Official Off-Topic Thread

[ptoing]

Also, as much as I like Helm, I am not sure banding is a good name to use for it (although it kinda makes sense) since it is already used to another thing in digital imaging.

Colour Banding

Many people in graphics just call this banding and not colour banding which would be correct, so shit like this could get confusing.

[tocky]

We could just call it shitty AA?

I think the problem with constantly referring back to AA is that most people don't know what aliasing is, really. Hell, I don't. I think I more or less have the hang of AA, but considering that it's the main technique specific to pixel art, I think there's a real lack of information there. Has anyone ever seen an AA tutorial for beginning pixel artists?

[Feron]

Has anyone ever seen an AA tutorial for beginning pixel artists?

This is what i grew up on: http://spriteart.com/tutorials/01_AA.html

[skamocore]

Selective brick laying.

My next piece will definitely feature some sel-bri

[tocky]

Man, I would've had an easier time of it if I had actually bothered to read the spriteart tutorials as some point.

sel-bri

this is the best thing that could possibly happen.

[Larwick]

Sel-bri-lay? Sounds like some kind of special cream.

[.TakaM]

Anyone follow that cat abuser Kenny Glenn thing?

Some punk uploaded a video of himself smacking his cat around, slamming him into the wall and throwing him under the shower on youtube.
Catches the attention of anonymous, they do their detective work and shenanigans.
Authorities take the kid (and his cameraman friend) into custody and the cat is taken away from them within the day.

Sad thing was the cat just goes limp and takes it, obviously not a one time affair.




In other news, C64 games are (probably) coming to the Wii's virtual console

[Alonso]

Sorry for being off-topic. I recently discovered GraphicsGale had the custom brush feature (alas). For anyone in doubt or frustration, I quote directly from the help file:

Reload Pen/Tile
Reloads pens and tiles user made.
Pens and tiles must be BMP file, and must be placed in the folder named "pen" in the following folder.
WindowsXP: C:\Documents and Settings\(Windows user name)\Application Data\Humanbalance\GraphicsGale
WindowsVista: Desktop->(Windows user name)->AppData->Roaming->Humanbalance->GraphicsGale
Windows98: C:\WINDOWS\Application Data\Humanbalance\GraphicsGale
Besides, the BMP must be a monochrome(1bit), the size of a pen must be 32x32, and the size of a tile must be 16x16.
In a pen, white area will put a color in the canvas. In a tile, white area will be replaced with the first color, and black area will be replaced with the second color.

[Ben2theEdge]

That's pretty handy Alonso! I've been wondering how to do that.

In other news, Street Fighter: Pagan* Edition comes out today!

*Non-2D

[The B.O.B.]

It(SF4) completely sold out in Japan on it's opening day, so that's gotta' tell you something about the love still given for this franchise, despite some of the previous critical concerns of it's graphic direction, on this website. I'll be sure to pick up this game when I get the chance, and partake in some online beatings.