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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">To be picky, it's not a wave....still good though!

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I know you have all heard of a baker's dozen, so what should a serving of 8 avatars be called?

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Cheers!

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Only if you make them into a shipset. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">I do. I'm just goading you. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

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Don't want to seem stupid.. but could you tell if you are working on my avatar.. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon9.gif .. I mentioned I out on my main comunities... but here I can't seem to change it http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon9.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon9.gif

Re: OT: The House of 1001+ Avatars
 

Ok, Nexus here is your new avatar with a red planet in the background...

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http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/newup...1055428790.gif

Cheers! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

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Excelent!! Thanks a lot man...and sorry for bugging you so long!

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David: Could you possibly make an avatar of the Jack from a deck of cards?

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">..Now that is what I call a loaded question,.. (or rather one that has almost infinate possibilities.) Since you didn't specify Hearts, Diamonds, Clubs or Spades I went with with Hearts,.. also I didn't know if you wanted a jack from a traditional deck or something with a different look,.. so I made two just to be safe.

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http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/newup...1055456476.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/newup...1055456488.gif

Cheers! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

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I used a demo Gif Program that I found at http://download.com I think its call Gif Anamator.

30 day trial.

I really like the idea of being able to make gif like movies. To bad more games don't incorp the idea.

Think of it, rotating ship hulls in SEIV, or rotating planets and suns. Oooooooooowwwwwww - components and facilities too.

Re: OT: The House of 1001+ Avatars
 

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Only if you make them into a shipset. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif </font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">I am developing them into a ship set. You should read my New Ships Images Opinion Sought Thread

The problem is, they were originally intended as fighters, now I have to make them into a complete neo standard ship set. THAT is going to be a huge undertainking.

Re: OT: The House of 1001+ Avatars
 

What about pulling the traditional jack out of the card?
And perhaps re-rendering a standard background with the same sort of line art style?

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">..Now that is what I call a loaded question,.. (or rather one that has almost infinate possibilities.) Since you didn't specify Hearts, Diamonds, Clubs or Spades I went with with Hearts,.. also I didn't know if you wanted a jack from a traditional deck or something with a different look,.. so I made two just to be safe.

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http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/newup...1055456476.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/newup...1055456488.gif

Cheers! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif </font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Looks great, thanks!

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Six days gone and 18+ to go,...

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Cheers!

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..Saturday, in the park, you'd think it was the fourth of July,..

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Cheers!

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Ok, I have a question for you people, do you think this new 'posting format' (with the url imbedded in the pic) is better than the old format of my Posts where the url's are separate from the pics?

http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/newup...1055586900.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/newup...1055587163.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/newup...1055587239.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/newup...1055587280.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/newup...1055587315.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/newup...1055587380.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/newup...1055587407.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/newup...1055587453.gif

With this new format all you need to do is right click on an avatar, select 'copy shortcut' then paste it into the 'avatar url link' in your profile. (does this make things simpler?)

Cheers!

P.S. My Avatar Emporium has been updated, enjoy!

[ June 14, 2003, 13:13: Message edited by: David E. Gervais ]

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I like the new url format. Right-clicking and copying the url or even saving the pic is quite easy so i don't see a problem there.

You know you are going to have to buy an extra harddisk at the speed you are making avatars http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

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It's Sunday, all day and here is the next batch of avatars..

http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/newup...1055686537.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/newup...1055686605.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/newup...1055686690.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/newup...1055686742.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/newup...1055686784.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/newup...1055686876.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/newup...1055686917.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/newup...1055686994.gif

Cheers!

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Hey David, Could you find or make spinning planets like the ones in BOTF? Those were cool, and I have tore the program apart trying to find them with no luck.

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I did look for spinning planets a while back, but Earth is the only one I have found so far that looked half decent. If you know of, or find a source for spinning planet anims let me know. I'm not about to manually create spinning planets, or spend time creating and scripting anims in povray just for a few avatar pics.

Cheers! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

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Kwok has made several new planets for the ST mod, and if you was willing, one could get the meshes from him and make some spinning planet gifs.

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Hey David,

I did a search on Google for "animated planets" and found several sites. Here are some of them:

http://www.3d-animated.com/animation/3d/planets/

http://usa.venus.co.uk/weed/agifs/vagapl1.htm

http://bestanimations.com/Earth&Spac...s/Planets.html

http://www.iconbazaar.com/orbs/animated/planets/

The Last one has very smooth, nicley done planets (better than the other 3).

Hope these are usefull http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

Re: OT: The House of 1001+ Avatars
 

Well, there are lots of nice planets at some of the links, but the animated gifs are quite big,..

http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/newup...1055717231.gif

..this one for example is 72k in size, compared to my normal avatars (3k) that's a lot bigger. even the animated avatars I have previously done are usually 20k or less. So I wonder if it's really worth the time and space? (fyi, I did a test removing every second frame in this jupiter anim and it looked a bit jerky and only saved some 11k on the file size.)

Cheers! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

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I hope the SEV uses animated planets and stars. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

They look way cool, and give the game a boost in the eye candy department.

I hope Aaron focuses SEV on improvemnts of SEIV, but also in the area of eye candy. GalCiv really did a good job in this department, and MOO3 has a great 3d galaxy map.

If Aaron were to combine these elements together for SE V, wooow brother what a game that would be. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

Re: OT: The House of 1001+ Avatars
 

for all we know, he could have a 200-gig hard drive.

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On your mark, get set, Go!...

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FYI: I have a 30gig HD and I still have some 13.7gig free. So I guess I'm good for another 25,000 avatars or so. ;-)
Cheers!

Re: OT: The House of 1001+ Avatars
 

This looks like Jabba The Hut

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[ June 16, 2003, 11:50: Message edited by: minipol ]

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">hmmmm,.. really? you think they look alike? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/newup...1055766996.gif

Cheers! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

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Hehe http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif New jabba the hut looks very fine!

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They look slightly alike. But I still think the avatar image looks more like my cousin. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...s/rolleyes.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/shock.gif

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">hmmmm,.. really? you think they look alike? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/newup...1055766996.gif

Cheers! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif </font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Hmm... Jabba after the Atkins diet? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/tongue.gif

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Hey David, here's some more characters from the Star Wars universe :

Jek "I'm all right" Porkins

Watto

Mace Windu

Ratts Tyrell

Ben Quadinaros

Wedge Antilles

Grand Moff Tarkin (and Princess Leia)

Admiral Piett

Captain Needa

Bib Fortuna (jabba's majordomo)

Ponda Baba (bellicose cantina patron)

Edit : I almost forgot these guys here.

Good hunting !!

[ June 17, 2003, 01:49: Message edited by: Chief Engineer Erax ]

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You know Erax, that blue race PCP made would go well with your Avatar. http://www.astmod.com/images/NewRace/NewRace.htm

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Tuesday morning, blah, blah,.. 8 more avatars,.. ho hum,.. (Yaaaaaaawn.)

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Cheers!

P.S. Erax, I grabbed the pics from your links, they'll eventually show up here as avatars.

[ June 17, 2003, 11:26: Message edited by: David E. Gervais ]

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Tuesday morning, blah, blah,.. 8 more avatars,.. ho hum,.. (Yaaaaaaawn.)

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Cheers!

P.S. Erax, I grabbed the pics from your links, they'll eventually show up here as avatars.

This is what a fake double-post looks like.

Re: OT: The House of 1001+ Avatars
 

Here's 8 more avatars to help get you over the little hump that's called Wednesday...

http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/newup...1055929733.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/newup...1055929747.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/newup...1055929759.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/newup...1055929772.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/newup...1055929785.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/newup...1055929803.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/newup...1055929815.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/newup...1055929828.gif

Cheers!

Re: OT: The House of 1001+ Avatars
 

Please reserv this avatar for me:
http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/newup...1055846361.gif

Thanks!

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I notice that most of these avatars are swords and sorcery type pics They look great and all, no doubt of that, but this is a Space Empires thread, yes? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

So, how about some more spaced out requests?

"Deal with it, Pink Boy!"
http://yuchtar.Users4.50megs.com/Tom.jpg

"Good one, Nelson!"
http://www.starshipmodeler.com/other...3k_tmkcrow.jpg

And Gypsy too!
http://www.csnmail.net/~weissfre/gypsy.jpg

EDIT - bad link amputated

[ June 19, 2003, 02:08: Message edited by: General Woundwort ]

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Dave - please read "Trimming my Sails"

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..It's amazing how time flies by when I'm crusing at 8 avatars a day..

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Cheers!

Re: OT: The House of 1001+ Avatars
 

Hey David,

a lot of regular posters on this forum already have an avatar made by you. So wouldn't it be time for you to add that light effect in the left upper corner to your avatar image?
That would make you DAIC (David's Avatar Image Compliant :-))

Re: OT: The House of 1001+ Avatars
 

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Actually this at an 'OT' thread within the Space Empires forum. But I know what you mean,..

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FYI: This latest flood/stream is brought to you by the grace of the alt.binaries.pictures.fantasy-sci-fi So I'm sure that a few sci-fi looking avatars will pop into the mix.

Cheers! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

P.S. what is 'Trimming your Sails'? (A book? If so you got a link?)

Re: OT: The House of 1001+ Avatars
 

And it has a gold border.

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yeah, to clearly mark the difference between a commoner and "his royal avatarness of the avatar emporium" http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif j/k

I like the gold border and David deserves one after the zillions and zillions of usable avatars he has made.

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">hmmmm, I thought I was 'above the law' http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif but I guess you caught me fair and square... (and it only took a few months and about 500 Posts for someone to notice. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/tongue.gif )

Is this better,..

Cheers! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

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hehe. the new avatar looks very neat. cool!

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Friday already, wow the week sure went by fast. Here are todays 8 avatars, enjoy.

http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/newup...1056104619.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/newup...1056104631.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/newup...1056104642.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/newup...1056104654.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/newup...1056104664.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/newup...1056104677.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/newup...1056104689.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/newup...1056104700.gif

Cheers!

Re: OT: The House of 1001+ Avatars
 

...Seven, Eight lay them straight,...

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Cheers!

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David, now tht I am a Lieutenant and all, can I bother you one Last time ? I'd like to have an Imperial-style rank plaque on my avatar.

I have uploaded a rather inept indication of what it might be like. You can see it here.

Edit : I put the whole progression up, but only need the first plaque for now.

[ June 23, 2003, 00:31: Message edited by: Chief Engineer Erax ]

Re: OT: The House of 1001+ Avatars
 

Relax everybody, it's Sunday, we're supposed to take it easy on the 'day of rest'...

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Cheers!