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Title: Avatars
Post by: spamfu on April 10, 2004, 03:22:55 PM
Here's an idea. I don't know if any of the members (aside from one who comes to mind immediately) would want to do this. A suggestion for Avatars might be a Nanny Specific category with perhaps Avatars resembling creatures from Nanny.

I think it'd be a unique addition to the avatar collection here.

Let me know what you think...

/Spamfu :D


Title: Avatars
Post by: sUiko-den on April 10, 2004, 03:58:26 PM
sounds nice.... who gonna make those avatars?


Title: Avatars
Post by: ladychris on April 10, 2004, 03:58:30 PM
Feel free to use any of my pics or part of them as avatars :) I'd simply be greatly honoured if someone choose them  :wink:


Title: Avatars
Post by: sUiko-den on April 10, 2004, 04:01:32 PM
darn you havent drawn a single leper picture yet :(


Title: Avatars
Post by: ladychris on April 10, 2004, 04:07:16 PM
Eeeeep. lepers are rotting, smell badly, are overall unpleasant... why should i draw one? :wink:

Kidding, i have a long list of todo, guess ill put lepers in that list too, although im not sure how will I manage to draw them while wielding arm as a weapon  :P


Title: Avatars
Post by: sUiko-den on April 10, 2004, 04:10:04 PM
one suggestion a parody picture of khorne siting on his throne. instead of the "allmighty" khorne, put kurgan on that throne and have thousands of lepers crawling eager to take that throne from him....... or maybe not :lol:


Title: Avatars
Post by: Dain on April 12, 2004, 12:37:17 PM
I could use for avatar my portrait made by Lady C. It's just the curent one reprezents me ... besides gods gave me the power to take forms or as it's more common said to shape-shift.


Title: Avatars
Post by: Dain on April 14, 2004, 06:43:12 AM
this is not about avatars, but it's connected to suggestions about forum that's why i used this topic.

I'm thinking about educating people somehow about creating new topics.
I mean in the lost and found there was this topic "whatever happened to .."
and people posted and asked about different players. all fine by me. the problem is a few days later i just noticed two more topics on the same idea but they were asking about certain players. now i'm asking myself what's the use of those two new topics when the original one was exactly what they were looking for.


Title: Topics
Post by: Snafu on April 14, 2004, 10:51:48 AM
Well...if need be...i might be able to convince Spamfu to add a section on Topic choosing/picking to the FAQ...but I wonder how many people even really read it ;)

/Spamfu


Title: Avatars
Post by: Dain on April 15, 2004, 01:58:08 AM
or move the 'wrong' topics into the right ones. or in the right section. or make some moderators who should take care of a certain board or more :D


Title: Moderators
Post by: Snafu on April 15, 2004, 11:12:08 AM
Moderators may be a possibility in future...so far, i've only had to split one topic..I may split off the others soon as well...

/Snafu :D


Title: Avatars
Post by: Qwer on April 15, 2004, 02:33:30 PM
Ladychris, your avatar is just great. I like it.
A portrait of a thousand or whatever lepers would be very hard unless you can draw them to have an average of 6.4 pixels each (80 x 80 = 6,400 pixels). That might look very artistic but you couldn't see the lepers on it. Even one would be hard to draw in 80 x 80 ...


Title: Avatars
Post by: ladychris on April 15, 2004, 02:40:21 PM
Hehe, I hope you recognized where it comes from :)
I'm not sure I understand your talking about 1K lepers, but since you are already the 3rd leper mentioning that, i guess I'll have to paint one at least  :wink:  I doubt you will need my artwork though, your avatar looks just great, althout the guy in it doesnt look much as a smelly, rotting leper  :twisted:


Title: Avatars
Post by: Qwer on April 15, 2004, 04:31:03 PM
Actually, no, you just made me curious. Tell me then pls :) here or pm, either way ... I'd like to know.
Someone mentioned some thousands of lepers earlier, nevermind. I was just fooling around with the idea...


Title: Avatars
Post by: poogie on April 15, 2004, 07:32:40 PM
How about outlawing poochies as avatars? Please!?
/P the poochie hater


Title: Avatars
Post by: Snafu on April 15, 2004, 08:10:35 PM
No can do. No. No. No......

If I did, I'd have to ban ALL discussion of LoTR...

And that ain't gonna happen either....

/Snafu :D


Title: Avatars
Post by: Longstrider on May 07, 2004, 07:42:23 AM
Snaffie,

Are there size requirements for the images we might like to use for our avatars?


Title: Avatars
Post by: Snafu on May 07, 2004, 10:25:07 AM
The dimensions should be 80x80 and the size is 6144 bytes. The best avatars to have are jpg format because they are compressed. If you want to get technical...

Here is the reasoning:

A full 80x80 gif with 256 colors (which is 8 bits) is at most 6400 bytes.

A jpg can go 24 bit which means millions of colors. AND since jpg is compressed, you can get same image below 3000 bytes. This will reduce download times for those with less than fast connections (modems).

I want to keep this place bandwidth friendly :)

/Snafu :D


Title: Avatars
Post by: Hewe on September 20, 2004, 05:38:00 AM
I have used one of your pictures for my avatar Loreley, it's really beautiful :D