Smilies & Forum Graphics

[Buster Crabbe's Uncle]

[Buster Crabbe's Uncle]

[Buster Crabbe's Uncle]

At Astrologix' suggestion this morning, I added Cervantes' head and a Don Quixote shadow to Civilization Cuatro...



And that works whether you recognize them or not. This is probably my best Poly theme yet.

[astrologix]

Wow! Great!

[Buster Crabbe's Uncle]

Oceánico may be done now.

I stare obsessively at these things until I have an idea to try - hard to say when I'm actually done.

[Buster Crabbe's Uncle]

I'm mostly in Oceánico for the second day in a row - it's serene.

[Buster Crabbe's Uncle]

Still in Oceánico - which with less gulls, is more serene.

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Working on this:

[Buster Crabbe's Uncle]

Just felt like tinkering w/ the logo design, no plans for this...

[Buster Crabbe's Uncle]

[Buster Crabbe's Uncle]

Not graphics, but still display - you may have noticed that there were glitchy duplicate subforms here and there, two in Other Games, for example; for another, Apolyton University in Civ IV. They've been there for years. Solver told me they're mystery glitch thingies he'll never find time to track down to fix and not to delete them for fear it'll break the site. Well, I'd put "Glitch - please don't use" for descriptions on all but one I missed in CTP, and a couple days ago, it hit me - why not just set them invisible. After duely consulting Solver that it was safe, I have done so, and Poly looks that little bit less crapulent.

You're welcome.

[Buster Crabbe's Uncle]

-And a confession - you may have noticed the text display got smaller yesterday just before noon, and the top and index got flatter-looking. I set the default theme to Laughing out loud in February, and didn't say anything out of curiosity if anyone would notice. Not many seemed to; a few members promptly switched back to Default Style, and I believe Jon Miller's not liking the new look last page was not a comment on the latest tweaks to España. The only other complaint I've gotten was from Ming, and I am chastened. -And those two complaints is all the mention of the change I'm aware of.

So if you liked the larger type and/or the more dynamic look we had for six weeks, that's Laughing out loud near the bottom of the theme select drop-down bottom-left on every page. Do have a glance at ALL the themes while you're in there. When I've put considerable time into a project, as I did with each theme, I'd [s]like[/s] need to discuss the work - and, while there's no pleasing everyone, I do like to try.

[N35t0r]

I still got the default one, didn't notice any change (and I would have, lol cuts off the bottoms of avatars in mobile view)

[Buster Crabbe's Uncle]

I imagine you'd been in the theme select bottom pull-down previously to my stunt, because of the mobile device display problems you bring up, and then you set it back to Default Style that same way, not "Use forum default" through your profile. Anyone who'd done that was immune to my evil fiddling around...

[N35t0r]

Mwahahahahaha! Immune!

[Buster Crabbe's Uncle]

- 10char

[Buster Crabbe's Uncle]

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[Buster Crabbe's Uncle]

I made a minor change to Ultimate today. I always thought it was hilarious that I put a panda in an Apolyton theme, and nobody said a thing about it. Because of all the Civ images, especially the big Atlas background, it looked great as the default in the Civ6 folder - but I'd originally designed it as an all-Apolyton theme, and the panda and banana, and even dancing Ming, didn't belong in an on-topic theme. -Plus, too much CivII for a 6(ish) theme.

I consulted self biased, who liked the idea of representing the Civ series in general, so I took about half the II out of the breadcrumbs line background image, and added more 6 units and some four. Then I reduced the whole a bit so the second row wasn't cut off.

-I'll miss the panda and Ming (the banana can go to troll hell), but it's more appropriate to the 6 folder now...

[Buster Crabbe's Uncle]

*That was a joke about the banana. I got nothin' 'gainst the 'nana.



Earlier today, I clicked on a what a lurker was browsing at AC2 -I've been parking in Who's Online there between doing anything for over a decade now- and re-read a couple month's worth, in the Let's Make Smilies! thread, of talking a bright 13 year-old through creating smilies/animated .gifs and how he could improve what he'd done. He's the author of the impatient smilie , not me.

-And I wanted to encourage some of that action here. I can point you at some tutorials, and critique/advise your efforts/do tweaks myself if you really want. Lots of fun is to be had animating things -not just tiny cartooning, like smilies, but full-size photographs can have elements animated, even if you can't draw at all- and many a larf -or troll- is to be had that way. I can teach you; I have the technology.

Any takers?