Smilies & Forum Graphics

[Buster Crabbe's Uncle]

The effect was mighty subtle on so I saved and opened it - ah. Too many superfluous fames and no (combine). Somebody used one of those automatic smilie-making programs.

I Knocked off a third of the frames, optimized, made the blush more pronounced, and the filesize is now 1/3rd as large.



I think I've done about all there is to with arranging the first category to pack more tightly. Now to nail down the numbering for consistent ordering...

[EPW]

Now you're taking away our frames ?! This is getting out of hand fast.

[Buster Crabbe's Uncle]

Yes.

I am power-mad.








I also undid a secret 400 PCR Illuminatus gave me 11 years ago for nothing I did at Poly.

[Buster Crabbe's Uncle]

I also loaded up and discovered another pig. It had five empty pixels at the top. -That harmed line-spacing for no reason. Two of the five frames didn't do anything. The hand was missing outline on the end, as if an extra pixel of width mattered. -Protip: taking up sideways doesn't.-

All fixed, and the filesize is 541b v. 732b before.


Now, Sava had me animate the smoke on like, seven years ago, and now I update for your viewing pleasure.

-And I'd noticed something off about -it turns out somebody didn't know about (replace) and put a too-large white background on it --- and I'd already fixed it back in 14. -Well, SOMEbody saved it where I keep Poly stuff. Replaced.




-Now to go back to cropping pics of Ming if no random event has triggered when I surface...

[Buster Crabbe's Uncle]

Oh for petes sake. This was looking mighty low on the line, and when I opened it up --- a 60x40 .gif that needed only 57x16. Siiigh. -Otherwise decently animated and now fixed.

[Buster Crabbe's Uncle]

Whoa.
I noticed sure was taking up a lot of vertical space - it was 118x80, reduced to 99x70 by simply cropping empty space. The thing was still a huge land-hog, so I took the time to move the lowest partier and the balloon inward and got it down to 99x59. -Filesize's down by .17kb, too. Now the whole category is onscreen at once when you open the smiles menu.



You're welcome.

[Dale]

WE DEMAND OUR WHITE SPACE BACK!

You are wantonly destroying Poly conventions established over 20 years ago.

See, I knew this would happen. Give him a key, and he trashes the place like he owns it.

[Buster Crabbe's Uncle]

Yes.



-Yes I do.

[Dale]

We need :bruce:

[Buster Crabbe's Uncle]

Sure. With the slouch hat? I got that somewhere - take me longer to find than install.

[Buster Crabbe's Uncle]

[Buster Crabbe's Uncle]

I spent some time this morning working on AC2, my own forum -hard to believe, I know- doing similar arranging the taller smilies at the bottom.

It's different there, 'cause there's a row over the Reply page, and the rest go into a popup, so not as important to organize. The way arranging order in SMF is easier/more efficient than having to number them in the vB admin cp here, and man, I carved about half off the scrolling...

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In other news, I had another go at danceparty.gif, and it's now down to 48 pixels tall. Take that, Dale. Also trimmed seven pixels to 45. Both reasonable now.



Any input about the order of the top row? Any favorites (of the short 15x) you'd like showing by default under the reply box?

[BlackCat]

Why :lol when we have - it looks like a fish gasping after oxygen in some ****ty water

[Buster Crabbe's Uncle]

You are good to **** on my work w/ nothing positive to say about any of the rest.



I looked for a lol and didn't find it then; I'll plonk my effort now, as you're correct that it's inferior.

EDIT: Done. -However, this is not inferior but it is large and not in the (crappy 90s) house style...

[Buster Crabbe's Uncle]

Hmmm. I've got multiple good BE images that might make decent smilies...