Nice Country Flags

[Ben Kenobi]

I see I have some cropping to fix too. Hmm. Anyways, there's a sample of some of the new ones, plus the UK fix. I think the UK flag is the hardest one to make.

[Martin Gühmann]

Looks like you cropped the Cuban flag a little bit too much. Also the lower corners of the images should be transparent.

The files should be named like the country name in the database, the strings that appear in the userprofile are the file names without the extension. The extension is .gif. Note that Linux has a case sensitive file system. So the casing matters. And here is the full list with the exact spacing and casing:

Abu Dhabi
Afghanistan
Ajman
Aland Islands
Albania
Alderney
Algeria
American Samoa
Andorra
Angola
Anguilla
Antarctica
Antigua and Barbuda
Antigua
Argentina
Armenia
Aruba
Australia
Australia-Aboriginal
Austria
Azerbaijan
Azores
Bahamas
Bahrain
Balearic Islands
Bangladesh
Barbados
Belarus
Belgium
Belize
Benin
Bermuda
Bhutan
Bolivia
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Botswana
Bouvet Island
Brazil
British Antarctic Territory
British Indian Ocean Territory
British Virgin Islands
Brunei
Bulgaria
Burkina Faso
Burundi
Cambodia
Cameroon
Canada
Canary Islands
Cape Verde
Cayman Islands
Central African Republic
Chad
Chile
China
Christmas Island
Cocos Islands
Colombia
Comoros
Congo-Brazzaville
Congo-Kinshasa
Cook Islands
Coral Sea Islands
Costa Rica
Cote dIvoire
Croatia
Cuba
Curacao
Cyprus
Czechoslovakia
Czech Republic
Denmark
Djibouti
Dominica
Dominican Republic
Dubai
East Timor
Ecuador
Egypt
El Salvador
England
Equatorial Guinea
Eritrea
Estonia
Ethiopia
Europe
Falkland Islands
Faroe Islands
Fiji
Finland
France
French Guiana
French Guiana Independentist
French Polynesia
French Southern and Antarctic Lands
Fujairah
Gabon
Gambia
Georgia
Germany
Ghana
Gibraltar
Great Britain
Greece
Greenland
Grenada
Guadeloupe
Guam
Guatemala
Guernsey
Guinea
Guinea-Bissau
Guyana
Haiti
Heard and McDonald Islands
Honduras
Hong Kong
Hungary
Iceland
India
Indonesia
Iran
Iraq
Ireland
Isle of Man
Israel
Italy
Jamaica
Japan
Jersey
Jordan
Kazakhstan
Kenya
Kiribati
Kuwait
Kyrgyzstan
Laos
Latvia
Lebanon
Lesotho
Liberia
Libya
Liechtenstein
Lithuania
Lord Howe Island
Luxembourg
Macao
Macedonia
Madagascar
Madeira
Malawi
Malaysia
Maldives
Mali
Malta
Marshall Islands
Martinique
Mauritania
Mauritius
Mayotte
Mexico
Micronesia
Midway Islands
Moldova
Monaco
Mongolia
Montenegro
Montserrat
Morocco
Mozambique
Myanmar
Namibia
Nauru
Nepal
Netherlands
Netherlands Antilles
New Caledonia
New Zealand
New Zealand-Maori
Nicaragua
Niger
Nigeria
Niue
Norfolk Island
North Korea
Northern Marianas
Norway
Oman
Orkney Islands
Pakistan
Palau
Palestine
Panama
Papua New Guinea
Paraguay
Peru
Philippines
Pitcairn Islands
Poland
Portugal
Puerto Rico
Qatar
Ras al-Khaimah
Reunion
Romania
Russian Federation
Rwanda
St Helena
St Kitts and Nevis
St Lucia
St Pierre and Miquelon
St Tome
St Vincent and the Grenadines
Sami
Samoa
San Marino
Sao Tome e Principe
Sark
Saudi Arabia
Scotland
Seborga
Senegal
Serbia
Seychelles
Sharjah
Shetland Islands
Sierra Leone
Sikkim
Singapore
Slovakia
Slovenia
Solomon Islands
Somalia
Somaliland
South Africa
South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands
South Korea
Soviet Union
Spain
Sri Lanka
Sudan
Suriname
Swaziland
Sweden
Switzerland
Syria
Tahiti
Taiwan
Tajikistan
Tanzania
Tenerife
Thailand
Tibet
Togo
Tokelau
Tonga
Trinidad and Tobago
Tromelin
Tunisia
Turkey
Turkmenistan
Turks and Caicos Islands
Tuvalu
Uganda
Ukraine
Umm al-Qaiwan
United Arab Emirates
United Kingdom
United Nations
United States
US Virgin Islands
Uruguay
Uzbekistan
Vanuatu
Vatican City State
Venezuela
Vietnam
Wake Island
Wales
Wallis and Futuna
Western Sahara
Yemen
Yugoslavia
Zaire
Zambia
Zimbabwe

[Ben Kenobi]

Ok. Just doing testing. .GIF should work if they are kept small. What about the dimensions Martin? 30x30 works well, and is the exact same size as the current ones.

Once I get all the flags designed, I'll fix the cropping and convert them all to .gifs and change the file names.

[Ben Kenobi]

How do you do transparencies in Paint 6.1?

[Martin Gühmann]

How do you do transparencies in Paint 6.1?

That's a good question but maybe there is a free program on the net, that can do it.

-Martin

[Ben Kenobi]

Yeah Gimp should be able to. I'm surprised that the new version of Paint doesn't have transparencies.

Is 30x30 fine Martin?

[Martin Gühmann]

Ok. Just doing testing. .GIF should work if they are kept small.

Well, all upper case works as well, but then I have to change more of the code, well a little bit more. As long as they are all the same it is fine.

What about the dimensions Martin? 30x30 works well, and is the exact same size as the current ones.

I don't mind for bigger ones, but you could make a screenshot of the thread page and paste the shield at the place where we have the flag, so that we can compare.

-Martin

[SlowwHand]

Tanzania
Tenerife
Texas
Thailand
Tibet

[Ben Kenobi]

Here you go Martin.

[Ben Kenobi]

Well, all upper case works as well, but then I have to change more of the code, well a little bit more. As long as they are all the same it is fine\

I'll have to rename them anyways. I'm using 3 digit codes. ESP/USA/UNK/CDN, etc. The time consuming part is the design work.

Ok, Gimp fixed the transparencies. Feels like using a sledgehammer to drive in a nail.

[Martin Gühmann]

It's still hard to decide which set to take. If I use the big ones then I would remove the "Country:" and they become a second avatar. So I guess I go for the small ones.

-Martin

[Ben Kenobi]

Well, there's half and half. 60x60 looks good too.

Hmm, using GIMP makes the .gifs look good at full size.

It's entirely up to you Martin. I can set them however you feel is best. My originals will all be 100x100 when I've got them all finished and cropped correctly.

The designs should, for the most part, work with the smallest size, because it's all pixel art. No distortion.