Thursday, February 2, 2017

Still Time To Hack Your Avatar

In The Finals?

First off, congratulations. Second, if you made it into the finals and don't have an avatar, shame, shame on you and your family, lol. Seriously though, if you hurry I'm sure you can still submit an avatar and below is a really cool tip you should implement.

How To Make It Awesome

Only use black, red, blue and transparent colors. Red and blue both being the specific ones used in the game client and black being the color used between matches during the tournament. Furthermore be careful to use solid colors around the edges with no dithering or the effect won't work. In doing so you can get pretty creative and do something like this:



One Image Multiple Uses

As you can see the same image will appear differently on the transition screen between matches and then depending if you are the red player or the blue player. The example above (feel free to use it for your bot) is a sample to show off what is possible but I think it would look a lot better if you got more creative and interlaced the pixels one line at a time or in a checkered board. Here is what interlacing looks like:



With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility

Please don't use my idea to do anything childish. Let's be adults here and do something epic or witty and not something that may get you and your team into trouble.