SRB2 gets advertised!
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Bigboi
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logokas said:
But ten times zero is still zero. XD
Omega the Hedgehog
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That's true. If my PNG wasn't around 20kb (The JPG was around 4, but again, JPGS are bad for your rep) I'd have a different avatar by now :?
SSNTails
What part of 'RETIRED' don't you understand?
Omega, try reducing your avatar to 8bit color and then saving as a PNG. You'll see a big drop in size.
8bit color allows a max of 256 different colors, but 9360 is the max number of different colors you can have in a 65x144 image, and since most of your image is a solid color, I highly doubt you're exceeding the 256 limit.
8bit color allows a max of 256 different colors, but 9360 is the max number of different colors you can have in a 65x144 image, and since most of your image is a solid color, I highly doubt you're exceeding the 256 limit.
My avatar is a GIF. But, it's still only 3,329 bytes big, with 32 colors, thanks to The Mighty GIMP. I mean, when you can get by with GIF, who need PNG compression? I'd *guess* that more browsers support GIF then PNG, so that's why I chose GIF.
*coughcoughinternetcoughexplorercoughcough*
*coughcoughinternetcoughexplorercoughcough*
You may get props for a 76 KB avatar in art circles, but in the "common sense" circle, you fail with such an insanely big avatar. JPEG isn't as bad as many people say it is if you aren't using text, and PNG can be lowered in filesize easily.
Personally, I think a slightly less than perfect avatar at 5 KB is much cooler than anything at 40 KB. Remember that people DO surf forums on dialup modems, and it's just common courtesy to keep the filesize of your avatar down.
Personally, I think a slightly less than perfect avatar at 5 KB is much cooler than anything at 40 KB. Remember that people DO surf forums on dialup modems, and it's just common courtesy to keep the filesize of your avatar down.
SSNTails
What part of 'RETIRED' don't you understand?
hotdog003 said:
IE supports PNG just fine, as long as you use transparency, and not ALPHA/TRANSLUCENCY. Note how most of the msgboard graphics here have a transparent background, are PNG, yet display fine in IE.
Not to mention, unless you need it, using alpha also eats more bytes.
The avatar rules are the easiest things on the forum to enforce, so I assure you they are. Anyone who had a bigger avatar probably had it removed. I've got a list showing every person who took the one week avatar loss and the few people who lost it permanently. I can't help it if you didn't read the rules and broke them. I can give you the list of rules, but I certainly can't force you to read and obey them. That's your own darn fault.logokas said:
From the rules:
I don't know how much more clear it has to be.Rules said:
Mystic is a bit strict on avatars. I recall having my privileges removed for being about 6 square pixels over (and it wasn't even intentional). But the sheer size these things are ridiculous, doesn't anyone read rules anymore?
And as for the topic at hand, if I recall correctly SRB2 was to have an article in some magazine devoted to it before the magazine itself ... uh, stopped. Whatever it's called when they don't make more issues.
The odds of noticing "crappy" compression in a 144x144 pixel JPG are so low, you can afford to use it. I wouldn't care even if I DID notice. And I find it ridiculous that you think a "gfx person" needs to watch out for his reputation on the internets. To be blunt, I've never even heard of you. It's not like you're the coolest kid in school and you got caught in the comic book store looking at D&D stuff.logokas said:
And as for the topic at hand, if I recall correctly SRB2 was to have an article in some magazine devoted to it before the magazine itself ... uh, stopped. Whatever it's called when they don't make more issues.
logokas
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Finally some information. Thanks.
And it's true, i'm not too well known, only at my own communities like Mobius-X and a little at DA. But i do a good job, none the less.
As for the freakin' avatar, i'm not used to boards where it doesn't rezise the avatar by itself ( been on proboards and invision ) so yeh, sorry for the inconvinience, when i get my controls back, i'll try not to abuse it anymore.
And it's true, i'm not too well known, only at my own communities like Mobius-X and a little at DA. But i do a good job, none the less.
As for the freakin' avatar, i'm not used to boards where it doesn't rezise the avatar by itself ( been on proboards and invision ) so yeh, sorry for the inconvinience, when i get my controls back, i'll try not to abuse it anymore.
Those automatic image resizers don't actually change the filesize, generally, so the people on dialup will still have to load the full image. It's generally better to simply resize it yourself, because that way you'll have it look the way you want it to look, and it'll be a much smaller filesize as well.logokas said:
You mean this?Tets said:
http://www.srb2.org/gamego.png
EDIT: Rather than posting the image, I linked to it. I looked like an ass posting such a large image in a topic while everyone is discussing the image sizes and stuff... ^^;
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