tga EQLS_background_05.tga EQLS_background_06.tga
