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General Discussion / How did you find out about Pixelation?
« on: November 07, 2006, 11:51:52 am »
How did you hear about Pixelation? Feel free to explain, especially if you choose the last option.
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General Discussion / Pixelation Demographics
« on: November 07, 2006, 11:22:09 am »
Wondering what kind of userbase we have here at Pixelation. Feel free to discuss the results.
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Challenges & Activities / Bloody Murder!!! Challenge
« on: October 27, 2006, 01:48:39 pm »
Objective: Create the bloodiest, most gore-filled animation you can possibly conceive of. Bonus points for killing off your favorite character/avatar. If you want to pair up with someone and kill each other's characters off then feel free to do so. I'm dying to see what everyone comes up with. 
Specs:
Animation
Size Restrictions: 320x240 or smaller. Optional.
Colors: 8 (3bit)
THE CARNAGE!!!
•U|'!iT| ! |(
`•o|'iI|u]U )
) IP^ |
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Specs:
Animation
Size Restrictions: 320x240 or smaller. Optional.
Colors: 8 (3bit)
THE CARNAGE!!!
•U|'!iT| ! |(
`•o|'iI|u]U )
) IP^ |
* • j
_
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Pixel Art / Hippopotamus Hunt
« on: October 17, 2006, 09:47:13 pm »
For those who were asking, here's my master remaster entry with WIP anim included.
Original: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Peter_Paul_Rubens_083.jpg
Based on a work by the old master Peter Paul Rubens. My contribution to the remaster portion of this activity is in the realm of color. No fancy stylistic changes.
Original: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Peter_Paul_Rubens_083.jpg
Based on a work by the old master Peter Paul Rubens. My contribution to the remaster portion of this activity is in the realm of color. No fancy stylistic changes.
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General Discussion / Postcount Ranks Updated
« on: October 15, 2006, 08:08:18 pm »
For those who were paying attention, the postcount rank system was updated recently. The ranks are organized as follows:
1 Gaijin: Foreigner
2 Nofu: Farmer
3 Shonin: Merchant
4 Ashigaru: Light-Infantry
5 Heishi: Regular Soldier
6 Ronin: Mercenary, Masterless Samurai
7 Ninja: Stealth Warrior
8 Jonin: High-Ninja
9 Kage: 'The Shadow', Elite Ninja
10 Ikkitousen: Peerless Warrior
If you really have an opinion about the updated titles, feel free to share.
1 Gaijin: Foreigner
2 Nofu: Farmer
3 Shonin: Merchant
4 Ashigaru: Light-Infantry
5 Heishi: Regular Soldier
6 Ronin: Mercenary, Masterless Samurai
7 Ninja: Stealth Warrior
8 Jonin: High-Ninja
9 Kage: 'The Shadow', Elite Ninja
10 Ikkitousen: Peerless Warrior
If you really have an opinion about the updated titles, feel free to share.
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General Discussion / Official OT-Creativity Thread 1
« on: October 15, 2006, 07:41:16 pm »
This is the place to post artwork and other creations that don't fit into the pixel or gaming themes of this forum.
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General Discussion / Browser Test, Please Ignore
« on: October 12, 2006, 07:00:31 pm »
... I told you to ignore this thread, but nooo, you had to look inside and see what was going on! Curiosity... Tisk! 
Several browsers for OSX have been creating a blurring (anti aliasing filter) effect with zoomed images. Safari, Firefox, and SeaMonkey are documented as having this issue, but their PC counterparts, if they have one, display proper, crisp images... Mozilla 1.7.5 for OSX does not have this problem, and it is a slightly older browser. Therefore it's probably some change in method that is causing this (graphics/rendering library issue). For OSX users, his is completely unacceptable, and suggests a trend in browser development of a cosmetic nature, where pages are built to be zoomed to fit a user's screen resolution, and bitmap images are being "corrected". This is only a theory, however.
Firefox sports a feature that shrinks to fit the loading of individual images if they exceed your window sizewhich is acceptable, but blurred zooms when images are scaled at factors of their original size are inappropriate when precision of detail is at stake.
Here is a test image, saved to various formats to rule out any inconsistencies between them (none have been found so far).
Click to Zoom:
Actual Size BMP
Zoom (script) BMP
More Zoom (script) BMP
Actual Size PNG
Zoom (script) PNG
More Zoom (script) PNG
Actual Size GIF
Zoom (script) GIF
More Zoom (script) GIF
Several browsers for OSX have been creating a blurring (anti aliasing filter) effect with zoomed images. Safari, Firefox, and SeaMonkey are documented as having this issue, but their PC counterparts, if they have one, display proper, crisp images... Mozilla 1.7.5 for OSX does not have this problem, and it is a slightly older browser. Therefore it's probably some change in method that is causing this (graphics/rendering library issue). For OSX users, his is completely unacceptable, and suggests a trend in browser development of a cosmetic nature, where pages are built to be zoomed to fit a user's screen resolution, and bitmap images are being "corrected". This is only a theory, however.
Firefox sports a feature that shrinks to fit the loading of individual images if they exceed your window sizewhich is acceptable, but blurred zooms when images are scaled at factors of their original size are inappropriate when precision of detail is at stake.
Here is a test image, saved to various formats to rule out any inconsistencies between them (none have been found so far).
Click to Zoom:
Actual Size BMP
Zoom (script) BMP
More Zoom (script) BMP
Actual Size PNG
Zoom (script) PNG
More Zoom (script) PNG
Actual Size GIF
Zoom (script) GIF
More Zoom (script) GIF
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General Discussion / Official Pixelopolis Off-Topic Thread
« on: February 12, 2006, 11:31:42 am »
Any topic, keep it clean. Have fun!
Oh, and Happy Birthday to me
Oh, and Happy Birthday to me
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General Discussion / 72 Hour Game Development Competition (March)
« on: February 07, 2006, 07:22:37 pm »
Hey everyone! Another competition is right around the corner. Brian and Jeff got in touch with me, so I'm relaying the information to you 
http://pixel-arts.org/72/
http://www.wayofthepixel.net/pixelation/72/board/
So please drop by, get a team together, and gear up for the action!
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Hey everyone! The 72 Hour GDC is up and running again for March 24th to the 27th.
Make sure to check back at the site for updates, voting, and joining the actual
competition!
http://pixel-arts.org/72/
http://www.wayofthepixel.net/pixelation/72/board/
So please drop by, get a team together, and gear up for the action!
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General Discussion / Downtime
« on: February 01, 2006, 03:29:46 am »
Hey everybody,
We had an unexpected downtime with the forum today. The best guess is that the server host was doing some upgrading and it disabled the SMF forum services. I took care of the problem, but if you experience anything unusual with the service, please let me know. Thanks!
Happy Pixeling!
We had an unexpected downtime with the forum today. The best guess is that the server host was doing some upgrading and it disabled the SMF forum services. I took care of the problem, but if you experience anything unusual with the service, please let me know. Thanks!
Happy Pixeling!