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Founded in 2010 by Phantom, Remains of the Republic has its roots in Star Wars Battlefront II (2005) for the PS2, becoming one of its most successful Europe-based clans.

In 2015-2016, we were active on the new Star Wars Battlefront (2015) game. Though just a group of friends playing for fun occasionally, we still managed to win the EU Cup in a tournament.

Every now and then we fire up our old PS2's to play SWBF2 again, all remaining players from the EU joining forces to play in friendly tournaments along with players from the United States, where there's a larger remaining user base.

These days, RoR mainly functions as a homebase where old and new players meet up to stay in touch and play Battlefront as well as other games.

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Topic Started: Jun 26 2013, 02:50 PM (254 Views)
David
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I'm a partner on YouTube, which means I can upload custom thumbnails for my videos, to make it all neat and pretty. Unfortunately, graphics are not my strong point, so I thought maybe I'd upload some stuff I've tried and you could comment on those and maybe suggest something, or even make your own idea if you really want :P I think the size is 1280 x 720

First thing I tried was this.
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YouTube thumbnails are mostly quite small when you see them (like this Posted Image), so this one would be the most obvious to someone as to what the video was. But it's also really plain and boring, and I suck at rendering images so cutting out the white from the logo was hard for me, so having a white background was the easiest thing to do. However, when the clans have really long names, it looks really rubbish:
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I thought about taking action shots from that specific video and doing something with them, but lots of my old videos aren't HD quality so the screenies don't look great. Though, like I said the thumbnails are usually quite small, so you wouldn't really be able to see the pixelation. But even then, I don't know what to do with the picture. If I stick a big swbf2 logo over it, you can't see the picture anyway.
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The idea I like the most is this one. Basically just taking a random swbf2 image and then doing a gradient over it with some details on the side. Dunno if the writing is actually readable when it's small though. Though, maybe I don't need to put the clan match names in as they're in the title, maybe just a number? Idk.
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Here's another image I could use with that idea for an example:
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Also the SWBF2 logo is really annoying to work with, it's a funny shape and yeah, so maybe I could use this new one
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Alternatively, I could just leave them as they are, sometimes they look good.

Any thoughts are welcomed!
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Michael

i like all of them :3 xD
RoR Members from 2010 special thanks: Phantom, Phoenix, TricK, Benji, Jennifer, Celine, Ninos, Chosen and Sora
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Yoda
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I think you should avoid making graphics.
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Alex

Someone please help him make GFX and put him out of his misery.
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