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Site Management => Site Support / Feedback => Topic started by: achtung on April 06, 2007, 09:44:26 pm
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Just noticed you guys got em fixed, good job.
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Danke. :) They've been a long time in coming. I just wish I could figure out how to link each avatar to the respective project page.
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They look neat :yes: . I wish I was part of a project so I could have one.
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There's one solution to that. :D
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They're not clickable though. They used to be clickable.
:p
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Well I am a part of a project and I don't have one
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They're not clickable though. They used to be clickable.
:p
They have never been clickable in SMF. They were on vB because that was some sort of hack Styxx coded up and integrated with the HLP mainpage.
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Making them links to each project is on my list of things to consider hacking in. :p
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How do you get one o' them avatars? :D
JGZinv and myself work on the Fringespace (http://fringespace.org/images/fs_avatar.png) (http://fringespace.org) mod :D
Not that I made that avatar image for any specific reason :D
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Only projects hosted on HLP get avatars.
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As well as links, it would be beneficial if there was a mouseover popup that said the name of the project. Just setting an ALT text for each image should take care of that.
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lol.
So much for the benefits of your own webspace :P
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I just wish I could figure out how to link each avatar to the respective project page.
If you send me the PHP code you used, I might be able to figure that out.
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Two questions:
1) Who would I need to ask to have badges given to my staff?
2) Are these badges intended to show that you've worked on a project at some point in time, or are an active staff member?
I think it would useful to somehow denote current from retired staff, even if it just means having to make another badge for retired, although some other one-badge solution would be nicer, I just can't think of one right now.
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Those who have access to a project's private board(s), are in the project's membergroup and thus automatically have their project avatar. There are no groups for ex-staff and thus no avatars either because membergroups are solely created on purpose of giving someone access somewhere.
Whether you want to have ex-staff to keep their access to your private boards and thus also their avatar, is up to the project leaders. If you have people you would like to add/remove to/from your project's membergroup, you can ask admins in the Hosted Support board.
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Thanks a ton for the quick reply. I'll have to look into that.
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Can someone please inform me of the restrictions on the avatars? Currently the SWC one is a 256 color gif file, can it be a true color image in some other file type, as long as it's the right resolution? Is there a file size limit? Thanks a bunch. I'd like to clean ours up a little or make a new one entirely that looks as nice as some of the other projects' badges.
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Feel free to make a new one. It can be GIF, JPG, or PNG, of any number of colors. Keep the dimensions the same (25x25), and don't worry too much about the filesize - you're not gonna get much more than a 2-3kb image in that resolution even if you tried.
I'd recommend making sure that any new design you go with is visually Star Wars-y, however. :)
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Well I was just thinking about cleaning that one up but it would need to be higher colors to really notice, and making it less pink. I'll see what I can pull though.
I actually managed to make it look a bit better so far and still keeping it a gif at 256 colors. I think it's an improvement anyway.
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Does the Campaign Restauration Project have a Logo?!?
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No, as it's public.
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Not sure if this helps any, but IIRC black takes the most size, right? Anyway:
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I don't know about gif and png, but with jpg, it has to do with transitions in colors I believe, since it's based on the mpg frame format. So the more different color areas, the bigger the photo you would have I believe.
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Not sure if this helps any, but IIRC black takes the most size, right? Anyway:
No, it's compressed data.
For GIF the compression is runline, meaning that if you have a vertical gradient (where the colors change from top to bottom), the compression would be excellent, since each horizontal line would be the same color value. Take that same gradient and rotate it 90 degrees, to where the gradient runs from side to side, and the filesize will increase noticeably.
JPG compression is lossy (doesn't retain the original image information) is based on blocks of 8x8 pixels, where it divides the image up into 8x8 blocks, and - depending on the level of compression - begins to omit smaller details in that block.
PNG I'm not so sure about, but 8-bit PNG's have limited color tables (up to 256 colors, like GIF), while 24-bit PNGs have full-color (8-bit for each of red, green, and blue) plus 8 bits of alpha transparency.
So the largest GIF would probably be one where there are no repeated colors in any individual line. The largest JPG would probably be one where the quality level (inverse of compression) was set to 100, and the image was pixel-sized static. The largest PNG is anybody's guess. :p
EDIT: Here's some of the largest images I can come up with without going overboard in trying. :p
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You know, what I find a bit surprising, is that while the solid black ones went from .png to .gif in size, the colorful ones were the other way around. Interesting to know, I'll have to keep that in mind.
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Interesting. Thx, SandwichTM :D
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Granted, that JPG is at maximum quality (100, as opposed to typical web quality compression for photos at around 60 or so). And the PNG does have an alpha channel in addition to everything else. :)
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can i request a "project avatar" representing "ultra n00b"?
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You can request. It won't get you anywhere, but you can request. :)
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Can I request that INFA get a new badge? A GREEN ONE!! OMG!
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INFA? Is that a cute cuddly nickname for Inferno?
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No, it's the Informatica Corporation. :P
Really, it's Inferno Alliance.
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Is there a difference between Inferno and Inferno Alliance? Same project, right? If that's the case, and the Inferno team / project head wants a new badge, he can request one.
...and if you're the project head, I'm going to feel very ignorant and out of touch and crawl away into a hole somewhere for a very very long time. :nervous:
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Take a look at hosted support board, there is already a topic about INFA badge.
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Indeed, thanks Fury. Continue this subject here: http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php/topic,46469.0.html
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Gah!
Now that there's these shiny new avatars, I might have to get around to starting up that FreeSpace Installation Coalition (http://www.fsoinstaller.com/images/fic.gif) or whatever.
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:wtf:
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:yes: Sounds like a plan... so, who'd be on it, Turey, hip63, ShivanSpS... anyone else that I'm not thinking of?
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:yes: Sounds like a plan... so, who'd be on it, Turey, hip63, ShivanSpS... anyone else that I'm not thinking of?
How about yourself, you seem to be head of promotions already! ;7 :yes:
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Hmm, I dunno... that's an idea.. I'm sure there are other people promoting stuff, though... we could certainly form a group, I guess. *shrugs* I'll wait for input on this one. What you guys think?
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The whole group seems rather pointless.
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Can I get my own?
I?m part of a project...not hosted, but still ....:D
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Hosted project avatars. ;)
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Would it work if you just gave them all very tiny avatars?
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It's not necessary...
(http://www.digitalhawk.supereva.it/cow/fma_fia4.gif)
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For those who don't speak Italian, here is the translation of what is said:
-I'm a big spammer!
-I'm very lol!
-Big spammer, 12 o'clock!
-Die spammer!
-F**k you!
FMA - FIA
World Federation against FIA (I don't know what it is...)
Spammers will NEVER die.
Of course, now it's up to you administrators to ban Mobius :p (joke, obviously)
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-I'm a big spammer!
Wrong. It means "I spam" :P
-I'm very lol!
Wrong. It means "I'm lol"...it's intended as a name I think. :P
-F**k you!
Wrong. It means F**k off.... and it's in some kind of dialect. :P
:P
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Speaking of spam, is there any reason to leave this thread open?
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Ehhhhhhhmmm... No, not really.
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Then in that case, I'll leave it open for future postings that might be relevant on the condition that y'all shut the hell up. :)
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this may be revelent then, if your still killing yourself over the whole linking issue, try flash, that is, if the board will accept it
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Hmm... worth looking into. Thanks! :)