According to a thread on Reddit, Star Wars: The Old Republic players have the ability to create their own load screens using layered images of their characters or whatever they wish. The thread comes packed with ideas and even a Photoshop template to use.

Check it out on Reddit and then post a picture of your new load screen image for us!

Via PCGamer.com

I don't really get the whole Bronies thing, but making your own loading screen is pretty cool. I'm not sure what I'd put in there...I'd like it to pick from a random selection of images.

From what I understand, you can put darned near anything in there as witnessed by the image that the Reddit thread creator put in. :)

It's a shame you can't put video into the load screens, because zones take so long to load, you could watch Episodes 4, 5 and 6 while waiting for Alderaan.

You need a faster machine if you see long load times. Or maybe defrag that drive or something.

I see *maybe* 15-20 second load times in *any* zone I've been to. Wheter it's a new visit or not.

Originally posted by SunwolfNC

You need a faster machine if you see long load times. Or maybe defrag that drive or something.

I see *maybe* 15-20 second load times in *any* zone I've been to. Wheter it's a new visit or not.

Drive defragged, and it's not just me. Maybe you have a beast of a machine.

I'm running: 3.0ghz athlon II quadcore, 8 gigs of ram, 5870 ATI card

While my PC may not be a beast, it should be more than adequate to load this game in a normal timeframe. Maybe the hero engine does play well with AMD/ATI. who knows.

These are hilarious: lol & lol.

Originally posted by remyburke

It's a shame you can't put video into the load screens, because zones take so long to load, you could watch Episodes 4, 5 and 6 while waiting for Alderaan.

Alas, true. :(

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Originally posted by remyburke

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Originally posted by SunwolfNC You need a faster machine if you see long load times. Or maybe defrag that drive or something. I see *maybe* 15-20 second load times in *any* zone I've been to. Wheter it's a new visit or not.

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Drive defragged, and it's not just me. Maybe you have a beast of a machine. I'm running: 3.0ghz athlon II quadcore, 8 gigs of ram, 5870 ATI card While my PC may not be a beast, it should be more than adequate to load this game in a normal timeframe. Maybe the hero engine does play well with AMD/ATI. who knows.  

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Looking forward to a Slave Leia load screen....

Cool capability.

You know what's better than having a loading screen you like?  Having a loading screen that doesn't have to stay on your screen for very long.

15-20 seconds?  Egad.  Loading an entire game from the desktop usually doesn't take me that long.  And that's 15-20 seconds just to zone within a game that was already loaded and running?  Ouch.

Originally posted by SBFord

From what I understand, you can put darned near anything in there as witnessed by the image that the Reddit thread creator put in. :)

Yes, you can...just not necessarily legally.  Wonder if Hasbro's (or Infogame's) lawyers interested in having a chat with the creator of the example screenshot?

Yes, load times are horrible, no other newer mmo I have played has come close to being as slow.

I am sure a SSD is faster....Just as the developer should have faster and better software/hardware too...Tools to optimize and make this better....Not go backwards....I don't have to zone a ton, but they did a piss poor job of optimizing it imo...I have 8gb of memory, an i7 processor, and yes a HD, not SSD...So I am sure most people have long load screens...

well if you're going to be staring at them a lot I guess this is a good idea.

For all the Oh, My Goddess-Fans out there. :)

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300mill & this is the shit they deliver!? lol they need to look the bugs & crappy space rail

shooter instead of making gay fairy screensavers 

how about NO loading screen. That sounds a better feature.

what a joke

Originally posted by Xthos

Yes, load times are horrible, no other newer mmo I have played has come close to being as slow.

I am sure a SSD is faster....Just as the developer should have faster and better software/hardware too...Tools to optimize and make this better....Not go backwards....I don't have to zone a ton, but they did a piss poor job of optimizing it imo...I have 8gb of memory, an i7 processor, and yes a HD, not SSD...So I am sure most people have long load screens...

I wonder what percent of computers have ssd?  I am guessing not a lot.  This game was developed for the mainstream not for 0.5 to 1 percent.  

Originally posted by ukforze

300mill & this is the shit they deliver!? lol they need to look the bugs & crappy space rail

shooter instead of making gay fairy screensavers 

 

Yeaaaahhhh, they spent millions of $$ and thousands of hours on this...